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Thailand's Pita quits as leader of election-winning party after failed PM bid
  • So the people elected him, and the military vetoed his election win.

    This article really downplays what just happened, and even tries to shift the blame to the man the people elected because he owned some media shares.

    According to The Economist, Thailand is a "flawed democracy" rather than a Hybrid or Authoritarian regime.

    This is not democracy.

  • Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon — Nature
  • Maybe this technology will mean that women can offload the burden (physical and legal) to a machine.

    A lot of the conservative agenda is focused on being in favor of more births. Give them a cheap alternative that doesn't come with the human attached and some radically misogynist/homophobic elements might suddenly have a change of heart because their goals doesn't conflict with it anymore.

    Of course some people will never change, but look how the dishwasher and other appliances changed the lives of women. Suddenly traditions that had been around forever changed, and women were spending a lot less time doing domestic labor.

  • Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon — Nature

    www.nature.com Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon. Here’s what you need to know

    US regulators will consider clinical trials of a system that mimics the womb, which could reduce deaths and disability for babies born extremely preterm.

    Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon. Here’s what you need to know
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    Was Unity lying yesterday or are they lying today?
  • Isn't that like a giant red flag for laundering money?

    No, money laundering is taking your own dirty money and finding a way to make it look clean i.e. laundering it. Taking money you can't explain the source of, and making it look like it came from a legitimate business.

    They are just trying to take other people's money.

  • Lyft’s new feature lets women and non-binary riders request their driver’s gender
  • The nearest university to me has a gender ratio of 60% women to 40% men, and yet they have publicly boasted that they give preference and scholarships to women to boost their enrollment.

    Giving preference to the most overrepresented group has not attracted any negative press.

    Most employers will have an "equal opportunity" clause on the footer of their website that notes that they give preference to women.

    Those employers are not suffering from lawsuits, sanctions, or lost business.

    No one seems to care that the goal of these programs and their explicit policies contradict.

    The news had a story about a man who sued his school for gender discrimination because they gave preference to women despite being majority women already- the anchor and the journalist on the ground both talked negatively about him and basically accused him of being a bigot.

    Sexism will probably play out well for them, unfortunately.

  • Lyft’s new feature lets women and non-binary riders request their driver’s gender
  • Most people, even most men, acknowledge that men are more violent.

    When are we going to take the next step and acknowledge that didn't happen by accident, and it's due to the conditions men live under.

    What's the feminist explanation for why so many men turn out this way and not women? I've never heard a good theory for this from that perspective, just that men choose to be bad, for unspecified reasons and the conversation ends there.

    Men have pressures and expectations on them to compete and provide for those around them in a way that pushes them to this. Those same pressures aren't on women, and if they were they would turn out just the same.

    Any ideology that demonizes someone based on their gender, and uses dehumanizing ideas like "this gender just choose to be bad, while the other choose to be good" is oversimplifying it and ignoring the actual causes for these outcomes.