ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
9hr ago
Problem is, most people don't distinguish between individual experts and instead just see the scientific community as a big undifferentiated blob.
And this was something deliberately cultivated by the scientific community itself. During Covid there were credentialed experts coming out against lockdowns or MRNA vaccines, etc., and the response was that it's the scientific consensus that counts, not individual opinions.
given that the data/methodology don't seem particularly rock-solid,
For a discussion on the study and it's issues, you can check this article by SEGM
At the least, it's evidence that the doomers and blackpillers claiming lines go up are wrong.
Chris has me blocked, so can someone ask him who is he talking about? "Social contagion" and "trans trend" have been the dominant narrative on the anti-trans side for years.
A number of stories I vaguely follow have largely been ignored by this space
I stopped doing regular dispatches from the Trans Wars because even relatively major developments don't feel like fertile ground for discussion, but since we're already here: the first detransitioner has won $2 miilion in a malpractice lawsuit. A few days later, in a move completely unrelated to the recent news, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons issued a statement recommending against gender surgeries for youth below 19. There's about two dozen more such lawsuits in the pipeline, and they all started prior to the resolution of this case hitting the news.
I'll echo Chris' "too early to declare victory", but I'd say it's safe to assume this will put a major damper on the process of transing kids. Even sympathetic providers will likely find themselves putting some effort into exploring alternatives, to cover their own ass, if nothing else. They'll hopefully also think twice before pommelling parents with "would you rather have a happy son or a dead daughter?".
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
13hr ago
Never-Trumpers never had much purchase beyond the Republican party as a coherent faction.
On the Republican side, the only person who even tried offering an alternative way to combat wokeness was DeSantis. The old establishment is as woke as the Dems and some of them even changed parties.
As for Democrats, the centrist wing was a decent portion of the reason why the leftist fringe has lost so much power over the past few years.
The time when the centrist wing of the Democrats was at the height of it's power was the exact moment we hit peak woke. Wokeness still has an iron grip on the party, their leaders just finally realized it's not popular so they're kinda trying to keep on the down-low (and only kinda).
To the extent we're seeing less wokeness now then we used to, this can only be attributed to Trump winning. The day the election results were announced was the day corporations started backing out of it.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
23hr ago
I decided to switch things up a little bit, and come back to this project for a bit. For now I was mostly refreshing my memory, but the current goal is to add animation to these gpu-controlled sprites. I was also experimenting with generating assets with AI, but so far the effects were very meh.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
We apparently have one more update on the Braveheart Incident. Previous discussions:
The latest update is a short article from the BBC:
This is throwing me for a loop. The good news is that unlike the local news articles I cited previously, the BBC actually names the accused, the bad news is originally the adult involved in the incident was identified as "Fatos Ali Dumana", and now I have no idea whether we're talking about the same guy, and it was just a nickname, or it was a completely different person. A quick google search only turned up some indie (somewhat tinfoily) blog post, where it is indeed claimed that "Fatos Ali Dumana" is just an alias, and that the perps real name is Ilia Belov. What speaks in it's favor is that the post is dated September 12, 2025, so way before this current BBC article (and here's an archive.org snapshot to corroborate), so it's not someone trying to use the latest info to portray the original story as true. Other than that I only found some dude on Reddit urging people to look up a Facebook reel:
I don't have Facebook, so I can't confirm.
Either way, the accusations put forward by the prosecutors seem largely consistent with "Braveheart" story - girls got sexuall harassed, assaulted, and one of the went for makeshift weapons in order to defend her sister / friends.
I am sure that everyone who wagged their fingers saying how "nothing will convince us otherwise", how "they knew something was off", how it's a "noble effort, but hopeless" because us chuds are too biased and stubborn, will now wag their fingers at themselves with the same amount of enthusiasm.
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