Without dysphoria the trans crowd is no different than otherkin or that Rachel Dozel woman.

Again, the dysphoria is caused by not feeling comfortable with your gender. Trans people solve that by transitioning. That's why you don't see trans people regretting it or trying to undo it in any significant amount. Once they've transitioned, they feel comfortable with their gender, therefore problem solved.

Of course, that transition also usually leads to other types of discomforts caused by other people not respecting their decision, but hey, it's not trans people's fault other people are dickheads.

It could just be the uncanny valley. Like it or not, we’re used to looking at other people as being either male or female and many trans people don’t make good versions of what they wish to present as. There’s also some men who enjoy presenting as female as a sexual fetish which can cause problems in locker rooms and other female only spaces.

You don't have to transition to be trans.

Oh I don't mean transition as in sex-reassignment-surgery-exclusively. Sometimes it's as simple as changing clothes and growing/cutting/painting your nails and hair.

pretty sure it's a generational thing, and unfortunately, a disappearing habit.

Not sure why you're getting the down arrow. 10-15 years ago you could use reddit practically any which way you wanted and it was never an issue. Nowadays I can hardly load a page without stock Chrome.

Or hack their router to figure out their physical location. Water+microwaves etc.

Or van eck phreaking.

Or sell them tattletale electronics, like ethernet or usb cables.

Or rubber hose em.

Or ask scroogle/fecebook.

Covid was just the finger on the trigger for the whole world's loaded footgun. Excessive interdependency and each new generation of the managerial class keeping things lean to look good on paper has landed everything up shit creek. Idle hands were justifying paychecks.

I've seen companies go from doing everything in house to outsourcing everything. It was ugly before covid, but now it might be sinking the ship. They used to retain the necessary talent, keep a stock of necessary $THING, and get things done on time and on budget. Now the MBA's see a way to cut costs on paper but it all ends up late and over budget. On to the next ship for them after this top heavy piece of shit sinks.

I'm sure there's a careful business calculus for not bringing people up from the bottom but goddamnit I used to see results, and happier coworkers.

> I'm sure there's a careful business calculus for not bringing people up from the bottom

Not defending the practice (it's always seemed a no-brainer to me that investing in your team is better in the long run than to outsource) but I think I see the logic. Outsourcing, like renting equipment, lets you scale faster with less capital and reduces your exposure to sudden downturns in sales. It's a superior strategy if you have only an extremely limited ability to predict your market (whether because your market is highly volatile, or because you're bad at forecasting.)

Back when we used to see those results and happier co-workers, it was accepted that it would take 10-20 years to properly establish and build a business. There was none of this crazy pressure to gravely over-extend from day 1 in an attempt to unicorn out before you turn 40.

The death toll and consequences of widespread long covid (and consequences of much more rapid mutation and the collapse of the medical system) would have caused significantly more economic damage than the lockdowns.

I’m not going to expose myself to a 1% chance of dying for your profits. None of us owe you a profit.

Not just death. If you have severe illness but survive, you're likely to have continued health problems for life. And even if it doesn't hit you, you might bring it home to someone you care about.

Hah. I have a love/hate relationship with the FAA. Funny story: a building was something like a foot over spec, about a mile off the end of a regional airport and the FAA found out. I do not envy the builder.

I've known some FAA people and they're some of the more interesting types I've come across.

" a building was something like a foot over spec, about a mile off the end of a regional airport and the FAA found out."

Well I suppose the line of reasoning is, if here is something wrong and not according to spec, then maybe there are more critical things out of spec.

Complaining about git is like complaining about any other unix tool, if you don't read the docs you're in for trouble. Sometimes a lot of it.

I've got a settlement for them, and it only cost about $.70 a head. I swear they'll be immune from future legal action.

i like the numbers they come up in some of those lawsuits. i have uhh...heard of people that have robbed the entertaintment industry of roughly the world gdp. if you go by their numbers.

It's no better than https://youtu.be/KSWqx8goqSY (That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars) level argument, just with better lawyer-speak.

The US is sheltering a diplomat(spy?) who negligently ran over and killed a British civilian as we speak, but these guys are the real danger.

I'll bite. Lazing a pilot endangers a lot more than one person's sight. It's not even close to being equivalent with someone doing it to one person who's not flying a plane.

I really don't want a regulatory eye turned towards lasers, at least during a media cycle. Determined assholes will just take apart their BDR players. It'll stop most kids I guess, but I think more media coverage could lead to more behaviour like this.

I think it should be assault. Yes its more serious when doing it to someone operating a vehicle, doubly so for aircraft, but that doesn't make it ok to do it to randoms.

I dont particularly think we need new laws though, intentionally hurting someone is already illegal. The mechanism shouldn't matter.

Of course these are all illegal assault, and an assault with high potential of permanent damage is itself very serious, but an assault on a surgeon in the middle of a critical operation is both an assault and one attempted murder, for a pilot considerably more..