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If they're not making more work for you, its not something that needs to be worried about.

Any chance that you're just doing to much work? Not a dig, I'm not a chatty person and prefer to do the work until its done or I'm at a stopping point and its time to go home. So my habit is to do do way more work than anybody expected me to. (Downside of being a person who tends to work moderately well with minimal supervision.)

Turns out my browser script blocker was keeping the full thing from loading. smacks self in forehead

God's an unfalsifiable claim, so there really isn't anything that could test that hypothesis.

Pretty much any scientific test/discovery that counters anything in a religious text whose adherents view the text as completely truthful and literal. But sciencey stuff might not have much of an effect on religious folks who view their texts less literally.

But anyways... heliocentrism, germ theory, gravity, evolution through natural selection, probably a huge chunk of the field of archeology, plate tectonics, radiometric dating, probably the written language at various points in human history (but that's not really a discovery), trans species organ transplants, decoding DNA, direct genetic engineering, CRISPR, radio telescopy.

You mean unfalsifiable claims right?

Huh... anybody have a link to the full research paper and not just the pay walled abstract?

Gingersnaps

It allows all the campaign cash currently raised for Biden to be used without trying to funnel some of it through a PAC that isn't supposed to have direct contact with the campaign its playing with money for.

Not sure why everybody needs a copy of my, I mean, somebody's porn passport.

There is no Leftist party active in Congress.

So, when you read/hear some USA politician being called "on the left" it should be taken as literally as possible. They are literally standing just to the left of whatever they are being compared to.

So a person who says, "Hey, shouldn't we all have healthcare that you don't have to pay out of pocket for?" is to the left of "If you can't pay, just die." and will be considered "left". Even if the person wanting everybody to get healthcare is fully on board with "The Global War On Terrorism."

Its probably best to view somebody's opinion/action on an individual issue as being labeled "left" and not the person themself. Even when a person in the USA is describing somebody else in the USA as "of the left."

Well that sounds about right... sighs

So you're telling me that what I understand from reading the article is incorrect? Because my comment was based completely on what I read from the article.

Maybe my comment was poorly constructed. From reading the article, should my takeaway have been that the current use of the reference to the Yihetuan by the online trolls seems to be purely reactionary and not historical?

You and your correct predictions... smdh

Axelrod predicted that Biden wouldn’t be inclined to leave the race, noting that “this is a guy with a lot of pride ... who believes in himself.”

Just pulling another Ruth Bader Ginsburg and making it all about themselves, Democratic party stay winning.

There has been a wave of online Chinese ultranationalism directed at Japan in recent years amid rising tensions between the two countries, especially over Tokyo’s support for Taiwan and territorial disputes in the East China Sea.

Some posts urged Chinese to “go against the Japanese and eliminate traitors” while calling to establish a “modern-day Yihetuan”, it said in a statement on Saturday night.

Yihetuan, also known as the “Boxers” from the martial arts they practised, were a Chinese nationalist secret society during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) that supported imperial power and resisted Westernisation. Their slogan was “Support the Qing, destroy the foreigners”. The movement later led to the failed 1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion against Western and Japanese powers in northern China.

A right wing nationalist movement of the past that supported a monarchy being referenced by a small number of online trolls doing asshole things. Definitely not to be confused with general opinions of the greater Chinese population.

The measures were in line with the response from Beijing. In a commentary on Friday evening, Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily said that “Chinese people have the same standards on right and wrong”.

Probably an unnecessary use of the word "mouthpiece." At least for this situation, there's no need to give the negative connotation to the target audience of English native readers.

The draft guidelines would have lowered the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies. The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.

The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.

The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.

Makes sense, a 6 year old won't have boobs to mastectomy and any adult trying to get a 6 year old a breast enhancement needs to be [redacted], pretty much all of medical science advocates against surgeries of this nature before a body is fully grown unless there something really REALLY serious to modify the risk assessment so having some legislative ban is just fucking ridiculous, facial surgeries are given to literal babies with cleft pallets, and puberty blockers aren't the same thing as E or T.

A two-page explainer on gender-affirming care that is frequently cited by federal officials stated that gender-affirming surgeries were “typically used in adulthood or case-by-case in adolescence,” leaving the door open to surgery for minors in some instances.

No shit, its all going to be case by fucking case. Transgender people aren't a fucking monolith, there won't be a one size fits all treatment that works for every transgender person. That's the whole fucking point of a person going to seek medical professionals in the first place, to figure their shit out with the professionals whose whole job is to have a good idea what can/needs to be done.

That's the whole problem of any type of legislation making a barrier between a patient and the whole of a nations medical system. You either make the rule because you're a bigot politican, or you make the rule because you're an ignorant politician. There is no third option

Sounds a lot like a boomerang being swung around by a rope or is that just me?

"Would you like to round up your purchase, we promise that we'll give it to somebody who needs it."

Large, well known companies that just advertise that they still exist. Like, yeah, I know McDonaldsBurgerTacoBellWendySonic's exist. I pass them on every street corner. Show me an advertisement for something I don't know exists.

Resetting/moving the products on the store's shelves en masse, not because there's holes from discontinued products but because "people will stop paying attention to the shelves if everything stays the same." I'm old and in a hurry and I was here to give you my fucking money. Don't make it hard for me to give you my fucking money.

Pricing to the 9's.

Filling the shelves with a bunch of things that don't seem to sell all that well, taking up space that could have been used to keep more of the fast moving products on the retail floor, just to have the appearance of diversity on the shelves.

So, first, the invasion has already happened. So "not invading" isn't an option any more.

Second, the USA by way of NATO has been antagonizing the "East" for... longer than I've been alive. Usually we just start one sided military conflicts in third world countries with such a lack of air power and anti-armor capability that our military just rolls through the country where the biggest loss of life and equipment on the USA's side are after the occupation begins and the troops are just sitting around waiting to get sniped or drive near an IED.

It just so happened that antagonizing the second world country of Russia, thinking it was a third world country, finally wound up biting the ass of USA/NATO when Russia decided to invade Ukraine. You rattle your saber long enough and loud enough at a right wing government and eventually they're going to pull out their sabre.

So, since nobody can unfuck this sheep, best course of action is probably to allow the Ukraine government to admit defeat and sue for peace instead of forcing them to keep trying to fight a war they can't win (but military contractors will make mad money off of). They've lost a chunk of territory that will either stay Russian directly through open occupation or be Russian aligned autonomous states that will absolutely NEED to keep the Russian military around to help fight off the terrorist attacks either from Ukrainian actors or carried out by non-Ukrainian actors using Ukraine as the safe highway to get to Russia aligned states or Russia itself.

That Feeling When: You talk about butt plugs to a naked mole rat and it looks at you in total confusion.

As everybody knows, the average American's excess savings are stored in the balls. And it now looks like, the balls have run dry.