Recent content by Emily Lake

Might I remind you that yet again, you have entirely failed to provide any actual working definitions of your own?

You're the one who rejected the working definition of sex that I provided, demanded citations for male/female definitions based on anisogamous evolution, and then declared that it's an off-the-wall definition and isn't what biologists used. I'm not at all confused by the difference between sex...

Fuck it. Have it your way. Sex is totally just a social construct, nobody can tell which are the males and which are the females, and babies are placed under cabbage leaves by magical storks. Your view is ideological pseudoscience claptrap on par with intelligent design. Congrats on buying...

And as yet you've still provided none of your own... Why is that, Poli? Also... I sincerely doubt you even bothered trying to look it up. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202200173 Of course, a meta-reference is always helpful...

Come on now. If you take all of the bad decisions and stupidity out of TV shows... the only thing we'll be left with is nature documentaries and Letterkenny. :D More seriously... I have really low tolerance for movies and tv shows that rely on unaddressed miscommunication or transparently bad...

I don't know what to tell you dude. Sex is the result of having evolved anisogamy, and in this context, I am using it to refer to the two distinctly different body types that have evolved in tandem with anisogamy. It's how we figure out which animal is male and which is female, indeed it's how...

I see you're not going to actually provide any of your own working definitions, and instead you'll just misdirect and play silly games. You're asking for a citation of my opinion and understanding? What the hell sense does that make?

About once a year I make chicken stock. While I prefer thighs for plain old eatin' chicken, I use a whole chicken when I make stock - bones and organs included. I've got a ridiculously big soup pot, and I'll do the whole chicken, a large onion quartered, a batch of whole carrots with the tops...

Fine then. You go ahead and define your terms. Give us all a definition of sex, gender, and gender identity in a way that actually makes some fucking sense. I'll go first: Sex: the evolved body type within an anisogamous species which is associated with reproduction. The body type that...

I think people underestimate the deliciousness of animal fats in cooking, and overestimate the health risks. Ferinstance, I've had "gravy" made from broth without any fat and it is nowhere near as tasty as gravy made from drippings. If it's real gravy, a little bit goes a long way; if it's...

You know, you could just say "I see what you mean, and I was unclear in what I said. What I meant was that vaccines cause a general low-level immune reaction, not that vaccines cause mild symptoms of the illness for which they're vaccinating" and then we could move on. This doubling down on a...

Oh great gravy. I understand the distinction, I just think the concept of gender is bullshit and lacks any real meaning. Seriously, I understand the difference between mind and soul... and I also think that one of those things is a pointless concept without any substantial meaning.

Yes, they do. For the reasons you mentioned. What they don't have is abdominal x-rays to check for breast health. Toni, I think you're the bee's knees. But sometimes I really feel like you don't actually read posts thoroughly.

If the vaccine is for influenza or maybe covid, you're spot on. If the vaccine is for tetanus or diphtheria or shingles or mumps, you're just wrong. With extremely few exceptions, vaccines all cause the SAME SIDE EFFECTS REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE DISEASE IS - aching joints, slight fever...

I would agree that any sufficiently advanced critters would develop counting and arithmetic. In order to develop the science necessary for space travel, they'd need to develop a language that includes zero, a manipulatable system of counting and arithmetical operations, placeholder symbols for...