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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • There are local servers all around the world. You generally interact with the one closest to you, but it isn’t the “single source of truth.” At some point changes should be reconciled with the source authority, but all the remote servers are trying to update the source at pretty much the same time. Resolving updates from your global diaspora of servers in an accurate manner is hard and you’re likely to see odd bugs arise, especially when a large number of people take similar actions at once. You can see this in trending viral video likes–toggling your like on and off or viewing the video at the same time from 2 different locations is likely to give you a different like count each time. You can also see this when Trump rebrands the official POTUS account and starts spewing his vitriol through it, large numbers of people will realize they don’t want to deal with his bull shit, and some of their updates will fail to resolve in a timely manner.

    This doesn’t happen to everyone, but if you unfollow someone and it works you aren’t gonna complain.






  • This is how it is

    This is in fact not how it is–hence the down votes.

    Sex determination is a complicated mechanism that isn’t solely reliant upon chromosomes.

    The “XX is female and XY is male” take is a reductionist rudimentary explanation for the nominal case used to teach children about the basics. In reality there are more combinations than just those two for human chromosomes, and there are situations that cause different manifestations and development periods regardless of one’s chromosomes.

    Sure, most of the time that’s how it is, but it isn’t universal. Which is why using some pseudoscientific “chromosomal truther” interpretation to define either sex or gender is a bad, alienating ideology.


  • Initial development trends toward “female” characteristics. If an embryo has XY chromosomes then normally a gene on the Y chromosome will start to express which pivots development toward “male” characteristics.

    If there’s a mutation on the responsible part of the Y chromosome then that expression may not happen stunting the development of “male” characteristics.

    Certain disorders can prevent the development of sex organs entirely which can lead to the testes failing to develop and subsequent hormone releases to not happen stunting the development of “male” characteristics.

    Other disorders can result in the initial sex organ development, but prevent adequate hormone production which stunts the development of “male” characteristics.


    Since “male” characteristics occur later in the development cycle (and not always when they’re otherwise “supposed” to) at the point of conception all zygotes are of “the sex that produced the large reproductive cell” and since the current administration views zygotes as fully developed people the current administration accidentally classified all humans as female.


    Incidentally there being multiple methods by which one’s sex can be determined incongruously from the typical indication of one’s chromosomes is just one reason why anti-trans bigotry is stupid.