It is a mental illness, that's why it requires psychiatric counseling before you can get your junk cut or be put on any type of medication and so on. Argue all you want, but if a person has gender dysphoria or body integrity identity disorder aka amputee identity disorder you have a mental illness. There is no fundamental difference between the two besides the individual "wanting to have a part cut off" or "believing that they aren't the same sex as their body."
There's nothing "bad" about that. Except for the people who believe it isn't a psychiatric problem, and would dissuade people from getting proper treatment.
I didn't know I chose to be Autistic because it was trendy nor that the people who post comments like that know more than the psychiatrists?
Didn't you? That's okay, you can find plenty of "self-diagnosis" and "concerned individuals" who will tell you that you're autistic along with parents who will paint their kids the same for sympathy. Along with plenty of psychiatrists especially specializing in the upper-class who will happily do all of that for you. It's a booming industry in the latter case, especially in the upper-progressive class in most of the west.
But don't worry, I'm sure that this won't hurt the kids at all. Nope not at all, it sure won't fuck them up for life and they sure won't turn around and hate their parents either.
Yeah that's not the problem. You know what the problem with transgenderism is right now? That it's trendy, just like autism was trendy a few years ago, and having gay kids were a few years ago too. That people are pushing kids into it, you know the same kids that legally can't understand the difference between right-and-wrong(aka mens rea) until they're 10-14 in most places. The same kids of the same age that want to grow up to be a train, truck, or kitten. That there's parents pushing the same because they want "special little kids" to show off to all the other parents to boot.
Welcome to why people actually care on the issue, where not getting proper psychiatric treatment but rather being able to walk down to a doctors office and saying "oh but I identify as that" is sufficient in some places to get the entire ball rolling. And that's not even stepping into the money spent on it by governments. Here in Ontario, the government will even pay for your operation. But getting cancer treatment in a timely manner(around 100-190 days), or getting on disability from a workplace injury is nearly impossible. But don't you worry, they'll be happy to do that op as soon as the psychiatrist says so!
No, twice now he's claimed the percentage benefit is 30% A number clearly pulled from his ass. And has given no reason for it.
No I'm not pulling anything out of my ass. You simply don't understand that Canada's monetary policy much like South Korea's has been to aim to depress their currencies by 30% against the greenback. Since 1USD goes further in both countries, everything is 30% cheaper off the top. Everything.
And no, you wouldn't buy Canadian dollars. You'd sell Canadian dollars, and buy say Yen, then convert the yen to greenbacks. That's how forex works, but it's not how the manufacturing sector industry, or even 'buying in' to a country work.
albeit, in the Donald Trump kind of touchy feely way with women. Kirk's onscreen, campy womanizing would incite screams of outrage if filmed today. Even Bill Clinton would blush when watching that.
Well, are the Klingons the modern heavy metal African-American Klingons, or the original Hispanic ones?
Neither. They writers decided to double-down on stupid, and inject some type of hybrid of political-cancer-aids-retardeness into the klingons while screeching over identity politics. I wish I was kidding, but as an avid trekie the episodes were beyond terrible and I hope that these idiots have learned something from it. But considering the other BS that they've been trying to push, it'll probably take a few more years of crashing and burning before we get out of this rut.
And for a lot of kids their first jobs too, there's a few towns in Canada that do something similar but "health regulations" make it far more difficult then anything else to get it off the ground. So it really only happens where there's a density and need. Almonte, Ontario and Ingersoll, Ontario both have these services.
We still have a milkman who delivers dairy products to our door once a week.
There's a few people in the area that do this for the dairy's as a small business. You can even get them in glass bottles if you want. The price difference really isn't huge between picking up a gallon at the store or have it delivered either.
The other upside since dairy is a huge industry here is you can get raw milk(unpasteurized) which is nice. I mainly use it for cooking or making my own cheese, it's also a nice reminder of my childhood since that's what I grew up on. There is a taste difference, but you've gotta be careful of the dairy since some are lax or use fully automated machines which aren't as careful as people in terms of limiting how bacteria can get into the milk. Generally if they're drinking their own milk, they're extra careful during prep and take extra steps that you don't see with other farms. That's not even getting on the "those ever-so nice smells of the country." Whether it's the smell of manure, or the sweet smell of hay.
