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because testosterone from years ago supposedly can magically stick around to give better physical results is indeed transphobia.

Not the testosterone, but the physiological changes do.

Exogenous testosterone leads to more muscle mass, there’s no debating that.

More muscle mass = more muscle nuclei

And as we know from studies, muscle nuclei never go away. So someone with more nuclei will have a permanent advantage in building muscle.

To test this hypothesis, animals were pre-treated with either steroid or placebo for 2 weeks, deprived of hormone for an additional 3 weeks, and then the muscles were forced to work. Prior steroid exposure conferred a distinct advantage to the muscles, with a 44% increase in CSA rather than the 17% increase observed in controls. These benefits were not transient. When the muscles were induced to hypertrophy 3 months after steroid treatments had ended (the mouse equivalent of 10 years of human lifespan), the steroid-treated group displayed a 31% increase in CSA compared to a modest 6% in placebo controls.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3892465/

And nothing that has been said here is “transphobia”.

Yeah look I’m sorry but there’s not a biologist on earth who would agree with this. Saying that biological males don’t have a physiological advantage in strength based sports is just pure delusion.

Trans people deserve all the same rights and respect as anyone else, and I will fight for that. But if you’re going to say “red is blue and blue is red and science agrees with me” then no, I’m not going to indulge in that delusion

Reading comprehension? Like noticing that I’m not even the same person you’re replying to?

The magnitude of sex differences increases as individuals mature (65). Adolescent and adult males and females show average differences in aerobic capacity, body composition, and strength (61). These are interrelated but will be addressed individually. As children grow and move through puberty, both sexes have increases in body size, although to a greater extent among males, leading to greater male average mass and height (62, 71).

During puberty, differences in body composition become apparent, with males having lower average body fat, and higher average muscle mass compared to age matched females (64, 72, 73). This difference in body composition leads to increasing strength and aerobic capacity to a greater extent among males than females (64, 74). Due to a greater proportion of lean mass to total body mass, males on average are able to produce greater force for their body size (75–77).

This can lead to advantages in sports where strength and power are valued (56, 78).

What about the one where the Japanese guy isolated the bird language words for “danger, snake!”, then played it on speakers to wild birds, which caused them to panic and start looking around for the snake.

One of the most convincing experiments showing that animals have language that I’ve seen. The video is on YouTube

VR also.

Flight simulator on VR with a 5090 is an experience

It tastes like shit and there is some evidence it even lowers testosterone. It has no redeeming qualities

An LLM came up with a novel solution to the Erdős unit distance problem. It was unsolved for 80 years.

"And, on May 20, OpenAI shared a solution to the unit distance problem, along with a blog post explaining the work and a companion paper that featured nine world-class mathematicians commenting on the correctness of the proof and the importance of what had been done (as well as presenting a streamlined human version of the result). Mathematicians had generally believed that Erdős’ conjecture — about how many evenly spaced points can be placed on a plane — was correct. To general surprise, OpenAI’s internal model found a counterexample. To do so, it had found a sophisticated way to use tools from an area of math called algebraic number theory. As Jacob Tsimerman of the University of Toronto wrote in the companion article, “This is a really impressive piece of work. … It is definitely an intimidating construction.”

The destruction code: 4321

“Well, the code definitely isn’t 4321”