SkepticElliptic @ SkepticElliptic @beehaw.org

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They placed target stores in areas where people are more price sensitive and therefore less likely to shop at target.

Why is it antiquated when we live in a world where you need to pay rent? And why pay for work when you can just digitally copy the work?

You wouldn't download a house.

I don't see how this is much different from u.s. police. You could easily be charged with "assaulting a police officer" in the u.s. if a cop wanted to be a jackass. You could get thrown in jail for months or years until it gets sorted out even if you are found not guilty.

The bill text excludes video game consoles completely.

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB244/id/2813977

Probably suicide or stress related

It's not important at all why they want to do it.

Friend had an insight with oil consumption issues, so not those either.

I would start by taking it apart and cleaning it. If there's too much additional load from hair or whatever getting wrapped up in the roller then that would do it.

I would wash the floors and walls to get rid of any dust that is present. Then I would make a room out of plastic sheets. Finally, I would put use a 20" box fan with a 20" furnace filter taped to it to clear the air of dust.

I've had this idea of a larger trading economy based on boardgamegeeks "math trades." You could list an inventory of good used items you'd like to get rid of and then you can select other people's items that you would like to receive in exchange. Then the trading software kicks in and tells you who to send your item to and you receive an item from someone else.

This works for boardgames on a smaller scale, but on a larger scale it lacks a trust system.

A website like ebay would be required to handle the amount of inventory and user rating system. Government id and a chargeback system for disputes would probably be required to help mitigate misrepresentations.

I honestly don't think such a service could be free, but it could work well in other niches than just board games and it would be nice to be able to trade between niches like a car starter in exchange for a blender.

I think it could be federated as well, with different instances being ran for different types of things.

We could call it "freebay"

I suppose the site operator would charge a listing fee. This would prevent people from flooding the site with too many items or a bunch of fakes.

he didn’t understand that people have different concepts for gender and sex

Traditionally these words are/were used interchangeably and getting people to re-learn words is difficult, but an important part of getting people to accept trans people.

I said I'm not aware of everything that was said by each of these individuals, I did read the article which does tell critics to shut up and lacks direct quotes to each incident.

As far as I'm aware, transphobia has a very specific meaning. It gets used very loosely as "those who disagree" or those who don't understand what we're talking about.
Conservatives want activists to push regular people away. When you do that, then you become isolated. Unfortunately, you're stuck playing their game.

It wasn't a defense because I can't tell you from what place these people were coming from or how much or little they thought through their statements and how much they do or don't understand about being trans. It's worth exploring where these people are coming from if you want to change the publics perception of Trans people. You accusing me of being in defense of transphobia is exactly what I'm talking about. Many of these people were lamenting the sudden new wave of political correctness that they didn't understand. Telling them to shut up doesn't get them on your side. "You get more flies with honey."

Trans people are fighting against a multi-billion dollar advertising campaign against them. They're simply a convenient Boogeyman for the far right. It's a very niche to be trans, so unfortunately, advocating for yourself comes with the territory just like any other minority group that has fought to be more widely accepted.

Sure, these reactions aren't happening in a vacuum and the author of the article tells people to shut up if they don't understand trans activism or the attempt at shifting language in the case of Middler. I won't defend all of these people because I'm not aware of everything they've said.

In the case of Chappelle, he's just capitalizing on the political climate. There's nothing wrong with criticism and that goes back to what I said prior and my criticism of this author. That activists will attack anybody who doesn't understand their entire world immediately.

The trans rights movement took off during 2016 and the NC bathroom bill. A bill designed to cause conflict along political lines leading up to the election. At the same time I noticed a shift in rhetoric and it was almost like some obscure corner of Tumblr just went on a rampage across the internet with new talking points about more than two genders, wierd pronouns etc. Many people are not going to understand that kind of thing, especially older people.

Of course this anti-trans rhetoric comes from the far right, but trans activists and people pretending to be them don't make it easy to see where they're coming from.

If we look at the gay rights movement, it was much different. Trans people do deserve to be angry about what is happening to them in the untied states, but at the same time if they want to be more widely accepted they need more clear messaging and they need to accept that people don't understand even the most basic principles of what makes someone trans.

You can't just shut people out and shout them down when they don't know what you're talking about because then they will discard your entire position wholesale.

Of course there are bad faith actors on the right who will pretend to want to 'debate' that's not who I'm talking about. It's the people in the middle who would accept you if only you would accept them even with their faults.

It's not transphobia in general. It's a misunderstanding of the sudden language shift that trans rights activists created. It doesn't fit with traditional language and was sudden shift that only existed in niche online spaces.

I'm somewhat convinced that Russian troll farms started it around the time the first bathroom bill came about from some right wing think tank.

Trans activists are just bad at messaging and explaining their position. Many are downright hostile to begin with if you are a standard cis person.

If you want to have some fun install Windows 10 on a hard drive. Disk usage will go to 100%. It doesn't do this on SSDs except maybe very rarely. I'm pretty sure this is not a bug, but intentional so that people will buy a new PC. Windows 7 will run flawlessly on the same hardware. Although Linux is starting to demand higher hardware specs than it deserves.

That's tricky, I don't know anything about tribal law, but I assume NV state law would apply as to how vehicular assault is defined.

They did, but also they didn't. They made it a valid claim to self defense, which this was not.

Cops have figured out that you can use a rear wrist lock to sprain someone's wrist without causing any detectible injury. This causes the person to "pull away" and cry out in sudden pain so the cops can claim the person was resisting. That's why so many cops go to Krav Magna classes. You can also see the cops in this video pushing her into the hot road to basically do the same thing.