MrVilliam @ MrVilliam @lemm.ee

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Now how exactly do you suppose this gets enforced? Because I'm betting it involves some creep being the authorized inspector of children's genitals. I'm sure nobody will be wielding that sort of role to sexually assault any children. Yep, this is just the perfect kind of policy to enact to protect the children from... checks notes... a "boy" unfairly beating "real girls" at girls' sports.

Remember this moment when swaths of stories about sexually abused children come out. I'm sure those stories will come out within a couple years of a bunch of stories about how girls' sports are suddenly seeing record low participation numbers "for some reason".

The horrifying statistics on the percentage of women who have been the victim of rape or attempted rape in their lifetime will be going up significantly as a direct result of this kind of legislation. Even if there were any real justification for actively discriminating against trans people, how could anybody ever be on board with this kind of direct consequence? What a disgrace.

I'm sure they're just confused. They thought their constituents were frustrated by the rise in long-dormant "eggs" hatching into their true trans selves, but really they were bitching about the literal rise in literal cost of literal chicken eggs in literal grocery stores. Understandable mistake to assume a metaphor there. /s

I wonder if this bill is important enough to Senate Republicans to be the catalyst for rewriting filibuster rules. I'm sure they'll have no problem doing away with the filibuster the moment it becomes inconvenient to their power grabs, and that would be their right as the majority party, but it's the hypocrisy that pisses me off. Just like when they blocked a SCOTUS nomination in an election year, but had zero hesitation to ram their own SCOTUS nomination through a month before the election four years later.

Built shelves into the back wall of the garage. It's been great for storage.

Installed a water softener, but more on that in a minute.

Also wrote with sharpie on the wall of the maintenance closet the dates of routine PMs for the furnace and water heater. Unfortunately, I found out the hard way that they weren't particularly diligent about the water heater stuff. It just said "bleach" and dates, but they clearly weren't flushing it properly. I found and removed probably like 15-20 pounds of scale and replaced the lower element that it killed. I have a theory that they installed the water softener well after living with hard water for a while, and by then there was already a bunch of scale in the water heater. Combine that with dosing bleach which is higher pH and not properly flushing it out and they welcomed crystallization of the dissolved solids that were already there. Then under deposit corrosion killed the lower element. I'm not sure why they felt the need to dose bleach though. That would only really attack organics, and the water is already treated before coming through. Idk, it's my first home so maybe I'm the one who's a clueless idiot here, so I shouldn't judge too harshly here lol.

For real. Imagine being that rich and powerful, yet still being so deeply insecure. Can't you afford to just be yourself without worrying about whether every little detail jives with your gender identity? Isn't that the sort of freedom that "fuck you money" is supposed to buy? Now I kinda wonder whether he actually has any interest in MMA whatsoever or he just got into it because the testosterone-laden meatheads all go nuts for it as being a supremely "manly" thing, and he's too insecure to be into something that might be more interesting to him like drone racing or baking because they're not the manliest thing he can think of.

Imagine being one of the wealthiest people in human history and being so creatively and emotionally and socially bankrupt. If he weren't such an insufferable asshole, I might feel sorry for him.

"Sure, he engaged in insurrection; sure, he was an officer of the US at the time; sure, section 3 of the 14th amendment clearly lays out that he is to be disqualified from holding office again as a result; but who are we to do anything about it?"

-- way too many fucking judges across the US.

Spineless fucking assholes.

And dogs!

Solution: send the cops in to fight the fires. All they're good for is defending capital, so let's see what they've got.

I'm not against piracy, but publicly posting about intending to pirate would just invite cops to come and snoop around. I'm not dumb. I should either shut the fuck up about this topic and feel free to pirate or I should not pirate so I can freely speak up about how bullshit it is to pay for these things when piracy is far and away the better experience. I chose the latter, and especially now that resources have been provided to help others to choose the former, others can do so without even asking where to start.

I can afford to buy my media, but I wasn't always so financially stable and I refuse to forget those chapters of my life. People are really struggling right now, so I wouldn't dare judge anybody for pirating instead of paying these absurd streaming bill amounts just to get a dogshit selection, bad UI, and pisspoor video quality. As everything in life seems to be going to subscription model, I'm becoming more interested in owning my media. It also just seems like building a NAS and ripping my discs to build a library within it could just be a fun tinkering tech project.

It's ludicrous that the original pirate-killer service has become such a bad deal. 13 years ago it was such a good deal that it didn't really make sense to pirate anymore. Now it's triple the price, 1/3 the quality content, and a worse experience.

I would have had less issues had I pirated

This right here is the problem. Consumers are being punished for paying for their service. I would be more than happy to hand over my hard earned money for products and services that are good value. I'm not trying to get something from nothing here. It's absurd that we could get better than they're promising, let alone actually delivering on, and it could cost us nothing.

Yesterday, I learned that several titles on Netflix are locked out from the ad-supported tier "due to licensing restrictions". Inexcusable. Pay, still sit through ads, get a fraction of the library. I think I'm gonna start building a NAS and home library this year. BDs and DVDs can be snatched up for cheap from pawn shops and eBay. I'll do it legally just so I can tell any FBI pricks to go fuck themselves if they should ever decide to check on my shit.

