That’s a great point and much better thought out than my own! 💯

Based on what we’ve seen so far, I really think they’ll just use the men’s criteria.

Ironically, when I was in I thought it was really unfair that the women could openly grow long hair and just tuck it under their cover and the men could not.

I’m ashamed to say that back then I took it as an example of women wanting special treatment, when I’m sure in retrospect that it was nothing of the sort.

Step 1: Dramatically restrict who is allowed to volunteer for our volunteer miitary.

Step 2: Bemoan that the US no longer has a standing military large enough to support its interests.

Step 3: Here comes the draft again.

Step 4: Wait a bit and all your undesirables age out or are driven out of the military.

Step 5: Well I’m not sure about this one, but you’ve got a big army full of the only people you really want to have any power, personal autonomy, or decent standard of living anyway; I’m sure you can find something to do with it.

If it were easy we wouldn’t need lawyers.

Edit: Yeah, no one would believe this caused emotional distress. /s

Around 8 p.m. on March 14, she wrote that she was alone in a stall in the women’s restroom when she heard a man yelling.

“The voice was much louder than simply someone yelling in from the door. This man was fully IN the restroom, yelling something about” transgender women, Davis wrote.

Davis said the man yelled he was going to “beat" them and was going to “protect his wife/girlfriend from them” while his wife or girlfriend was pleading with him to stop and leave before he got into trouble.

Davis wrote she was scared and froze, not knowing if the man was going to physically attack her.

“I was the only one in there so it seemed pretty clear that he saw me enter the restroom and he assumed that I am trans because of my height,” Davis recalled. “It was terrifying and I wish no one else ever had an experience like that.”

The man eventually left, and Davis was able to leave the restroom and return to her workstation.

“My immediate supervisor came by and noticed that I was visibly shaken and emotional. After taking a few moments to calm myself down, I told her what had happened. I didn’t go home since it wasn’t long until my shift was done (10 p.m.),” Davis wrote. “Less than a week later, I was fired.”

The reason given for her termination was that she did not report the incident to a salaried management employee and, therefore, created a security risk.

“I took it to mean that I was the security risk because someone had mistaken me for trans,” Davis told the Washington Post.

Davis said she was devastated. Because of the anti-LGBTQ+ climate in Florida, she had been planning on leaving the state. But now, she doesn’t know after losing the job.

She appealed the termination through Walmart’s internal review process but was denied. She filed for unemployment insurance but also took her story to Facebook, where it soon went viral.

Emotional Suffering, and IANAL but I’m sure there’s more.

So fragile and white…

I will accept zero claims regarding the sanctity of free speech from any Conservative who doesn’t feel this is just as horrible as I do:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-ice-immigration-student-rumeysa-ozturk.html

To be perfectly clear, Ozturk is not accused of breaking the law. The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t bothered to explain its reasoning, but several outlets reported that Ozturk co-authored a student opinion piece urging Tufts to recognize the International Court of Justice’s declaration of a “plausible risk of genocide” unfolding in Gaza and to divest from Israel. You can read the article if you like. It does not mention Hamas.

You are both right, but this armchair psychologist thinks it’s similar to how popular skeuomorphism was in the early day of PC guis and such compared to today.

I think many folks really needed that metaphor in the early days, and I think most folks (including me) easily fall into the trap of treating LLMs like they are actually “thinking” for similar reasons. (And to be fair, I feel like that’s how they’ve been marketed at a non-technical level.)

Although that is great news, I hope we’re all taking notes about how far Republicans are willing to let their elected officials go before them being pieces of shit finally matters more than owning the libs. Quite fucking far, like destruction of the nation far. (Trump still polling at 92% approval with Republicans)

If we have free and fair elections again, let’s all please remember this. I plan to reach the end of natural life expectancy without ever pulling a lever for R, not even for the tiniest of local positions. They showed us what they do when they get power in 2017, then had four years to plan, and now are really showing us where their values are. Turns out their values are exactly as shitty as we expected.

R is the party of destruction, intentional harm, and bigotry. It’s all they do.

Wonder how many cheeseburgers they bought him, too.

Clearly it would, but IMO that’s not a reason not to support the idea. Look what happened to Target. Better yet, look what happened to Costco at the same time.

That’s a depressingly low number.

13th Amendment legalized slave labor for prisoners. Not saying I’m happy about it, but there it is.

I like the idea of AR very much, but for exactly the reasons you stepped around mentioning I’ll wait until I can get my hands on something FLOSS. When I’m buying glasses that are running some KDE AR project licensed under the GPL I’ll feel like it’s trustworthy. :D

I feel like I’m in those years of You really want a 3d TV, right? Right? 3D is what you’ve been waiting for, right? all over again, but with a different technology.

It will be VR’s turn again next.

I admit I’m really rooting for affordable, real-world, daily-use AR though.

Don’t forget the 14 words! Someone screenshotted this at just the right time:

Updated! :)

Thanks, I’ll check it out, though it’s going to take more than motivational books to pull the US out of the current nosedive…