You are making a huge mistake thinking that pro trans politicians are losing. Dems lost in 2024 without ever voicing a position on trans rights specifically.

MAGA talked about it so much, that the dems left it alone and we saw what happened. After that, in by-elections plenty dems who took a strong stance came out ahead.

Also, fuck you for responding to someone talking about their rights being taken away with a ‘Lol’ response.

They just want to make the words acceptable today so they can pre-justify the violence tomorrow.

That’s a well crafted PR response that does it’s best to accept responsibility and give a plausible explanation, which is what’s expected. Doesn’t mean its true.

It doesn’t really fit well with what’s in the image to my eyes though.

Maybe a second person saw the ticket, thought someone missed a word and added it, but that doesn’t make sense at a high end place to have just anybody doing lettering.

Looking at that ‘Happy Birthday’ on a plate and thinking something needed to be added, I would not want to touch that perfect cursive even if I had similarly impressive flow, I can’t imagine the different shape wouldn’t be acceptable at a place like that.

Not even. It wasn’t the same hand that wrote those letters.

Maybe a server wrote it after the fact, or maybe the client did to get story and a free dinner.

There is no justice in punishing people who’ve become addicted, and are just using to satisfy the addiction.

You know who becomes addicted? The kid who runs/drives/rides in front of a car and ends up on major pain meds. Maybe ticketing parents who let their kids do that, without regard for the evidence of its dangers is a good idea after all.

Any product created by a company that has demonstrated evil intent should be considered evil, even if there are legitimate valid uses. You have to trust not only the person using it, but also the company that controls what the device can/will do with or without the users constent.

Long term, it’s not going to create a two tier system. It’s going to drain limited resources from the public system until it fails, and then all we have left is profit driven healthcare that provides worse care than what we were getting for everyone except the richest.

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3954949?ln=en&v=pdf

You sure?

The problem the becomes are the bad or missed calls because they are human, or because the fix is in? That same worry happens with VAR. But it’s reviewable and so bad calls are more easily noticed, and identifying trends is easier.

Publishing the post sure.

But propagating notification alerts to followers isn’t reliably that fast.

Having a paid queue to be alerted first makes sense technically.

Huge ethical issues though. This is clearly just corruption. Pay me money and you’ll get insider trading information that won’t actually be called that.

I think the education is a symptom of a deeper problem still, and that is corporate entities owning significant parts of the governing process, through lobbying, campaign financing and a rotating door of government positions and coproate advisers.

They want an uneducated population, because that is how they get a greater and greater share of the say in what the government does each election cycle. Getting Citizens United through was one of the worst they accomplished in recent years, but it won’t end there.

I don’t know. That’s harder, and I feel like a lot of negativity can build up in a terminally online state, because that is what most sites are programmed to push.

I would strongly recommend finding ways to stretch your comfort zone, to involve getting out more, but I don’t know what limitations you’re working with.

You could potentially look for mutual aide groups, as they seem to have ways of helping from wherever you’re at, and that may be a way to start. Especially if its a more local organization, it could eventually lead to a more in person presence down the road if you get to where your comfortable with the idea.

Getting involved with and helping build local community. Find groups whose interests align with yours, and show up. Meet people and ask how you can help grow the community.

Getting put into the mix, doing concrete things to make day to day more enjoyable for yourself and people around you will help you feel better about where the world is.

It’s also where people need to be when things go bad. It’s always going to be local community that helps get people through it. Being involved already means you’re better situated than those who aren’t.

If you’re out there doing the work, its also going to be easier to meet new people and therefore more likely to find a romantic connection.

It’s more descriptive than “Woman died after living made her delusional”.

It’s less descriptive than “Woman died after a vitamin B12 deficiency made her delusional”

I’m pretty sure it’s intentionally vague and misleading to trigger engagement around a divisive topic.

I wonder if there is a term for that.

People were struggling while Biden was in office, sure. But Americans need to learn to wake up, examine the rest of the world, and realize that post COVID economies were struggling everywhere, and Biden had actually done a pretty good job mitigating the damage.

Just because it wasn’t great, doesn’t mean he didn’t do a decent job at making it much less worse that it might have been under the policies, and damage set up by Trumps first term.

Things like tax breaks, legislated to make things harder for the working class after Dems retook office, not because of what the Dems did, but close enough for them to blame the Dems.

And it worked. It always works.

They should at least replace the fields producing corn ethanol. Saves the recurring cost of producing the energy, and reduces the emissions of both harvesting and burning.

Huge swathes of land are used just to burn the output.

It makes sense. Protocols are defined before services can be implemented on them.

What the article is say is, rather than trusting a service provider to protect your privacy, stick to using services you control, on open protocols that can communicate with external service providers.

If everyone does this, the government needs to knock on a lot more doors to force compliance. And if a node on the protocol chooses to shut down instead of complying, the service as a whole isn’t disrupted. Just the users on that node. And they can control migration to a different node.

Something something felon…

Speaking of atrophying skills…. Couldn’t make it past one paragraph to reach the critical part of the article.

I think the journalists themselves are stuck in the same place a lot of us. Working for someone they can’t support morally, because they owe money and need a paycheque, and every place they could move to will likely have the same problem.

The issue is with the owners.