I have a friend living in London, I have seen his charging bills, and petrol would have been cheaper.

This is dishonest and misleading account of that story. Graham Linehan was arrested for twitting the following joke:

You are part of the problem by equivocating that joke with immediate calls for violence the UK law they used for intended to cover.

Are you trying to equate removal of sexual organs to a nose job? Are you serious?

Probably 1 or 2? These are extremely rare and these people deserve all the help they want. However, this is not what happening here.

Since we are discussing kids here, are you suggesting pedophilia is desirable and appropriate?

I am opposed to children abuse on moral grounds, clearly something you do not share with me.

This is hilarious and very unsurprising.

Only because /. is US-based and 1A has British thought police right at "fuck off".

UK have fallen. Freedom of speech is foundational principle. More so, what actually happening in UK is very one-sided and weaponized against opponents of UK government and its policies. They are not arresting people for calling Nigel Farage a nazi or threatening Brexit supporters with violence.

Inconvenient facts: Over 5700 American children had trans surgery between 2019 and 2023

Researchers were able to identify a total of 13,994 minors across the United States who received medical treatment for gender dysphoria over the course of four years. Shockingly, over 5,700 of those kids were operated on.

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What does transition look like for a young trans person?
Prior to puberty, transition is entirely social, and may involve changing names, pronouns, clothing, and hairstyles. During and after puberty, some medical treatments may be recommended...

The fine/penalty serves two purposes - a) discourage future behavior of the same kind; b) compensate parties that were wronged for harms caused. While I agree that a) is justified, b) is not, unless India distributes 38B to all countries where Apple sells products. Otherwise what India effectively says is that they deserve all the compensation for reasons, or to put it in a more direct terms - Indian government attempting to extract wealth from the rest of the world via Indian courts.

I don't see this as fair and just, because it is India attempting to extract wealth from a foreign company that is not commensurate to the harm they have done in India. Otherwise, it is fundamentally a forced transfer of wealth to benefit Indian government. I think US should retaliate by fining Tata Group comparable amount.

Your narrative is not supported by Amazon quarterly reports. They are not laying people off people revenue or sales are down.

12000 Brits arrested per year over social media posts

In 2023 alone, officers from 37 police forces made 12,183 arrests - around 33 per day. The Times said this marks a 58% increase from 2019, when 7,734 arrests were recorded.

A significant portion of /. posts on any political topic would get you arrested in UK. Because of that, I don't think UK qualifies as a Western Democracy anymore.

I got a feeling your future may have a lot of unopened pod bay doors.

If the goal was to adopt PQ, then hybrid with its easy fallback to classical implementation would be the logical next step to getting more people to adopt PQ.

Considering that exploitable coding errors can be clearly categorized, it is matter of finding them in a large datasets according to a known pattern. Something AI is good at. So this will likely work.

I don't think you are using "maybe" correctly here. Maybe is used to indicate there is some level of doubt.