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aphlamingphoenix ,

The article asks what is the politically neutral answer to the question of whether a trans woman is a woman. I wonder why this is a political question at all. Send like a question for scientists - biologists and sociologists and such. Seems they have achieved something like a consensus on the matter. I don’t see anything inherently political about that, except that folks of a certain political bent have made it political. It’s not a matter of “what do we do in public policy about trans people” but “fascists refuse to accept trans people in society and have decided to lambast and punish them”.

In case my position isn’t obvious, trans people are people and trans rights are human rights. If there wasn’t a group of people trying to make them into a second class group of citizens (or a group of “eradicated vermin”) we wouldn’t be having a political conversation about this at all.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Yes, it’s invalidation of feelings followed by the infliction of physical violence to make the abuser feel better.

Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)

Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid...

aphlamingphoenix ,

It takes my kid half an hour of screaming and throwing a public fit just to get within two miles of a needle, so I’ll take it.

aphlamingphoenix ,

The character has turned their body to face the other table to their left, but has not turned their feet.

If cannabis gets rescheduled to III, how can it ever get the state - federal differences resolved when it comes to the recreational market?

The feds will still go after it as an illegal drug when presented as recreational and the will keep the stigma going on forever. Furthermore it will keep a lot of talented people out of good job opportunities for smoking a joint after work instead of having a glass of wine.

aphlamingphoenix ,

The research at the time said not to ban it because it is reasonably safe for consumption and banning it would cause social unrest and distrust of the government. Check out “A Signal of Misunderstanding: The First Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse”, a report from a commission created by Richard Nixon with the passage of the 1969 Narcotics Act.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Not OP but I think they meant supporters of neoliberal economic policy and somewhat progressive social policies. “Liberal” like American liberal politics. The point being that they think they have good politics because they think trans people are people and aren’t the kind of right wing fanatic we get a lot of. They’re “left” to the extent that the American political spectrum allows for without understanding what “left” actually means, without being conscious of the overarching machinations that make then think their politics are good even as they continue to feed a system that intentionally blinds them to any honest criticism.

aphlamingphoenix ,

A lot has been said already, but it’s worth mentioning that modern guns are much more capable of killing than guns 200 years ago. Back then, guns were very inaccurate and had to be reloaded one shot at a time and packed by hand. Now we have automatic weapons with large magazines that can be swapped out in seconds. They have less recoil and greater accuracy. Regardless of cultural and political issues, guns are just more capable of killing than they used to be.

aphlamingphoenix ,

When you drink the coffee, you can really taste the iron deficiency.

aphlamingphoenix ,

You’ve gotten a lot of good responses here, so I thought I’d just drop an example of a jazz music video. youtu.be/swcSU71gixw

aphlamingphoenix ,

Me too, until I see the perspective on the window, then my brain gets confused.

aphlamingphoenix ,

How’s your liver holding up?

aphlamingphoenix ,

That looks like an alternative Reuben. Looks delicious

aphlamingphoenix ,

Still waiting on Femboy Hooters to be a real thing.

aphlamingphoenix ,

You didn’t mention the ability to mount different drives and partitions to different directories. For example, I always keep /home on a different partition so I can reinstall my OS without worrying about data loss. You also can use tools like LVM to combine volumes into a single storage volume. Have a lot of games and want to install them all to one place? You can set up multiple large drives to act as a single volume. I guess you can do this with RAID utilities or something in Windows, but it’s really not the same.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I am a daily Gnome user. There are many things which I actually dislike about Gnome, but I have solved them all through extensions. Fine, I’m not bothered because it can be customized.

But every time they introduce something like this, it takes me a while to get a functional desktop back. It takes time for those extensions’ developers to respond to these things. They have to research the change, implement it, test it, go through extra work to stay backward compatible, etc. These people aren’t being paid for this, so it takes some time.

I’m just frustrated about this. I know someday I will run updates and suddenly find all my extensions broken.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I really like a lot about Gnome. It’s things like getting rid of the system tray that don’t make sense to me. I understand it’s not in the system’s ideology, but you can’t force that on every application developer who still has to support that feature for other desktops. If it’s a common application feature, then it’s just broken on Gnome. That’s a hard thing to sell me.

aphlamingphoenix ,

That was an upgrade, imo

aphlamingphoenix ,

Elden Scrolls VI

aphlamingphoenix ,

the presence of several hundred parasitic eggs suggests they [the pooper] were riddled with intestinal worms.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I’m out here in 970. Not too far.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Duct tape, jfc

aphlamingphoenix ,

It is a rule of English grammar that city/state names are followed by commas. style.mla.org/commas-place-names/

aphlamingphoenix ,

Lawyers of Lemmy, let’s say he gets stuck with a fine or some trivial amount of jail time or something as a result of these charges. Is there anything about these crimes or punishments that would prevent his presidential candidacy?

aphlamingphoenix ,

Does this indicate that these donors don’t want Trump?

aphlamingphoenix ,

The way I do this is to start with leftovers from a pot of pinto beans. You strain out a bunch of the beans. Keep the jalapeno, onion, and tomato all in with the beans since they add so much flavor. Put some bacon grease in the bottom of a cast iron skillet. Heat/melt it and then add the strained beans and veggies. Smash it as it cooks with a fork. And smash it way more than OP has smashed theirs. That’s way too lumpy. Should be a lot smoother than that, like a bean dip.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I’ll go even further and say that meeting the needs of a population is the only point of having a society at all.

aphlamingphoenix ,

This dilution of content is really the issue. If Netflix still had the movies I want to watch, I’d just use it. Netflix is easier than piracy.

But Netflix doesn’t ever have what I want to watch anymore. Now those movies are scattered across half a dozen other services that each cost $15/month. It’s a pain to figure out what’s streaming where and if it will cost me anything extra on top of my monthly dues. As Gabe Newell said, it’s a service problem.

Piracy gets you more centralized access to more content for free. If you’re behind a VPN or use a private tracker (or both) it’s safe. So why spend all my money on Netflix and Hulu and Prime and Disney and Max and whatever else just to have a fifty/fifty chance that one of them might be streaming the movie I want to watch?

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