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Are we to conclude the trans person taking their first hormones and the transphobe learning the error of their ways are the same person?
Big pharma ruined the metaphor by changing the pill colors.
The blue pill was an antidepressant, the red pill was estrogen.
Also the main villian is a man in a suit who constantly deadnames the protagonist. The matrix is real life.
This is a US and Canada problem. This is basically a non-issue in the rest of the world.
There are two standards for headlights, one established by the UN that applies to 99% of countries. Whereas the US and Canada have the other standard that is far worse for glare.
The global standard has strict rules on glare, requiring a sharp cutoff line at the top of the beam. The american regulations do not have this. American regulations do not account for headlight height off the ground, defining alignment purely with angles. An SUV or pickup with its headlights mounted above your eyeline can legslly shine the fullest part of its lights directly into your eyes at all times. In contrast, the international regulations account for height, and require tall vehicles to incline their headlights further downward to avoid dazzling other drivers.
This problem can be solved for new cars instantly by switching to the international standard. The auto industry is international. They sell in markets with the global standard and could switch their headlights immediately after a change in the law. This is an easily solvable problem.
Oooooohhh I misread... Nevermind.
I really prefer the nighttime one.
Your pictures are so much better when you approach a scene with a free hand. Everything you've posted since this has been exquisite. I wish I could see what you would have taken in this moment were you not attempting to replicate someone else's picture.
Absolutely not. Motorway median metros are the worst kind. Build transit in better places, and remove highway lanes own its on merits.
Induced demand is a real thing. You can disinduce demand just the same. Remove lanes to decease traffic.
Banning half the voting machines is half of a good policy.
Ballots need to be counted by hand. No machine is trustworthy.
To sexualize men for women, you have to understand women.
To men, attraction is largely visual. So to sexualize a woman for a male audience means making her look attractive, and dressed in a revealing outfit. Swapping the genders doesn't work. A visually attractive man in a revealing outfit is far more likely to appeal to either gay men sexually, or men generally as a power fantasy. To appeal to women you need a fundimentially different strategy altogether.
Consider erotic literature. Its a genre that is disproportionately popular with women. Its basically anti-porn, no visuals all story. Male characters in these stories are almost always sexualized by women for women. The attraction mostly from their choices and actions than appearance. You need a completely different approach.
Go read some smut. Talk to straight women about who and what they find attractive. You have to learn a lot about women to appeal to them. What they are looking for, and how they are looking for it is entirely different from men.
The issue with self driving cars is that the roads are not restricted access. Too many variables to do self driving in shared use spaces. We've had self driving cars, on dedicated roads, and they operate safely because they run with the assumption that nothing else will be in their way.
Elevators
Breast growth and infertility were the two main irreversible changes they warned me about. It took about a month before I got the sore nipples which is the first sign of active construction, and it was about 3 months before the growth was noticeable to anyone else. Stopping the HRT at that point would have zero to minimal permanent effects.
As far as infertility goes, its not guaranteed. It does stop semen and sperm production. Reverting the hormones will restart that, but there is a chance it doesn't. Its wise to take precautions if maintaining fertility is important.
But cis hormones cause irreversible changes too. If your voice drops it cannot be undropped. If your beard follicles activate hormones cannot deactivate them. Irreversible effects can be managed, but not undone. You can voice train, you can get top surgery, you can get electrolosys.
Its very important to teach children about transition, and make sure they have access to medical care early on. Diagnose it early enough and save them from having to suffer through any of the wrong irreversible changes.
It gives the wealthier members leverage over the poorer ones. The more wealth you've accumulated the longer you can sustain an unpaid shutdown.
Real countries prevent shutdowns from happening. You could keep spending under the precious budget until the new one is agreed to, but the us is not a real country.
The first ring is the aperture, the second ring is the exposure time, and the third one is the focus ring. The distances are in meters.
The ring visible from the front of has the aperture numbers arranged in an expanding pattern from the top center. Those show the depth of field. If you set the aperture to 11, the area in focus should extend from the focus distances shown between one 11 mark and the other.
I would recommend checking the light seal around the film door if you've not put film in the camera. The adhesives on those break down with time. It may need to be replaced.
You don't determine demand for a bridge by measuring the number of swimmers.
I know they're in the modlog. That's how I know about them. I think the PHP command used would not have counted them. When I, as a browser user filter the piefed modlog page by the term used on the PHP command, it excludes delete_user entries.
According to the spreadsheet, the data was scraped from the piefed modlog. It searched for entries for ban_user, which seems to include both instance bans, community bans, and temporary bans. So it appears to me, it just scraped the piefed modlog within the last year and counted any entry for ban_user, associated the entry with the moderator who performed the action and returned the count. I'm no PHP expert so I've included the PHP code below. Pretty sure user_id is the moderator who did the action, because the target seems to be suspect_user_name.
select ml.user_id, u.title, u.ap_id, count(*) as c from mod_log as ml inner join "user" as u on u.id = ml.user_id where ml.user_id is not null and ( ml.action = 'ban_user') and ml.created_at >= now() - interval '1 year' group by ml.user_id, u.ap_id, u.title order by c desc;
As far as I can tell, instance bans appear as one single entry, and community bans are also a single entry. And this seems to be counting total ban actions, not the total number of user accounts that have been banned.
Any instance that moderates in a way that allows users to accumulated multiple bans will be over-reported. If an instance does mostly community bans and is reluctant to give a sitewide ban will be over-reported. A forgiving instance that only bans temporarily, or allows users to be unbanned easily will also be over-reported. A weeklong ban and a sitewide permaban are all one counted entry in the modlog.
My gut thought is that a malicious ban-happy instance would be one that would escalate immediately. One that gives an instancewide ban at the first violation. In this case, they would be very under-reported. In this case, a banned user could only generate one entry at maximum.
I thought that was likely why blahaj is so much lower than I would expect, but I think there's another issue.
The spreadsheet got instance information by associating the moderator action with the mod who did the action. There's a list of the moderators included and their count, but the only blahaj moderator in that list is ada. I know we have other mods, why aren't they in the dataset presented in the spreadsheet? If this data is to be believed, the entire portion of the fediverse surveyed by these modlog php requests only has 20 moderators. That can't be right. This data is very sus. Womensstuff's mod actions can be seen in the modlog of other piefed instances, and I know those mods do a lot of bans, they should be in the spreadsheet's list of mods but just aren't.
There's also the issue that piefed.social, seems to use the delete_user command instead of the ban command. My guess is that is similar to lemmy's purge user action, probably maybe? From my browsing of the modlog that command doesn't seem to be used by any other instance, at least not in a way that gets recorded by piefed. If the PHP command the spreadsheet said it used is accurate, it wouldn't include any instances of delete_user, which would result in bans from piefed.social being very under-reported.
From my digging into this, it all seems incredibly suspicious. And my digging is making me believe this is pretty manipulative framing.
I want to see this done properly. I want to see the stats where we learn the number of users that are banned by instances, rather than the total number of moderator ban actions. I want to see a better study that addresses the myriad concerns raised in these comments, but most importantly.
I want to see this study done by someone who is impartial. The developer and admin of one of the instances in the dataset has a major major conflict of interest and really shouldn't be the one publishing this kind of research.
Womemstuff is on the blahaj piefed, not the blahaj lemmy, so I guess it wasn't included in the dataset?
There's something interesting here, I'd love to read more comprehensive research on this topic.
I'm also surprised. I expected higher numbers from the instance that describes itself as
a server that is very protective of our minority members and bigotry of any variety will be squashed with great prejudice.
Or perhaps I should be delighted that few bans are needed to achieve it.
Literacy isn't your strong suit is it?