gattsuru
9hr ago
To steelman, there's genuine problems with paperwork and compliance overhead, especially in more marginal cases. The United States doesn't really keep centralized databases for a surprising amount of important details. If you need a replacement birth certificate, for example, at best you have to dial into your birth state (and more often birth county's) offices. In rare cases, they just don't have it; either it wasn't filed correctly, or was filed and lost. It's usually not absolutely insurmountable - though it might escalate to a point where you have to get an administrative or court finding that you were born - but it can range from obnoxious to expensive. That's doubly true for people already on the margins: if you're couch-surfing it's a lot easier to lose an envelope of vital records, and a lot harder to give a mailing address for a certified form that can take a month to get there.
Ostensibly, you need these records to do a lot of other stuff: most employers have to get a photo ID and social security card, which generally rounds to the same set of problems. If you're outside of the normal business world, though, there's a lot of people that don't.
gattsuru
9hr ago
Officially, every state is 'compliant' with the RealID act, but in practice every state but Washington has a non-RealID (aka 'non-enhanced') driver's license option. Almost every current driver will have had to get a renewal since the switchover, so at this point if you're not using a RealID that's by choice... but the paperwork overhead is genuinely annoying, and I can't find good numbers on how many non-RealID driver's licenses are being issued.
((Most states allow noncitizens to get a RealID-compliant card, but it's specifically marked 'non-citizen'. It's also not supposed to be issued to anyone without 'legal presence', though between the various messes and in-name-only compliance that's a bit flakier.))
gattsuru
22hr ago
What’s the story there if you care to explain? Who is she...
Wu was a popular persona in the physical electronics space from 2016-2022. Some of that's downstream of her... assets, but she also provided a decent amount of hardware, software, and general guidance work, and while a lot of the actual hardware stuff she did was more focused on getting attention than genuine novelty, it at least passed the poc || gtfo test. Her biggest impact was explaining the cultural and social touchstones of a lot of Shenzen's lesser-known or 'obvious' bits, to the point she was doing semi-regular talks on the matter. Since this coincided with a lot of casual and hobbyist electronics people starting to trawl Shenzen, she got a good boost or two from 'bunnie' huang, and that
... and why is she censored?
No idea. As you say, it could just be 'slutty' outfits, the lesbian Ughyr partner, or saying naughty things, although she'd been doing all those long enough that the censors would be pretty late. It could be that the norms changed. It could be that she'd been talking them up as ways to criticize Western governments more than China, and that was being read differently by her censors; it could be that her wording had changed in ways to subtle for me to recognize that they did; it could be any of a thousand other things.
But I think it points to the ideology mattering more than the private business, at least in her case. She does still give the pro-Shenzen writeups, even if that's the only social media she does now.
I'll caveat that relatively small no-name accounts get smacked for often more-arbitrary causes than hitting a big business; the tea leaves for this point pretty heavily to the powers that be getting their collective panties in a twist over some queerbating.
That doesn't mean the CCP necessarily cares about Jiang, but it doesn't mean they're ignoring him.
A lot of the newest hotness has been a little too automated for my tastes, and haven't had much free time, so mostly screwing around with older configs.
Successes :
- Writing's still surprising me. The prose quality is still lackluster, and there's been very few times where I haven't wanted to revise whole sections, but I've gotten into the mid-5k word and low-10k word ranges with a coherent plot, characterization, and escalating tension.
- Some of that's smut, with its lower bar (hurr hurr), but some of it isn't.
- And, perhaps more useful, includes criticism of things I've written conventionally. Sometimes pretty biting criticism!
- Simple webdev stuff has kinda worked. I'm not a webdev guy, and a lot of my requirements are stupid (oh boy aspnet, I sure do love aspnet!) and use cases simple, but it hasn't really mattered whether Grok, Claude, or Qwen for simple one-off-stuff that's just meant for a short-term use.
