It’s a fool’s errand to try to make sense of the US justice system. One of the main problems is that there are so many laws, each with their own individual sentencing guidelines or suggested financial penalties for breaking them. The police are in charge of enforcing the laws (and ruining random people’s lives as a little treat), the courts are occasionally in charge of making sure that the laws comport with the constitution, and the legislators in a given area make laws for their area. But nobody is in charge of sorting everything and making sure that all of the laws on the books make sense with each other. Or that the sentencing guidelines are sane and reflect a certain set of values. It’s a fucking mess.

So, when you have a case like serial rapist Danny Masterson, you can’t really compare it with a case for anti-masturbation, brown white supremacist Enrique Tarrio. Different sets of people with different goals and beliefs wrote the laws against rape and sedition, and nobody has ever taken the time to make sure they are in the right places on the punishment scale.

WTF is up with all the NSFW tags, and the massive ChatGPT-like spam?

So it’s just gonna be you and 2 other people clinging onto the delusional belief that it’s still the 1980s?

You literally aren’t reading a word I’m saying.

I’ve read everything you wrote. It’s all profoundly stupid. You’re trying to pretend that the phrase “assigned male at birth” means something it doesn’t mean. You can look it up yourself, you know; you don’t have to take my word for it. We live in an age of extreme information availability. So it’s frustrating for me when you ignore all available evidence and cling to your stupid fantasy.

Again with you guys it all comes back to “you’re denying our existence!!” when literally no one is denying your existence.

2 things: I’m not trans. Also, this entire comment chain started by you pretending that people were being banned because they pointed out that biological sex exists. When I pointed out that that was stupid and crazy and incongruous with reality, you doubled down. So how else am I to interpret your stance other than you love sticking your fingers in your ears, sticking your tongue out, saying “LALALA”, and pretending that gender identity isn’t separate thing from biological sex?

I’m sure you don’t even see how dumb this argument you just made is. “I’m telling you what it means, therefor that’s what it means even if what I’m telling you is wrong” lol.

I wasn’t arguing with you in the same way that telling a schizophrenic that there are no demons around him isn’t arguing. It’s pointing out reality to a crazy person. If you’re too dumb to look it up yourself, or too ideologically blind to believe the evidence you find, then it’s not an argument. It’s simply a person with way too much patience trying desperately to get you acquainted with reality.

Apart from all those who are.

Ok. I’ll bite. I’m sure you’ll have no problem linking me to any mainstream arguments that biological sex doesn’t exist since you believe it to be so prevalent. I’m happy to read any evidence you provide.

Debatable still. The current use of gender is as a feeling, whereas previously it was intrinsically 1:1 linked to sex. This is what people are talking about when they say “gender ideology” and how they disagree with it. You think gender is simply a feeling. I don’t.

It’s not, though. Because on my side is practically the entire weight of the scientific community, and on your side is bigots and crackpots. Refer to my previous paragraph about why that’s not a debate.

It can’t be observed and assigned at the same time. No one is assigned a sex.

So, your big argument against the existence of trans people is semantics? Really? I’m telling you what assigned means when people say “assigned male/female at birth”. I didn’t make up the term. It’s one that is in common parlance. You’re so smugly wrapped up in nits to pick that you’re missing the forest for the trees.

The terms “AMAB” and “AFAB” were literally made to deny that biological sex exists lol

No. Incorrect. And stupid, and crazy. Nobody is denying that biological sex exists. I have no idea why you insist on pretending that they are.

Seriously, are you so insecure that you have to make up things to feel persecuted about? How pathetic are you?

They literally mean “the doctor chose that I am a male or a female despite what I actually am”

Again, biological sex and gender are two completely different things. Most of the time, they’re related, but not always. Which is why someone with XY chromosomes and a penis who is assigned male at birth can have the gender identity of female. It happens. Denying that is denying reality. Of course, you seem to want to choose to invent some fantasy world and then get offended when reality doesn’t match it, so I’m not sure why I’m even taking the time of day to explain this shit to you. It’s not even going to make it through your thick skull.

Aww now you’re getting upset and reverting to name calling lol. Definitely shows that you’re winning the argument.

If describing you accurately is “name calling”, then yes. I’m name calling. You’re a snowflake. A stupid, crazy, immature snowflake. You can choose to not be one any time you’d like, but you seem to enjoy being one, so I’m not sure why you’d act all surprised when people call you out for it. Probably ties back to that whole persecution complex you’ve got. Poor little innocent victim. Aww.

Also lol like clockwork with the intersex argument. Intersex people are a literal genetic deformity. They make up an insanely low fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of the population.

Did I ever claim that they weren’t? Why is it that you’re ok with the idea that some intersex people exist while denying that some trans people exist? Is it because you can’t see the differences with your eyes? Are you really so stupid that you believe that if you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist? Do you also believe that dyslexia doesn’t exist?

