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<p>Sure it is. People should be outraged about this and demanding vastly more testing, more research, and more regulation.<p>The vast majority of information published <i>anywhere</i> at any time is not any more "actionable" than that. You just don't like <i>this</i> information because it makes you uncomfortable... as it should.</p>
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<p>Do you mean potentially showing up as a global decline in fertility rates and multi-generational bioaccumulation of these compounds, threatening to destroy the foundational structure of modern civilization (population growth)?<p>Well, do I have news for you!</p>
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<p>It... probably is unsafe for human babies (or even adults) to be ingesting compounds known to disrupt hormone production in mammals...<p>Contrarianism has become a mental disorder</p>
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<p>Not really. EDCs are showing up literally everywhere. This is an article about them in breast milk, but you are mistaking that to mean this is the only place they've been found.<p>One of the challenges with disproving this hypothesis is that there's pretty much no control group left on the planet. Everyone has exposure to these chemicals.</p>
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<p>> Being transgender represents a misalignment between your internal sense of self and the sex you were born with.<p>These thoughts, like every other thought anyone has, are mediated by hormones. I'm not saying any particular balance or resulting thought is good/bad/right/wrong/healthy/unhealthy.<p>But this is akin to saying "being aggressive represents a state of excessive confidence, not elevated testosterone levels." Sure! That's true. But it's also true that elevated testosterone levels <i>tend to</i> increase the frequency and intensity of occasions in which people find themselves in a state of excessive confidence.</p>
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<p>We don't know enough to say if people are transgender <i>because</i> their hormones are imbalanced, but we do have reason to believe that transgender people tend to have a distinctive hormone balance even prior to any hormonal therapies.<p>For example, female → male transitioners have like a 2x - 3x higher incidence rate of PCOS <i>before</i> any therapies. Obviously there's something different going on.<p>The EDC question is also related to <i>prenatal</i> hormone exposure, which is not related to your anecdote about pre-therapy hormone testing.<p>In any case, the theory being put forth here re EDCs is not that every (or even most) transgender people are such due to EDCs and resulting hormone imbalances, but rather that even a small change (read: compression of variability) in hormone distributions across the entire population would produce all sorts of effects like <i>everyone</i> being slightly more androgynous. If that's the population-scale effect, you'd presumably expect more people to slide each way across the binary designations we tend to use for gender.</p>
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<p>Lmfao you think naturalizing makes you no longer a foreigner?<p>How is it that you're immediately detectable as not-American on a messaging board then?<p>Hint: It's the low-trust third-worlder attitude, which unfortunately the legal process of naturalization doesn't always solve.<p>Hilariously, your allegation of <i>me</i> being a foreigner was the nail in the coffin, as any <i>actual American</i> would know they can have disagreements on stuff like this without accusing the other of being a foreigner. But, being what... Russian? Georgian? Israeli? Obviously everything must be infused with an (unearned) nationalistic superiority haha.</p>
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<p>You should read Amusing Ourselves to Death. It is the single most informative book on politics I've ever read. Unfortunately the conclusion it points to is not great. But worth reading anyway!</p>
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<p>Pandaman, 9 days ago: "When I moved to the US..." (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406788">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406788</a>)<p>Talk about projection, lmfao! Not even here long enough to prevent your weird writing quirks from revealing that you're a foreigner, and yet comfortable implying some strange nationalist superiority to a native-born American. Beyond parody.<p>Are people from your country unable to answer simple multiple-choice questions like "which of these three options do you believe?"</p>
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<p>You seem very confused.<p>Here's how it's detected: "There are 1000 ballots from this one address that has never had more than 3 ballots sent from it. We should look it up in our GIS and tax records and see how many people reside there. We should also make sure that the affiliated registrations are fully documented as having individual residencies there from e.g. their drivers licenses or utility bills at time of registration."<p>Sorry but you are naive beyond words if you think voting systems don't flag even <i>a dozen</i> ballots sent to a single residential address, or you don't think there's any investigative capability to look further into flagged cases.<p>Which do you believe? There are only three options:<p>1. You believe that 1000 ballots sent to a single address will not be flagged<p>2. You believe that it would be flagged but not investigated<p>3. You believe it would be flagged and investigated, but not actually result in any prosecutable offense</p>
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<p>Calling this administration an idiocracy is insanely generous</p>
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<p>What...?<p>Virtually every type of fraud is first <i>detected</i> by detection of a nominally legal but abnormal behavior, then it's investigated to figure out whether fraud actually occurred. That would – obviously – be exactly how <i>any</i> voter fraud detection scheme works, but I guess you're saying that because the initially detected abnormality is not <i>itself</i> illegal, it wouldn't be investigated?<p>This is like saying "it's not illegal for all the numbers on your tax return to end in $xxxx.00 and $xxxx.50, so therefore tax fraud is undetectable by means of analyzing numerical patterns."</p>
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<p>Here was my request:<p>> Can you describe the specific chain of events required to create a fraudulent vote that is "impossible" to detect?<p>You literally just described a scheme that <i>is</i> possible to detect in any meaningful amount. 10, 100, or 1000 ballots coming from a single address is, obviously, trivially detectable.</p>
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<p>Please don't refer to bribes as taxes. Extremely, extremely counterproductive.</p>
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<p>> Did not you notice that this person has not been charged with voting with other people ballots (even though she was able and most likely did that) and only with paying to register? Such a charge would be very hard to stick.<p>Huh? There is literally no evidence or even allegation of that. The person was paid to collect petition signatures, so she fraudulently obtained petition signatures. Which obviously are <i>way</i> less closely tracked than actual votes.<p>> So what? If it was illegal to register multiple voters at the same address then it could have been detected at the registration time.<p>Well it's not illegal to register multiple voters at the same address, obviously. It's illegal to vote under someone else's name. A bunch of votes coming in from a single residence would be flagged. Should voter registrations from a single address get flagged? Sure! And they probably do! But as you say, that's not a crime. <i>Voting fraudulently is</i>, which is not even alleged here.</p>
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<p>Okay so in this scenario, if this woman wanted to actually <i>vote</i> on behalf of these people, all she had to do was pay a bunch of people to register with her address, get 10, 30, 100, or 1000 ballots mailed to her address, then fill out all of those ballots and mail them in and hope no one noticed dozens or hundreds or thousands of ballots coming from an address that would clearly and directly implicate the person who lives at/otherwise controls that address?<p>And the trade off here is this person gets 10, 30, 100, or 1000 votes in a single county and at the minuscule risk of the rest of her life in prison?<p>(To be clear, this isn’t what DOJ is alleging, they alleged she was just collecting petition signatures, but I’m extrapolating out your proposed mechanism for actual voting)</p>
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<p>You’re describing an attack that entails both hacking the SSN database, 1 to 50 of the state voter databases, then physically following mailmen around and stealing ballots…</p>
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<p>Yes, more people should vote.<p>Always funny when Trumpers try to this out as a gotcha lmao.<p>As a believer in democracy, I think it's better that our government is more responsive rather than less responsive to the public.</p>
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<p>Can you describe the specific chain of events required to create a fraudulent vote that is "impossible" to detect?<p>Surely if you can confidently state the system not only <i>is</i> this way, but is <i>purposely designed</i> this way, you should have zero problem describing it exactly step by step.<p>Extra credit if you can describe a method that can produce 10, 100, or 1000 votes.</p>
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<p>Can you describe specifically how someone finds enough complaint-free absentee ballots and sick friends to vote at any meaningful scale?<p>Doing this even 10 times seems unbelievably hard.</p>
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