- FRC students have been using it on and off. I try to emphasize the limitations and make sure they understand what the code is doing, and sometimes it's just not capable of handling their goals, but it's been useful as a reference tool in environments where a lot of the info is outdated or outright wrong. Which is weird, given the general code quality of FIRST-specific tools...
- Been vibe-coding (vide-building?) a homelab rebuild. My current home server setup is very traditional (installing things without wrapping them in four layers of containerization, like an animal), and I'm probably gonna stick with that, but it's been helpful to see how the other half lives, and a lot less frustrating than trying to get the right docker flags and commands from the normal documentation.
Failures :
- Very long form writing is struggling. Took a shot at phailyoor's trial, but while there's definitely some battles won against the old exponential explosions from context window scaling, most of the 100B+ param models go from 4 t/s at the start to <1 t/s by 5k words in. Which wouldn't necessarily be a critical problem, since I can just run it overnight, except the models also sometimes go wonky -- either looping around the same few paragraphs repeatedly, or adding tangents -- that make the most naive attempts at setting up a 'run-and-forget' run unpalatable.
- Spacial manipulation is Not Doing Great Bob. I had a problem that was effectively two axis of living-edge hinge, and to be fair that's a weird and uncommon problem, but it's ultimately either calculus or solvable by exhaustion (or Fusion360, which is nearly the same thing), but even the closed models just panicked over it and tried to send me to completely unrelated tools.
- Similarly, TRELLIS2 and Hunyuan3D are simultaneously impressive and absolutely useless. Sometimes they fail to produce a useful image, and that's mostly understandable (as funny as it is for extrapolated magnets to end up monopoles or video game characters to turn Janus-faced literally), but they can often give nice-looking models... that are absolutely unusable, with complete disconnections, unnecessary duplicated 'layers' of meshes sharing the same texture, random islands of tiny features, so on.
- Ironically, either my expectations for smut and fiction are higher than for professional writing, or the LLMs are worse at it, specifically. I've beaten the purple prose, em-dashs, not-x-but-y, and weird misplaced detailed from some form-letter grade business writing stuff out of even pretty dumb LLMs. But sometimes you can get an LLM to make surprisingly detailed conclusions that are pretty far outliers (discount code: knot) and then other times it misses really obvious stuff (including an actual 'how make babies'-level problem, and that was in an M/F attempt!).
- Weirdly bad at picking out names. Whether for characters, for programs, even individual variables. Not necessarily unimaginative, but repetitive (why does GLM love the name Kael?). Dunno what the hell's going on there.
- Trying to get something like VideoContext-Engine running. Still screwing it up. Not an LLM problem, just haven't had the time to figure out Yet Another Stupid Cuda Fuckery.
gattsuru
3d ago
Obviously it's nothing inherent in the architecture and there are workarounds, but I don't see those safeguards being removed anytime soon.
Uh, if you have access to the raw weights, it's surprisingly easy to change refusal behaviors. There's downsides to the various approaches -- I've been using GLM-4.5-Air-Derestricted, there's probably some impact on intelligence, and it's almost disturbing what it's willing to treat as 'normal' that the base model would recognize as weird -- but if you want to simulate a 4channer, it'll do pretty well.
gattsuru
3d ago
Finished Stoneblock 4, at least to opening up the creative chapter. Mixed feelings, like a lot of FTB modpacks, it's got a good early-game but gets bogged down as you go on, and it suffers a lot from making certain progression assumptions that the actual content doesn't back up. By the point you're doing actual automation challenges you have so many raw materials anything you can't just Replicate can be solved with simple spam, and by the point you've unlocked much of the combat stuff you have to beat the hardest available boss first and then it's just facestomping a bunch of also-rans. And it doesn't help that I'm not a huge fan of Mekanism, even if building a silly-large reactor is kinda entertaining. But there's a lot of effort that went into polishing the content and order that was there. Probably 3/5.
