Traffic jams in my city show up about once a month and cost me maybe 10 minutes on a half hour trip. No subway where I am. Busses only come within three or four miles of my house, even ignoring that the bus route requires switching busses in mid trip, walking a mile to the connector and waiting an hour for the next bus.
Personally I'd love to ride the bus to work and use the time to get some work done, but in the past 15 years, public transportation here has not improved in the slightest.
I tried taking the local Public transit buses. There was a stop right outside of my office, and I live 2 miles from work. Coupled with a stop right in front of my house, this should be great. But the timing was that I had to either leave work a half hour early, or wait a half hour for the next bus. Then the bus took a grand tour around campus and town before heading to the burbs. Then a shopping center, then tour of the neighborhood next to mine.
finally, I was frustrated and got off and walked the last half mile to my place. I was home before the bus pulled up to the stop at my house. This was 7:00 p.m., two hours to get home from two hours away.
I remember an article in Scientific American when I was a kid (decades ago) that described cement research. The one idea that stuck with me is that cement failure is precipitated by mechanical imperfections -- that much isn't so suprising -- which in cement are air bubbles. Remove the air bubbles and cement becomes as strong as aluminum, albeit considerably heavier. They demonstrated this remarkable property by making car springs out of void-free cement!
Yes, concrete is a fascinating substance. They've figured out what makes Roman opus caementicium concrete so strong http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
The secret was aluminum tobermorite, which is what was formed in situ by seawater dissolving the volcanic ash and forming the tobermorite, was what did the trick. Being a silicate also, these might just be sharing the same mechanism in this modern version of concrete?
Anyhow, a fun bit of research for a Thursday morning.
I do know that after males were largely evicted from schools, they even turned to drugging the boys to start the feminization process. Boys are rambunctious, rowdy, and cannot sit still. They need to be drugged to make them compliant like the girls, who show superior cooperation skills.
Eliminating recess was insane, IMO. Of course you're going to end up drugging young boys to get them to sit still!
And for some of us, it never seems to end. After my body took enough abuse that I couldn't play Hockey to a good level, my wife kicks me out for recess. Now I hike, which doesn't work as well as an hour of intense cardio - a minute at a time, but point is, I still get restless and fidgety.
And in High school, they made a weird mistake, which made me have to take gym class 5 days a week. Loved that.
Wait a second. It just occured to me - maybe they figured out what I needed? Perhaps not a "mistake' at all.
I've heard it argued that because education was female-dominated for so long, educational conditions and methods are actually skewed to favor females.
I do know that after males were largely evicted from schools, they even turned to drugging the boys to start the feminization process. Boys are rambunctious, rowdy, and cannot sit still. They need to be drugged to make them compliant like the girls, who show superior cooperation skills.
Note: I'll drop to serious mode from my trolling for a moment.
In a world where we are being told that there is no difference between male and female, that all is a social construct - it is very difficult to actually demonstrate that concept.
The male of the species is inherently restless unless drugged into compliance. The female of the species is much more docile and compliant as a child. Those statements are of course generalizations. There are always outliers in each.
But with the eviction of male teachers, who were pretty largely successful in keeping the boys under control, the female teachers in command of the schools, do not want that - they want all to be completely compliant.
They tried to get me to put my kid on Ritalin, I said no way. Instead, we put him in Ice hockey. Worked out so much better than his Ritalin addled schoolmates.
According to this, the only area that men can compete with women is in STEM. In all other fields, women are markedly superior to men.
Looks like as women take over in STEM as well, we'll need to have a massive culling of males.
Maybe something like those grinders that they throw male chicks into.
Why so drastic? I think a lifetime on a treadmill with periodic influx of nutrients and electrical stimulation of the vital organs will be sufficient. Why waste the male drone potential?
Captcha: jerking
Not bad, not bad at all. I do like differential solutions to the male problem.
"In all other fields, women are markedly superior to men"
From the study:
"The simulated distributions of girls’ and boys’ grades show the distributions of grades overlap more in STEM (94.2%) than non-STEM (88.2%) subjects. For example, within the top 10% of the distribution the gender ratio is even for STEM, and slightly female-skewed for non-STEM (language, humanities, social science). One possible explanation is that boys’ are more affected by the ceiling affect in STEM than non-STEM. For example, if a grading scale cannot distinguish between students in the top 1% or top 0.1%, and if there exists a male skew in the top 0.1% only in STEM but non in non-STEM, then gender differences in variance would be underestimated in STEM.
