I think it is saying that they get violently angry. not they have committed violence. I've watched a few of those videos, like the one person who says he is going to kill anyone who has an issue with him using a woman's bathroom. Was it a specious comment, or even a fake trans person? I dunno. It's why I don't include that in my assessments. But I've watched threats of violence.

And really, all manner of people make and sometimes act on threats, straight, gay, male, female. It would be surprising if trans people were the exception to that.

My personal policy is that as long as they aren't doing harm, a person should do as they will. And teaching tolerance is a better idea than teaching children that they are probably the wrong sex and need to change to the other - that gets kinda dicey.

But a group of people deciding that little children need to be told they were born the wrong sex have overreached. And their tactic of taking children, and encouraging them to transition is an ethics issue. And it can lead to harming the child.

The psychodynamics of a growing human being are not simple. They can change their minds almost daily.

Even worse, the drugs and surgery is a bit of a rubicon to cross. A boy transitioning to "woman", taking puberty blockers, and other hormones, then amputating his penis and creating an ersatz vagina has really crossed that line. There is no way back.

A young girl, perhaps a "tomboy" gets encouraged to believe she is the wrong sex, gets put on puberty blockers, injected with hormones and other drugs to change her skeletal characteristics and then has her breasts amputated has crossed that line. Then after suffering the side effects of this gender affirming "care" she decides she really didn't want to become a male https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... She testified before congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I have great sympathy for her. I confess, I don't have a whole lot of love for her butchers. Because that's what they are. They took a perfectly healthy young lady and performed medical experiments on her some of which are not healing. she became suicidal after this treatment which was supposed to have her be not suicidal. I keep getting thoughts of old Dr Mengele, another surgeon who enjoyed doing experiments on little children in Germany, and other doctors even here, who performed medical experiments so heinous that ethics panels were created to try to control them.

So what is my wrong thinking here? I have done research, I just might not have come to the same conclusion as some others.

My presumably improper conclusion is that men and women are not physically identical, and that performing medical experiments on young people which crosses a line that cannot be returned from is unethical at best, and should be criminal. Young people can be talked into many things, then change their minds.

I believe that families, not public schools and the parents should have the say over their children. Further, I concluded that if an adult wishes to completely transition, fine - that's their body.

The gender affirming care with schools in control, and that care kept secret from the parents reminds me of the wholesale drugging of young males back when my son was in school. Teachers diagnosed all of the boys in his class (and the whole school) as having ADHD, and they needed put on Ritalin. Doctors were happy to accept that diagnosis and Ritalin sales made for profit.

The results were a lot of messed up young men, because Ritalin damages young males brains. One citation below, but you might try DDG'ing "Ritalin damages young male brains". the NIMH has their assessment in the results.

Sadly, too many parents accepted that diagnosis.

As luck would have it, I was at that Parent Teacher conference where they said my son should be on Ritalin. I asked questions about side effects, was this not just putting boys on tranquilizers and chemically straitjacketing them? I was quite polite, but they had no answer about the side effects, and it erupted into anger at the second question. Gosh, some people don't like being asked questions.

I asked if he had been a problem at all. The answer was no, but he was a big boy, so they just wanted to prevent any future problems. I asked how they diagnosed him with ADHD when he wasn't having any symptoms. Gosh, this wasn't going the way they hoped. I told them no, he wasn't going on Ritalin unless they provided a real doctor's diagnosis and a court order.

Good move, He and a couple other males made it through school and into adulthood just fine. Many of his friends didn't - the grand experiment turned out poorly. https://www.healthline.com/hea... Finally, what is the obsession with putting children on drugs experimentally.

My assessment is not based on hate, but starts with an assumption that healthy people should not be put on drugs that are at base, experimental. As well, it is not affirming to drastically alter young people who are as likely to change their minds as not. And my research (I am a researcher BTW) has shown me that there are problems, some pretty bad ones. I've also concluded that there is a segment of society that really likes drugging people to conform to what that segment believes is just and proper, so much that they wrest control away from the parents.

I've also assessed that if a person does not agree with every point, every nuance, they are attacked. The Trans "community" has been excoriating Ms Cole for daring to speak out about what she considers "barbaric pseudoscience" Do you agree with them or her? https://www.youtube.com/shorts... https://www.youtube.com/shorts... https://www.youtube.com/shorts... She has been banned from speaking on at least one campus, https://www.youtube.com/shorts... You can find more on YT by searching her name. And not just her https://www.youtube.com/shorts... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... There are a lot more examples, So, I'm interested in your assessment of my opinion on the matter. Am I wrong for believing that major decisions like that should be made by the person who is thinking about transitioning and done as an adult? Am I wrong for being horrified at people who after the mutilation and drugs, decide just like young people always have done - change their mind. Do you agree with the excoriation they have received because of changing their minds?

Love to hear back, is my opinion hate based? Hate as an expression of sympathy for destroyed lives should be a sophist argument.

I think there is an issue that needs addressed.

That there are people with gender dysmorphia is a given. Always has been, in my work on campus, even way back in the 1970's there were men dressing as woman and women dressing as men. even a few who found it necessary to amputate body parts.

I never saw a reason to hate on them.

But in recent years, it is not unreasonable to believe that there has been overreach. Deciding that public schools have the final say in who is what, and that they can start transitioning children and can legally hide that from the children's parents. Starting working on sexual matters with very young children who really have no idea what those parts are used for, and the demand for biological men to play on women's sports teams.

Ironically, this puts biological women right back under the tyranny of men - progressives working very hard to get back to doing non-progressive things.