Trying Society: Sunlit Valley. It's not the first Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley-but-Minecraft-like I've played, but it's far more committed to the bit. (Most) crops and animals are tied to the day/night cycle for growth and harvest, there's a large number of new processing blocks that are similarly tied to daily cycles, equipment has to either be found in-world or upgraded from stone-iron-gold-diamond-iridium (lots of things drop gold gear!), a lot of fabricated materials can be purchased from villagers, and focusing on profit or collecting a variety of materials for the Community Center. Not perfectly happy with the pacing and progression. Since villagers are used for a pretty wide variety of important components and items you'd normally craft, and only certain materials sell for meaningful amounts of money, that means a lot of optimal play has you either grinding beer, simple meals, or raw ore to immediately dump for sale. On the other hand, props for being one of the first modpacks to put Create late in progression, and still make it meaningfully useful and powerful. But I also haven't had much time with it.
gattsuru
4d ago
No, more that it's seems kinda confused for a technical person to make such a claim as if it means something. If by 'enriching' we mean just the whole centrifuge deal, obviously reactors don't do that directly (modulo some liquid sodium-fuel mix stuff not relevant here or anywhere not currently on fire). If we say specifically 'enriching uranium' in the sense of getting weapons-grade uranium from the output, than obviously not, because they burn a fissile fuel from one starting isotope to another, so by definition and by the nature of the uranium fuel cycle a uranium-fueled research reactor doesn't output higher-density U-235 (uh, technically, for times less than 20k years).
But reactors naturally change the isotopic makeup of whatever fuel (and everything else!) that's stuffed into them, that's what 'react' is talking about. The normal fuel cycle doesn't enrich uranium, because they essential convert the majority from U-235... but converting into Pu-239 is one of the main immediate steps. That's the normal next step in the uranium fuel cycle, and it's nuclear bomb material.
Not all plutonium is useful for making bombs, and indeed that's a good part of what makes modern power reactors nonviable for producing weapons: the very rapid cycling and burn rate of fuel that's required to get a high proportion of Pu-239 is intrinsically opposed to running a nuclear power plant, in ways that can be observed from space.
However, research reactors work by cycling input material through a high-intensity bath of neutrons at a controlled rate. Some of those processes are slow, both in time and in neutrons, but others are not. There's some efforts to make it hard to turn a research reactor into a ghetto breeder reactor, and more ways of making it really obvious, but even before considering the age of the reactor here, none of these are impossible or insurmountable tasks.
I'm not a technical expert or professional for this specific field, so I may well be missing some information. Hell, there could be some information I'm not even allowed to know about the statement here. But at least from the publicly available info, this is a definition of 'doesn't enrich uranium' that would exclude a breeder reactor. It's arguably whether it's even technically correct, and it's really hard to believe it's meaningful in the sense it was phrased here.
gattsuru
5d ago
Research reactors are not capable of doing enrichment of uranium,
I make no analysis about the broader situation, but this seems incredibly confused, game-of-telephoned, or taken out of any useful context.
Ideally, this is the sort of mistake someone gargles their SIG over, but the combination of diffusion of responsibility, fog of war, and the possibility of genuinely insurmountable mistake means it's probably going to just end up rhyming with other past errors.
It's remarkable that there's so little discussion of contemporary historical events on here.
I'm in the pinch point of several business decisions and the FIRST FRC comp season, so for now even my normal targets-of-discussion (subscribestar TOS clench, federal courts behaving badly, gun law) just go into the bullet point file to be filled out later, and I'll admit that foreign policy has long been one of my weak spots. But there's also a lot of FUD going around, here, and while there's some cowardice in not committing too heavily to positions that could be proven wrong, there's something to be said for people not making vastly confident positions first and then just ignoring their mistakes after.
Could someone like Pete be imaginable as the Secretary of War – no, Defense – in 2023? 2019, even? 2016?