More whoosh.
Hint, when someone posts about throwing male babies into what amounts to wood chippers, there is a reacl good chance that he's being a bit of a facetious troll.
Besides, that would be a waste of resources. They need to be turned into Soylent Green.
Women already earn more University degrees than men, including Associates, Baccalaureate and advanced degrees. And that imbalance has been increasing yearly. Men are in big danger of being left behind.
True. But men have been told for decades how worthless they are. Eventually they believe it. Left behind isn't the half of it. Women are now men.
Carbon dioxide has strong absorption bands in the near infrared (namely 2.7 micrometer, 4.2 micrometer and 15 micrometer). That means, that infrared radiation with those wavelengths will not penetrate a layer of carbon dioxide very well, but instead heat the carbon dioxide (which in turn then radiates itself, but in all directions, thus reflecting 50% of the radiation back to Earth).
I have attempted to get the idea of the concept of the greenhouse gas effect through some folks by the concept of energy retention. Different gases and water vapor have the effect of energy retention. A few, like Sulfur Dioxide function in reverse of that.
I have no expectation that I will actually convince any person who denies this energy retention for political reasons. I only put it out there as an example of politics trying to trump physics, and hopefully others might see the folly of that.
We also have carbon dioxide data for the atmosphere since about 250 years, when Joseph Priestley first found out that air is actually a mixture of different gasses, and started to measure the respective shares. We know for instance, that around 1900, the carbon dioxide share of the atmosphere was around 270 ppm (or 0,027 percent), as we can read in Anatol Leduc: Nouvelles recherches sur le Gaz (1899) or numerous other publications of the time.
Something important to point out here. Over this long timeline, nothing has changed except the accuracy of the measurements. The first mention of the global effect was made in the late 1890's by Svante Arrhenius.
This ain't rocket surgery, AGW deniers, the physics is real. The release of much sequestered Carbon Dioxide and Methane is real. The denialists need to come up with a sound reason why these simple truths fail on a global scale.
So far, they have failed miserably. The political rhetoric, like calling Michael Mann an asshole - he isn't - doesn't hack it, and the tactic of jumping on every anomaly like it is a smoking gun simply helps point scientists in the direction to send their research. Cherry pick away deniers, you are helping refute your denialism.
because we have more forests now than we had in 1900).
Side note. I was at an old iron furnace a few years ago. Greenwood Furnace to be exact, in that section of Pennsylvania made famous by the LANDSAT images from space for it's tortured terrain.
They cut trees and turned them into charcoal for the furnaces. So much that you could stand on top of the mountains in that area, and eventually not see one tree from horizon to horizon. Which is what always put the furnaces out of business before coke production allowed the big furnaces in Western PA to take over and kill charcoal smelting for good.
No, they're not going to pay well. Why do think they're doing this (from TFS):
It is the teachers who are getting paid well. If you are ever lucky enough to have accumulated knowledge about something that the noobs aren't doing, there will come a time when you can cash in on it. I know I have. All it takes is knowledge of both old and new.
But if you want to take smart people away from their shiny modern languages and dev stacks, and ask them to put up with bureaucracy, then you need to pay them at least commensurate salaries to what they'd get elsewhere (if not MORE).
These are really stories about banks not wanting to pay talented devs to put up with their BS.
Where do they say that they are attempting to underpay these folks?
I've been doing something similar recently, and the pay is tremendous.
Correct. Leftist is not liberal. I am extremely liberal. Today that is called conservative. The leftists have often hijacked and contaminated the name for what they are: STATISTS.
Remember when Barry Goldwater was considered too conservative? I wish his ghost would come back and smite both of the far ends of the political spectrum.
I'd run for office, but I kissed a grrl when we were both in third grade, and waiting for #metoo to come and crucify me.
No it isn't. One article written by one lazy journalist is not the only data available.
Uber has said that the reason for the decline is drivers working fewer hours
Well then it's settled, Uber is the very model of honesty.
But yes, working less hours is completely reasonable as a cause. But the next question would be, Have all Uber drivers decided en masse that they want to work fewer hours?
