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If you have someone who can misty step a few times it's not that bad, otherwise it can be a drag to avoid getting murdered while you're lining up the masher / press.

Cool looking Indy game? Executive producer Todd Howard?

@Mr.Vic20 knows that the 5090 will be large enough that it could be driven on pubic roads once wheels are strapped to it.

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The phone is made of lead.

I WILL ABUSE MY MOD POWERS TO SAY GAAAAAAAAAAH NO I FORGOT THIS WEEK

What a horrible night to have a DMCA strike.

Having sold maybe 100 things on ebay over the last 20+ years, my take is that most buyers are completely fine, but the ones that aren't are completely insane. Someone wanting expedited shipping but waiting weeks to pay seems completely normal. Shit like, "I know this auction is listed as shipping to the US only, any chance you could do local pickup in Spain? Figured I'd ask."

For sites like google and amazon, them getting shitty was like driving a car every day; I didn't notice the brakes getting gradually worse. Then one day I went to use them for something slightly outside my regular beat and they were just... fucking terrible. Etsy is like that too now. I have some accounts that I know are real people who make cool board game shit, anything that's out of a specific niche I know well? I have zero ability to detect whether or not it's a real seller or someone hocking aliexpress shit on etsy with huge markups. It sucks. Twitter has been much more abrupt, at least for me as someone who has essentially zero followers and uses it like something resembling an RSS feed. Over the course of a few weeks / months the ads got dramatically worse (it's mainly dropship scam bots) and if I look at the threads of anyone with a moderate following who doesn't have a robust blocklist, the replies are all bluecheck bullshit. Not that a website that was basically "commentsection.com" was ever GREAT; bullshit designed to farm engagement would float to the top from time to time. But replies to legitimate news accounts rarely had shitposter78986926 dropping racist dogwhistles as the top comment, let alone MOST of the top comments, which happens all the time now.

Imagine starting a thread about the Senate taking something seriously and then having a picture of Marco Rubio in the OP.

The extent to which the biggest sites on the web have become just absolute fucking dogshit is wild to see.

SKYRIM BELONGS TO DA NORDS

In 10 years we'll just be getting dump truck slider mods for ES6, well played.

Polar Seltzer > all others Every year they don’t have the limited edition cranberry cider in the fall, I die just a little bit.

The audience gets mad when you don’t play the hits.

I don't know that this is true. At the risk of painting with a broad brush, it's similar to the perspective that a lot of people had about gay issues / rights. Obviously gender reassignment surgery for kids is not the same as adult, same sex marriage; the comparison isn't perfect. But it wasn't smart politicking to support gay rights even for democrats until it was, and when that tipping point happened wasn't immediately obvious until it was happening or even had happened. Also not to be grim... but kids getting killed by guns en masse has moved the needle slowly on gun laws. Things like gender affirming care are more easily manipulated at the state level since there are no national constitutional protections, but still. Besides, lawmakers don't need cover to do this, as we're seeing here. I'm under no delusions that pro trans activism is going to bring a ton of democrats to the polls later this year. But I also think we DO have evidence that "protect kids from the mind virus and the thirsty scalpels of woke doctors" isn't a winning position for republicans, either. Maybe it has something to do with slippery slops arguments they've been making for years failing to come true? Maybe it's because shit like crying wolf with claims that schools are letting kids identify as cats and shit in litter boxes hasn't stuck? Maybe it's because these surgeries are so rare? I don't know.

The problem with being an “equal opportunity offender” is when you go “they think I’m punching down when I talk about trans people? Wait until they hear my jokes about disabled people” you just end up telling on yourself twice. “Who’s got it worse than group X,” is not fertile ground for comedy. I don’t think anyone’s out there saying that trans or disabled people are off limits in general, Dave’s just lost in the sauce and has been for a while now. The brief bits of this one I watched are just him making “the one joke” conservatives have about trans people, it’s so fucking lazy and boring.