Used to be common here in North America right up until the 1970's too, every grocer and grocery store did it until they started competing against each other for more profit. Though it's starting to make a comeback, mainly in retirement communities. It was common here in Canada to have a milkbox on your house for food or small grocery deliveries right until 1979 and was considered a feature of the house.
You forgot two things: One is currency exchange, the other is the import component cost. S.Korea and Canada have two things in common with selling/manufacturing to the US. It's around 30% cheaper in base costs right off the block to make the products there and you get them made at a higher quality then in China.
It's the same reason you can build a car in Canada, sell it in the US, pay the workers in Canada 25% more then a US autoworker and still get a 270% higher return. Of course these days, the return is around 4000%(mexico) and wage wise well, there's a huge difference.
As a software developer, I've seen first hand the loss of sales when a cracked version of our software is released. A revenue drop of 75% is common.
Don't piss off your customers, don't attack your customers, don't tell them you're going to fuck them and they'll like it. Oh and don't make a walking simulator, 'roguelike' game or 8-bit garbage with stuff borrowed from someone else from the 1990's. Don't turn around and pull false DMCA complaints against streamers, and in general don't be a dickwolf. My guess? You've pulled one or more of these.
Let me add my own anecdote. I've worked with 3 h-game circles that publish on DLsite and getchu. Piracy is rampant in adult gaming at a level you can't even believe. But turning around and offering pirates a "cheap" way to pay for something like a donation, leads to recognition that you're not a piece of shit. One of those circles doesn't exist anymore because they decided to go down the route of "We're comin' after you." The other two are still pumping out titles(insert porn joke here). The last title I worked on them with cleared $140k from DLsite and $88k from getchu. It brought in another $40k from people who simply couldn't afford the list price but were able to pay $5-10 with a simple "hey thanks for offering another way." As a useful tip: Steam takes a flat percentage of each sale. DLsite/getchu take more money the lower your price is(upto 90% of each sale say the $5 range), but still take between 35-50% even at the $20-30 range.
Most people think it's two things. He had some kinda breakdown right around the time that pamela geller said she'd never have anything to do with him. And he was threatened by an islamic organization, since the tone of his site suddenly changed. That was also right around the time he started purging his site of anyone who didn't fall in line with the new orthodoxy, think that ended up being 40k-50k users.
Not sure if the site that tracked his insanity is still around or not, but the entire descent into madness was hilarious.
Depends on whether or not the transmission towers stood up or not. If they did, a street can be rewired in a couple of days or less depending on the number of people working. For underground systems, it's more of a case to make sure that junctions are dry, not corroding and the transformers don't go when they're repowered. When we had the ice storm in '88, that's where power went down and stayed down for months. 1000+ transmission towers had to be rebuilt from scratch, new foundations laid, all the cabling re-run. That meant parts of Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick were without power for months in -20C to -30C weather.
Some parts are going to take a while, but it's far easier to get back up and running when the workers aren't having to worry about freezing to death while trying to get hydro back up for everyone else.
You're not even hitting the coherent part of reality today, I'm not sure if you understand the difference between satire and mockery. But I guess that's understandable if you think there's nazi's hiding behind every lamp post. Which funny enough reminds me of something else.
So what's your deal? You still believe that gamergate is about harassment, even though your face has been rubbed in the FBI's own investigation documents which said there is no harassment from them but 3rd party actors. But you still cling to that narrative. And FYI: I said there was highly circumstantial proof of it, never mind that Iceland's government just collapsed because of something just like that happening. Or did you miss that?
Oh you're talking about the people with the "flags on their shirt" aren't you? FYI those weren't kekistani flags. Those were actual "white supremacy" flags on their shirt, good job on showing that you like repeating false talking points though. Maybe you can get together with Charles Johnson of LGF, and also claim the Tennessee state flag is a sub-group flag of the KKK.
