Invalidate? No. It incentivizes certain behaviors, sure.

Do they assume the USA is like Hollywood […]? They perhaps assume that all Americans live in a large home with a white picket fence depicting a nuclear family as if its 1950.

Yes.

I keep an album on my phone of photos of “daily life” things for when I travel internationally. Some external and internal shots of my home. My city’s downtown area. The crowd at a college football game. House party guests playing flippy cup with red Solo cups. Grocery store staples w prices showing. Always a good conversation starter.

Prove it. List which ones are into beastiality. I want see just how big Kash Patel’s eyes can pop when he has to explain it.

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I tag ppl I want to pay special attention to, as well. They get green. There’s a dude around here somewhere who works on the Jellyfin for Roku app, tagged green so I can spot their posts easier.

1 and very well-muscled people

BMI shouldn’t be used to evaluate an individual, period. It’s fine for populations, like when comparing correlations across groups.

If already measuring height and weight, adding waist circumference greatly improves ability to parse out visceral fat versus heavily muscled.

Yes, I have changed a mind or two. Low single digit percentage, I’m sure. I’m more focused on countering bad information information or presenting a perspective that hasn’t been represented yet. I don’t really expect to change the mind of the person I’m arguing with.

As for not getting sucked in, does the Lemmy app you use have User Tags? Best feature reddit was completely missing (aside from, you know, the whole FOSS federation thing). I use the feature to apply a tag and color to users. I use yellow to warn myself about someone who I think previously argued in bad faith or might be trolling, a “proceed with caution” warning. I use red for “do not engage”; on reddit I probably would have blocked them but just red-tagging them, I can still see the rest of the community respond to them. Any time a post or comment comes up from someone I’ve red-tagged, I know not to get sucked in. I use Voyager app on Android. I don’t block much, just spam, bots, and full Nazi/CSAM apologist types.

Hopefully there are others who can speak with more knowledge on this.

Isn’t one of the problems that aircraft don’t have consistent, modern transponders so that they can be reliably seen by the towers? I think that was part of the DC crash between passenger plane and helicopter, no? ATC didn’t have good visibility of the helicopter, so they told the plane and the helicopter to just watch out for each other visually.

I don’t see AI helping all that much until all aircraft are retrofitted with modern transponders.

What do you mean by “minimize/abolish”?

Absolutely the fuck not should we be “abolishing” any personal identity labels.

That doesn’t mean you can’t think some labels are excessive, even stupid. And it doesn’t mean you can’t tell a queer person to their face you won’t use their niche label. Just like they’re free to think of you as an asshole and even tell you to your face that they think you’re an asshole.