It's... uh, not a position that has had a long and unbroken history of Absolute Winners. The 2021-2024 option might have sounded more professional, at least when he showed up to work, but he didn't exactly cover himself with honor when it comes to not killing civilians and children with misaimed drone strikes. I guess he didn't get a high score?
gattsuru
7d ago
Huh. I guess I was thinking of the older MindGeek AgeID system, which seems to have been sunsetted before being broadly implemented. The OfCom list there looks nearly identical to the proposals most American social conservatives (or anti-social-media people) have proposed, when they've considered any detail, with the sole exception of 'phone-based filtering'.
All of them seem to have similar privacy concerns: there's still a single point of data ownership that connects a user's meatspace name to their account(s). The ICO double-pinky-swearing people to safety doesn't really seem that persuasive from a security perspective.
gattsuru
7d ago
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of the UK system (from my understanding, users have to buy a card from a retailer that validates age, typically in person?), and it has some obvious and well-documented faults. But it’s still not quite as stupid as asking people to upload their photo ID.
That’s presuming you can get the system without getting OFCOM and that whole related mess — the ease of the system for normies may well have made that more palatable politically! — but my guess is that they’re separate results of different political drives.
gattsuru
8d ago
For another 'fun' example:
Herrera has become the district’s de facto GOP nominee in the wake of Gonzales’ departure from the race. A he firearms manufacturer and YouTuber who’s known on the internet at “The AK Guy.” went viral on Friday after a clip surfaced where he is seen boasting about his copy of Mein Kampf.
“That’s my copy at my house next to a bunch of the German stick grenades,” Herrera said in the video. In the clip, he appears to pull up a photo of it on his phone to show one of the hosts. “I got the 1939 edition printed in English, just because I thought it was wild that you couldn’t buy it on Amazon, but you could buy The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.” (Hitler’s hateful, antisemitic book appears to be available on Amazon).
... Herrera is an extremely well-known guntuber, and, to spoil the punchline, the clip is from an Unsubscribed episode where Herrera spends almost as much time making fun of Hitler as talking guns. The segment is literally titled "Hitler was a bad writer".
There's things you could say here. They're lying, they know they're lying, they know anyone who cares is lying, and they probably don't even think that their audience is this stupid and gullible so much as just to lazy to care about the full text of what they wrote. One could spend a ton of effort to show how that this guy isn't evil, or that this isn't anywhere near the same organization's behavior in an easier case, but that's missing the point: yes, the news media is hilariously biased, where have you been the last few decades. In any reasonable set of laws, this could be defamatory, but the problem isn't the statutes or the line between opinion and slander, when judges can move it back and forth depending on whether they like the victim.
It's that this is what people want. Eat at Arbies!
gattsuru
8d ago
For non-American Memorable Examples.
Kung Fu Hustle : Stephen Chow's magnum opus, and there's reason it gets referenced as an inspiration everywhere from Exalted to Chuubo's. Incredible action sequences throughout the entire film, incredible clarity and color grading, a great set of character arcs, and defined its own aesthetic. While it wears its western influences on its sleeves (there's a Looney Tunes segment and a reference to The Shining), a very strongly Hong Kong work. It's not perfect -- the CGI is dated in places, the pacing around the denouement is a little too fast, and some of its parody elements are no longer parody enough -- but I don't know of anything better in its genre. If you really like it, Shaolin Soccer and God of Cookery motion around the same concepts and themes, but they don't really hold up.
Drunken Master II (aka Legend of the Drunken Master): the film that put Jackie Chan on the international map. I don't like it as much as Kung Fu Hustle, myself, since it's much stronger for its fight scenes than for its themes or plot, but it's significantly more grounded and less parody.
Princess Mononoke : it's long, it's (cartoonishly) gory, and some of its thematic commentary gets kinda confused, but one of the strongest Ghibli movies and I'd argue the strongest adult action Ghibli movie. Great characters and complex motivations, deep introspection on virtue, and better sense of things existing in a real space during fight scenes than some live-action works. Howl's Moving Castle is a close second in quality and a better introduction to Ghibli in general, and maybe Marnie and the Witch's Flower, but they're far less action-focused.
