Pfft, these people are complete Martians. Athena wouldn't have them. Where's the metis?

That was me over here.

"They won? Okay, they won. No you don't need to argue with them that they lost shutupshutupshutupshutup!"

He's come to terms with it over the years, or at least figured out how to get by.

Sooner or later one of these is going to pop the bubble and he won't be able to lol just kidding the market back.

Do you really want to subsidize E-bike lanes?

YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES!

Things are almost always more than one thing.

Shit about "god emperor trump" was satirical right up until it wasn't.

We lived in the bay for a while. It's a bubble, with a skin made of rent prices.

On priors, you're talking about the Cass report, which was in fact massively flawed, and I saw a great deal of discussion on it. Among other issues, they tossed out a lot of studies, and wrote the report from the stance that the only studies worth looking at would have been double blind studies. I'm not sure if you've considered this specifically, but it's pretty damn hard to blind starting to grow boobs or facial hair. Cass, the supposedly neutral party conducting the study, was handing out copies of "Irreversible Damage", a scaremongering antitrans book about how the poor helpless young "women" were being seduced by big trans. It was garbage, and there's plenty of writeups on it.

https://kinesismagazine.com/2025/02/16/methodological-and-ethical-failures-of-the-cass-review-why-it-falls-short-as-a-guideline-for-trans-healthcare/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-k-s-cass-review-badly-fails-trans-children/

If they can't afford to maintain it in a changing world, perhaps we should nationalize the infrastructure that we all depend on.

If someone is in prison, IE, in the care of the state, and unable to choose their own paths, the state is therefore responsible for that person's well-being. In other words, the state is morally mandated to give that person food, medical care, etc.

If you don't want inmates "receiving better coverage and health care than a law-abiding citizen", fucking get law-abiding citizens, you dicksneeze!

Cue anyone sane: "Well-regulated."