I suppose that is slightly possible, but given that humans tend to like more money rather than less, the concept of more drivers going after a similar number of demands for rides seems more plausible than your massive willful self limitation on hours driven.
Tech firms have denied the existence of liberal bias in products
A liberal bias might be a good thing; at least it would err on the side of free speech. It's the far leftist bias that's a problem. If you don't know the difference . ..
All you have to do is look at the present situation where the far right is in power. With getting invited to Washington to be bullied by the far right, the situation would be the same if the far left was running the show. Just different things the different set of kooks want suppressed.
Because make no mistake, this is not about bias, this is a demand for suppression.
If your use is non-commercial, you can use APRS. There are Android apps for cell phones, and numerous devices, some tiny, suitable for embedding. You'll need a ham radio license, which for this community should be little more than a minor formality.
The network to receive and map positions is global. See:
APRS is a very nice tracking system. I've used it in the past to send location of race participants - such as a bicycle race, where I would travel behind the last rider, and then report the location automatically. You need digipeaters to insure good coverage, which can be set up portably. But worth the effort. They have ground truth of the last riders, the meal people can get an idea of arrival times of the last group, and if an ambulance or sag wagon is needed, an actual location is right there in lat-lon format.
For some reason, the dictates of modern feminism demand starting a career right out of college, then working for a decade, then finding mister right, and having children.
That's more the dictates of the job market meaning taking a career break, or even time to give birth, in their 20s, and having a partner earning enough , isn't possible.
I see. My wife's having a child early while in her most fertile years, with the biggest likelihood of a healthy baby, then embarking on a highly successful and well paid career with a salary always within a few hundred dollars one way or the other that allowed both us to retire very early - was all wrong, amirite? Gawd, I wish we could have known!
I can hardly wait until these women who put off having children until the latest possible time, say mid 40's, are going to think of having a high school senior in the house when they are in their mid 60's. Assuming that their daughters also take the incredibly intelligent approach, the lady better be planning to live until they are at least 120 years old to have a chance of seeing her grandchild. Women are powerful, but does that power extend to immunity against time?
"Let's visit grandma's and daddy's urns in the mausoleum Brittany! After that, we'll visit your mother in the nursing home." is more like it.
Feminism and their dictates have convinced many women that they can have it all - apparently that they can deny time as well. Or perhaps not. You decide.
When did we all become so afraid of sex? When did it become this horrible threat that nobody (else) should engage in?.
I think that the third wave feminists are intent on if not killing it, of exercising dictatorial control of anything that might be considered sexual in nature. The weird part is that the third wavers have cast women as so incredibly weak that the act of a male winking at a woman is now considerd sexual harassment, and apparently damages the woman terribly. So unless she gives "enthusiastic consent" to anything a male suggests, one wrong move on his part is rape. Want to nibble on her earlobe? if in a fit of passion you nibble without asking, or you don't get an enthusiastic YES! from her when you asked to, you have just sexually assaulted her.
The terrible thing is that many women go along with this, but discover too late that it is destructive to happiness. It has killed spontaneity, since married woman need to give enthusiastic consent as well. The trump card is now the mere asking is she would like to do anything sexual can be considered harassment. If she doesn't want to be asked.
differential analysis - there are a lot of women following the marching orders of other women who have a white hot hatred of all men. They've been trained to lowkey hate men, and the men they lowkey hate are finally deciding that there are other paths to happiness.
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If you're driving offroad you're probably not going to be confused about blind spot monitoring features.
Though I've found a backup camera to be a real lifesaver.
Traffic jams in my city show up about once a month and cost me maybe 10 minutes on a half hour trip. No subway where I am. Busses only come within three or four miles of my house, even ignoring that the bus route requires switching busses in mid trip, walking a mile to the connector and waiting an hour for the next bus.
Personally I'd love to ride the bus to work and use the time to get some work done, but in the past 15 years, public transportation here has not improved in the slightest.
I tried taking the local Public transit buses. There was a stop right outside of my office, and I live 2 miles from work. Coupled with a stop right in front of my house, this should be great. But the timing was that I had to either leave work a half hour early, or wait a half hour for the next bus. Then the bus took a grand tour around campus and town before heading to the burbs. Then a shopping center, then tour of the neighborhood next to mine.
finally, I was frustrated and got off and walked the last half mile to my place. I was home before the bus pulled up to the stop at my house. This was 7:00 p.m., two hours to get home from two hours away.
