August 19 is in the future

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I’ll assume you just didn’t understand what I meant so I will repeat it. Men and women can both play chess. Male brains are not superior to female brains. The reason there are more male pros in chess is because of the centuries long head start they had. To rectify this, there must be a conscious effort to boost female chess players. The current strategy to do this is to create a women’s league. At this rate, perhaps by 2100 there will be an equal mix of male and female pros, and we can abolish the gendered division in chess because it would no longer serve any purpose.

“Discussion” about this is just transphobic concern trolling, so it’s not necessary.

Begone, transphobe.

Well Russia’s recent push to make the lives of trans people worse has been after he left politics so I don’t really get the connection.

When you start talking about height and hand size, I think you’re getting lost in the sauce. Basketball already favors abnormally tall people anyway, but no one is trying to ban Yao Ming from the sport for being 229 cm (7’6").

IDK why you’re singling out Russia. I doubt the president has dictatorial control over this, and the council has members from all over the world. The whole org seems to be captured by reactionaries. Did the Russian chess federation spearhead this or something?

Does he have a history of conservative nonsense or something?

The issue of transgender athletes was basically resolved several years ago when the IOC decided on two years of feminizing hormones before transgender women could compete in the female category. But due to the re-emergence of the anti-queer culture war, sports federations are re-litigating the issue and throwing science out the door.

Since men have been getting support and funding for over a century in sports and games like this, you end up with them dominating the field. Women’s categories bring in more female players that otherwise wouldn’t have a chance if the entire game was open only. But on the other hand, this enables concern-trolling over “transgender invasion”. It’s also applied questionably to sports that maybe don’t need this such as in the case of Zhang Shan & Olympic skeet shooting. It can reinforce gender stereotypes. Finally, I’d say it’s frustratingly slow at leveling the playing field.

Supreme Leader of North Korea Mandates Shorts

Dec. 15, 2023

A recent report by Radio Free Asia states all citizens are required to wear shorts despite the cold weather. According to the anonymous source, famed news presenter Ri Chun-hee was quoted as saying, “They’re comfy and easy to wear.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet responded to interview requests.

Video uploaded August 14 by a north Korean showing Koreans wearing shorts.

https://youtu.be/tq7iUQu0Y2g

I am a more qualified journalist than Saskia O’Donoghue it seems.

Bro is so brainwashed they think North Korea banned shorts 💀

BrikoX you posted Radio Free Asia. 💀

You’re a Nazi who quoted Adolf Hitler in your bio.

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German engaging in dehumanization. Where have I seen this before…

No one’s been able to reverse it so far, not even the countries that have increased child support. Personally, I think if we go all-in on restructuring our economy to support child-rearing then it will reverse, but I think it’s too radical and expensive for countries to consider.

That’s called infertility, and it’s a separate issue. Fertility rate refers to children per woman, and this is decreasing globally to unsustainable levels. There is a phenomenon known as the “demographic transition” that refers to the demographic shift of pre-industrial high births and high mortality, to high births and low mortality due to modern science, to finally low births and low mortality. The only successful policy to reverse baked-in population decline so far has been to accept large numbers of immigrants. Obviously this can’t be universally applied because those immigrants have to come from somewhere.