This is how they gaslight you. They claim the Kekistan flag isn't related to the Nazi swastika flag at all, but they know that it really is and use it as a signal to each other. If you point this out they accuse you of wild conspiracy theories and of calling everyone a Nazi.
This is how you prove you have no understanding of internet culture in one easy step. While at the same time, failing to understand that the entire basis of the meme is reflecting identity politics back at the left. Eg: "You get special privileges because *insert gender/race/sex here*, thus you can't be *insert thing here*" Kekistani memes do the same, by creating a fictional front and turning that identity politics back on it's source. Since kekistani's are "true" in the oppositions eyes, as seen by your post. You're actually discriminating against them by holding the position that you do.
Which means, that not only are you a bigot. But you can also be a racist, sexist, and anything else they want. They're mocking you, using your own rules and you don't even understand it. Either because you live and breath identity politics and are unable to reflect on the fact that you actually are everything you claim to hate. And to the "normies" aka everyone else except "cuckistanis" you look like an idiot, especially since you're getting so worked up over a cartoon frog.
Come to Canada. If you take out $200 from a machine, it'll either give you a couple of $50's and the rest in $20's or a single $100, $50, and the rest in $20's.
If my 86 year old grandmother who had terminal stage 4 cancer could remember it, yours should be able to, too. It works if you use a mouse in a pantry analogy for example Something that a lot of nursing homes have found out that if you relate something to someone who's older, that fits the stuff they grew up with their brain seems to "get it" even if they don't understand it.
Yep. You've got a local problem. And those problems should be taken up with provincial/state governments and local city councils.
Also here's a phone booth I can drive past it tonight when I head home if you really want a "up to date picture"(the one in google is ~3 years old) it's ~15mins out of my way but not a big deal, but it's still there. You could also use street view, head down Dundas St. in the cities of Woodstock and London, Ontario. Down Thames St.(Co. Hwy 119) in Ingersoll, Ontario. They're not all gone.
You have a presence in social media even if you've never created an account. You know those little 'f' icons you see on websites which link back to Facebook? They're not a link. They're a script which sets a cookie or examines your cookies to uniquely identify your computer. When you visit slashdot, that 'f' icon in the upper right tells Facebook that user #51853601342 has visited slashdot. And they add it to their database with all other sites user #51853601342.
You're assuming that blocking those is difficult, they're not. Ublock origin refuses to accept those cookies right off the bat, you can even go further if you want to use something like ghostery.
Then one day a friend of yours sends you a Facebook invite via email. You happen to click on it to delete it (instead of doing a select-delete) which causes it to load in your browser, and now Facebook knows that user #51853601342 is yourname@gmail.com. They start cross-referencing your name with comments, other friend requests, public documents, etc. And now Facebook knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, who your friends are, what you look like (thanks to photo face ID), where you work, who your co-workers are, and how much you make. All without you having an account.
Which is actually illegal in the country I live in. Facebook was threatened with $10m/day fines a few years ago for doing it, and they don't. The privacy commissioners office has been rather diligent in that. Maybe you need to fix the privacy laws in the country you live?
FYI incognito mode doesn't work as well as you think it does. If you're going that far, you might as well be browsing with TOR.
The last time I trusted these guys, I had to pick between being able to shoot in the dark or use a flashlight to see what was going to kill me.
Look. Just because space marines are too stupid to use duct tape to attach the flashlight to their guns, doesn't mean they're all stupid. Just most of them, which explains the entire hellspawn-take-over-mars and earth thing.
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It is a mental illness, that's why it requires psychiatric counseling before you can get your junk cut or be put on any type of medication and so on. Argue all you want, but if a person has gender dysphoria or body integrity identity disorder aka amputee identity disorder you have a mental illness. There is no fundamental difference between the two besides the individual "wanting to have a part cut off" or "believing that they aren't the same sex as their body."
There's nothing "bad" about that. Except for the people who believe it isn't a psychiatric problem, and would dissuade people from getting proper treatment.
