I went to a game for the first time a few years ago. I recall the moment where everyone was sitting around and not doing anything because they were waiting for the commercials to finish. It felt like watching actors drop their characters the moment they step out of the spotlight.
You know, if you spent your entire life living underground and never saw the sky, you'd never worry about silly little things like asteroids crashing into the planet and killing everyone.
It doesn't mean you'll survive any better, you just get to die ignorant.
"I'd do anything to become the best musician in the kingdom!"
"Would you become a centaur but your ass is another face?"
"What the fuck? No!"
"You said anything; your wish is granted!"
Brand your lies as the truth and anything that contradicts it as censorship. Now the argument isn't against what was said, the argument is against your ability to say anything.
Oh fuck yeah! So much of my research into new tools is just checking to see if they have a demo, documentation, and price.
When I'm looking for a new tool, I don't have the time to schedule a "quick" 20 minute call to do introductions and schedule a follow-up hour long meeting followed by a quote sent over in an email days later only to find out the price is so far outside the range there is no way it's ever going to happen!
I'm not some useless middle manager looking for any excuse to look busy; I don't have that kind of time to waste!
At one job we had a digital form for new user requests. This existed for auditing purposes, but it also helped to collect all the necessary information for the change. I was always impressed at how people managed to fill it out wrong every single time.
For example, I would get a request to update someone's name and they would fail to include the former name or the new name or even enter their OWN name for one of the fields.
What I learned is no system is idiot proof, no form will ever be filled out perfectly, and everything will need manual intervention at some point.
Them being adversarial doesn't really matter. The allies of today are the enemies of tomorrow and the converse, so the who shouldn't matter. The problem is with anyone collecting data on your citizens because it can be sold, traded, stolen, or abused.
If it was about protecting people, a wide-spread countermeasure would be used instead of a pinpointed assault targeting a single app.
I feel like that's the only justification I've ever really heard, but I find it to be rather flimsy. It assumes that someone willing to assault someone else would be deterred by a sign. It also assumes that assaults only happen across genders and not within, which is either very narrow-minded or willfully obstinate.
Personally, I would think individual unisex bathrooms that each contain their own sink would be the safest option. You enter fully aware and lock the door behind yourself, only leaving once you are fully aware and alert again. Given that the common area between stalls is essentially public, you could have cameras observing the entrance without invading privacy and capturing anyone attempting to force their way in or tailgate someone entering a stall. Better, safer, gender neutral.
B&H is one of my favorite vendors, but god damn do they go overboard with the air cushions in their packages.