If sex doesn’t matter in curling or chess, then why are there different competitions for men and women in curling and why do women get their own titles in chess?

I do understand the sentiment of what you’re saying, but it’s not the reality we live in.

Imagine criticising someone for using a word despite it having been in the vernacular for years.

Thank you for pointing out that this is only an issue for places where wild cats have been non-native.

It’s a shame that this needs to be a “hot take”, I was hoping we’d be leaving that shit behind on Reddit.

If I can’t vote until I’m 25 then I don’t want to be paying tax until I’m 25.

No taxation without representation.

If we’re talking about Lemmy rather than wider society then;

Inb4; I’m broadly in support of trans people and trans rights/equality but I think there are three small snagging issues

That people who identify as a women but who went through puberty as a male shouldn’t be competing in women’s sports. I think it’s a basic issue of fairness and that it ultimately disincentives people born female from entering a career in sports competitions.

That there is a serious debate to be had about trans people in women’s changing rooms. I know it is a very nuanced and sensitive topic and I don’t pretend that I have the answer, but I don’t think it is as simple as “I identify as X so I’ll use X changing room”. I’d like to make it clear that I don’t think this is a “sneaky perv” issue but rather a debate about spaces that should possibly be reserved for people born as female.

That no permanent changes should be made to the bodies of children. If you’re not old enough to get a tattoo, piercing, drink, smoke etc. Then you’re not old enough to make an extremely important decision that will effect you for the rest of your life.

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Same, although I tolerate a mushroom here or there now, I never select them to eat by my own choice.

I was in a cafe recently and the table next to me ordered mushroom soup, the smell nearly made me sick, I was pretty hungover that day though!

Yep, any fleas about the house will jump on to the cat and then die.

No need to decontaminate the entire house, just make sure that fleas can’t make a home on your cat.

I’ve tried bovril but I don’t like it as much, it also has more salt.

Real

I know this answer isn’t tea or coffee, I don’t like coffee and I gave tea up because it was staining my teeth.

I was on herbal teas for a while but I then had the idea of drinking a weak beef stock (1 stock cube to 1.2 litres of water) and I love it so much I can’t go back!

I thought I’d miss that caffeine but it was very easy to give up and I really don’t miss it at all!

Thanks

Even it was AVNJ, you shouldn’t let some random strangers on the internet ruin things you like. Every one has a skeleton in the closet but if you like the videos, watch them.

What’s syncthing?

Why is AI bad?

I mean it’s not perfect, but it’s only going to get better.

I think despite the downsides of the internet that it’s clearly overwhelming good for society.

Of course not and that’s not what they’re saying. They’re saying that trying to outrun a bad diet is never going to happen.

You could run a marathon every day and then still gain weight because you ate three birthday cakes, five burgers a bucket of fries and a whole pizza for breakfast , lunch and dinner.

Enablers hate admitting it, but weight is lost in the kitchen.

If you want to lose weight, eat less, if you want you can also get fit. That’s the difference between being a healthy weight and being fit and healthy.

You don’t have to exercise to lose weight, you don’t even have to drastically change your diet.

Eat. Less.

You can lose weight on a diet of pizza, donuts and laying on the couch if you simply eat less calories than you burn.

You quite frankly sound like one of the many enablers that wants to make every excuse possible about why it’s impossible to lose weight rather than taking responsibility for the countless poor eating decisions that lead to obesity. No one is born fat and no one wakes up fat, take responsibility.

It’s like giving up smoking. A huge amount of smokers wish they didn’t, but they don’t stop until they say “enough is enough”, draw a line under it and commit to quitting instead of making 101 excuses about how hard it is.

I hope you get to your “enough is enough” point soon.