In a situation like this I'm usually willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to language. I don't know best all that well but I don't think he's trying to be hateful here or anything. It's not THAT long ago that, "I identify as X," was the most accepted language and that specific turn of phrase is generally out (which makes it being "the one joke" that chuds use a fairy reliable self-snitch), the way people call out their pronouns is different than the fairly recent past too, etc. Again the larger issue here is similar to pro-birth people being obsessed with very late / third trimester abortions. Despite what they are more than willing to imply or occasionally lie about outright, those types abortions are exceedingly rare, almost always in the interest of the health of the mother, and are very often medically necessary or adjacent to that. Essentially nobody's going into Planned Parenthood 36 weeks into a healthy pregnancy and saying, "you know what? Nah. Gimme an abortion." Most people, including many pro-life people, don't believe that elective, late abortions should be legal, or that they should be more severely limited than ones that happen int he first trimester. Late abortions are brought up as a foot in the door to the discussion about what they really want; the elimination of all abortions at any time. And it's the same thing here. There aren't tons of kids getting gender reassignment surgery. And let's also be clear that there's differentiation between top and bottom surgery. Last time I poked around at the numbers over a 3 year span, something like 750 top surgeries were done on minors based on gender dysphoria diagnoses. 750 seems like a lot until you realize that there are 40 million patients per year within the same age pool that number came from. When it came to bottom surgery the number is less than 60. In 2020 alone something like 3,200 girls between 13 - 19 got cosmetic breast enhancements. Close to 45,000 got cosmetic nose jobs. Will the number of kids undergoing some kind of medical intervention for trans related healthcare increase?In the short term, almost certainly yes. This doesn't mean that being trans is "trendy" or whatever other bullshit chuds like to claim; these people always existed. They were just unaware of options, unable to access them, etc.

It's fine to not know about or be informed about a topic, there's nothing wrong with that. I don't form an opinion on this based on vibes, everything I've read suggests that when it comes to gender reassignment surgery for children it's: 1) Generally not recommended 2) Very rare 3) Only happens as a last resort in cases of severe dysphoria which may lead to things like suicide attempts or repeated self-harm So in cases like this, it's not like my perspective is, "hey man, if it feels good, do it." And like I said, if it seemed like this was suddenly happening all the time, I might have a different notion. But that's not what is happening. If there's reasonable evidence to suggest that in certain cases, giving a minor access to this surgery is going to keep them from killing themselves... I don't think it should be against the law. And let's also be clear that in cases like this, it's not like the state is advocating for the improvement of access to other gender affirming care, or increased mental health services, or education on trans issues, etc. No. They think trans people are gross so they act like this is a "won't SOMEONE think of the children" issue. Their solution would be to convince trans kids that they're not trans. This is just chum for the base. As a cis, straight, white dude who is generally free of mental health issues, I can't really put myself in the shoes of someone who's trans or someone who has some kind of body dysmorphia. I've never had that experience of feeling out of place in my own skin. I don't even know if those are the right terms to use. So going through surgery does seem like "a lot" to me; I can't really imagine it. I think it's also worth remembering that for many people, though certainly not all, sexuality or gender identity are known pretty early on. A girl I was friends with in kindergarten wanted to see what kissing was like so we did a little peck. If a boy I was friends with asked me to do the same thing, I wouldn't have. Obviously none of this was sexual at that age but at 6 I wouldn't have kissed a boy. So I don't think it should be surprising that some kids who are very young know that they feel like a boy even if they're assigned female at birth. Again should we be putting kindergarteners through gender reassignment surgery or giving them puberty blockers? No. Does everyone's gender identity or sexuality crystallize that young? Absolutely not. But I think we often run into situations like these where adults think they universally know best or that the experiences of cis / straight people are not just "the norm" from a statistical standpoint, but "normal" meaning the default or correct. The later is just not accurate. So again, surgery specifically for minors, according to everything I've read, is rare and in extreme cases. I don't think it should be illegal.

Is it ethical to prevent access to a specific kind of surgery if the child, their parents, and their doctors agree it is in the child's best interest?

@Link200 have you ever flown a convertible?

@legend The irony tree bears bitter fruit, my friend.

Bruh you don't even have to read the article on this one. This is not something that happens often, it really only occurs in the case of severe dysmorphia, regret rates for gender reassignment surgery are way less than surgeries to correct things like back pain, etc. If there was some explosion in gender reassignment surgery for kids, that would be one thing. There isn't. People who like to complain about virtue signaling should be ripshit about stuff like this, since that's absolutely what it is, to say nothing of using the law as a cudgel to do so.

I think there's a fair portion of Christians that, while they might not think Catholics are "not Christian" to the same extent that Mormons "are not Christian" believe that Catholics are sufficiently weird and only count since they're grandfathered in.

lol Netflix's 'Rebel Moon' is one of the worst movies ever made WWW.SFGATE.COM SFGATE columnist Drew Magary watched "Rebel Moon," Zach Snyder's $150 million "Star Wars" copycat, and lived to tell the tale.