Cell phone plans across carriers should allow for an apples to apples comparison of prices and features. Same for home internet and TV plans.
How about suing government decision makers for doing the same? Government is the bigger monopoly and far more dangerous.
Expect his supporters to prop it up similarly.
We found that gender non-contentedness is most common around the age of 11 and that the prevalence decreases with age.
The decline is significant:
We identified three different developmental trajectory types of gender (non-) contentedness throughout adolescence and early adulthood: (1) the majority (78% of the sample) consistently indicated to never experience any gender non-contentedness, (2) a group reporting gender non-contentedness in early adolescence, but not any longer in adulthood (19% of the sample), and (3) a small group (2% of the sample) showing the opposite pattern of increasingly reporting gender non-contentedness with age.
That means that by the time gender-non-contented children are adults, of the 21–22 percent experiencing gender distress, all but 2 percent (we might say) grew out of it. Or to put it another way, 98 percent of all young adults are not gender confused, regardless of their circumstance during childhood and adolescence.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for “the science is settled” crowd to claim that enthusiastic “gender-affirming care” is medically necessary treatment for children experiencing gender confusion. The time has come for the medical establishment, politicians, the media, and gender ideologues generally to cease pushing puberty blocking and surgeries and focus more on long-term mental-health interventions to help these confused kids grow into adulthood with their bodies intact and fully functioning. At the very least, this data must be presented clearly and completely to parents and patients as part of the informed consent process before beginning interventions that cannot be undone.
On the Hinge dating app, the basic text prompts where users share information about themselves are an unmitigated hellscape.
“All sex is choke sex when you’re being strangled by the invisible hand of capitalism,” read one profile I came across. The app offers a surprisingly large number of men who like to do yoga in the nude. A different man holds up a picture of himself with a “world’s smallest cock” mug and yet didn’t bother to post a picture of the adorable rooster. Things aren’t much better once you open a chat: I recently asked a man in his 40s what he liked about Spain and he replied simply, “Chicas.”
These are relatively tame examples. Unfortunately, some people deal with dangerous and aggressive users on dating apps, and lawmakers are taking note. But however terrible online dating may be, government intervention isn’t the answer: The problem is the users, not the apps.
A bill recently introduced in Colorado aims to make dating apps such as Hinge and Bumble safer for users. The first section of Senate Bill 24-011 would force all dating services with any users in Colorado to submit an annual report to Colorado’s attorney general about misconduct reports from users in the state or about users in the state. If that isn’t available, the app must report all misconduct reports from the entire United States. These reports would all become public.
While the bill leaves some of the details up to the state’s attorney general, this would probably mean that when people file false reports about each other on dating apps, the reports would all become public record.
On the plus side, maybe people will go back to picking up one another in bars.
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long. -- Howard Kandel
