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No it wasn’t just one study. The 2016 WHO trial is just the one that got the headlines because it made for a catchy story. There were several other male birth control studies going back to the 80s and 90s where men dropped out because they didn’t want to deal with the side effects. Things like acne mood swings and injection pain.

In the WHO study around twenty out of three hundred twenty men quit over side effects. Earlier trials saw the same thing a few percent tapping out for the same reasons.

So no it wasn’t some isolated case. It’s been a recurring theme across decades of research. The numbers are small but it’s there. Pretending otherwise just tells me you stopped reading after the first article title.

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Yeah, neat math, but biology isn’t a group project where everyone gets an equal share. Female birth control exists because it’s actually doable. One egg a month is easy to manage, shutting down millions of sperm without wrecking everything else? Not so much.

And every time male birth control does make it to trials, guys tap out the second they get a mood swing or a cramp. Meanwhile, women have been tanking those side effects for decades just to keep the rest of us from multiplying like rabbits.

So no, science didn’t “target the wrong gender.” It just went with the one that could handle it.

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I mean ya… That’s pretty much how I feel.

It’s possible to build a competent gaming manchine if you’re ok with 1080p. A ten year old card still runs 1080p perfectly fine.

I have a Ryzen 5500 on a radeon 550. It plays mostly everything at 720 to 1080. It’ll do lite 4k but it does what it needs to do.

I bought a Acer nitro with a 3050 in it for my teenager. 🤷 It’s perfectly fine. She plays mostly counter strike anyway.

I play a bunch of indie stuff and remasters… Unless you want 60fps in cyberpunk in 4k ultra ray tracing… You can get into a pretty decent build for well under 1k.

Dude that heist was so good no one is even upset really.

It’s like the most benign crime and existence it was executed so well.

Just let them have the jewels.

Ok. Thanks. Good luck to you too.

That’s because I’m agreeing with the person and not rebutting the original comment. Which I have no desire to do.

But I will say this if you think high speed rail will impact housing in California you’re an idiot.

It’s not.

I tired to rent an apartment once. I had 100k in liquid in my bank account. I showed them this but it wasn’t good enough. I’m 1099 and officially make very little money (it’s all above board and legal. I have a CPA.)

They needed paystubs. I don’t have pay stubs. I don’t even get paychecks.

It’s kind of a weird catch 22 for them. They’re ok with some bloke making 20 bucks an hours with nothing in savings as long as he can “prove” his income but someone with actually money is just too much of a risk.

Yes but he said “high speed rail” which is popular here so now you’re getting downvoted.

You’re right of course. It’s an idiotic take.

It’s kinda like saying housing would be a lot better if there were more forest rangers.

English is a terrible language and I really need to get gooder at it.

Remove the word AI from the meme and you will have people in the comment section totally in support of self-checkout and self-driving trains.

The reality of the situation is that you do want these things because they’re very popular you’re just painting it with the word AI making it unfavorable on this particular platform.

What other nonsense.

Yes. I understand what you’re getting at but I assure you I’m not some flat earth conspiracy nut so this rhetoric won’t work here. By they them I mean the people in the commen thread I posted under.

But congratulations on stoking the bandwagon fire. Good on you.

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They’re not going to answer your question. They never do. These people don’t know what socialism and communism is and in the same breath say that Republicans don’t know what socialism and communism is either.

These people think that programs that benefit the indigent or economically impaired are inherently socialist programs. They think that universal healthcare is socialism as well.

They don’t understand what a Republic is and they don’t understand the difference between private and public ownership of the means of production. They think that socialism will make everybody equal but don’t understand what equity is.

They think that Bernie Sanders and AOC are socialists and have no idea what a Democratic socialist is in the first place.

They don’t know anything so they cannot possibly answer your question.

Kid saw an opportunity and they took it.

Yeah that’s right and so should libraries and fire stations and grocery stores just to be on the safe side!!!

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My friend, who works as a license renewal and hiring manager at a large tech security firm, once shared something interesting with me. He said that when hiring under his company’s DEI standards, he sometimes had to bring on someone who wasn’t the strongest candidate for the role. The goal was to meet diversity requirements, but the tradeoff was that it occasionally meant hiring someone less qualified.

According to him, if a hire brought in under those standards didn’t perform well, it could be harder for the company to let that person go. The emphasis on maintaining diversity created extra pressure to hold on, even when performance wasn’t where it needed to be. That situation, understandably, can affect the rest of the team.

Personally, I don’t have anything against DEI. In fact, I think it helps reduce nepotism, which is a positive. But I also don’t think DEI always works out the way people imagine it will. Like many policies, it has both benefits and downsides.

The reason I bring this up is because I think it’s a slippery slope when governments start drawing hard lines about who can and cannot be fired. At the end of the day, what tends to matter most is whether someone makes the company money.

Take my friend as an example again: he’s only required to bring in $250,000 each quarter, but he actually brings in around $4 million. Because of that, he has survived multiple layoffs and has even been moved to different departments, simply because his performance makes him too valuable to lose.

You’ve got to be a bot. Seriously.