CMLVI

u/CMLVI@lemmy.world
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This has been the most maddening thing about it; it's just whole-hearted willful ignorance. NO ONE is doing gender conversions on kids. I guess if you want to make the argument that hormones are thrown around as teenagers, sure, but teenagers get on birth control, there are plenty of legitimate hormone therapies done already.

I've had decent progress with some more conservative, non-religious family members on the "indoctrination" shit by likening it to religion. No rules on what wild shit religion can do; promising you to an older man, severing social ties, and putting you in a situation where you don't know you're being abused. No crackdowns, no vehement marches, no violence over that. But an adult family and their near-adult child can't make medical decisions with oversight from a medical professional? It's absolute, willful ignorance at best.

The chain issues were wild to see repeatedly. Something about that one corner rut must have just been angled perfectly to derail a chain. Thing took out like...4 riders at least.

Doing my first BMX race next weekend. Really going into the deep end, and going to a National-level race. I've been on a track 1 time previously. Now I've done a loooooot of MX racing in my life, so I'm comfortable on any kind of bike, but I haven't raced anything in over a decade probably, so the nerves are there.

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I've been having similar issues, and when I am given an answer or find it way back in comment histories, I'll copy and paste it into mine and reference the older post. This seems to help a lot in Discords where it serves you results based on date since post. 

Yeah I'd be cool with this. As I get older, and I realize just how much time modders put into these things. And in a field so hard to break into, I'm all about them having a way to get some financial support for their time, effort, and skills. I also realize that the platform costs money, and some portion would go to the parent company. But it would have to be something reasonable, otherwise it's just exploitative. Which is the kinda company WotC is, so...lol

If you would read your comment, you would see you are referring to Fine as he or him multiple times. Which is why I said I was confused. Fine is not a man, nor did AIPAC pick a "him". I was wanting clarification on that part of the comment. The rest of my comment was not me stating you are wrong, but why it continues to be confusing, as Biss also has pro-Israeli ties, just not to AIPAC specifically.

We are not in disagreement over anything. Your comment is just unclear on who you are referencing.

I'm confused. Laura Fine was the AIPAC candidate, she got 3rd. Biss was the winner, and Kat got 2nd. AIPAC didn't pick him, they backed Fine. Biss did get some funding from other pro-Israel sources, from what I've seen, but they're more moderate in their takes on Israel's Palestine policy and were recommending economic and aid/weapon sanctions against Israel (J Street or something?).

Everything is pretty smoke-and-mirror with this shit though so I won't claim to be an expert on every Israeli-tied PAC or lobby, so please correct me if I'm wrong!

I'm loathe to agree with Ferrari, but I agree to a point. You can't change it now, that messes with the entire design philosophy Ferrari made, and they can't well change it. And regulating the other cars to be more competitive out of their own performance deficits while giving Ferrari no way to cover their own (under supposed new start procedures) is a huge slap in the face, especially with them raising this exact concern.

Sucks to suck I guess. I was very much of the "wait and see" persuasion with the new regs, but I think I've seen enough. Clipping is stupid, the back and forth passing off of basically "push to overtake", it just isn't good. It could probably be salvaged, but who knows what we'll end up with.

He's saying that they do run all the time, and then when the election is over, they disappear and do nothing until the next election. This is likely more in reference to National races or big federal seats.

Echoing others, Brother laser printers. Cheap, reliable, and toner lasts forever. Initial one with purchase is like...40% of standard, and will still get you a few hundred pages. The regular ones are like 1200+, and the large ones are I think pushing 2k for like $70.

You can do stickers on sticker paper with lasers, but idk the quality. Is it like...address labels? If so, lasers are perfect tly fine for that. Fine details? Idk.

Yeah, this would be good in my mind. I don't even care if it's just the communities my instance is federated with only; I would imagine I land with an instance that shares my values, so their federation I'd be OK with (hypothetically). I just don't want to feel like I'm missing out by being somewhere else and not knowing/being aware of a portion of the community. I want the discussion just as much as I want the information presented.