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Maybe she's just blind

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Also his dad owned an emerald mine in South Africa during the apartheid

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ssjevot posted...

I'm not a fan of him, but I don't get what you mean by SpaceX not providing services. That's how NASA gets people into space now.

Yeah that's a big part of his entire business model: Provide a service the government wants to buy. That's how you make sure investments are safe

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BalanceLost posted...

The reason it matters is because it is a logical decision for medical experts to make based on the very real findings in the research studies. It can be considered cold and cruel from a mental health perspective but there is physical health logic to be argued from a legal point of view.

On the other hand, if politicians like Irne Svenonius and Anna Starbrink are strong-arming doctors into making the decision then that possibly is a whole other can of worms legally and possible based on transphobia.

Yeah I'm not saying it's necessarily partipolitiska decisions, but i think it's pretty hard (or impossible?) to make apolitical decisions in issues like this. It's a balancing of different risks and no matter how it lands, it exists in a political context. Especially seeing as these aren't new findings - at least the studies you liked above. So making a new decision based on knowledge we already have will naturally look even more political than if new concerning info came to light.

Sadly I can only read the abstract and conclusion of one of the studies, and it seems quite a bit more nuanced than "puberty blockers should not be used", but there's a lot I don't immediately understand because of the medical language I don't know. So I can see why people are alarmed by this.

On another note, I saw a tweet (this is starting to become an annoying pattern with me, "I saw on Twitter"...) saying essentially that they're not just cancelling treatments actually, but they want to enter patients into studies to get better knowledge. I've searched a little but haven't found any quote about that yet.

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BalanceLost posted...

You need to elaborate on what you mean and especially when your source is people in my feed.

Psychologists who are active in Stockholm. So it's I guess a step up from lay people but not necessarily intimately knowledgeable I guess? It's friends whose judgement I generally trust, but I don't know what they're basing their statements on.
In what sense political: I assume they mean that it's deliberately transphobic rather than in the actual best interests of trans youth. There's no more specific accusation I've seen.

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I'm seeing people in my feed with knowledge in the situation saying it's a political decision masked as a scientific one. Still not read up on it myself so I don't really know.

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It's not disinformation, I've read the PM. I'm still a bit confused as to what's actually going on. They're citing some studies and court cases in the UK, claiming that treatments aren't safe. Not very sure how well founded this is.

And it's *Karolinska.

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Back in 2012 there was controversy because you weren't allowed to be in the Olympic village or whatever with apparel from brands that were competitors to the sponsors. So, say you wore a Pepsi shirt or something, wasn't allowed, because Coke sponsored the thing. So I'm not surprised here

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FF_Redux posted...

If Id have a food service Id rather have a food truck or pop up restaurant.

I'd go there too tbh

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I would go to your restaurant all the time man

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Didn't Irish Vegy make a script that would tell him the instant UR posted so he could follow him around every topic and harass him?

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Sorry, this song never did it for me sadly

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Of course CE are gonna swallow and believe an incredibly obvious staged incident. You can see the guy filming is a police officer in uniform from the reflection in the window.

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Yeah I took a bunch of calculus classes but I'm not sure how they map to the US syllabus.

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Ivany2008 posted...

how many arcs do we think is left? 6? 7?

Mariejois, Blackbeard, Dragon, Shanks, maybe world government and Florian Triangle monsters.

There should be an arc with the giant island, we've been waiting for that since before Crocodile. I'm not sure all the things you listed above will get their own arc. Wouldn't be surprised if there are like, 2-4 big arcs left.

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Bio1590 posted...

No it told him as soon as I did it. I doubt he actually got moderated for it.

Oh lol, that's not very good

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Bio1590 posted...

(Also why on earth would it tell someone you reported their PM?)

How else do you figure it should work? Like, how should the reprimand happen such that it's communicated he's punished for the contents of a PM, without him figuring out that the only one who has access to the PM reported it?

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A lot of people are still acting as if the money we pay for a product necessarily goes to the creator, this is wrong in a lot of cases

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Then you should boycott the thing that's making somebody rich.

