A lot of firefighting company actually used to be private, owned and operated by insurance companies
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they're utterly incapable of defining male as anything but a 20 year old getting drunk, playing sports, and breaking things.
Don't forget ramming his cock into any woman he wants, regardless of whether they could give consent or not.
You know, now that you say it, it makes sense. They're affirming their gender to deny their age. When they look back at their teenage years and/or their early 20's, that's when (they believe) they were at their "most maximal manliest manliness", or in biology terms, the point when their testosterone levels were at their highest. As soon as a man hits 30, it's all downhill from there. And I speak from experience as a 35-year-old white guy. Some of my shit doesn't work how it did in my 20's. Some parts of me now ache that previously did not. It's harder for me to get up from a sitting position than it used to be. But I don't think the answer for that is to amp up my testosterone levels to try and go through puberty again.
Hmm. I didn't think of it like that, but I never considered that either gender has an "ideal state". It's also, I suppose that, for them, at least, that gender doesn't really factor into their desired state.
UPDATE: After taking all the responses to this into consideration, I now understand testosterone therapy to indeed be gender affirming care but Hegseth and the "Manosphere" crowd he identifies with prefer to affirm their gender by denying their age. They still want to be the "studs" they (thought) they were in high school. They're the same guys who wax nostalgically about their "glory days" when they were on the football team and how they "led the team to win the regionals"(but not state) and they "coulda gone pro" but one of "those people(you know who they're referring to)", "stole" their scholarship.
True, but if that final output had not been known to you, and/or you had set off the machine that triggered the bomb under duress, that changes your liability.
You know there was an opinion piece I read in the Guardian about the reason the wealthy love private jets. It's because of the reduced number of human "touch points". They yearn to glide through life without ever interacting with another real human.
Watch them claim that the holding cells are actually hospital rooms. Hell, why not say that the entire detention facility is actually a hospital? But it's a very special hospital that only admits certain kinds of patients and they also cannot be discharged. Of course, good luck getting the inspectors to believe the guards are actually all doctors and nurses.
So, basically like that one episode of "SuperJail!",? That one where the Warden basically takes over the US and turns all the citizens into inmates?
Exactly. Nothing wrong with a hero being at least middle-aged. Maybe they even have a spouse and kids they're leaving behind, or the kids are coming with them on the quest.
Nah, they'll likely have some kind of remote-activated self-destruct feature that fries them to prevent us from using them.
Yep. The ship computers are basically terminals that are sub-space connected to the mainframe, called Memory Alpha, in San Francisco, where Starfleet is headquartered.