Oddly enough, no one ever talks about women going into men's restrooms. The same with lesbian sex. People such as those in Utah will whine about gay sex, but they will always men sex between two (or more) men. Never between women.

Double standard, one of the many.

With women...they can "experiment"...and come back to the home team.

But as a guy..you suck one dick........

How does gender dysphoria pose a threat to children or anyone really?

Because of all the creepy men who are just claiming to be trans, to gain access to dressing rooms, restrooms, showers...etc.

I'm not sure how you missed out on one of the stories (not the one from Alaska) of a supposed trans in a Planet Fitness dressing room...showering walking around fully erect and was asking a young, underage girl if she wanted to shower with him, etc.

I think they finally did get the cops to bust that guy....

But these poor women that don't want to be changing or showering in a room with a biological man, with his dick hanging out or even some stage of being erect....and yet when they complain of being uncomfortable, THEY are the ones that have memberships terminated, or other penalties.

I'm seriously trying to pinpoint in very recent history when common sense in the world (especially the US) left the room and the crazies took over....

Is there any other way to look at this law other than it's transphobic?

Well, yep.

I see this is less transphobic, and more pro-normal, pro-hetero

It isn't fair that the absolute, overwhelming majority of people that know what they are...have to cowtow to this barely statistically significant minority....especially women.

Why aren't you worried about womens' rights anymore?

And no...just "saying" you feel like a woman today does not make you one...we're talking biological women, the way we've done things since the dawn of time.

Microsoft gets a LOT of money from the US on all levels of govt.....I would be surprised to see how long that continued...?

And I don't really need anything external by the Apple Pencil

To run these apps...you do need some serious horsepower...but I can move data in/out from cloud...or just load it up on the iPad itself, since you can get with like 2 TB of storage....

I might bring my iPods Pro 2 with me for better sound, but that's it.

And this way, I can do some work or 'fun' work while out at the pool or beach or beach bar taking a break, etc.

I'm not sure what all squid array of things I need to attach to still do some serious work or play on a loaded up iPad Pro....?

With the Apple Pencil...you can, while on the road, do some SERIOUS work on photos with the Affinity Suite of tools....and video? Well, run Davinci Resolve on this thing (or even FCPX)...but with Davinci...have you SEEN what they can do with not only video editing, but sound, VFX and of course...color correction/grading.

It does take that extra power to run these type of apps....and it's nice to be able to take your "work" with you to the poolside, or beach....or just the back yard when the weather is nice...piddle around with a video, tend the smoker or brew some beer....

Anyway...I find use out of them.

For years I was under the impression Apple made its profit selling devices and not my information. Turns out I was wrong. I am surprised to learn that if Apple gives google more info about me that advertisers will pay more for, they profit. I guess all their BS ads on privacy was money well spent on billboards etc.. Changing my search engine (s) to DuckDuckGo.

From what I read...Apple isn't giving Google any info...this money seems to be paid just for Apple making Google the default search engine on apps like Safari....?

Where do you see they said they were selling Google info?

I don't know about where you live; but around here it's become annoyingly common to encounter people in public with their phones held in front of their face so they can look at them while shouting their side of the conversation.

Oh geez....

While I've seen that on occasion, thankfully it isn't prevalent where I am/live/travel to date....

Why weren't they spending that money on Chinese research instead? With the sanctions in place, it's not like they would benefit from research made in the US.

To use this as a front to get spies into our universities and steal our tech secrets.

It's what they do and have done for ages....

They advance by stealing...plain and simple.

Or you could try not posting your racist anti china posts.

Protecting yourself from an antagonistic government like the CCP is not in the least bit racist.

It's called self preservation and national security.

I'll be happy to listen to your side when China opens up to the US govt and businesses in like manner as they try to get over here.

That, plus the likelihood that said Indian workers are pretty unlikely to show up to occupy the corporate offices with purple hair and some bullshit entitled complaint.

True....

But, what good is that if you can't understand a fucking thing they're saying...?

Later, Rinse, Repeat....

UGH...gotta start proofreading better.

LATHER, Rinse, Repeat...

Stomp on as many as you can see scurrying around....turn light off...

Later, Rinse, Repeat....

I was on Linux for over a year on my personal machine at home. I could work with kubuntu. My wife could use kubuntu. All nice and well... but the amount of "Oh what the hell is wrong with you NOW?" was just... GAH!

Granted, after four years on MacOS I hate that pile of garbage even more. And Win11 is worse for me than Linux, luckily i only have to use it on the work pc and because it sucks so hard, I get away with "Sorry, I missed that important call because this POS... you know how it is...".

Did I mention I landed on kubuntu after trying and dismissing four other distros for various bugs or failures to even install? kubuntu was just the least bad...

The fanboys will mod that troll... instead of hopping on the bandwaggon and making Linux useable. For them the problem is always everybody else, never their love-child....

Whoever finds this questionable will be labelled a conspiracy nut, Boeing will pay some slap on the wrist fines and no C-level at that company will be worse for wear.