This. Conservatives have poor media literacy. They don't understand that they're the punchline in stuff like that. They miss the point of stuff like RoboCop and Starship Troopers and unironically like those movies for the action and don't even recognize the social commentary. They watched Team America and guffawed into their 24 packs of light beer at every shallow joke without recognizing that the jokes were intentionally shallow to point out what an idiot would think is a good joke. It's like the TV show in Idiocracy. The real joke is below the surface.

I had a conversation with a coworker about this a while ago. He said that something he liked about trump was that he already had money so he wouldn't be able to be bought. I said that he has it exactly backwards. The kind of people who amass that amount of wealth in our society have felt the power of large wealth firsthand and know that more money is always better for them. Increasing the number in their bank account becomes exponentially more important, the higher it goes. The wealthy have proven their utmost allegiance to wealth, so they'll be the first to sell out.

There's an exchange in The Simpsons that has never stopped being relevant:

• You know, Mr. Burns, you're the richest guy I know. Way richer than Lenny.
• Oh, yes. But I'd trade it all for a little more.

Imagine betting that your prepper neighbor with 30 guns won't buy a 31st gun "because he already has so many".

I appreciate the response. I'd heard that it's similar to pork, and I've heard of prion diseases like kuru being a problem (which might be a non-issue if lab-grown maybe?)

It makes sense for religions to have a problem with it, possibly all meat made this way and not just human as it's "unnatural" or whatever. I'm no expert on religions of the world, but I'm not aware of any explicit directive to not eat human meat, but it wouldn't surprise me either way really.

So I guess assuming it were safe to eat which was my assumption, only secular people would really consider it. But maybe a lot of religious people wouldn't bother with any of the lab grown meat in the first place, so it's possible that lab grown human meat would be tried by as many people as any of the other options.

Yeah, asking for real. We might see such a scenario come to pass in my lifetime. If there's no human suffering and nobody has to die for it to occur, is there anything other than "seems icky" that would stop most people from at least trying human meat at some point in their life? Would it be illegal, legal but restricted, or as legal as beef? If not illegal, would you try it, and if so, how?

Without hesitation. If the taste, consistency, nutrition, and price are all the same, then the only differences would be whether an animal was bred to suffer until slaughter and the likelihood of illness from consumption. I'm assuming that stuff like e coli would be nearly impossible through this. Plus less demand on farm meat means less chance of coronavirus mutations like the 2009 swine flu outbreak. And less of a need for the real estate, feed, and potable water to grow those animals. I must be missing something because I'm struggling to see a downside here.

I'm sure that, in the same way that there's still a market for objectively inferior exploitatively mined diamonds as a status symbol instead of lab created diamonds, there would still be a market for rEaL meat where "you can really taste the suffering" or whatever.

Now here's the more interesting question that actually has me on the fence: if "growing any kind of animal tissue" is what has been achieved, where would you stand on consuming lab-grown human meat? Is it immoral? Are there risks? Should such a thing be restricted in some way like alcohol or handguns? What would be the proper etiquette and presentation and everything if it became socially accepted? What wine would pair best with it? Or would it be more of a beer pairing? If this weren't socially acceptable, would no-suffering chimpanzee meat be okay?

If it only takes a small cell sample, would it be unethical to dig up extinct animals like mammoths or dodo specifically to enjoy their meat? If that's okay, and it chimps are okay, would neanderthals be okay to eat? Where would we draw the line?

I think you're already forgetting just how prevalent the story of the murder was. It wasn't just local news. It was unavoidable.

Luigi is innocent until proven guilty. I think it's weird that cops found a backpack in central park with no real evidence, but found a gun, a suppressor, and a written confession that started off with praising the cops on this guy who decided to get McDonalds in the middle of the day. I'm not saying that the cops planted evidence to have somebody to finger, but it seems convenient.

Trump Aid. TrAid for short. But change the spelling to avoid litigation from Kool-Aid. TrAde. And let's make that A lower case. Trade. Can I have a position in the administration now?

"Wake up sheeple, being woke is bad."

The conservative ideological superposition is so goddamn stupid.

Glad my wife and I aren't the only ones. It's frustrating to explain why proposed solutions won't work while already worked up over stressful bullshit. Sometimes there just aren't real solutions. Sometimes you just need to open a pressure relief valve for a minute so you can have a little reset and be better equipped to tackle the mountain of bullshit.

I'm a power plant operator who will be working day shift on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The shout-out is appreciated. Even our own families often don't understand that this is just how it's gonna shake out most of the time. My in-laws get annoyed that we just won't be able to visit at the same time as everybody else, but they just don't really think about the power they're relying on for their holiday at home. They're weekday office workers, and they could probably do more than half of their work from home.

Thankfully my wife very much understands it and we schedule all holidays based on actual availability instead of expecting me to try to cram things in before or after my 12 hour shifts plus 1 hour commute each way on the day of. A lot of people in this industry wind up divorced, and I think the schedule is mostly what's to blame.

The paycheck will be great, but it's still nice to hear that appreciation for the time we and our families are sacrificing to provide for the rest of society. In this way, I sort of get to be one Santa Claus of many. We are making sure that Christmas comes to everybody.