javier

Rule of law enthusiast

[javier @javierlogue]

@Codie_Sanchez SBM

[javier @javierlogue]

@GOtransit why do the news services say your Niagara service will be restored tomorrow but your website has no updates? Can you please detail what times of any the trains will be running?

[Yam Peleg @Yampeleg]

The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by some LLM right now.

[Quevedo 2.0 @QuebeboVillegas]

EEUU hace lo de Venezuela por el petróleo no como China y Rusia que estaban allí por la receta de las arepas.

[javier @javierlogue]

@jfcarpio 😆

[QuintusCurtius @QuintusCurtius]

Whether mankind will be able to maintain its independence and dignity in the face of the Palantir-imposed surveillance apparatus that is being steadily constructed, is a question yet to be determined. The techno-authoritarians know what they want, and see this as their moment of opportunity. They are aided and abetted by greed, immoral leaders, tyrants, careerists, and opportunists of every stripe.

The new fascists want not just to create a techno-authoritarian system in which every possible bit of data about a person is known and used to subjugate him: no, their goals are more ambitious than this. They seek to create a new type of man: a subservient, compliant, docile slave, a man who cannot even conceive of the idea of resistance, dissent, or rebellion.

Culture has value. Human life has value. History has value. Tradition has value. These truths must be constantly reaffirmed. He who fails to do his duty in the face of the tyranny, brutality, and violence confronting us--he who fails to speak out on behalf of morality and decency--can expect to be consumed, in short order, by these very same fires that he failed to extinguish.

[javier @javierlogue]

Says the guy deploying anime sex dolls for men to stay indoors.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Overpopulation is the most nihilistic lie ever told

[javier @javierlogue]

@PierrePoilievre The right number is zero after such a binge. But no one has the balls to say it. That’s why you lost.

[javier @javierlogue]

@PierrePoilievre finally! yes! now explain how those tax cuts will lead to cutting governments spend. Otherwise, the math does not add up and debt will be politicians best friend.

[javier @javierlogue]

@JJ_McCullough So simple. Would vote for this tomorrow.

[javier @javierlogue]

@JJ_McCullough The elites have brainwashed Canadians too well. They will defend ‘their industries’ to death in order to save Canadian pride, whatever that may be.

[javier @javierlogue]

What is the meaning of having so many blessings?

[javier @javierlogue]

@jfcarpio Love it, not sure I fully understand it though 🤔

[javier @javierlogue]

😂😂😂

[javier @javierlogue]

@StartWaiting Gladly would, if I had some money left from paying so much tax to “save the planet” 😁

[javier @javierlogue]

Imagine thinking climate science is a science.

[Eli Cook @Eli_B_Cook]

Imagine thinking economists are scientists

[javier @javierlogue]

The breakdance thing at the Olympics feels like someone’s dad finally listened after 2 or 3 decades and now it is too late (irrelevant). Also, it is not a sport.

[Jen Monroe @thatjenmonroe]

Everyone is a free market fundamentalist until the free market happens to them

[javier @javierlogue]

Women are their worst enemies. So much mental energy spent pretending a dude is not a dude.

[Regan Arntz-Gray @arntzgray1]

I can certainly believe that the inclusion rules for women’s boxing should be updated and that such an update might exclude athletes like Imane Khelif in the future, but this reaction doesn’t seem justified. She has competed in previous Olympics and the governing bodies of each sport are still working through what their inclusion criteria should be, trying to balance inclusion with fairness. In this case the IOC had to make the call themselves because the IBA was recently stripped of its status, so they used the rules from the prior Olympics where Khelif also competed. This may have been the wrong call but it’s not hard to see how it could’ve happened.

From what I’ve read, Khelif likely has a similar DSD to Caster Semenya, the South African runner who brought intersex athletes into the headlines several years ago. Semenya has XY chromosomes but was identified female at birth, raised as a girl and has always identified as a woman. Given the reports that Khelif tested as XY and that she said she’s had high T-levels since birth, she likely has a similar disorder.

These DSDs almost certainly give the athlete an advantage over females - World Athletics, which ratifies all world records for track and field, estimates that DSD athletes with male-range T levels are about 140x over represented among track and field athletes. Athletes like Semenya are sometimes completely unaware of their DSD until they go through puberty. They don’t get their period since they have no uterus and their internal testes, which they were generally unaware of previous to puberty, start pumping out male T levels leading to their experiencing something closer to a male than female puberty.

World Athletics has settled on allowing these athletes in women’s track and field competitions, but only if they use drugs to bring their T levels into the female typical range. Whether this is fair or not, I don’t know for sure, but it seems like a reasonable compromise to me. Given the violence of boxing and what I assume are greater relative advantages from having higher bone density (which is a consequence of having gone through something close to a male puberty), the appropriate rules for boxing may be stricter and less inclusive than those used for track and field.

I haven’t been able to confirm whether Khelif was forced to bring her T levels down, or if the lapse in leadership of the IBA may have allowed her to compete at her natural levels, but I don’t think this is any sort of conspiracy or even evidence of a left wing bias at the IOC. Sounds to me more likely the result of a fuck up with what should’ve been the governing organization. That said, this outrage is a good reason for these governing bodies to thoroughly review inclusion criteria before the next major event, particularly in combat sports where these issues are likely the most relevant.

[javier @javierlogue]

Gonna sue for a penis enlargement one. I don’t quite feel myself without an eight incher🙏🙏🙏 #Ontario