At least I love my cat.

There is no amount of ass covering that is going to save anyone from a person who reads a comment online and goes to take a pill they know they’re allergic to because of it 🤷‍♂️

I would have thought ‘don’t take medication you’re allergic to’ is implied, but yeah, don’t do that. Don’t spray it in your eyeballs either, I guess. The spray part was specifically about phenylephrine spray vs pills, because the pills are useless but the spray is effective.

Ignore the marketing bullshit and check the active ingredients, then buy the cheapest one with the ingredient you need. If you’re stuffy and guaifenesin (Mucinex) isn’t taking care of it, get a SPRAY (not pill, they’re useless) of phenylephrine or oxymetazoline. That shit is powerful and will clear your sinuses in seconds, but you can’t use it for more than 3 days in a row or it’ll fuck your sinuses up.

Warnings for the brain dead: don’t take shit you’re allergic to and talk to a pharmacist to make sure it doesn’t interact with your meds.

Incredibly based, godspeed

I actually cheated and listened to him on a podcast :)

Breeding faster horses didn’t make the steam engine. LLMs are only going to be LLMs at the end of the day, no matter how much they’re prompted.

Same but I can take zero credit for my taste, I had online friends with great taste in music.

You don’t get to tell me how I have to express my opinions or argument and I have no clue why you think you do. I’m also not sure you intended ‘I am uninterested in college level discussions of sex and biology’ to be a self own, but I appreciate the honesty.

In “my system” (looking at the natural variation of the human body), there isn’t a single “the” third sex. I don’t even see the point in numbering them, frankly, because there’s always going to be some new discovery of a variant of sexual development in humans. It being more complicated than 2-3 is literally the point, it’s like demanding an exact number for how many ways proteins can fold. It’s a fucking lot and we keep finding more, what do you want from me, to just make up a number? I already said for most cases just sticking to male and female is all that’s necessary. That doesn’t make people with other sexes not exist.

You were the only person that seemed to have trouble understanding my single gene/chromosome typo in context, but I’m glad to have cleared that up for you 🤷‍♂️

I think Charlotte’s Web had something like this.

Spoilers for like a 20 year old show I guess, but ::: spoiler <House spoilers> House literally fakes his own death to run away into the sunset on his motorcycle with Wilson after Wilson is diagnosed with cancer. Literal ride or die couple. Admittedly partly to escape legal consequences, but he could have done that any way he wanted. :::

You would think the fact I used it multiple other times correctly would imply I do know the difference, but oh well.

Way to miss the fucking forest for the trees. If I edit that to say chromosome will you suddenly be able to comprehend the rest of my comments about the SRY gene showing up and causing penis/testicular development in people who are XX? Which was also in that comment as well, you just seemingly can’t move past AIS.

I just named multiple ones for you, what in the hell are you talking about. What I’m refusing to do is put an upper limit on it, because there is a lot going on biologically with sex.

y is a chromosome not a gene

My point exactly.

You literally aren’t even following this conversation. The SRY gene controls testicle and penis development. It is not the Y chromosome. It is usually found on the Y chromosome, but can be on the X chromosome as well. Someone with an XX genotype and an SRY gene will develop a penis and testes, and may go on to father children. Read the Wikipedia article I linked if you need more explanation. You want to tell me someone who was born male and produces sperm is biologically female because of their chromosomes??

Why is it useful to pretend these people and sex configurations don’t exist and aren’t part of the full spectrum of humanity? Why does sex only ‘mean anything’ if it’s two sexes only?

You don’t have to talk about every single sex any time you’re discussing anything sex related, in probably most instances that’s not relevant. But it’s denial to act like they don’t exist or “count” because it makes thing’s more complicated. That’s intellectual cowardice.

Re your edit:

btw this is not the area of genetics and Y is a chromosome not a gene.

You think biological sex isn’t an area of genetics? Sibling, what??

Also, the SRY gene is not the Y chromosome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-determining_region_Y_protein

‘If you rule out all the exceptions it’s actually only two’ isn’t impressive to me, sorry. I even gave you an example that isn’t ‘female by default’ with the SRY gene.

And no, I won’t pick a number. I’m not a geneticist (and I highly doubt you are either), I don’t know every possible chromosome and sex organ configuration (and neither do you). You justify why there are only two sexes when I’ve given you all these examples that clearly aren’t XX and XY.

If you want to get nitpicky about biological sex, there definitely aren’t only two. On top of XXY and X0, you have things like androgen insensitivity syndrome where someone is born with a typical vulva and vagina, but has XY chromosomes and a body unable to respond to testosterone. The SRY gene is what’s responsible for the formation of testicles and a penis, not the Y gene, so you can also have people who are XX with a typical penis and testicles who can father children. And arguing that someone assigned male at birth who can father children is actually biologically female because of their chromosomes would be losing the plot.

She has on safety glasses, that means nothing bad can happen.

Lmfao, .corn sounds like an instance someone would spin up to compete with lemmy.beans

They’ve done experimental archaeology to confirm this is physically possible, even if it turns out that’s not how they did it.