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I hope this continues. I want them to steam back into their home port, in bafflement and shame, as they return home the first ship in the history of US Naval Aviation...to lose its entire complement of aircraft without ever taking a hit. They literally lose every single one of their aircraft.

Yeah, everything is a communist plot, eh Senator McCarthy?

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds. Nobody cares about genocide? No, you simply don't care about genocide. Enough people cared that it cost Kamala the election. And if Democrats don't reform their ways, they will never win the White House again. Kamala went against the wishes of her own constituents and put loyalty to Israel over the needs of her own country.

Better than nihilistic fatalism that the world is doomed and there's nothing we can do to improve it.

They're cultural creations. They were created by human beings, and WE have the power to change them. If we want something to stop being a taboo, we can simply will it to be as such.

For Sale. Babies shoes. Never worn.

Sometimes is just as long as it needs to be. That line above is a complete story. And if you actually take it seriously and reflect on it, it could bring you to tears. Let stories be the length they need to be. As the immortal bard said, brevity is the soul of wit.

Trust isn't the issue. Probability is. Even without deception, there's a chance someone can have an STD without knowing it. And there's a chance that std won't show up on testing due to incubation times, dormancy phases, and false negatives.

Imagine there is a 1% chance of your partner having an STD without knowing it. 1% doesn't sound too bad an odds. But if you have 50 partners in an extended polycule, then the chance that at least one of them unknowingly has one is 1-(.99)^50, or 39%. Probabilities compound.

No that's just wanting to look younger. Again, not every cosmetic treatment is gender-affirming care. Hell, it's pretty ridiculously to even use the term outside the context of trans healthcare. Musk looked male before and he looked male after. He just thought he looked better and younger with more hair. It had nothing to do with gender.

Just listen to yourself. You appropriate the language of a minority group. Then when actual member of that group comes along and tells you you're not using it correctly, you double down and try to tell them that you know their own language better than they do.

The reason I push back on this is because the distinction between gender affirming care and general cosmetic treatment really matters. This shit kills people. Men who want hair plugs don't have a 40% suicide attempt rate.

This watering down of language for cheap political points has very real consequences for the trans community. Right now our rights and healthcare are under attack. Hard won victories decades in the making are being rolled back. Among the targets of these attacks are conservatives trying to bar health insurance companies from covering gender-affirming care. And that case becomes much easier if the distinction between trans healthcare and every cis person that wants a minor cosmetic treatment is watered down.

This isn't gatekeeping. It's fighting against the casual appropriation of our language that threatens our rights and lives.

I'm like, "fuck it. We'll do it live. I'll learn how to make my own damned wooden furniture!"

I get why people mention this, but as an actual trans person, when I hear someone, even an ally, say this kind of thing, it shows they really don't get what gender-affirming care is. It's really cringe. Gender-affirming care is just that - care that affirms your gender and allows you to take on primary or secondary sex characteristics different from that of your natal sex.

Male pattern baldness is a male secondary sex characteristic. It is simply a consequence of combining certain genetics with male hormone levels. You're not affirming your gender by getting hair plugs. In fact, you're actually dampening a male secondary sex characteristic. If a cis female had abnormally high T levels or some other condition to give her male-pattern baldness, then her getting hair plugs would be gender-affirming care. But for Elon, a cisgender man? That's not gender-affirming care.

When I see someone call hair plugs gender-affirming care, it shows that they really don't understand what gender-affirming care is. It's not any cosmetic treatment you get just for fun. It's more like reconstructive surgery you get to fix your face after a car crash. Elon got a cosmetic treatment, not gender-affirming care.

This is because Republicans are a truly Orwellian party - straight out of 1984. They have no real principles anymore. It's just power for the sake of power. One day the official line is we've never been at war with East Asia, the next it's we've always been at war. Trump can come up do a u-turn today, and the slime that is every Republican will instantly reorient themselves to follow dear leader's new commands.

Unfortunately for them, LLMs just don't have that much capability for doublethink and self-deception. Once you train a model, that model is fixed in time. So you could train a model to match the Republican fever dreams of today. But a month from now, there will be a whole new set of fever dreams that every good little fascist needs to follow. But the model will still be stuck repeating last month's lies. As there are no consistent Republican beliefs, you can't just train an LLM to tow the party line. There is no party line, just an endless series of lies and vomit, whatever is needed to advance their power today.

At this point, just automatically translate "that's DEI" as "that's for N-word's." DEI is just a dog whistle for black people.