I didn't know I chose to be Autistic because it was trendy nor that the people who post comments like that know more than the psychiatrists?
Didn't you? That's okay, you can find plenty of "self-diagnosis" and "concerned individuals" who will tell you that you're autistic along with parents who will paint their kids the same for sympathy. Along with plenty of psychiatrists especially specializing in the upper-class who will happily do all of that for you. It's a booming industry in the latter case, especially in the upper-progressive class in most of the west.
But don't worry, I'm sure that this won't hurt the kids at all. Nope not at all, it sure won't fuck them up for life and they sure won't turn around and hate their parents either.
Yeah that's not the problem. You know what the problem with transgenderism is right now? That it's trendy, just like autism was trendy a few years ago, and having gay kids were a few years ago too. That people are pushing kids into it, you know the same kids that legally can't understand the difference between right-and-wrong(aka mens rea) until they're 10-14 in most places. The same kids of the same age that want to grow up to be a train, truck, or kitten. That there's parents pushing the same because they want "special little kids" to show off to all the other parents to boot.
Welcome to why people actually care on the issue, where not getting proper psychiatric treatment but rather being able to walk down to a doctors office and saying "oh but I identify as that" is sufficient in some places to get the entire ball rolling. And that's not even stepping into the money spent on it by governments. Here in Ontario, the government will even pay for your operation. But getting cancer treatment in a timely manner(around 100-190 days), or getting on disability from a workplace injury is nearly impossible. But don't you worry, they'll be happy to do that op as soon as the psychiatrist says so!
No, twice now he's claimed the percentage benefit is 30% A number clearly pulled from his ass. And has given no reason for it.
No I'm not pulling anything out of my ass. You simply don't understand that Canada's monetary policy much like South Korea's has been to aim to depress their currencies by 30% against the greenback. Since 1USD goes further in both countries, everything is 30% cheaper off the top. Everything.
And no, you wouldn't buy Canadian dollars. You'd sell Canadian dollars, and buy say Yen, then convert the yen to greenbacks. That's how forex works, but it's not how the manufacturing sector industry, or even 'buying in' to a country work.
albeit, in the Donald Trump kind of touchy feely way with women. Kirk's onscreen, campy womanizing would incite screams of outrage if filmed today. Even Bill Clinton would blush when watching that.
Nah, actually he wouldn't. He'd be telling the women they're too old, and then ask for the lolita express for some underage action.
Well, are the Klingons the modern heavy metal African-American Klingons, or the original Hispanic ones?
Neither. They writers decided to double-down on stupid, and inject some type of hybrid of political-cancer-aids-retardeness into the klingons while screeching over identity politics. I wish I was kidding, but as an avid trekie the episodes were beyond terrible and I hope that these idiots have learned something from it. But considering the other BS that they've been trying to push, it'll probably take a few more years of crashing and burning before we get out of this rut.
And for a lot of kids their first jobs too, there's a few towns in Canada that do something similar but "health regulations" make it far more difficult then anything else to get it off the ground. So it really only happens where there's a density and need. Almonte, Ontario and Ingersoll, Ontario both have these services.
We still have a milkman who delivers dairy products to our door once a week.
There's a few people in the area that do this for the dairy's as a small business. You can even get them in glass bottles if you want. The price difference really isn't huge between picking up a gallon at the store or have it delivered either.
The other upside since dairy is a huge industry here is you can get raw milk(unpasteurized) which is nice. I mainly use it for cooking or making my own cheese, it's also a nice reminder of my childhood since that's what I grew up on. There is a taste difference, but you've gotta be careful of the dairy since some are lax or use fully automated machines which aren't as careful as people in terms of limiting how bacteria can get into the milk. Generally if they're drinking their own milk, they're extra careful during prep and take extra steps that you don't see with other farms. That's not even getting on the "those ever-so nice smells of the country." Whether it's the smell of manure, or the sweet smell of hay.
What nonsense is this? Why is it 30% cheaper in Canada?