Ghost in the Shell : the philosophy is a little dated (and way too wordy) at this point, but when the worst you can say about a film like this is that it didn't predict LLMs perfectly, that's praising with faint damns. The more serious problem is just that it's slow-paced and all of the fights are very much curbstomps one direction or the other.
Akira: I'll have to give a disclaimer, here: it does have a famously bad ending, made worse that the original manga's somehow not any better. Like Jet Li's The One, I can't call it good so much as I can call it interesting. Still, there's reason it's inspired a literal generation of animators, and it's still something I like watching.
08th MS Team : technically an OVA instead of a movie, but basically just a movie. Forget all of the newtypes and super prototypes and hyperweapons and one-men armies. It's a war drama as much or more than an action film, and while it's not realistic, it's got an emphasis on realism. If you want a mecha action film that treats fights seriously, this is about as close as you can get, and it's backed up by fantastic animation and great pacing.
gattsuru
10d ago
Cory Doctrow has a good piece explaining why tech is overvalued
While reversed stupidity isn't intelligence, Doctorow is up there with Jim Cramer when it comes to counterpredictions and bad or misunderstood models. He's not saying things because they're true, or because he believes they're true, or even that he's really capable of 'belief' in any externally validated way. He's saying them because he thinks they'll persuade his readers, and you should take that as the insult it's intended as.
Again, that doesn't mean that he's wrong. Indeed, he's particularly frustrating even when I agree with him! But you'll notice none of the evidence he brings actually supports his argument, and often isn't even evidence.
If you actually have a link to a specific one, I'll either quite happy point out specific parts to the pattern or eat crow. But if you notice it, you'll notice he can't stop doing it.
((which makes the recent 'ai transcripts as "like masturbating in front of a stranger"' , yes that's a direct quote, a little interesting in a way he didn't intend, and doubly stupid in the way he did.))
The Columbus Statue case has the summary here, punchline here.
Tesla vandal suspended one day here. Unpaid, so there's that, except for the part he was being paid when he did said keying.
The ICE (and ice) statute story is here, though I'll caveat that I'm skeptical Lang gets an actual trial, one way or the other.
The church service protestriot is the Don Lemon thing. It's hard to point to nonexistent state charges, but I can't find any. It's also worth spelling out that the only prosecutions have been federal, and that they've taken some pretty direct pushing given federal magistrate judges waffling on charges where they'd normally rubberstamp indictments on ham sandwiches.
The filming mosque thing is Sally Ness. It's kinda in a goofy space where Ness technically 'won' on the constitutional claims eventually, but didn't actually get any serious injunction or damages, and the state is just running a slightly different version of the same statute that the city was using before. State AG intervention is here, though given we're talking Keith Ellison 'defend unconstitutional thing' is less inflammatory claim and more day ending in y.
Anti-ICE checkpoints don't really have a good unifying story, but there's mainstream coverage, and none of them have the word 'arrest'.
gattsuru
13d ago
It's got a developer with more programming background than (I think) ThomasdelVasto has, but I'll point to Three Kingdoms Strategem. It's very much emphasizing the retro bit for speed of development, but I could believe Petersen's <six month estimate more than I do the GTA6 release date.
gattsuru
14d ago
Zorba’s rant general advice on engines holds pretty strong today: Godot’s closer to Unity in ease of use and Unity’s licenses are worse and worse-supported now than then, but the ranking matches my feelings. That said, as bad as getting a wildly mismatched engine can be (eg, it is technically possible to do an action game in newer RPGmakers; it just sucks), for simple projects the perfect is the enemy of the good enough.
Make sure the engine can deploy to the target environment you want, check if any game BBC in the engine rhymes with your concept, and that the license isn’t ruinous, and pull the trigger.
Feasibility… depends on scale, and how much no experience is.
Claude and Codex can do a lot for someone who doesn’t know what a class is, but if you every want to look under the hood you’ll need at least a 101-level understanding of primitives vs classes, object instantiating, method calls, flow control, and dealing with coordinate systems from hell. For simple projects you can avoid that sorta inspection, but it’ll cost you a ton of time and tokens.
