transactional

I prefer “tit for tat”.

I’m not a doctor, but my laymen understanding is that it doesn’t stop puberty, it just delays it. So they end up going through a normal puberty, just at a later age.

My 5yo loves video game videos on YouTube.

Particularly Mario Odyssey hacks. But also getting into the real difficult Mario Maker courses

Kid has completely destroyed up my YouTube algorithm. It’s part of the reason I signed up for nebula.

He loves playing games too, though.

Still I wish I could get him off YouTube. There’s so much crap on there and he doesn’t know what’s what. He knows now he’s not allowed to watch YouTube without an adult in the room, but even when I’m in there, I don’t know what the hell is going to be in the video that he clicks. There’s no TV-Y7 or TV-G ratings on YouTube. And there’s so many lies and fake stuff. Kid was heartbroken when he found out that a Mario Movie 2 trailer was a hoax.

FL would’ve been a landslide and the courts wouldn’t have even been asked if the greens voted for Gore.

Uhm…yeah. Everybody is against gender affirming surgery for minors.

Contrary to what right-wing media likes to claim, it doesn’t happen.

What does happen for transgender youth is puberty blockers. That allows them to delay the hormonal changes of puberty so that they may make an easier physical transition, if they so choose, when they are an adult. In the meantime, trans girls can more easily tuck and won’t develop a 5 o’clock shadow or deep voice, trans boys will not be growing breasts or menstruating, and both retain more a more gender-ambiguous frame.

But puberty blockers have other uses besides gender-affirming care, and they’ve long been proven incredibly safe and non-permanent.

You can’t control hyperv via powershel, winrm, or wmi?

I’m a net admin so I don’t deal much on hypervisors but I’m a bit surprised.

Does it actually have shit automation support, or do you just not like the APIs?

Not like they used to, mostly. They just replaced “contract” with “equipment payment plan”. Because $50/mo for 24 months is easier for a consumer to swallow than a lump payment of $1200, especially when the carrier is giving you a $10 or $20 (or more) “discount” on the phone.

But as long as the EPP is active, the phone is locked to that carrier. And I think that’s fair. No different than the bank holding the title while you finance a car.

The thing is that the plans that have these equipment deals are significantly more expensive than others. Namely big name plans like TMo or Verizon, compared to MVNO plans like Mint or Visible. So you end up paying more for the plan because you get “a deal” on your phone (but still end up ultimately paying more).

I’m reading (well, listening) to a book called “Trust me, I’m Lying” about the modern news cycle, and how lies and intentional outrage at lower levels (blogs and social media) get funneled up to traditional-media, and how that is driven by people like the author.

I wouldn’t be surprised if causing outrage and later deleting the tweet and following up with a half-hearted non-apology was the intent all along.

Really great book, IMO. Same guy (Ryan Holiday) had a book about the conspiracy behind the Hulk Hogan sex tape (“Conspiracy”) that was also real good.

Don’t let this election, or any election, allow us to forget the time back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

The Republican party wouldn’t exist if everybody voted. That is a straight up fact. As fucked as our election system is, they are far enough the minority that if everyone got out, the EC wouldn’t matter.

You want a “left light” and a “true left”, you aren’t going to get it by abstaining, or by voting for nonviable moonshot third-party candidates. You are going to get it by abolishing the far right party and making that tiny sliver of the whole population realize that their antiquated views aren’t welcome here.

They need to be crushed.

They only exist because people don’t want to vote for the lesser of two evils, so instead they just don’t vote. And what do you know, a -1 for the less evil is just as effective as a +1 for the more evil.

All of their success is brought on by feeding apathy in their opposition, making it more difficult to vote, destroying any faith in the system, and gerrymandering.

So yes, in my opinion, the far left refusing to hold their nose for a few minutes may as well be voting for the insurrectionist.

The president sets the tone of the administration. Ultimately they are the big boss, but they don’t do everything.

I take issue with being called a Biden supporter. Biden is mediocre at best. I’dve much preferred if a more…motivational, I guess, DNC candidate in 2020. We obviously knew that whoever won would be 4 years older (and many more battle-worn) come re-election, and it’s pretty unorthodox for any party to let the incumbents president be primaried. I can’t think of a time.

In fact, I think the DNC was secretly hoping that Biden would’ve bit the dust 2 or 3 years in.

Stop sharing any photos of people who don’t give consent, whether they can or not.

In an alternate timeline where we never had the stigma around nudity, I’d be just as embarrassed of my nose in a photo than I would of my penis.

Or maybe 10 years after I cut ties with you because you became a massive douche sandwich, I don’t want my picture on the same Facebook wall as your white pride rally.

Not you, personally, but any body really.

How would you feel when they’re showing nude pictures of you to their classmates yeah I thought so.

Depends, does your mom have an onlyfans?

This is a really important point.

The president is really only as good as his staff. They can only do so much as an individual person.

Joe Biden knows how to hire a good staff, and respects the limitations of hisnl office.

Meanwhile, if Trump could’ve harnessed the energy from his revolving door of “loyalists”, we might’ve been able to stay under 2°C.

But, part of Project 2025 is actually planning to make 50,000 merit-based non-political positions (basically middle-management, and sometimes lower, at NASA or ATF or Dept of Education or FDA) into political appointments, and fire them if they don’t toe the party line. In order to circumvent Congress and run everything unilaterally.

So why are Kei cars being banned, and not motorcycles?

Motorcycles are far less safe and far less utilitarian, but still legal and ubiquitous.

In the beginning…

Well my 6th grade science teacher told us that Chernobyl was fortold in the book of revelations and it meant that the world will end soon. Public school. In New England. In the 90s. The 1990s.

And there were nine of them!