The same reason it is in South Korea. Exchange rates. Fine example of people having no idea of how forex can drive profit.
Used to be common here in North America right up until the 1970's too, every grocer and grocery store did it until they started competing against each other for more profit. Though it's starting to make a comeback, mainly in retirement communities. It was common here in Canada to have a milkbox on your house for food or small grocery deliveries right until 1979 and was considered a feature of the house.
You forgot two things: One is currency exchange, the other is the import component cost. S.Korea and Canada have two things in common with selling/manufacturing to the US. It's around 30% cheaper in base costs right off the block to make the products there and you get them made at a higher quality then in China.
It's the same reason you can build a car in Canada, sell it in the US, pay the workers in Canada 25% more then a US autoworker and still get a 270% higher return. Of course these days, the return is around 4000%(mexico) and wage wise well, there's a huge difference.
As a software developer, I've seen first hand the loss of sales when a cracked version of our software is released. A revenue drop of 75% is common.
Don't piss off your customers, don't attack your customers, don't tell them you're going to fuck them and they'll like it. Oh and don't make a walking simulator, 'roguelike' game or 8-bit garbage with stuff borrowed from someone else from the 1990's. Don't turn around and pull false DMCA complaints against streamers, and in general don't be a dickwolf. My guess? You've pulled one or more of these.
Let me add my own anecdote. I've worked with 3 h-game circles that publish on DLsite and getchu. Piracy is rampant in adult gaming at a level you can't even believe. But turning around and offering pirates a "cheap" way to pay for something like a donation, leads to recognition that you're not a piece of shit. One of those circles doesn't exist anymore because they decided to go down the route of "We're comin' after you." The other two are still pumping out titles(insert porn joke here). The last title I worked on them with cleared $140k from DLsite and $88k from getchu. It brought in another $40k from people who simply couldn't afford the list price but were able to pay $5-10 with a simple "hey thanks for offering another way." As a useful tip: Steam takes a flat percentage of each sale. DLsite/getchu take more money the lower your price is(upto 90% of each sale say the $5 range), but still take between 35-50% even at the $20-30 range.
Most people think it's two things. He had some kinda breakdown right around the time that pamela geller said she'd never have anything to do with him. And he was threatened by an islamic organization, since the tone of his site suddenly changed. That was also right around the time he started purging his site of anyone who didn't fall in line with the new orthodoxy, think that ended up being 40k-50k users.
Not sure if the site that tracked his insanity is still around or not, but the entire descent into madness was hilarious.
Depends on whether or not the transmission towers stood up or not. If they did, a street can be rewired in a couple of days or less depending on the number of people working. For underground systems, it's more of a case to make sure that junctions are dry, not corroding and the transformers don't go when they're repowered. When we had the ice storm in '88, that's where power went down and stayed down for months. 1000+ transmission towers had to be rebuilt from scratch, new foundations laid, all the cabling re-run. That meant parts of Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick were without power for months in -20C to -30C weather.
Some parts are going to take a while, but it's far easier to get back up and running when the workers aren't having to worry about freezing to death while trying to get hydro back up for everyone else.
When the fuck did 4chan/ED/whatever become synonymous with internet culture?
When we got old, and there's an entire generation of kids that have grown up on it.
That you see being treated as a human being as "special privileges" is really illustrative of your worldview.
Treated as human = treating everyone equally.
Giving special privileges because sex/race/gender = not treating everyone equally.
Don't see any pictures from charlottesville there, portland, berkeley, berkeley, seattle, more seattle, knoxville.
You're not even hitting the coherent part of reality today, I'm not sure if you understand the difference between satire and mockery. But I guess that's understandable if you think there's nazi's hiding behind every lamp post. Which funny enough reminds me of something else.
So what's your deal? You still believe that gamergate is about harassment, even though your face has been rubbed in the FBI's own investigation documents which said there is no harassment from them but 3rd party actors. But you still cling to that narrative. And FYI: I said there was highly circumstantial proof of it, never mind that Iceland's government just collapsed because of something just like that happening. Or did you miss that?
