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Yes, that was my point. I'd rather be unemployed in Europe than struggling to make ends meet with two jobs in the US. Don't get me started on healthcare.

I'd rather work in the US, with all the opportunities to be found here.....either director or actual 1099 contract working....where I can make more than a comfortable living.

I have good insurance and have access to the best and most modern health care options in the world here in the US....I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Life if GREAT here.

Every country has its problems and all, but you have NO reason to be looking down your nose at the US.

If it sucks here so badly,, why are SO many trying to come here?

and when a serious illness hits you in the EU or Canada why do you try your best to get to the US for treatments that your socialize medicines won't or can't cover?

In an elite school it doesn't seem there would be a whole lot of "year full of dumb people" happening.

Don't forget the vast number of students admitted on the basis DEI (race, sex, injustice over the years, etc)....

When you admit based on criteria other than merit and measures of intelligence, you're bound to have more dim bulbs than you might think of in an "elite" university.

It's only unethical if it 1) doesn't work or 2) is carried out involuntarily or without appropriate counseling, or without an actual diagnosis. Around here, that isn't the case (or at least it didn't use to be, things may have changed). People undergoing the procedure know full well what they are getting into, they are rigorously screened and diagnosed, and offered options (for some, counseling is enough, for others, hormone treatments without surgery). And given the low incidence of regret, and the generally improved quality of life following surgery, the conclusion must be that both the treatment and the screening work.

Other than the things I mentioned, how do you imagine that gender dysphoria is treated? It's no longer considered to be a mental disorder either, but something akin to being gay: it's all in the head, but it is innate to the person and not something that can be treated or "prayed away".

Dude. Its Kenya, not Somalia

What's the difference....?

"It is worth noting that it is at least almost always comorbid with depression and anxiety, and transitioning does not alleviate those symptoms." Actually, it does, to varying degrees. And yes, surgical intervention for a mental disorder seems weird, but it's the best "cure" we have. People with gender dysphoria do not "grow out of it", and the incidence of regret for sex reassignment surgery is low. Very low. 0.1% or so, and to put that into perspective, that is 1/10th of the incidence of regret for knee surgery. At least it was before they started offering the surgery to people not diagnosed with gender dysphoria (and that is a condition almost impossible to accurately diagnose in children and adolescents, for instance)

The depression and anxiety often remain not because of disappointment after the transition, nor other internal issues, but by the acceptance (or lack of it) of transgenders by society. Thankfully that has improved by leaps and bounds: 30 years ago it was unheard of, 20 years ago it was awkward, 10 years ago something to be curious about. These days people hardly bat an eyelid.

Sure. Right after we start the mandatory IT competency test for every new employee that validates the problem isn’t still manifesting in the form of the iPad Generation of touchscreen mouth-breathers who thoroughly enjoy defending their uncensored right to click on every-fucking-thing shoved in front of their face no matter how senseless it is.

No software vulnerability has managed to defeat THE security vulnerability in the workplace. Not one.

FTFY.

Yup - I also have a speech notch on my left ear. So I prefer cars with right hand drive.

IYKYK

"It's all hypocrisy with you assholes. None of you fucktards really believe any of your own bullshit"
WTF is wrong with you?
Sounds like your insurance has stopped paying for your meds.
For the sake of anyone who has to live or work with you i hope they change their mind.

"I dunno why you're react negatively to the mental image of having a woman's cock in your throat"
It's clear that you react somewhat....interestingly...to that mental image, enough to bring it into a discussion that wasn't about sex or gender.
That said I don't know why you're pretending to not understand that being in favor of someone's right or desire to live or work as they choose does not mean that I or anyone else have to want those same things.

Yelling doesn't work either. The problem is SINAD: Signal/(Noise+Distortion). Yelling amplifies the signal and the distortion and makes echos off the walls too. When talking to a deaf person like me, first turn off other sources of sound: TV, radio, lawn mowers, chain saws - get everyone else to shut up and then just talk a little more loudly and a little more slowly maybe as well.

The point under contention was whether AI can be controlled and whether the state of control of nuclear weapons is proof of that. I have given multiple examples that prove that even though nuclear weapons have only been used twice on humans, we are very very far from a stable control state. If that is the level of control you think is going to prevent terrible results from AI, I'm not going to trust you with anything serious. Dismissing the Cuban Missile Crisis as 'control was maintained' is insane; it came down to one guy making a judgment call.

Let's forget about your bad analogy. If you're such a worker, then give me an actual way in which we are going to control AI and let's see how well thought out it is.

It may be a false pretext, but it still 'plays': If nukes weren't so scary, there would be no justification accepted by a large part of the various electorates. The Iraq war was also waged because of 'WMD's.

The point was and is about how 'controlled' the 'genie' of nuclear weapons is, how we needn't worry about them anymore. The reality is that they are very much still one of the biggest risks of destroying humanity and very much a worry for all.

It may be a false pretext, but it still 'plays': If nukes weren't so scary, there would be no justification accepted by a large part of the various electorates. The Iraq war was also waged because of 'WMD's. I suppose you'd call the European leadership that got roped into it similarly staggeringly uninformed.