Comment Re:Transphobic (Score 1) 207
I think your third sentence is an attempt to address the first sentence.
Besides, there are a decent number of people who are not trans, but who get frequently mistaken for the opposite sex. These laws quite literally encourage people to harass people
I have a friend who had that happen several times. Although she is quite straight and cis, she has a shaved head, and security guards have gotten mad at her for going to the "wrong" bathroom.
but worrying about men in a women's restroom just sounds like people are looking for a reason to "other" people and using that as an excuse.
Sometimes you can see through the cracks in the stalls, and that really worries some people.
Come on, nobody with an above-room-temperature IQ takes this statement seriously.
You shouldn't take DeSantis literally, but certainly should take him seriously.
He is a Trump mini-me, but more competent at getting stuff done, and that is dangerous.
And we've already seen that DeSantis has zero appeal outside of Florida.
DeSantis would've won the Republican nomination if Trump was hit by a bus.
There were some primary elections where he came in third to Trump and Haley, but polls showed that most of the Trump votes would've gone to DeSantis if Trump wasn't on the ballot. In 2028, Trump likely won't be on the ballot.
So why not let them play their silly little games there? It's comedy gold!
People laughed at Trump in 2016.
Why does DeSantis hate the free market?
Because social conservatives have taken over the Republican Party, and pro-business and free-market views no longer win votes.
Trump is winning because of votes from people living in trailer parks, not because of donations from Wall Street. DeSantis wants to be the next Trump.
Populism works, and DeSantis is an unprincipled snake-oil salesman.
then I started thinking about aspertame
That's the problem. You are "thinking" about Aspartame based on idiotic Facebook memes but have done nothing to seek out reliable information. If you had, you wouldn't be using it as an example of a dangerous additive.
and realized, wait and see might be better.
Wait and see what? The results from the research that Florida is funding to study the health of vat meat? That won't happen because no research is being funded.
There is no reason to believe that vat meat is less healthy than "real" meat, and that isn't the reason for this ban.
The ban is stupid, and that is the point. DeSantis wants to run for president in 2028 and feels he needs to out-stupid the other candidates. He wants to go overboard in demonstrating his opposition to the green tea and soy latte-drinking, vegan urban intellectual elite. His strategy might work. But political posturing is all this is.
man made food products usually end up in the "causes cancer" category pretty quickly
Get off of Facebook.
AI is a broad field that encompasses a lot of things that you probably don't think of as AI such as linear regression, clustering, and decision trees. I understand this annoys some people, but I can assure you that this isn't anything new. This is what AI was always about.
You are describing "weak AI" and it's not what AI was always about.
When people say "AI" by itself, they typically mean "strong AI," but not always.
If you count the "heath insurance" industry as being part of "big heath", there are countless people they'd love to see dead. They want healthy people on premium plans, not chronically sick people making endless claims.
Not true. ACA/Obamacare limits health insurance profits to 15% of payouts. So the more they payout, the more they can jack up rates, and the higher their profits.
The technical term for this is "perverse incentive."
Not yet, otherwise they would just let patients die without enough nurses, and without AI.
A dead patient is no longer a source of revenue.
Big Health has no interest in curing you but also doesn't benefit from killing you.
Their ideal strategy is to drip-feed you the most expensive and ineffective medicine while keeping you in a vegetative state on life support.
Who funded this?
Mostly UK taxpayers.
What a waste of time.
Perhaps. But the government needs to burn up those tax pounds on something, and this is better than bombs.
If you piss of Putin you die.
If you piss of Boeing you die.
But it's ok because it's not an abortion.... those are bad, m'kay. But killing adults is something we do at the court level or the Boeing level.
"Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit!" -- Looney Tunes, "What's Opera Doc?" (1957, Chuck Jones)