Scales’ the other half of things. Even if you can get consistent character art out of a diffusion model ten times faster than a conventional artist, trying to make a 100-plus character roster might still cost weeks and months in a 3d environment or with dozens of complex sprite animations. On the other hand, if you’re aiming for 2010-mobile game level complexity, it might not even be a week to a prototype.
gattsuru
15d ago
Brendan Eich literally got punched in the face over it, it wasn't news, I only know cause the guy who did it bragged about it and considered it wasn't enough punching, and that's the background radiation.
I don't know.
I wasn't channeling Wittgenstein (just) to be an obnoxious putz. I've been genuinely trying to figure out whether we have different models of what's actually happening in the actual world in the past tense, whether you're trying to challenge people solely on matters of foreward-looking tactics, a combination of both, or some other different thing. At some times, it seems like you're just trying to draw some line sufficiently far away it's not crossed today, and I think that's wrong and I've got a lot of arguments against it and keep trying to get you to spell out a line that wouldn't be clearly too late for any meaningful defense or countertactics. At the most charitable, presumably sometimes you're using those to springboard off into discussions of comparative analysis for past equivalents?
But then other times you seem absolutely steel-clad insistent that there's nothing unusual about some of the forces getting applied, or that it's not "state-level or institutional" process literally while I was linking to two in five workers going through those struggle sessions, and the rest working under their output, and pointing to the federal rules requiring them. Even here, where you've stipulated some of these things happened, you're both stipulating and redefining down to "cases from California which offend every classical liberal sensibility but which do not, in my mind (but apparently do in yours) round to "We live in an authoritarian dystopia where you are not allowed to disagree with leftists."" The original form was "You will still be able to proclaim your right wing views in public"! Is this an admission with a massive retreat, are you saying you don't think the state of California suing people counts as making it harder to proclaim some right wing views in public, are you saying that only a complete ban on disagreement with leftists in every sphere of discussion in every space counts (and count for what), or what?
gattsuru
16d ago
About half-way through Bennett's The Tainted Cup, essentially biopunk Sherlock Holmes. It's a genre where I can't really rate it til the denouement, and it's about as woke as you'd expect something published in the mainstream in 2025 to be, but it's been reasonably well-written so far.
gattsuru
17d ago
It's kinda a mess. On one hand, the US military as a policy doesn't like contractors putting conditions on use of material. That's not the hard-rule that they want to pretend it is, as anyone that's remotely familiar with a leased military base can tell you, but it's also not something made up for this one exercise.
On the other hand, this is one of those technologies that's unusually dangerous in unobvious ways. A guy that makes missiles doesn't have to get contractual assurances that Schmuck A isn't intended to shoot them into a busload of American orphans, because if they were going to do that no contract would stop them. Trying to use an LLM for hypersonic missile defense is, presumably, not obviously batshit insane, and would easily be plumbing new depths of stupid ways to start WWIII just because someone thought the temperature value needed to go up a bit higher.
On the gripping hand, there's particular reasons to be skeptical of Anthropic, here. Their position and the nature of the technology gives it unique capability to check for compliance, and while I don't think the company would blow up a massive contract just to get a short-lived news cycle falsely claiming Republicans were doing something awful, I absolutely think individual employees would. Even outside of the politics, leaving interpretation of where an 'autonomous lethal system' begins and human-assist ends, or where 'mass domestic surveillance' begins and 'a test of any sensor system ever' ends, and whatever favorable Californian court hearing Anthropic could bring is... not a pleasant consideration. There's a more cynical take where laws prohibiting a behavior don't real where governments don't want them to, while contract requirements could, but it runs face-first into Anthropic not being particularly focused on the money, and that's about all you could recover.