Walking takes around a half hour.
> Public transportation yet again solves this problem in addition to just about every other problem you can think of.
Baloney. I love driving, especially offroad in the desert. show me a viable public transport alternative.
True enough - I've yet to find public transportation as entertainment on my 4 wheeling adventures.
But now I have these ideas of all-terrain buses.....
I remember an article in Scientific American when I was a kid (decades ago) that described cement research. The one idea that stuck with me is that cement failure is precipitated by mechanical imperfections -- that much isn't so suprising -- which in cement are air bubbles. Remove the air bubbles and cement becomes as strong as aluminum, albeit considerably heavier. They demonstrated this remarkable property by making car springs out of void-free cement!
Yes, concrete is a fascinating substance. They've figured out what makes Roman opus caementicium concrete so strong http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
The secret was aluminum tobermorite, which is what was formed in situ by seawater dissolving the volcanic ash and forming the tobermorite, was what did the trick. Being a silicate also, these might just be sharing the same mechanism in this modern version of concrete?
Anyhow, a fun bit of research for a Thursday morning.
I do know that after males were largely evicted from schools, they even turned to drugging the boys to start the feminization process. Boys are rambunctious, rowdy, and cannot sit still. They need to be drugged to make them compliant like the girls, who show superior cooperation skills.
Eliminating recess was insane, IMO. Of course you're going to end up drugging young boys to get them to sit still!
And for some of us, it never seems to end. After my body took enough abuse that I couldn't play Hockey to a good level, my wife kicks me out for recess. Now I hike, which doesn't work as well as an hour of intense cardio - a minute at a time, but point is, I still get restless and fidgety.
And in High school, they made a weird mistake, which made me have to take gym class 5 days a week. Loved that.
Wait a second. It just occured to me - maybe they figured out what I needed? Perhaps not a "mistake' at all.
Dildos are the worst kind of emasculation. Imagine the outcry if you reduced a woman to the essential parts!
The hands that wash dishes?
Ohhhhh, I'm gonna be crucified here.
But to your point, there has been talk about banning the increasingly realistic female "sex" dolls.
Just playing devil's advocate here...
I've heard it argued that because education was female-dominated for so long, educational conditions and methods are actually skewed to favor females.
I do know that after males were largely evicted from schools, they even turned to drugging the boys to start the feminization process. Boys are rambunctious, rowdy, and cannot sit still. They need to be drugged to make them compliant like the girls, who show superior cooperation skills.
Note: I'll drop to serious mode from my trolling for a moment.
In a world where we are being told that there is no difference between male and female, that all is a social construct - it is very difficult to actually demonstrate that concept.
The male of the species is inherently restless unless drugged into compliance. The female of the species is much more docile and compliant as a child. Those statements are of course generalizations. There are always outliers in each.
But with the eviction of male teachers, who were pretty largely successful in keeping the boys under control, the female teachers in command of the schools, do not want that - they want all to be completely compliant.
They tried to get me to put my kid on Ritalin, I said no way. Instead, we put him in Ice hockey. Worked out so much better than his Ritalin addled schoolmates.
According to this, the only area that men can compete with women is in STEM. In all other fields, women are markedly superior to men.
Looks like as women take over in STEM as well, we'll need to have a massive culling of males.
Maybe something like those grinders that they throw male chicks into.
Why so drastic? I think a lifetime on a treadmill with periodic influx of nutrients and electrical stimulation of the vital organs will be sufficient. Why waste the male drone potential?
Captcha: jerking
Not bad, not bad at all. I do like differential solutions to the male problem.
"In all other fields, women are markedly superior to men"
From the study:
"The simulated distributions of girls’ and boys’ grades show the distributions of grades overlap more in STEM (94.2%) than non-STEM (88.2%) subjects. For example, within the top 10% of the distribution the gender ratio is even for STEM, and slightly female-skewed for non-STEM (language, humanities, social science). One possible explanation is that boys’ are more affected by the ceiling affect in STEM than non-STEM. For example, if a grading scale cannot distinguish between students in the top 1% or top 0.1%, and if there exists a male skew in the top 0.1% only in STEM but non in non-STEM, then gender differences in variance would be underestimated in STEM.
More whoosh.
Hint, when someone posts about throwing male babies into what amounts to wood chippers, there is a reacl good chance that he's being a bit of a facetious troll.