What I should or shouldn't do isn't the issue here which I think you might see if you'd go on to read the rest of my post

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

This argument falls apart completely because there was never any presumption that people would have to pay to use the bridge, from its inception.

When it comes to games/movies/etc., when the product is made and distributed, it is made and distributed with a price tag. In other words, 'this is how much you must pay us before we allow you to own a copy of this game/movie.'

They have every right to control their IP. If it's being pirated, a.k.a. stolen, then they are well within their rights, and it is morally sound, to pursue you legally.

It matters a bit because people are saying piracy is "stolen labor". That's incorrect.

What all this boils down to is that getting paid for labor (making the game) and getting paid for owning the game are two different things. When people then say that it's stolen labor they're, unwittingly or on purpose, conflating those two things. They're not the same. It's very obvious that people have differing opinions on how moral it is to make money just from owning the rights to a product, and instead of just acknowledging that fundamentally different world view, both camps are just trying to make the other side look bad :)

Personally, I generally don't think you should be able to get rich just by owning things. The engineer in my example got paid and built his bridge, no one crossing it would be stealing anything from him because he got compensated already.

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Pogo_Marimo posted...

If he designed the bridge, then someone were to build that bridge design without his permission (Likely in return for financial compensation), then the person who built the bridge would have violated the engineer's ownership of the IP and been liable for a civil lawsuit. If he sold the design to someone under the legal pretense that it would be used by civilians, then he would have no ethical, nor legal, basis for some a claim.

But what if he thought the people who used the bridge were thieves though

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voldothegr8 posted...

If he doesn't own the land then he was either paid for the design or paid to design it under different ownership. Point is your analogy sucks.

Yeah that never happens in game dev or cinema, you're right

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Pogo_Marimo posted...

If the engineer owned the land the bridge was on, then yes, crossing the bridge without his permission would be a violation of his ownership of the property and his right to exploit the bridge to his sole discretion. In this case, the violation would just be called "trespassing".

People who discuss this topic often have an over-simplified view of property ownership, and an over-valuation of the term "theft". Digital piracy is not considered the same way petty theft is considered in any legal system I'm aware of. This is a complete strawman. Both, however, are based on the violation of property rights. If we are purely discussing ethics, then yes, Digital Piracy as it's traditionally thought of is a lot closer to the physical crime of "trespassing" than "petty theft".

If we are discussing the actual implementation of copyright law, especially in America, then I would tell you that the Digital Millennium Act does NOT treat Digital Piracy like "Trespassing", nor "Petty Theft", it treats it like a massive criminal enterprise which exists to milk scared poor people into forfeiting fees to corporate conglomerates and copyright trolls. But that's an entirely separate issue.

In this scenario he doesn't own the land, but he designed the bridge, so it's his IP

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voldothegr8 posted...

What a shit analogy. The engineer designed that bridge knowing it was for public use and was paid under those circumstances.

Feel like you're missing the point but ok

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Imagine not knowing that toll bridges exist.

Do the toll fees go to the engineers? Are people who sneak past without paying thieves?

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Imagine being an engineer who built a bridge, and then started accusing everyone who used the bridge of stealing because they didn't pay for crossing

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Nbbdjur is another good one

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Blckfisk

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Bio1590 posted...

Didn't he support the coup anyways lol

Last I saw he just said "I need to do more research on it" but I wouldn't be surprised if he wound up with that conclusion after.

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shockthemonkey posted...

I love how every topic where someone has to explain history to him, he finds a single source to back up his America is right stance and then accuses everyone else of being a tankie.

You know, because Marxist Jesus!

He's been citing that one study saying "US democratization of Latin America was good actually" over and over and when 1337toothbrush told him that it's not very credible to praise OAS considering their involvement in the Bolivian coup he just called him a tankie fuck lol

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The very special kind of Marxist who believes the US is a force for good and Elon Musk is humanity's best hope

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kirbymuncher posted...

