<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dani__german</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dani__german</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 20:38:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dani__german" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dani__german in "US science is being wrecked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>considering that ~50% of all of our new scientific studies annually don't replicate, its far far worse than you might think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:31:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44192647</link><dc:creator>dani__german</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44192647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44192647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dani__german in "US science is being wrecked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its quite simple, Gender studies research has a massive negative ROI when you account for the increased surgeries, medication, therapy, and funeral expenses that it causes, promotes, "normalizes" or otherwise makes more common. Queer theory, for example, isn't like NASA creating cordless power tools for the people, or discovering the benefits of grooved pavement for space shuttle landings.<p>It is eminently clear to anyone with their head on straight that technical research will lead to a positive return overall. You are correct that the specifics about how inventions come about can be random.<p>Here[1] is a queer theory journal. Let me know if this is going to help us accidentally discover a new industrial process that feeds more people or saves lives in some other way. You don't need to have precognitive abilities to correctly dismiss this drivel and save everyone a headache.<p>[1] <a href="https://interalia.queerstudies.pl/issue-19-2024/artwich/" rel="nofollow">https://interalia.queerstudies.pl/issue-19-2024/artwich/</a></p>
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<p>This is a morally correct and minimum acceptable response. Leagues must admit they were wrong (probably impossible), and mail out letters and trophies (trivial).<p>These governing bodies need to Do Better. They need to work on themselves.</p>
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<p>Testosterone levels fluctuate more on a minute by minute scale with such activities rather than a day by day scale. We should ban exogenous testosterone use, and we already do.<p>Men and women are not the same. They are a distinct, binary grouping. One cannot measure up to the metrics, characteristics, etc of the other. Women have their own sports leagues because of this. Men do not have exclusive leagues, its illegal in most western countries anyway under discrimination laws. Women just cant compete at these levels though. Thats not a moral judgement but a plain reading of the facts.<p>As far as the incoming remark about "controlling what high school students do in private with each other", I will rather present you with a question:<p>Should we make it impossible for thousands of girls to get a gold medal, XOR allow 1 person, born a male and currently pretending/presenting as a woman, to dominate the competition? This is the actual, real life decision that leagues of all kinds must make, from football to chess.</p>
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<p>If you put a man into a game of finding the best person out of 10,000 women, you're going to find the man at the championship. This isn't a per capita or population scale thing. Competitions are intensely personal games.<p>Sports are a big part of American culture and smugly ruining them with nonsense makes Americans mad. This is not difficult to understand.</p>
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<p>Whether we believe the lies of the Israeli government is also not quite related to the topic of Surgical vs Strategic Bombing. Clearly Gaza has been subject to the latter though.</p>
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<p>BMI is an excellent metric for measuring your own body. Its fantastic. Its not perfect, but considering its two numbers, its amazingly useful and a super easy way to quantify how unhealthy you are. If you are not currently using Body fat percentage, and know what yours is at this exact instant, you should use BMI instead.<p>Here's a perfectly correct general statement: Any effort spent telling average people to not use BMI makes society less healthy. Average people are not getting BF% measured when you tell them not to use BMI. They are just ignoring all metrics and eating potato chips instead.</p>
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<p>These food deserts are exclusively caused by completely unjustifiable crimes committed by those lower income people. They aren't stealing bread, rice, beans, vegetables. They are stealing flat screen TVs and destroying their local Walmart.<p>Food deserts only exist where the negative cost of being burglarized has managed to exceed the large income of fulfilling humanity's third most basic need besides air and water.</p>
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<p>middle class has shrunk only because the upper class has expanded. Every American citizen living with property taxes is n missed payments from homelessness. unhoused is a misnomer, especially in this context of losing your home.</p>
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<p>I bet if housing wasn't so expensive we would see cheaper burrito prices.</p>
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<p>surgical in this sense means only blowing up the bus stop instead of leveling 6 blocks with a MOAB. Your feelings about safety are supposed to be negatively affected by a bomb. Whether that bomb is a precise or strategic bomb is immaterial.</p>
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<p>Its ok, most of pakistan moved to London anyway so we dont have much to worry about.</p>
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<p>Because there is only room for 1 gold medal. Only room for 1 silver medal. This is in Pool, which almost a best case scenario for women to beat men and yet, in the UK, its two former men gunning for gold and silver.<p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trans-sport-pool-women-harriet-haynes-2056357" rel="nofollow">https://www.newsweek.com/trans-sport-pool-women-harriet-hayn...</a><p>If you truly believe transwomen are women, then its great. For anyone who doesn't share that arbitrary idea, it looks like women's sports is basically over, at least at the high end. Might as well get back in the kitchen, huh? Even women's sports is a man's game now.</p>
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<p>baseless attacks, like calling every republican a Nazi for the last 30 years seems to have worked quite well. Proclaiming your victimhood w.r.t. an abstract "patriarchy" has also lead to significant gains in political influence.</p>
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<p>Because the left never cared about the rules, except to circumvent them when in power and to use them as a way to prevent the other side from making meaningful progress when not.</p>
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<p>To show that these questions have been asked before, and when the social issue at stake is one that leftists champion, very very few on the left are willing to stand up to presidential authority in any way.<p>When the same exact power is used in a way that leftists by fiat deem "bad", there is no limit of the amount of pettiness, name calling, obstruction, and general ill will they will put to use to stop the president from doing something. in this case, it is to uphold Civil Rights law against a clear and ongoing violation.<p>This poster should have realized though that the way to win in politics hasn't been "debating the left" or crying "what if the roles were reversed?!" for some time now. Thats the way to be a principled loser, and be called all sorts of names in the process.</p>
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<p>and yet when fields with a dearth of White Men offer recruiting events tailored to them, the "other side" is up in arms about it. Its clear that no part of DEI wants to include Whites, Men, or the doubly dreaded White & Men combo.<p><a href="https://journals.rcni.com/nursing-standard/comment/a-focus-on-recruiting-men-panders-to-bogus-inequality-concerns-ns.36.6.22.s12/abs" rel="nofollow">https://journals.rcni.com/nursing-standard/comment/a-focus-o...</a></p>
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<p>As far as the "left", one need only consider the ideological rigidity around the topic of transvestites to see that specific, thoughtful, deep, data driven, and evidence based rhetoric is abandoned in favor of not hurting the feelings of a group of people prone to threaten harm to themselves for political and social gain.<p>Don't ever forget that the left cant clearly articulate what a woman is without resorting to circular reasoning.</p>
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<p>Our founding fathers dressed as indians to throw tea into the Boston Harbor. You and your ilk demand the bank account information of anyone opposing your views.</p>
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<p>That is absolutely not the case even for a moment. No white leftist seeks out black conservatives like Thomas Sowell. Not even for a moment. Leftism is a monoculture that uses cancelling as a way to force ideological uniformity.</p>
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