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@danishcookies @ben Well I mean, you can take a small sample and bring it up to test conditions without lighting up the entire gender...
You could just do a really low-energy ionization test, but then you'll miss anything that's solid or liquid at room temperature.
Raman spectrometry can work too, and can also identify cold molecular compositions that a hot emission spectrum will miss.
If your gender is crystalline when solid, there's always X-ray crystallography.

@ben cubic spline interpolation is popular, but probably not a good idea in this case because gender emission spectra can depend on a lot of unpredictable higher-order effects. even a superposition of delta functions gives you a more useful approximation.

and, of course, keep in mind that gender spectra can vary a lot with degree of excitation, pressure, and temperature. ensure your gender is in a thermal steady-state before taking sensitive measurements.

@ben let's not forget the polynomial approximation, either, that can give you as many vector components as you like and will eventually fit most genders quite well across the visible spectrum if you really crank up the number of terms.

a gender dropdown where the only option is Other

if you reply to my posts about taking care of human need with horseshit about overpopulation youre catching that block

i dont know about you but white people talking about how there are too many humans gives me the heebie jeebies

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politics and race 

@Absolutely_Blakely this also ties in so heavily with the “Irish were slaves” myth. Loads of wealthy Irish people were slave owners, and loads of Irish people who emigrated to America ended up becoming cops and kkk members.

@realtoddhoward i love and care for you but every time this post places itself before my long suffering eyes the thought of doing grievous bodily harm to you does cross my mind. i say this with love, of course

this is the energy i'm tryna embody in this year two thousand and nineteen

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"

"There's no point in using the word impossible to describe something that has clearly happened."

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"This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."

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Douglas Adams Quotes I Can Remember:

"The ships hung in the sky in exactly the way that bricks don't."

"Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a few seconds, nothing continued to happen."

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

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How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger [npr.org] 

This article is incredible.
npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/

>> "Shouting, 'Think about what you just did. Go to your room!' " Jaw says. "I disagree with that. [...] When we yell at a child [...] We're training them to yell when they get upset and that yelling solves problems."

In contrast, parents who control their own anger are helping their children learn to do the same, Markham says. "Kids learn emotional regulation from us."<<

KNOWN ACADEMIC TRANSPHOBES IN UK AND ELSEWHERE BY THIS TRANS EATS TERF. 

Information for everyone and allows you to avoid these people.

dog ec 

i’m supposed to kick her off the furniture but how could i?? she looks so cute! and comfy! that seems mean,

leftist politics 

when boomers ask if it's good optics to call each other "comrade"

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