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If the gym won't let you cancel your membership, this is certainly a way of handling it.

Someone else posted the link, but a few weeks ago she described the idea that Nazis targeted research and healthcare information on Trans patients as "a fever dream", despite the Nazi raids on Magnus Hirschfield's Institute are a well-documented part of their crimes.

She claimed she was describing something other than the screenshot she quoted after people repeatedly pointed out how wrong she was, but it's still a troubling escalation in her rhetoric.

It's a delicate balancing act, but there is a sliding scale of speech acts, from the harmless, to bigoted, to hate speech, to incitement of violence.

There's not universal agreement on where to place the line between protected speech and public instigation, but her public comments have been drifting ever closer to that line, especially with her most recent bout of denying Nazi crimes.

Not chilling protected speech is important, but so is enforcement against those who have crossed the line. Countries with stricter laws are generally those who have learned this the hard way.

To me the question is whether the result of what you're doing makes the world around you better or worse. Would the people living in your place be better off if you were out of the equation? Then you're a bad landlord.

If you're making money from providing labor for the people who live in a place you own, and they're paying your costs to do so, I think there's a case for that being a reasonable occupation to hold. If there's an issue with it, it's not my highest priority, and there's definitely some value in flexible housing stock for people.

If your goal is passive income, or you're making money from owning housing and denying that ownership to people who need a place to live, then you're behaving as a parasite, and I think it's reasonable for people to give you an amount of respect proportional to that.

An authoritarian regime putting my ideology into force would be self-dismantling, which is probably a contradiction in terms.

Personally, I'm not just concerned with some set of policies, but the process by which policy changes occur. I don't want to see society hit some point of improvement and stop, I want to see continuous improvement. A dictatorship will inevitably regress when it no longer has a benevolent dictator, which really isn't compatible with my goals for how society should be ordered, or how power should be distributed.

Could you take all the sharks in Missouri?

Of course they'll say that to you on their platform.

If you file a deletion request, or complaint with a regulator, you should get a better response there.

Yeah it's a divestiture bill, that could theoretically result in a ban

That's my point though?

If costs like support agents that scale with rides make the rides unprofitable, their business model is upside down. Especially for Uber, I'm counting costs that scale with rides with costs per ride, vs infrastructure and truly fixed costs. Maybe they're so close to breaking even per ride that raising costs depresses demand enough to make them unprofitable, but it seems a lot more likely they're doing this to send a message first and foremost.

I mean, the question is what's fair both to trans women and cis women. Competing against competitors with an advantage and being excluded are both unfair. Absolutely eliminating advantage isn't the standard that minimizes unfairness, it's a balancing act between competing interests.

I'm not sure sports have found exactly the perfect balance, and it may vary a bit by sport, but it doesn't seem to be wildly off in favor of trans women.

As a whole, yeah, but top-line losses don't mean each ride makes them less profitable. My understanding was their margins are slim enough they need a lot of rides to subsidize their fixed costs, so fewer rides means less profit, not less loss.

If Uber is actually profitable, stopping operations in Minneapolis really should make them less so. If this isn't them taking a small loss now because they believe they'll avoid a bigger loss later, I can't make sense of it.

But it's a tactic, right? They could still make money, if a bit less, by operating in Minneapolis. But they can put pressure on residents to try and get it repealed by stopping, and try to send a message to other cities.

Also pre-grated cheese has anti-caking agents, so it does things like not melt as well. A rotary grater and block of cheese can get you a better experience for a bit less money, and just a bit of work.

In addition to cheddar, a block of whole milk low moisture mozzarella for making pizza is excellent

Not every CVS receipt, mind you. But at least one of them

I mean, while it isn't true whether these are likely voters, registered voters, adults, etc. and there were polling errors in 2020, it's definitely possible that if the election were held today, Trump would win. RCP leans a bit conservative, and are probably overestimating Trump, but it might not be enough to change the outcome.

That said, it's probably true that a few percentage point swings in a few key states could move the election back towards a Biden win. Six months enough time, but it'll take work to get there.

There's no option to fix major issues on the ballot, and there may never be, but we can slow them from getting worse, and express ourselves politically outside of voting

He could win again, but it absolutely can be prevented if we act.

Reversing the harm he's caused, and his predecessors who laid the groundwork for his presidency caused.. I'm hopeful we can do, but it won't be easy.

I can only hope it's many.

If we're lucky, they'll just stay home intead

I, for one, am looking forward to the rise of generative AI trained on 2014 tumblr, hallucinating Superwholock jokes where they don't belong, cosplayers dying themselves grey in a bathtub, and DashCon references where nobody expects them

It's really a win-win either way. My guess is it'll be a really pretty game worth playing, which might or might not become the definitive AoM to play long-term. If it's not, I'll pick up the original those couple times a year I need my fix