Kalbear

Except the number of people affected so far is zero.

Okay, you should be able to then tell me what trans woman is out there currently that is absolutely dominating her sport. Or were you insinuating that Serena Williams is trans? Because to my knowledge the number of professional or even amateur athletes that are trans and are crushing their sport is...zero. If you don't, why are you talking about it then?

I guess the problem I am having is where the actual, ya know, literal problem is here that is supposedly being legislated. Are there a lot of trans women angling to join women's national soccer teams? And are they so much better than the normal women that we need to preemptively legislate or fret about it?

Also, to go back to the actual topic the thing I'm far more worried about is the same thing Israel is being dinged on - that the tools they're using is incredibly failure-prone. That might be okay when you're trying to identify a tree, but it's not great when using it to detain people or to call airstrikes.

There aren't any, but please continue. And no, I doubt you care at all. I doubt it's a big deal whatsoever until it has a possibility of affecting you. Abuse is abuse. Yeah, it's worse, but you're still okay with that 1-2%. I don't think it would be far worse, at least not for a while. That's the thing about authoritarian systems - they don't tend to prosecute everyone. They barely harass most people. They just make sure that you know that you could, at any time, be harassed. For some reason or no reason. Which is exactly the state we have right now for a whole lot of folks.

I'm sure the abuse will be greater. But the potential for abuse by Trump or anyone else will still be there. You should care about the potential for abuse regardless of who is in control. To be clear I'm not equating anything - I'm saying that the problem exists now, not in the future. That said it likely doesn't matter that much when laws aren't really important and no one cares about holding powerful people accountable.

It doesn't; it applies to ALL the country. My point is that abuse is the entire MO already.

We are already using facial scanning and a whole lot of other data to block, suspend, or restrict people regularly. We do it for all sorts of stupid-ass shit, like a 7 year old having the same name as a terrorist and being blocked from flying. There are already no actual process rules or rights around this. The difference, as I said, is that you're now worried about it applying to you.

It already is for half the country, or more. If you don't like it, you should not like it right now.

Yeah, this is my take too, especially the ending. Things were wrapped up way too neatly, there were a number of side plots that were entertaining and added nothing to the story, and a number of times things just kind of...stopped. I was honestly expecting something clever with the carrier pigeons, but even that wasn't special. It's pretty and fun, and often funny. Early on in the season there are some real good Ritchie crime sequences and cutting wit. But the ending was definitely a letdown.

This is already the case, just not for people like you.

My feeling is that we've moved on from this being a logistical issue - especially one that Ukraine can now exploit - and gone to a more urgent issue of stopping advances. Per reports Russia is flying flags in towns NW of Avdiivka: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/24/russia-ukraine-war-live-us-biden-senate-zelenskiy-aid

I think that's cool, but also I think it's somewhat problematic that a lot of these works are heavily derivative of existing artists to the point that they're copying. I don't know that that's how you're using this, mind you, but if you're producing something that has a ton of artwork that is in the similar vein of existing artists and those artists aren't getting any credit I think that's pretty immoral - especially if you're then making money off of that.

If they're selling that, yes.

I do appreciate the incredible shittery of both criticising trans people for wanting to do sports because they have an advantage based on going through puberty as the other sex, and then ALSO criticizing using puberty blockers which would make this a nonissue.