Many hugs to you guys!

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I’m no-shit sincerely happy to see the rest of the world putting their finger in his eye.

Yes, any retaliatory action will affect us all, but we were already going to all be affected by the buffoonery that those people voted in.

At least this way it will help get him the fuck out of power and limit his damage in the meantime. And not just Musk, Trump and his pet Vance too!

No argument from this US Citizen.

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.

🤔

TBF I explicitly said “Not Satan.”

Hmm who do we know that will sell anything that isn’t tied down and currently controls the US government and is buddy buddy with Putin? No, not Satan, but you are close!

I wish I wasn’t so sure you were right.

US right now:

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…

Republicans: Meh, what’s the big deal?

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.

It’s something, but it still applies to his commanders and everyone who followed the orders. (including him - though it wasn’t my intent to single him out)

Maybe in his case it would be a valid defense, especially since he publicly spoke out about it. It didn’t go over well at Nuremberg, but I think it’s clear there will be no prosecutions for Israelis over this.

Just following orders…

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.)