It is not “pointless nitpicking”. It is very important holding fast against allowing very determined forces of hate any foothold whatever.

I argue 3 things:

1. Irrespective the truth value of your claim you should not forward that position as there are forces of oppression who will latch onto any conceit of inherent differences between cis and trans people and claim that is the oh-so-important difference around which they claim the need to organize the oppression they are rabidly looking for excuses for
2. Your claim is not true under the commonly understood nor scientific consensus of what “sex” is
3. Even under your claim—which I consider simplistic and reductive—that sex is mere reproductive capability via sperm or eggs your assertion remains false

although it can be lost

No one “in casual conversation” considers someone “sexless” when they lose their gonads to cancer, nor do you know the “sex” of anyone to whose sex you have referred in going on high-90s percent of cases by your ridiculously narrow definition—I can’t imagine in those cases where you find yourself considering using either term you jam the person with a needle or jerk them off into a cup and bust out a microscope to check motility.

Finally I’m not sure what you hope to gain by your pedantry—they’re never gonna let you into the car.

Being trans myself, I will gladly tell you no one can change their biological sex yet

This is wrong.

“Sex” is determined by myriad inter-related physical and chemical factors which are absolutely capable of changing.

The view you are adding whatever credence being trans gives you to the discussion not only is incorrect it is adopted and propagated to back-justify oppression.

Do not do that.

A woman who was assigned female at birth and later lost her uterus to cancer wouldn’t stop being referred to as “female, late 40s” when her chart is being filled out by EMTs. The distinction you are attempting to hold up is meaningless to how “sex” gets used socially and epidemiologically.

Identify a magazine which is prone to spam, scroll down to “Moderators”, click the icon of the index finger pointing upward. Click it.

Request modship and then wait as nothing happens.

Could say the same about your birth we looked at the compound odds.

Is “you’re defensive” suppose to influence me like “imagine” was?

So rather than defending what you purport to be a valid use you’re just going to attempt to leverage social rejection by implying no one else holds the same opinion I do?

That supposed to make me feel bad and lead to my changing my position?

It won’t.

Every single person on the planet save me could have to opposite view I dol that would just mean everyone else but me is wrong.

Until either I acquiesce to “beg” meaning “raise” or I die “beg” as in “prompt” will remain an incorrect usage because there will be someone holding the line saying “This far and no farther.”

Since you don’t appear interested in arguing FOR the meaning you claim the phrase should (and does not) have, I hope you’re prepared to kill me.

The rhetorical equivalent of pointing and laughing won’t get you what you want.

Begging the question means something. It does not mean something else.

“Imagine”?

No single individual is an evolutionary pressure,

Every single individual is an evolutionary pressure; fuck do you mean?

Wait till you hear about the two different uses of the word “literally”.

“literally” doesn’t mean “figuratively” either. Showing another mistake is not proving any point you think it is.

Language evolves.

And individuals which are eaten do not contribute to future evolution.

I view it has by duty to stop the reproduction of errors around “begs the question” and so long as I am around to fight it “begs the question” is not a synonym for “raises” or “prompts” the question.

You’re damn right it evolves and I am an evolutionary pressure.

what does it mean?

To offer as proof of an assertion something requiring as much if not more proof than the thing for which it is offered as proof.

Here’s an articular about it. Ignore the section about “vernacular use”. That should properly read, “Wrong fucking use, by jackasses.”

Lemmy users finding out phrases can have multiple meanings

One, I don’t use fucking lemmy, and two there is a difference between “multiple meanings” and “incorrect meanings”.

“Begs the question” means something and misusing the phrase destroys that meaning.

It doesn’t beg the fucking question.

That isn’t what that fucking means.

I have a notification waiting for me, but I get a 404 on the page to check it out.

Append ?p=1 at the end of the URL; that sometimes fixes it.

Next, relax.

I saw the term “threadiverse” being used to group all Reddit alternatives interoperable with the Fediverse.

Yeah, but Meta’s fucked up the application of anything containing “thread”.

Recently, Oklahoma always wins

Are they allowed to just always do that Rodgers and Hammerstein number each year or are they forced to switch it up?

The objective metric is how high and long you can draw out notes.

Doesn’t that unfairly favor states at higher altitudes?

Kbin/Mbin is still the only platform(s) to try to bridge the two.

Moreover it seems to have better discoverability than mastodon Mastodon. I can type a word or phrase in the search bar on kbin and find “Mastodon” posts whereas I’m stuck viewing whatever is timeline trending on Mastodon proper unless I follow someone or can figure out whatever hashtag person might have affixed to their post.

Even with kbin being down a good 1/5 of the time it remains the best ActivityPub viewing experience (in my).

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If you have a couple of Alexa devices

…then you have a couple too many. Why do you want Jeff Bezos listening to your fuck?

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