Do not think for a moment that women who have long fought for equality don't notice that they were being tyrannized by men again. That whole thing is at the root of the British supreme court's decision that there are males, and there are females, and that genetics decides that, not self identification.

Women celebrated that, a whole lot more than the "white" CIS males.

I hate almost no one, I judge by the content of their character, not their clothing or peen or vagene.

Yes, networking is an important job skill. Even if many people in here don't like the idea.

New graduates should be looking at entry level jobs. Of course there isn't much to go on in regards to the person, but finding out is just part of the entry level process.

One way to winnow out the wheat from the chaff is give the interviewee a problem to solve. In my current employ, I was asked to provide a my thoughts and ideas about a big problem they were having. So I went to it, did my sit quietly for a few minutes thing, then made my pronouncement - and it was actually fun to watch their eyes as I solved their problem in their conference room, and explained it to them in a manner they could understand.

They also had been in contact with the department I retired from, who filled them in on my social skills, work ethic, and troubleshooting ability. That was a quick hire.

The "Quick Study" group is what you are talking about. I'm not certain if this is uncommon - it probably is. It takes intense curiosity about a lot of subjects, and deriving endorphin hits from fixing problems, plus a decent memory.

But it you find one, you scoop them up.

Where I "retired" from we had EE and ME students doing paid internships, and that was very popular. The students got a lot of practical experience, which turned out to be very valuable for them. Unfortunately, we couldn't take on all those who were interested.

And pay rate. Yes, there has been an issue since the millennials entered the workforce with recent graduates wanting to start near the top. Don't shoot the messenger folks,

Today there is the additional issue of GenZ kids bringing in other problems in addition to the demand for top pay.

And that isn't something I'm making up. A quick search of the web with "GenZ workers getting fired" shows an alarming trend. Problems with poor communication skills, lack of professionalism, bad time management, lack of organization, and having no idea how to dress for work. Look up "office siren". A phenomenon where young ladies dress for the office as if they were going to a club. Especially in the post meetoo era, where men are extremely avoidant of anything that might be distracting or reek of sexualization or objectification in the workplace.

That's just one example, the males tend to dress way too sloppily, sometimes looking like they are homeless.

Your post needs to be at +5 informative. 10 years ago, it wouldn't even have been called AI, probably LSNN analysis or the like. But I digress.

In addition to cures or treatments, this will probably help address the prescription drug's big elephant in the room - side effects.

Prescription drugs killing people is one of the leading causes of death. This could be a big step in getting prescription drug's killing people problem knocked way down on that sad list.

And adding a logo shouldn't change anything. You have the logo copy and paste it, scale if needed, flatten the image, save as jpg or png and nothing else should change.

More importantly, I've been doing this since the late 90's. I had no idea I was using "AI"

Ain't gonna ship the thing back - the term "Micro reactor" is a bit misleading. It looks to be the size of the old SL-1 reactor. Check my link I posted before.

Regardless, we see the old slashdot zealots are pissed at me, some because they cannot see anything but pro nuclear, and others who shit their panties if someone doesn't condemn nookyaler.

The place has gone to hell.

There is something in American politics that is indeed batsit crazy. Imgurnts are a wedge issue. So while The republicans rail against it, while often employing illegals, they do not want it fixed because it energizes the base. If we somehow eliminated everyone not caring a paper nothing they are a born American, simply gunned down anyone not a proper born American, by putting up a no man's land where any human would be killed who is found in it. the wedge issue would go away.

tl;dr Republicans Want illegal imgrunts so they can bitch about them

Ah, making fun of innocent people in Texas who are now dead. Very impressive. Do you get extra pleasant reactions to know that the death toll is rising, and best of all, that many missing are children? Your hate really isn't a good look.

Mr Dollar Ton, hates America so much he finds joy in innocent people including little children are dead in flash flooding.

Sad - I recall having some interesting conversations with you, now you are beneath contempt. Do have a wonderful carefree day.

What happened to the Mr Dollar Ton who used to write some insightful stuff? You might not appreciate the irony, but your attitude is pure 1941 Japanese imperial navy. You prove at least the first half of my point.

Right now you sound like I gave you booboo feelings,

Gweihir just enjoys disagreeing with me. He thinks I am _ignorant_. The under slashes are apparently important.

One does not have to be a NucE to understand that there is an issue that happens when you push materials to their limits. Part of safety should be not doing that.

And one of the issues with pushing things hard is the contempt that some have with regulations. The human factor. The pushing hard and contempt combo makes for issues.

It is my considered opinion that if there is going to be a future for nuclear generated electricity, it will be with reactor designs that are more akin to Toyota Corollas than Top fuel dragsters -to use a car analogy.

Yes, is there some reason you think I don't know the economies of scale. Most respectfully, I've spent a number of years working with NucE's, working with research reactors, did the whole daily dosimeter thing, and while you might think I have no idea of what I'm talking about, they respected my reasoning, if not all agreed with it. I can let the ones who agreed with me, know that despite their degrees and personal knowledge, they are as you put it _ignorant_ .

What I was doing was flow visualization to study what happens if cavitation causes an interruption in cooling fluid. Which by the way, becomes much more important at large scale. But you already knew that, amirite?

As I recall, Iraq had the 4th largest standing Army in the world at one point. And many thought they were going to decimate the weak lazy 'Murricans.

Cheeto is not the military. But there is a non-zero chance that the US is not the cowards you think we are. We do really need to differentiate between Orange Jesus and the military.

History is full of groups who believed we are lazy indolent cowards. They LOLe'd for a bit. They started wars with us, but the war was finished by the lazy indolent cowards.