Besides, that would be a waste of resources. They need to be turned into Soylent Green.
Women already earn more University degrees than men, including Associates, Baccalaureate and advanced degrees. And that imbalance has been increasing yearly. Men are in big danger of being left behind.
True. But men have been told for decades how worthless they are. Eventually they believe it. Left behind isn't the half of it. Women are now men.
Maybe something like those grinders that they throw male chicks into.
Wow, that's taking TERFs to a whole new extreme.
It's a brave new world, and we must insure stability until selective breeding turns future men into little parasitical sperm releasing dildos.......
According to this, the only area that men can compete with women is in STEM. In all other fields, women are markedly superior to men.
No, that's not what it is saying.
sigh...Whoosh
Looks like as women take over in STEM as well, we'll need to have a massive culling of males.
Maybe something like those grinders that they throw male chicks into.
No. But we have some facts.
But they have alternative facts.
Carbon dioxide has strong absorption bands in the near infrared (namely 2.7 micrometer, 4.2 micrometer and 15 micrometer). That means, that infrared radiation with those wavelengths will not penetrate a layer of carbon dioxide very well, but instead heat the carbon dioxide (which in turn then radiates itself, but in all directions, thus reflecting 50% of the radiation back to Earth).
I have attempted to get the idea of the concept of the greenhouse gas effect through some folks by the concept of energy retention. Different gases and water vapor have the effect of energy retention. A few, like Sulfur Dioxide function in reverse of that.
I have no expectation that I will actually convince any person who denies this energy retention for political reasons. I only put it out there as an example of politics trying to trump physics, and hopefully others might see the folly of that.
Meanwhile, as of 2007, we have had 800 Terawatts of radiative forcing. since 1750. http://news.mit.edu/2010/expla...
We also have carbon dioxide data for the atmosphere since about 250 years, when Joseph Priestley first found out that air is actually a mixture of different gasses, and started to measure the respective shares. We know for instance, that around 1900, the carbon dioxide share of the atmosphere was around 270 ppm (or 0,027 percent), as we can read in Anatol Leduc: Nouvelles recherches sur le Gaz (1899) or numerous other publications of the time.
Something important to point out here. Over this long timeline, nothing has changed except the accuracy of the measurements. The first mention of the global effect was made in the late 1890's by Svante Arrhenius.
This ain't rocket surgery, AGW deniers, the physics is real. The release of much sequestered Carbon Dioxide and Methane is real. The denialists need to come up with a sound reason why these simple truths fail on a global scale.
So far, they have failed miserably. The political rhetoric, like calling Michael Mann an asshole - he isn't - doesn't hack it, and the tactic of jumping on every anomaly like it is a smoking gun simply helps point scientists in the direction to send their research. Cherry pick away deniers, you are helping refute your denialism.
because we have more forests now than we had in 1900).
Side note. I was at an old iron furnace a few years ago. Greenwood Furnace to be exact, in that section of Pennsylvania made famous by the LANDSAT images from space for it's tortured terrain.
They cut trees and turned them into charcoal for the furnaces. So much that you could stand on top of the mountains in that area, and eventually not see one tree from horizon to horizon. Which is what always put the furnaces out of business before coke production allowed the big furnaces in Western PA to take over and kill charcoal smelting for good.
It was just pretty dumb. And all the stuff written in it was stultifyingly boring.
Yes, all about money and stuff like that. Paralyzingly boring. Who cares about lousy old money?
Quiet! all these young guys need to think that there's no money in supporting legacy systems.
Stay away! You'll be paid less than minimum wage! COBOL is dead anyhow - this is just fake News!
No, they're not going to pay well. Why do think they're doing this (from TFS):
It is the teachers who are getting paid well. If you are ever lucky enough to have accumulated knowledge about something that the noobs aren't doing, there will come a time when you can cash in on it. I know I have. All it takes is knowledge of both old and new.
4. Profit!
But if you want to take smart people away from their shiny modern languages and dev stacks, and ask them to put up with bureaucracy, then you need to pay them at least commensurate salaries to what they'd get elsewhere (if not MORE).
These are really stories about banks not wanting to pay talented devs to put up with their BS.
Where do they say that they are attempting to underpay these folks?
I've been doing something similar recently, and the pay is tremendous.
