MedicalStory2
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MedicalStory2
6mo ago
Would Trump 47 be able to show his his true colors in a shutdown or is much of the unpopular stuff in a shutdown is actually required by law?
Trump will do his best to do the most enjoyable shutdown possible. For example, in previous shutdowns, the national parks closed, including spending money to ensure the closure of isolated trails. Maybe in a Trump 47 shutdown, they stay open to the public, but are free since no one is paid to collect money at the entrance.
If Trump 47 gets to show his true colors, then it would look completely different than the shutdowns of yore. If not, he can blame all the bad results on the Dems (and still enjoy the dismantle-whatever-he-wants superpowers the shutdown provides).
MedicalStory2
8mo ago
My suspicion is that the part you call a "shit-show" is mostly necessary opsec in an adversarial environment. The bureaucrats are fighting administration goals and if they were made privy to the administration's plans, they'd use that information to defeat the plan (or try to). So there's will-they/won't-they/when-they.
MedicalStory2
9mo ago
True, but birth certificate gender has the same problem. I don't imagine a norm of verifying birth gender in social settings.
MedicalStory2
9mo ago
There are plenty of coherent positions between preferred pronouns and birth certificate pronouns. The long version mine is here: https://medicalstory.substack.com/p/those-categories-do-not-work-for?r=eqn2u The tl;dr is it rounds close to whether they have been surgically altered.
MedicalStory2
9mo ago
The mathematician in me can't get past "Only 44% of the students now enrolled in four-year colleges in the United States are men -- 14% less than the figure for women"
Either you mean 44% of the students are men and 58% are women, which is not possible, even with rounding error. Or you mean 44% are men and about 51% are women (since 44 is about 14% lower than 51), which draws my attention to the missing 5%, presumably in some other/no data/did not answer category.
Or it's a typo shrug
MedicalStory2
10mo ago
"White" and "Black" could be a divide encouraged by those who want to conquer America.
Would this have even been a crime in Israel? Quick Googling shows that the age of consent in Israel is 16, but I didn't find any information about the age of the person Alexandrovich was contacting.
I ask because I don't think it's too uncommon for any allied country to exert pressure on behalf of a citizen or even for local officials to allow flight from jurisdiction when the sex crime in the US isn't a crime in the home country. I can't find anything to confirm the pattern, but I do remember a local case a couple decades ago in Colorado involving a Swiss citizen.
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