EldritchFeminity

I don't believe parents should be able to make any permanent decisions about a child's body. This includes hormones, tattoos, genital mutilation of any kind, plastic surgery, piercings.

You're right - which is why puberty blockers should be required by law for all children until they're 18 and can decide for themselves which puberty is right for them.

Key words: so far.

The last time the US enacted global tariffs, it caused the Great Depression.

The last time the US enacted global tariffs, it created the Great Depression, which hit the entire globe and was one of the major contributing factors to the Nazis rise to power. What happens here might only be hurting Americans and killing American minorities at the moment, but the psychotic demagogue in charge here will have real international repercussions soon enough. Honestly though, I think the tariffs have done what international sanctions couldn't do, which is help convince some of Trump's cult that he's the one hurting them. Sanctions would just let him blame the outside world.

You should keep in mind, it will take time for everybody else to truly divest themselves of the orange shit-gibbon and all the corporations based here, and that means time in which the fan spraying shit can turn towards Europe.

Counterpoint: Americans would say the same - "I suppose it probably seems strange to an outsider but in a country where it’s the norm for every school, it didn’t feel like that to me at all." - about pledging their undying loyalty every morning to the flag on the wall of every single classroom starting at the age of 6.

Not to say that it's the same thing at all, indoctrination on that scale is completely different from a freaking school uniform, but the base is the same - it doesn't seem weird because it's what you were told was normal.

As an adult, I can see some good arguments for uniforms in this thread, but as a kid, I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance in middle school and swore that nobody could make me wear a tie like my dad had to for school. One of the big things that bothered me about school dress codes as I got older was the inherent misogyny on display. Some rules from my high school dress code, for example:

During Spring/Summer, boys may wear t-shirts and shorts. Girls must wear pants or skirts. Skirts must be below the knee. Girls are allowed to wear t-shirts, but only if the sleeves are at least 4 inches long and must be a unisex crew neck shirt. Shirts with a v neck or that show the collarbone are too revealing and are not allowed.

Also in the US is the issue that school uniforms are universally a private school thing, and so create a divide of elitism as a clear signal of those whose parents are wealthy enough to send their kids to a private school vs kids who go to public schools. Those divides start at home, though, and I don't know how much a school uniform does to deprogram that kind of rhetoric from your parents and their friends.

Millennials have been saying this since 2008, and they're only seriously considering it now??

I'd say I'm surprised, but after almost two decades of being told that my concerns over housing prices, student debt, poor wages, unaffordable healthcare, etc aren't important right now because Dems need moderate Republicans to vote for them, I'm really not.

I don't have it in me. I can speak on stuff like being trans or bi from a place of personal experience and needing to learn about that stuff for reasons like to be able to medically advocate for myself to get proper care and treatment, but I don't have the public speaking skills or ability to articulate my point well enough for a profession like therapy.

I did enjoy being in a quasi-managerial role though, where it was informal enough that I got to encourage the kids I worked with to do what they were passionate about or teach them about stuff I knew and push them to try new things that they might have never considered before. Talking to high school and college kids who were passionate about different things and getting to hear them info dump about their interests was fun.

I had to teach the difference between the two to my therapist the first time I talked about being trans.

The upside to that whole thing being that they ended up using my knowledge as a launching point to learn what the latest research has to say about gender, sexuality, and trans people, and then several years later thanked me because my conversations on the subject with them went on to help them with other patients that they had.

So long as they aren't the ones getting turned into the new fountain on the campus, they couldn't care less.

One thing about this is that it seems to labor under the assumption of a symmetrical (or near symmetrical) fight, and that is exactly the last thing that a resistance group should be doing.

The most effective strategy for a resistance group is to be as expensive a problem to deal with and as difficult to get rid of as possible. Defend the community for sure, but the real fight is against the logistics of an armed force. The more time and money they have to waste, the better. Certain kinds of paint are impossible to get off of glass, like the glass used in bulletproof windshields that would need to be completely replaced, or the kinds of clear plastic used in things like riot shields and visors. At the extreme end, there's options like paying these fascists thugs a "visit" in the dead of night. All these human traffickers have homes to go back to at night, and if enough face repercussions, it will quickly become difficult to find people willing to stick their neck out and possibly become yet another new fountain.

All this to say, I don't think anybody who actually knows what they're doing or intends to do something thinks that they're going to help form a standing army and fight the US government. Sporadic and random acts of self defense or defense of the community? Sure. Suicide by cop? I would be surprised if people weren't thinking about that eventuality. But Rambo is not gonna happen and any violence will definitely happen alongside the peaceful protests that we've been seeing for months now, and not instead of them (at least, not until things get very very bad).

Probably a lack of data in the training set. It reminds me of the early versions of facial recognition software which had trouble telling not just black people apart, but also women of all ages and white men below a certain age. It was because these early versions had only been trained on photos of employees at the company, and they were mostly older white men.

Yes, yes they do. Or, more accurately, they didn't know that in the first place. These people are often just running on what are essentially old wives' tales of things to be afraid of because it will hurt their masculinity or something.

Meanwhile, War Thunder players be leaking classified documents on vehicles to prove that it isn't modeled correctly in-game.