There are a lot of cats around here but I can't imagine actually being able to pet any of them, they'd just run away

What you do is just crouch a bit away from them and reach out your hand. If they wanna say hi they will, otherwise just move on. But it's quite common that a cat will come up to you and sniff if you do it respectfully like that

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That's one of the reasons I'm not paying close attention to it - I don't know enough about various countries' strategies. I could look up some articles later if you're interested, I might be completely misremembering.

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Choco posted...

one of our neighbors' cats keeps running into our house whenever the door is open for 2 milliseconds

My neighbor has two cats who love to do that as well, but they're quite shy. Sometimes I'm allowed to pet one of them but he forgets it until next time

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Sanji making a cake for Big Mom was great.

About the third act ending in tragedy, I'm thinking that's what the big cloud is going to cause.

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teep_ posted...

Can't say that rings a bell

Apparently that's the name of the strategy that several European countries including Germany have adopted which is based on spreading fear about covid to keep the population under control, combined with very hard restrictions. What I've read is that it was developed by people who have no epidemiological merits, and sketchy connections to China. But it sounds very conspiratorial so I'm quite careful in reading too much into it

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ImAMarvel posted...

God, this sounds so fucking based.

I'd be so happy if the US shifted from being such a militaristic and religious entity to one that's more scientific and rational.

Not going to happen, lol. A lot of science funding is very useful for the military

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Sounds pretty good to me!

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I've read some really worrying stuff about this Hammer and Dance strategy that sounds pretty bad

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I got to pet a cat yesterday. Lots of families in the neighborhood let their cats run around outside so I'm pretty good friends with them.

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I definitely care if they visit prostitutes. If they cheat it's only relevant if moralism is a core part of their agenda

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Moules frites is delicious but really annoying to eat

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_____Cait posted...

is there a video

Sure there is. https://youtu.be/iZqPMROclcM

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In the '90s there was a sniper murderer in Sweden who targeted people who looked "foreign". So in the wake of his crimes there was a public debate in a Stockholm suburb that got pretty heated because people (quite rightly) were very upset at structural racism and the government's poor response and understanding of this. At that point the minister of culture, who was also responsible for immigration/integration issues, suggested everyone join hands and sing We shall overcome, as she started singing herself. To this day it's the most embarrassing thing I can think of

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COVxy posted...

There is no diagnosis if highly functional. Autism like traits vary on a continuum, but it's not a diagnosis unless it interferes with your life.

Scientists tend to score higher on these things because they tend to have high systematizing behavior, but it would be weird to call all scientists autistic.

Yeah this. At best a quiz like this serves to get you to ask questions about yourself, but there could be any number of reasons you score highly. Functional variations like autism and ADHD won't get diagnosed if they're not preventing you from functioning in society

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FF_Redux posted...

Yeah, could also pickle it.

Eh I dunno, felt like they already wanted her to win from start. She usually made Asian cuisine and they critique that every other year when someone makes a lot of Asian dishes week after week. I mean yeah she is great at cooking but I dunno. I wouldve rarther seen Ayla win or someone else later.

And btw I started to really like Diana, her comments are so weird.

That's a good point. They've definitely favored her a lot. And for what it's worth, I kinda don't really like her Asian niche. It's a pet peeve of mine when people bunch together the entire southeast Asia into one culinary culture. Like, there's as much difference within "Asian" food is there is between, say, Swedish and Greek food.
At the same time, she seemed like she just had everything a lot more planned out and did everything with such confidence compared to Ayla. Ultimately I most often preferred Ayla's dishes but Christin seemed more.. mature? Idk.

And Diana? Very much a love/hate kind of thing for me. I really felt sorry for her when she was eliminated due to not knowing enough sausages. But she's also very weird and annoying. So I don't know really. I think I like her better than Nina though.

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FF_Redux posted...

It needed lots of the pure tho, but yeah Im practicing. I didnt peel the carrots which made it look less fancy as well, I feel its a waste. I couldve maybe used the peel and deep fry it for a crunch or something but I dunno if it had fit this.

Edit: Also did you see Msterkocken finalen?

I suppose you could just save the peel for something later, right? Or use it for stock.
Yeah I did see it, but I haven't watched Efter Stngning yet. The right person won IMO. Well both of them are great, but yeah.

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