Good it didn’t burn down but it’s quite ironic considering it was built using Paul Getty’s oil money…

So your argument is “people will break the rules so we shouldn’t have any rules because it doesn’t matter”?

This is the classic nazi bar argument - which has been proven time and time again that “free speech absolutism” consistently leads to spaces becoming hostile to marginalized groups

I see you have your heart in the right place but by insisting on everyone having equal rights to say anything - you are inherently favoring the oppressor over the oppressed.

I don’t think we’ll come to an agreement so I’ll stop replying as this feels futile to argue over.

EDIT: Just FYI this is what you’re defending in this instance

So why leave this comment? You yourself identify the social impact of “assigning a label (i.e. how others react to it)” - so for what purpose are you arguing for what labels are to be assigned?

Can you not just accept that the people impacted by this label (and the scientific community) have recognized that this label is harmful to individuals and not feel the need to chime in?

Or do you feel your desire for pedantry is more important than the negative impact such a label can have on marginalized groups?

What’s gained by insisting on potentially harmful labels?

Even by your own admission, labels have social impact. So why are you choosing to argue for harmful ones?

EDIT: If you’re actually arguing for better acceptance of people with mental disorders - I would recommend volunteering at a mental health institution or defending people’s right to self-determination.

This is demonstrably false.

Actually that’s a common misconception - while gender dysphoria is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) - it’s not actually a mental disorder (similar to how the DSM includes physiological and environmental issues like Insomnia or Social Exclusion) - main reason it’s there is for admin purposes and to facilitate treatment access.

However, a condition like body dysmorphia (think Anorexia Nervosa) is considered a mental disorder because the issue is the mind incorrectly perceiving the body - therefore it can be treated using psychotherapy which enables the mind to correctly perceive the body and prevent harm.

People who experience gender dysphoria on the other hand - actually correctly perceive their body (that’s where the distress comes from) so psychotherapy doesn’t work to alleviate this - as you can’t therapy away an accurate perception (think gay conversion therapy)

Which is why after many decades of research the only treatment that’s been found to work is aligning the body with the mind - as at that point the mind continues perceiving the body correctly but this time it’s congruent with it’s mental model which alleviates the distress.

Hope this helps :)

oh yeah good point - forgot that existed

But it wasn’t reversed and was done without consent exclusively to Inuit girls and women - saying they’ve done worse is such a weak copout - “you see Jim Crow laws aren’t that bad because the axe had been buried so I’d see it as a win to keep things as is since relations between the north and the south haven’t been better since the civil war.”

contact IT and get it changed. who’s got time to spend years in court to settle for three fiddy…

Have you considered that the issue of healthcare might be big enough to cause bigots to put their hate aside and come together with trans folk despite their disapproval? Why do you see the only way forward being for the marginalized groups to keep quiet?

As somebody else mentioned - what if the issue was abortion - would you say women who want reproductive rights should keep quiet because it just antagonizes the far right Christian base and we don’t have time for that - let’s get healthcare for them first and then we can have the discussion about abortion?

Same energy as:

The term is called induced demand btw

it’s climate change - it’s always climate change

drag seems to be a fine and well-contributing member of this community.

idk I can respect drag’s neopronoun but I’d imagine drag would get much less hate if it wasn’t for shit like this

They also alleged the accident was due to a lack of proper equipment, including clamping mechanisms equipped with interlocking mechanisms (which would be impossible to open while the chamber system was still under pressure), outboard pressure gauges, and a safe communication system, all of which had been held back because of dispensations by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

Fatigue may also have taken its toll on the crew, who had been working for longer than 12 hours

Builder of the rig Aker ASA’s Gross Profit was 7.16B

Norway’s oil and gas tax revenue soars to record $89 bln

Imagine forcing your workers into more than 12h shifts, running on 30 year old equipment, the government straight up refusing to upgrade said equipment, while making billions in profits - they don’t call it gross profit for no reason…

Ngl I’ve not met a person who calls others NPCs that hasn’t been a chud.

“Health insurance companies don’t get rich by denying payouts for claims. As the economics blogger Noah Smith points out, UnitedHealthcare’s net profit margin is just 6.11%, which is only about half of the average profit margin of companies in the S&P 500. If UnitedHealth Group decided to donate every single dollar of its profit to buying Americans more healthcare, it would only be able to pay for about 9.3% more healthcare than it’s already paying for.”

I don’t think comparing supposed healthcare assistance companies to the top 500 businesses in the US (whose main objective is making a profit) is the trump card you think it is…

“Does healthcare in the US cost more than it needs to? Sure. But, according to the Harvard economist David Cutler, who has written extensively about the US healthcare system, the main reason healthcare costs in the US are high is because of administrative inefficiencies. Insurance companies and organizations that deal with them, such as hospitals, have become bureaucratically bloated to administrate a wildly unstandardized healthcare system, and this bloat now accounts for one-third of every dollar spent on healthcare in the US.”

But what creates these administrative inefficiencies Gurwinder?? Could it be the bajillion of health insurance companies gunning to make a profit on people’s healthcare??

“The ultimate point here is that Brian Thompson was not the problem. He was a normal, flawed, guy trying to keep costs low both for his company and his policyholders, while keeping his fiduciary duty to shareholders, whose investment his company depended on.”

Oh no won’t somebody think of the shareholders 😭

If only there existed some simple care system where everyone pays into and can then have their medical needs met without the need for a fuckload of middlemen…

How can someone come this close and yet miss the mark so hard…

Wait till these people hear about the mega scam of the Bretton Woods system of global credit based exploitation - it’s like replacing influencer’s referral codes but instead it’s directly stealing from people the west enslaved under the guise of helping them - a real doozy folks

Obsidian

you’d sound a lot less like a neck beard if you just didn’t comment on her looks?

If you think he’s carrying his child as a meat shield but doesn’t have a bulletproof vest on you’re sorely mistaken - still I’m sure the kid has to go to school or the bathroom at some point…

Ah yes the natural photosynthic process of mining silica, aluminum and rare earth metals from deep in the earth’s crust. Yes solar panels are more efficient than photosynthesis but they still require substantial systems built around them to function - plants not as much.

Still doesn’t mean we can’t have solar panels but we really shouldn’t be ravaging the earth more just to satisfy our excessive energy usage. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in that order.