The point is, we are insanely complicated organisms. Within the human spectrum exist vast amounts of variation. Some people are born intersex. Some people are born trans. Some people are born straight. Your stubborn refusal to see that says way more about you than it does about humanity.

Yes it absolutely does. No amount of calling it a straw man will change this.

Ok, so delusional enough to believe your own hyperbole, then. Got it. Straight up crazy with a persecution complex.

No one is “assigned” a sex at birth, it’s observed.

Yes. Biological sex is observed, and then written on the birth certificate. Or in other words, “assigned”. Also, there are occasions when someone is born intersex, and the doctor chooses. Well documented cases of this happening.

Try throwing gaslighting out there next too, that usually goes hand in hand with straw man.

Well, sorry if my using the terms accurately offends you, snowflake. But if you’re gonna say crazy, irrelevant shit, and then pretend that it’s neither crazy nor irrelevant, you kind of have to live with the consequences of people calling you a gaslighter. Comes with the territory.

These days saying “biological sex exists” gets you banned on Reddit

No it doesn’t. That is another absurd reduction. Are you intentionally lying, or do you actually believe your own hyperbole?

Nobody, and I do mean nobody, would dispute that “biological sex exists”. That is a ridiculous straw man. What all of the people who are educated on the topic will say is that biological sex and gender are two different things. What bigots and morons hear is “Hurr durr biological sex doesn’t exist”.

But I’m still curious if anyone can rationally explain why saying “I don’t like gay people” is worthy of a ban?

Because that is an absurd reduction, and not based in reality. In reality, nobody got banned for saying: “I don’t like gay people”. What people were saying was so much worse. Hell, even describing the issue as homophobia is absurdly reductive. While I’m in no way saying homophobia isn’t a thing anymore, it’s much less of a hot-button issue among deplorables than it was 10 years ago. These days, they mostly focus on whether or not trans people exist, and how bad they’re allowed to make trans people’s lives before it constitutes “hate speech”.

Make no mistake, this change in site terms will absolutely mean a rise in bigoted shit being posted there. That’s the MO of bigots: they say and do awful things, then try to gaslight you into thinking that really, what they said and / or did was not that bad, and besides, it’s free speech, innit? Managing an internet community is a never-ending fight against hordes of awful people who constantly try to turn that space into the next version of 8chan. You give Nazis an inch, next thing you know, they’re taking Poland.

Terminal velocity isn’t the fastest that an object can travel. It’s just the speed at which air resistance and gravity reach an equilibrium. So it’s 100% possible to accelerate something past its terminal velocity. Whether you’re capable of hurtling a pissed off ball of teeth and claws past that threshold is more a question of your abilities than it is of physics.

Every time I deleted my comments, some of them came back. It was always different comments that came back. My best guess is that they have a distributed database, and it has federation problems, so records deleted on one instance still appear on another.

I actually have Fedora installed on my desktop, and Pop_OS installed on my laptop! I’ve always been a big fan of the RedHat way of doing things (Yum / DNF & RPMs, the fs organization, etc), but I’ve gotta say, I really prefer the Pop!_OS user experience when I’m in the GUI.

As others have said, it probably doesn’t matter which one you use if your primary purpose is gaming. They’ll both run Steam’s proton engine just fine. If you’re looking for COD, specifically, you’re likely going to run into some issues; ProtonDB says that support for those games is not perfect. But a lot of games will work just as well on linux as they do on Windows with it.

This is not an arrest warrant in South Africa. It is an arrest warrant by the ICC itself. South Africa is a member nation of the international criminal court. If Putin goes to any member nation of the ICC, they will be required to arrest him. So far, Putin has not visited any nation who is a signatory for the ICC since they issued the warrant for him. South Africa will be the first.

Another +1 for Arris. It’s been a rock-solid workhorse. I’m a big fan of them.

Just wanted to add in the tidbit that Martha Stewart once dated Anthony Hopkins, but broke up with him after “Silence of the Lambs” because Hannibal Lecter creeped her out so much.

Would it be too obvious to say Armie Hammer?

LOL - fair enough. I totally misinterpreted that. :D

I’m sure battlefield medics are aware of clinical death. But, being on a battlefield, they have limited options for how to deal with it.

Not according to doctors.

I mean, it’s totally possible to die and get better. A cousin of mine had a nasty car crash a few years ago. Died twice. He’s fine now. Granted, I don’t think he’s killed anybody so the point is moot for him, but people absolutely can have defined K/D ratios.

Either you’re the stupidest person who has ever received a PhD in the world, or you’re a fucking liar. There’s absolutely no god damned way that you can hold this many imbecilic, counter-to-reality views while having had to engage with primary sources for the multiple years it took to achieve a PhD. Stop lying, seriously. Nobody buys your bullshit anyway.