Many trans people use the word "tranny" among themselves, and many experience it as a vicious slur if it comes from a stranger. It's best avoided in general.
People trying to live according to their below-the-neck settings and override their brain settings often try the discipline and fixed roles of a military career.
Zhou et. al. (1997) found brain areas that differ in size between men and women, and which had the typical female size in trans women.
Rational questions remain, but add that to the experiences of trans people who know their mismatched gender all the way down and can't change it, and it's a coherent theory.
Biology being what it is, it's reasonable to think that the health benefits of exercise are a multi-factor phenomenon and that any one chemical will deliver fewer benefits than the real thing.
Then the odds are that the drug won't be bio-equivalent to the chemical signals released by real exercise and will have side effects as a result.
A Democrat and a Republican saw a genuine national security threat and agreed on a way of combating it without macho bullshit. They pushed their solution through even though it involved the unpalatable idea of sending money to a former enemy full of people certain to steal it. As this story shows, it worked.
I know just the place for it, in terms of technical desirability.
Lake Washington, next to Seattle, has two pontoon bridges. The surface is a bad place for them because they're vulnerable to the regions occasional but fierce windstorms. The lakebed is too deep and mucky to be good for construction (which is why they are pontoon bridges).
Wikipedia has an article about National Security Letters discussing precisely that lack of accountability. People have struggled and often failed to get independent legal review.
If (hypothetically -- we have no real data) it was a National Security Letter, it would have come straight from an executive branch agency with no court oversight.
I've seen police checkpoints when I was boarding an Amtrak train already and there was a remarkable case where the TSA searched people *leaving* a train.
The TSA gets to define its own scope. