Huh, and here all the men I know have never even the slightest bit upset about broad generalizing statements about men because they are secure in the knowledge that the statement doesn't apply to them... Sounds like a skill issue tbh.

To be fair, calling them "wings" was to my knowledge more about linking them to how chicken wings as a dish were prepared and presented than a statement on where the meat came from on the bird.

I don't know much about this case in particular but it fits into a long pattern of activist conservative judges basically legislating from the bench to protect business interests. So it's unsurprising that one of them would basically say "no one actually believes the wing part, so there's no reason for them to believe the boneless part either, and therefore there's no liability if there are bones in the product."

No officer. I am straight white male, why do you ask? I have wife and kids even. I have had the sex at least one, perhaps two times.

Damn, neopronouns been going crazy lately huh?

We moved hospitals for the birth of our twins to find one that was willing to tie her tubes when they took the twins out. She ended up having to have a hysterectomy for other reasons later but them being willing to tie her tubes during the c-section was a big part of our decision on doctors to see.

My mom had a hell of a time getting her tubes tied after my brother was born. She had to argue with the doctor for a while to eventually get it done. Gave her the old "What if you change your mind later?" line in like 5 different variations. The one that really angered me though when she told me the story was "What if something happens to one of your children?" Like you were just replacing a busted TV or something.

My understanding is the majority of detransition occurs due to financial reasons. So basically "I can't afford my HRT anymore," or "I can't afford top surgery right now so I'll go back to presenting as a woman," or what have you. Then once the financial issue is gone a lot of those resume transition.

Full on "I thought I was trans but I'm actually not" detransition seems to be pretty rare. Almost like the current standard of care does a pretty good job at weeding out the people for whom transition isn't the best treatment option. But to the conservatives who've decided this is their new culture war front if literally a single person ever regrets their transition, that's enough to ban it for everyone.

Fun fact: My wife ended up with pretty severe malabsorption after her bariatric surgery. Her vitamin A levels went so low that she had almost entirely lost her night vision. For like 6 years now she's been taking upwards of 125,000IU per day and only just recently her vitamin A levels have gotten just barely into the normal range.

So what I'm saying is my wife could actually eat an appreciable amount of polar bear liver and be fine.

Yep, not having a bunch of your trade going to feeding and caring for your horses makes a huge difference.

That would be fantastic, I'd love it if the Democrats would stop doing what they've been doing the last 30+ years of punching left and chasing the "Moderates" rightward. But let's think about this logically for a minute. What are the possible outcomes of what you're proposing?

• Coalition Victory. We install an actual leftist in the White House. Fantastic. No more Genocide. We have a little socialism as a treat maybe? No notes. I love it. But that means we have right now about 7 months to produce or align behind a 3rd party candidate, one who likely won't be allowed on the ballot in several states, Then that candidate has to get enough votes to beat BOTH Biden and Trump meaning they basically have to pull at least like 18% of the vote from both sides in enough states to win the Electoral College.
• Trump Victory. Considerably less fantastic. Democrats blame the Leftists for Biden's loss as usual. Okay, we threatened their power and now maybe we can convince them that they need us to win in 2028 rather than them moving even further right as they have since Clinton. But meanwhile we still haven't stopped the Genocide, Donnie's probably gonna attempt to speedrun it in fact, we've got Project 2025 to worry about. I don't know about you, but I don't think Gaza's going to last until 2028.
• Biden Victory. Not as bad as Trump winning. Genocide is still happening in Gaza, unlike Trump he at least might be able to be convinced to end the genocide in a sense other than the Completionist one. Only now we've proven to the Democrats that they don't need the leftists at all actually and they're free to move as far right as they wish. So maybe we even lose that.

Maybe we get incredibly lucky and Trump gets screwed over by these prosecutions and splits the GOP thus lowering the threshold for us to get an actual Leftist in? I'm not sure we can count on it with how the Judiciary is bending over backwards to try to delay these prosecutions until the election where presumably they'd all "have to get put on hold because it's looks bad to be putting a presidential candidate on trial." Y'know, that old chestnut.

Realistically, we have to reckon with the fact that First Past the Post Winner Take All Voting and the Electoral College screws us here. There's a reason these systems mathematically tend towards a 2 party system. It's incredibly frustratingly difficult, nigh on mathematically impossible to break through the tendency for Strategic Voting that this system breeds. It's the Prisoner's Dilemma, but on a massive scale. A scale where we can only afford what, maybe a hundred thousand people getting scared and bailing on the plan at most for us all to get the worst possible outcome?

One of my old housemates went to crazy lengths to avoid child support payments. Signed away parental rights, worked just enough at this cash in hand day labor place to cover rent and eat off of food stamps, kept trying unsuccessfully to get on disability under the misguided belief that would stop the government trying to collect child support. Bragged to me directly about doing all of it. Like it was some genius plan to thwart the government.

Last I heard that housemate had come out as a trans woman and was trying to move into this commune out in like Colorado or Arizona something like that.

My own dad hid his income for years working under the table and arguing to bring his child support payments down until my mom was getting like $100 a month total for me and my brother. Claimed he was living almost entirely off his new girlfriend's income and the child support payments were too burdensome. That all came back to bite him in the ass though when he tried to apply for disability and got denied because he hadn't banked enough work credits in the last 10 years.

Some people will do nearly anything to avoid paying child support. It's crazy.

It's closer to hair color for cats. Race would be more like the breed of the cat.

"It should be left to OUR people to decide."

That's what they mean. They know the people that vote for them will largely vote for a fucking Ham Sandwich if it has an R next to its name. So they know that they'll almost certainly never face consequences for anything so long as it's up to the people that vote for them. They can purge voter rolls, strategically close polling places, attack mail in voting. There tons of things they can do which will impact potential Democratic voters more than Republican voters.