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Nope.

Not real.

You’d expect any kind of ritualistic practice that widespread to have some sort of historical record related to the practice

Yes, absolutely. But as I said, it’s probably not as clear cut as whether you’re XX or XY, because there are other factors that can also impact hormone levels and sensitivity to hormones

I’m curious about this. They say that it’s related to in utero exposure to androgens, which means it’s probably not as clear cut as XX vs XY, because intersex folk and folk with atypical hormonal exposure (such as fraternal twins of different sexes, with a shared placenta) experience different levels of exposure, and different reactions to that exposure.

So, for XX folk, the increased colour differentiation comes from fact they carry two sets of genes that encode for colour detection, and because they don’t encode identically, each set creates a ever so slightly different perception of colour. And when you get two similar, but non identical perceptions of colour, you see more hues

Now you need to post a picture of that truck!

You pretty much nailed it

Right, but on an article clarifying the often misunderstood continental boundaries, I thought it might be helpful to point out that map was creating more of that confusion in a different area, whilst clarifying it for another

That map says that New Zealand is part of the continent of Australia, which it is not. New Zealand is on a submerged continent called Zealandia

It doesn’t so much “allow” as “forces”.

Cis gay man? Get surgery or die.

Trans woman who doesn’t want surgery? Get surgery or die.

That’s pretty much what the article says

Argentina is toying with the idea of doing the same thing. tl;dr - Decades of out of control inflation. Currently the worst inflation in the world. The belief is that pinning their economy to the USD would stop that

That didn’t happen in Australia when we replaced our $1 note with a $1 coin.

But these days, it’s a non issue, because as a country, we basically don’t use cash at all

So every year every day lands on the same day of the week and an extra da

Can you imagine never getting your birthday off?

Well, this makes me feel old…

I remember when they were called joysticks, because they were computer versions of the things pilots use.

I confuse people in Argentina because I have olive skin and dark curly hair, and I speak Spanish with a porteño accent, however my Spanish is only barely at the “simple conversations” level

Where are you going with that? It’s harder to get by without a car in lower density places…

These days, yeah, but I used to live in country town Australia, without a car or license then either. I admit, that was harder, and did limit my options, but the majority of people don’t live in country towns in Australia or the US

Australia is roughly the size of continental USA, and I do fine without a car

You can drive for 30 hours and still be on the same highway in the same state in Australia.