TanyaJLaird

I don't know who is right, but this is the greatest nerd fight I've seen in years! 😁

This is just the gender fraction among the working age casualties of the bombing campaign. Men are more likely to be outside the home. Israel has been targeting all the infrastructure they can, including hospitals, schools, emergency services, etc.

Think about how societies would act when under constant bombardment. You still need to find a way to support yourself. The proverbial rent doesn't stop just because of the war. Especially in more traditional societies, you would likely see men doing most of the work outside the home, while women stay in whatever place is safest with the children. The wife stays back in the half collapsed building, while the husband goes to risk the crowds, riots, and potential machine gun fire at the aid trucks.

What war in history hasn't seen the male population, even the civilian population, be placed at a higher risk of direct violence than the female population? Especially in more traditional societies, men will be highly likely to place their wives and children in the safest places they can find, while they go and take on a disproportionate share of the risk of leaving relative safety.

And for their sacrifice and bravery, the men of Gaza are rewarded by being slandered. Are you a male of working age killed by an Israeli bomb? You are assumed to be a member of Hamas.

Such a stupid move. The whole point of having a formal union agreement is that it prevents the TSA workers from using their real power. Their real power is if they go on strike, the entire air transportation system shuts down. In exchange for agreeing not to strike, the government agrees to negotiate with the union. We've never had to deal with a TSA strike shutting down air travel. Without the recognized union? This is no longer the case.

Drop that fucker til it's in the ground.

That's the attitude that lost Democrats 2016, 2020, and 2024. (They only managed to win in 2020 because of covid.)

People consistently underestimated Trump. It's the same thing that caused people to underestimate Bush. Both sound like morons when they talk, so people thought they were harmless morons. And then look what happened.

Just because someone is evil, does not mean they are stupid. Trump managed to read the electorate and determine how to appeal to voters better than hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Democratic consultants. He has far better political instincts than anyone currently leading the Democratic party.

Do not underestimate your opponent. That is what got us into this mess in the first place. People kept telling themselves, "there's no way this blubbering idiot could possibly win." And then he did.

Hitler was a drug-addicted fool who failed at everything he tried to accomplish in life.

You don't have to be competent to be a dictator. In fact, incompetence is usually a prerequisite for being a dictator. Actually intelligent people realize they don't personally have all the answers.

When people say things like hair plugs are gender-affirming care, they're really showing they don't get the concept. Gender-affirming care is just that - something that affirms your gender. Male-pattern baldness is a male secondary sex characteristic. Reversing it is anti-gender-affirming care, if anything. Nothing wrong with getting hair plugs if you want, but hair plugs are not gender-affirming care. They're just cosmetic surgery.

Breast reduction for cis men? That would be gender affirming. Breast enlargement for cis women? Also gender affirming.

If a cis person gets a treatment that reinforces the secondary sex characteristics of their natal sex, then that treatment is gender-affirming care. Not every cosmetic treatment is gender-affirming care.

They're using a bullshit slight-of-hand to claim they're not spending government money on it.

They're planning on using coins seized from criminals. But normally those coins would be sold, and the proceeds from that sale would go to the US Treasury. Instead, they're going to seize them and just hold onto them.

It's the same thing. Whether you spend government money to purchase coins and hold them, or you simply hold seize coins, both of these options result in the same increase in the US national debt.

And ultimately it is simply a method of propping up the crypto bubble. They want the US government to be the ultimate "diamond hands" hoarder of crypto. Every time some dark web drug site gets shut down, any coins they hold will be thrown into a government vault, never to be seen again. This effectively removes them from circulation, decreasing the supply, and forcing crypto prices higher. This is taking billions from the Treasury to prop up the crypto market.

I mean, 4x the market cap of Meta, 80x, it makes little difference. The key is the book publishers should end up owning Meta. Again, I wouldn't expect them to necessarily turn Facebook into some revitalized utopia. But I think at least a bunch of stodgy old book publishers wouldn't be so overtly cartoonishly fascist at the very least.

Exactly. Of course, I need to make sure the files are appropriate for AI training, so it's imperative that I review the media in its entirety first.

That's one of those things that fridge logic really hits hard. Because there are no fixed prices under Earth's laws. So in exchange for quintillions of dollars of Earth's music, the aliens could just sell us technology at the same or similar price.

Let's do some math. Some searching suggests the average size of an e-book is about 3 MB. 82 TB means they pirated about 27 million e-books. At the rate of Russet's fine, that would come to damages of $2.2 trillion. So not more money than has ever is about 4x Meta's entire market cap.

I hope the book publishers sue Meta and end up owning Facebook and Instagram. Not that I expect one evil megacorp to inevitably fix all the ills of another. But it would be hard to make Facebook any worse than it currently is.