On the other gripping hand, there's a lot of reasons that Anthropic is skeptical of the military (and intelligence) sectors, here. Those legal constraints have turned to anarchotyranny already, where they mean require thirty levels of approval for a data collection that's never going to be read and will be deleted, but the NSA has their warehouse and a lot of very long gloves.
On yet another side, there's a problem where supply chain issues are Big Problems when they involve anyone this distributed. I'm not even in the military, and I've been pretty badly screwed over by a fuel vendor deciding that they just Weren't Really Feeling It before. The possibility that someone might cut off translation and transcription services can get people killed if they're in the air and dependent on them. Even if this disagreement was focused on something where I might sympathize with Anthropic on, it's a major warning shot to a government organization based around not getting warning shot.
But it's also both unprecedented and very rapid escalation.
gattsuru
17d ago
Hormones for children . - They always play this game where they pretend getting them is difficult and you need to jump through all these hoops so no one could get them by accident. Never mind the gatekeepers (gender clinics) are also the advocates.
To be fair on hormones, there was a nearly two-decade period where the Official WPATH-approved Protocol for adults was to require 'three months lived experience' -- aka looking like a bad crossdresser, full-time, at your work -- before prescribing hormones or surgical interventions, including levels of 'surgery' that was just laser hair removal. In a lot of places, even fairly friendly psychotherapists would draw that out to six months.
I think the WPATH-approved approaches are pushed way too hard the other direction, but the trans activists were reacting to policies that did genuinely exist as recently as the Obama administration. Wish there were options other than complete bans that leave a lot of people stuck with surgical interventions they might have been able to otherwise avoid, or extremely sketchy application on 12-year-olds without any admission when they don't work... but the Litany of Tarski still rules.
The argument I constantly see is that the lefties on reddit seem to think that conceding any argument to the right is a slippery slope to Kristallnacht.
The problem's that it's worked, precisely because the activist branch pushed that hard and in that direction, and now it is going to be a serious problem for a lot of people when the pendulum swings. The framework where access to hormone therapy was access to early and fast gender transition was the only thing that could prevent thousands of people from A Heroing themselves was misguided at best, but it was a massive thumb on the scales for any and every risk-benefit analysis, and empowered a lot of motion claiming that opposition could only be downstream of rabid hate.
Now, there's a lot of not-psychological needs, and a lot of reasons for the social conservatives to hate. At best, the pendulum's going to have someone somewhere stuck paying out of pocket for stuff that they're now much more dependent on getting, whether that's 'just' dependent to 'avoid body hair' or dependent in the 'don't make sex hormones on their own' sense, and I'm not optimistic it's going to end there.
Honestly, I would be perfectly accepting if a trans person would be willing to say, "Yes I know it's silly but my brain kicks me whenever I'm misgendered so please just go with it."
Yeah, but we'd need both that -- already pie-in-the-sky thinking -- and, simultaneously, a social conservative branch willing to just go with it.
Some of the latter does exist: I work in a moderately Red Tribe sphere in a fairly Red Tribe state, and we've had a trans employee that was willing to put up with a gender-neutral restroom while the mechanics weren't going to make a big deal out of there being a gender-neutral restroom, and outside of an older guy trying to take me aside and gently inform me that They Hadn't Always Been A Woman, it was just something no one mentioned. But that did also happen post-Bostock, and I'm not sure it'd have gone the same way even five years earlier or later. Worse, a lot of 'oh, they're not all obnoxious gits' only happened downstream of that coordination being possible in turn.
Normal commercial flight occurs between 10k and 40k feet (and usually in the 15-25k levels). That's about 0.2 atmospheres outside of the aircraft, and typically 0.7 inside. It's enough to be absolute hell on your sinuses if you have a sinus infection, and you'll go unconscious in seconds without supplemental oxygen, but it's not going to cause any nitrogen narcosis issues worth mentioning.
Aloha 243 is one of the clearest examples where the aircraft was maintaining absolutely no air pressure, and outside of the poor flight attendant sucked out of the aircraft, injuries were limited to debris.
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