Correct. Leftist is not liberal. I am extremely liberal. Today that is called conservative. The leftists have often hijacked and contaminated the name for what they are: STATISTS.
Remember when Barry Goldwater was considered too conservative? I wish his ghost would come back and smite both of the far ends of the political spectrum.
I'd run for office, but I kissed a grrl when we were both in third grade, and waiting for #metoo to come and crucify me.
nobody knows since the data is _only_ monthly.
No it isn't. One article written by one lazy journalist is not the only data available.
Uber has said that the reason for the decline is drivers working fewer hours
Well then it's settled, Uber is the very model of honesty.
But yes, working less hours is completely reasonable as a cause. But the next question would be, Have all Uber drivers decided en masse that they want to work fewer hours?
I suppose that is slightly possible, but given that humans tend to like more money rather than less, the concept of more drivers going after a similar number of demands for rides seems more plausible than your massive willful self limitation on hours driven.
Tech firms have denied the existence of liberal bias in products
A liberal bias might be a good thing; at least it would err on the side of free speech. It's the far leftist bias that's a problem. If you don't know the difference . . .
All you have to do is look at the present situation where the far right is in power. With getting invited to Washington to be bullied by the far right, the situation would be the same if the far left was running the show. Just different things the different set of kooks want suppressed.
Because make no mistake, this is not about bias, this is a demand for suppression.
If your use is non-commercial, you can use APRS. There are Android apps for cell phones, and numerous devices, some tiny, suitable for embedding. You'll need a ham radio license, which for this community should be little more than a minor formality.
The network to receive and map positions is global. See:
https://aprs.fi/
APRS is a very nice tracking system. I've used it in the past to send location of race participants - such as a bicycle race, where I would travel behind the last rider, and then report the location automatically. You need digipeaters to insure good coverage, which can be set up portably. But worth the effort. They have ground truth of the last riders, the meal people can get an idea of arrival times of the last group, and if an ambulance or sag wagon is needed, an actual location is right there in lat-lon format.
Lobster don't have fingerprints. Ha! Hilarious...
Why not Zoidberg?
For some reason, the dictates of modern feminism demand starting a career right out of college, then working for a decade, then finding mister right, and having children.
That's more the dictates of the job market meaning taking a career break, or even time to give birth, in their 20s, and having a partner earning enough , isn't possible.
I see. My wife's having a child early while in her most fertile years, with the biggest likelihood of a healthy baby, then embarking on a highly successful and well paid career with a salary always within a few hundred dollars one way or the other that allowed both us to retire very early - was all wrong, amirite? Gawd, I wish we could have known!
I can hardly wait until these women who put off having children until the latest possible time, say mid 40's, are going to think of having a high school senior in the house when they are in their mid 60's. Assuming that their daughters also take the incredibly intelligent approach, the lady better be planning to live until they are at least 120 years old to have a chance of seeing her grandchild. Women are powerful, but does that power extend to immunity against time?
"Let's visit grandma's and daddy's urns in the mausoleum Brittany! After that, we'll visit your mother in the nursing home." is more like it.
Feminism and their dictates have convinced many women that they can have it all - apparently that they can deny time as well. Or perhaps not. You decide.
When did we all become so afraid of sex? When did it become this horrible threat that nobody (else) should engage in?.
I think that the third wave feminists are intent on if not killing it, of exercising dictatorial control of anything that might be considered sexual in nature. The weird part is that the third wavers have cast women as so incredibly weak that the act of a male winking at a woman is now considerd sexual harassment, and apparently damages the woman terribly. So unless she gives "enthusiastic consent" to anything a male suggests, one wrong move on his part is rape. Want to nibble on her earlobe? if in a fit of passion you nibble without asking, or you don't get an enthusiastic YES! from her when you asked to, you have just sexually assaulted her.
The terrible thing is that many women go along with this, but discover too late that it is destructive to happiness. It has killed spontaneity, since married woman need to give enthusiastic consent as well. The trump card is now the mere asking is she would like to do anything sexual can be considered harassment. If she doesn't want to be asked.
differential analysis - there are a lot of women following the marching orders of other women who have a white hot hatred of all men. They've been trained to lowkey hate men, and the men they lowkey hate are finally deciding that there are other paths to happiness.
It's mostly GCHQ listening in...
Well, speak nicely of them!