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Also, "in case of rape"? Does that require a conviction for rape, which even in fairly slam dunk cases takes more than the length of the pregnancy? Does the woman have to file a police report and then be able to get an abortion? Do they just have to tell the doctor they were raped? What does "except in cases of rape, etc" mean, practically?

I didn't read this, but did you know that the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV has a free trial, and includes the entirety of A Realm Reborn AND the award-winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 with no restrictions on playtime?

If they attach their name to it and don't make it abundantly clear it is an external opinion that in no way reflects on their views, their credibility takes the same hit as if their senior editors personally put the article out.

I've heard the "that isn't them, they're just rehosting" commentary. They aren't Facebook. If they publish it with their name, it's theirs. If they want to burn their credibility for that, it's on them.

An MI-6 agent, a CIA agent, and a KGB agent are all talking, claiming to be the best at finding a target when they need to. So they come up with a competition, where they release a rabbit into a forest and have to track and retrieve it.

The MI-6 agent goes on first, and after a week comes back, accepting failure.

The CIA agent goes next, and after 3 days comes out and declares there is no rabbit, or it escaped into another country.

The Russian agent goes last, and after 6 hours calls the others back to inform that he succeeded.

When the other two agents arrive, they find a bear chained to a chair, badly beaten and bloody, wearing a set of bunny ears and saying "I am a rabbit. I have always been a rabbit. My parents were members of a rabbit group..."

You know when you're sick and pretty much bed-ridden, and you think "if only I wasn't sick, I would be working out today and doing such-and-such," but then as soon as you feel okay again you don't actually do it or think about it until you physically can't again?

I feel like it's like that. That doesn't mean you should work out while you're sick. It just means that we need to remember when we're well.

(To be clear, what I'm saying is I get it and you're right, but regardless we can't reasonably do it right now. But once we put fascism down, or if it wanes enough to make a reasonable go of it, we absolutely should remember and fix the voting system).

I do that, too, and I regularly get the "you're always right, I'm always wrong" commentary. I respond, no, I'm often wrong, I just don't make a big deal out of it so you don't notice. I'd be happy to move on without a fuss when you're wrong, too, if you'll allow it.

Because seriously, being wrong is not a big deal. Everybody is wrong at some point, and regularly. Just correct yourself and move on, it's not a hit to your identity or person.

That's a fair comparison, and would give me the appropriate "Oh shit!" that this headline just didn't offer.

Even a single, well-known point of reference makes it better. We all know world income inequality is absolutely nuts. But to pick out a particular one needs at least some kind of reference point (unless it's an Indian article for Indian people, like an article from the U.S. for the U.S.).

Thank you! And thank you for finding and linking all that, it is very informative!

I couldn't find a comparable historical CPI chart on the BLS website, just a 12 month average and historical data by region. Are you able to find something to compare that chart to? It's kind of difficult to grasp intuitively (without a comparison, that is).

Do you break the law? Yes or no?

The answer is almost certainly yes, but it definitely requires context. Are we talking speeding? Murder?

It's like on a physical health assessment I have to take yearly that asks if I'm a smoker with the options ofa pack a day or more, a pack a week, I quit smoking, or I have never smoked a cigarette.

Sometimes (often!) A simple yes or no doesn't answer the context of the question.

The difference is that this is verifiable, and the idea about what better is, is ending the war on drugs because it was blatantly wrong to begin with. It didn't even have "good intentions," and it does nothing but harm now.

MAGA is where it's at because they hate for the sake of hate. There's no "better" for them, unless it hurts others. They'll "believe" whatever is convenient, because they just want to be angry, whether or not there is any truth to what they're mad about.

There are mountains of difference, and to "both sides" every time the left points out a legitimately bad thing is sheer obfuscating nonsense.

I think you are confused about the source of the deficiency.

When we make an exception for a particular gender, race, religion, etc, we imply that an exception is necessary for this class. Which is to imply that there is a deficiency, but not that it is inherent to that class.

The deficiency being corrected is in society. How society has treated that class is a failing in society itself, and an exception needs to be made to correct (and fix) that deficiency. To take an example you made of handing a crutch, the crutch is going to society to help get their leg (that class) healthy again after what they had done to it, so it can be whole. Ideally, the crutch would be a temporary thing until the body can heal its leg, but the crutch isn't the solution in itself.

Broadening that out, society has a deficiency as it mistreats, say, trans people. Trans people exist and should be an accepted part of society treated the same as everyone else, but bathrooms, sports, etc, have excluded them or mistreated them. That may not be able to be fixed immediately, but while we work toward a society where bathrooms, sports, etc, are inherently inclusive of trans people (I can't sat for certain how that would look), exceptions must be made to keep society functioning reasonably while it heals its deficiency (like a crutch for a person who broke their leg).

I hope that clarifies things for you. Your assumption that the deficiency is inherent to the marginalized group is what is faulty.

One of my coworkers was talking about how his wife (a truly hateful woman) was complaining about having been to a bathroom at a particular airport, and how they had changed them for trans people (she presumed). In particular, they had made all the stalls have floor-to-ceiling doors for privacy. I responded "wait... she's mad because they made the bathrooms better for everyone, because they did it for trans people? That is an objectively better bathroom situation. I can't imagine being upset by that."

People can still manage to be upset, but if they did do that for trans people (and I'm honestly not convinced), that's fantastic, and is a perfect example of what you're talking about, I think.

Right? What other possible materials could they use? Prior to plastic, we just cupped our hands and had people pour beverages into them, or directly into our mouths.

Plastics have been revolutionary in keeping our hands and faces from getting sticky. I, for one, refuse to go back to the days of sucking off the tap.

Oh good! I would have come back later and wondered why I had stopped reading.

You convinced me to stop reading your comment after "and boy did it pay off" and add it to my queue.

I'll come back and finish reading your comment after I've finished the show (so far).

What the hell are we doing?

We're sending food as a humanitarian emergency operation to people starving from the seige perpetrated by the side we support with weapons. We're helping to make them starve while sending "emergency aid" to them as if it's not us keeping them in need of that aid.

That's my plan for later. I want to get it really firmly established first.

Noodler is looking a little blue these days. The pirate life must not be going well under Hook.

So, from experience, I don't think it likes it if you play a song too close to itself. I had a short Playlist once with two or three songs bookended with Photograph, and it dropped the second Photograph. So I'm hesitant to do the same song over and over. Maybe a song that has a whole bunch of different versions might work!