Maybe my pig will shit out a gold nugget.

Thank you.

I haven’t heard Hon used that way since 2006.

Is it still actually a thing?

Cool. No disagreement.

I feel that “normalizing assault” might paint an inaccurate picture of what the article contains.

I, a trans woman living in the American South, am already living under the sword of damoclese when it comes to the threat of unprovoked physical assault. I personally prefer not to add onto this stress with misconceptions.

Did the article mention assault?

As a workaround with the default directory fuckery, I always just made new ones.

I’m not confident my tax documents aren’t saved to my dektop.

I usually air gap onto an external disk, but I’ve been busy recently.

Do you have a source? I’m pretty sure June is in February.

To be fair, we have an innate biologcal advantage in beauty pagents.

No amount of hormones can change this. Cis women have no chance.

yes.

LD50.

Which means lethal dose in 50% of a population.

An LD1 dose would be too high.

Thanks. It was a genuine question. I’ve never heard of a single trans person who has set such a record.

Every time I hear stuff on the news it’s “Trans girl shatters high school record”. Given that there are basically thousands of possible records per grade per school, I would absolutely expect a few records to be set by trans girls. The thousands of records set per year by cis girls goes unrecognized and unreported.

Whenever cis girls succeed, they’re ignored. Whenever transgender people succeed, they’re punished. Whenever they fail, they’re still punished.

What the hell are you on about?

You know what, go ahead and list these record settings. I want to see them.

Omit “school record” or any regional / divisional / age related records. Those get set and broke constantly. Show me ACTUAL records. World records. Professional league records.

Cis women and trans women have been found to have comparable performance in sports. Generally, cis women have an advantage over trans women.

I’m sure that you’ll be objective and apply the same reasoning against cis women now that you know they have a physical advantage over other women.

Tasty… cheese.

Suggesting perhaps that all other varients are not tasty?

Cheddar cheese is woke?

I think this is a super common goal; Lots of terrible parents have it.

The problems come in when “equipped to make sound decisions and care for themselves” is interpreted way too seriously.

For instance, my being queer was not a sound decision for me to make.

Plato has basically nothing to do with modern politics.

You’re going to laugh, but I’m absolutely serious here: if your objective is to understand modern politics, I would start with The Prince and the Communist Manifesto.

Both of these are short, written by extremely influential figures, written for non-academic audiences, and have some amount of relevancy to current political operations. They absolutely do not explain modern politics, but they are important foundational texts. Spend 20 hours on the manifesto; 2 hours to read and 18 hours of commentary and related topics. Avoid going deeper into the communist rabbit holes. stop there. Spend 30 hours on the prince; look for college level lectures. You can spend more than 30 if you like, but don’t go for the self help guru dipshits, obviously.

Just keep in mind the target audences and the potential bias the two authors bring to the table.

After those two, I want you to read On Liberty and read up on John Locke’s social contract theory. Those four works will get you a lot of milage.

A book about current events or a book about the study of politics? OP indicated they were political theory focused, so a lot of the theory was written by old dead guys; not exactly news about current events.