Oh you're talking about the people with the "flags on their shirt" aren't you? FYI those weren't kekistani flags. Those were actual "white supremacy" flags on their shirt, good job on showing that you like repeating false talking points though. Maybe you can get together with Charles Johnson of LGF, and also claim the Tennessee state flag is a sub-group flag of the KKK.
This is how they gaslight you. They claim the Kekistan flag isn't related to the Nazi swastika flag at all, but they know that it really is and use it as a signal to each other. If you point this out they accuse you of wild conspiracy theories and of calling everyone a Nazi.
This is how you prove you have no understanding of internet culture in one easy step. While at the same time, failing to understand that the entire basis of the meme is reflecting identity politics back at the left. Eg: "You get special privileges because *insert gender/race/sex here*, thus you can't be *insert thing here*" Kekistani memes do the same, by creating a fictional front and turning that identity politics back on it's source. Since kekistani's are "true" in the oppositions eyes, as seen by your post. You're actually discriminating against them by holding the position that you do.
Which means, that not only are you a bigot. But you can also be a racist, sexist, and anything else they want. They're mocking you, using your own rules and you don't even understand it. Either because you live and breath identity politics and are unable to reflect on the fact that you actually are everything you claim to hate. And to the "normies" aka everyone else except "cuckistanis" you look like an idiot, especially since you're getting so worked up over a cartoon frog.
Come to Canada. If you take out $200 from a machine, it'll either give you a couple of $50's and the rest in $20's or a single $100, $50, and the rest in $20's.
If my 86 year old grandmother who had terminal stage 4 cancer could remember it, yours should be able to, too. It works if you use a mouse in a pantry analogy for example Something that a lot of nursing homes have found out that if you relate something to someone who's older, that fits the stuff they grew up with their brain seems to "get it" even if they don't understand it.
Yep. You've got a local problem. And those problems should be taken up with provincial/state governments and local city councils.
Also here's a phone booth I can drive past it tonight when I head home if you really want a "up to date picture"(the one in google is ~3 years old) it's ~15mins out of my way but not a big deal, but it's still there. You could also use street view, head down Dundas St. in the cities of Woodstock and London, Ontario. Down Thames St.(Co. Hwy 119) in Ingersoll, Ontario. They're not all gone.
Sounds like a local problem to me. Every taxi company I've run across, especially in small cities have drivers that are fluent english speakers.
I still see payphones all over the place, hell there's still one a block from where I used to live. Again seems to me you've got a local problem.
You have a presence in social media even if you've never created an account. You know those little 'f' icons you see on websites which link back to Facebook? They're not a link. They're a script which sets a cookie or examines your cookies to uniquely identify your computer. When you visit slashdot, that 'f' icon in the upper right tells Facebook that user #51853601342 has visited slashdot. And they add it to their database with all other sites user #51853601342.
You're assuming that blocking those is difficult, they're not. Ublock origin refuses to accept those cookies right off the bat, you can even go further if you want to use something like ghostery.
Then one day a friend of yours sends you a Facebook invite via email. You happen to click on it to delete it (instead of doing a select-delete) which causes it to load in your browser, and now Facebook knows that user #51853601342 is yourname@gmail.com. They start cross-referencing your name with comments, other friend requests, public documents, etc. And now Facebook knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, who your friends are, what you look like (thanks to photo face ID), where you work, who your co-workers are, and how much you make. All without you having an account.
Which is actually illegal in the country I live in. Facebook was threatened with $10m/day fines a few years ago for doing it, and they don't. The privacy commissioners office has been rather diligent in that. Maybe you need to fix the privacy laws in the country you live?
FYI incognito mode doesn't work as well as you think it does. If you're going that far, you might as well be browsing with TOR.
The last time I trusted these guys, I had to pick between being able to shoot in the dark or use a flashlight to see what was going to kill me.
Look. Just because space marines are too stupid to use duct tape to attach the flashlight to their guns, doesn't mean they're all stupid. Just most of them, which explains the entire hellspawn-take-over-mars and earth thing.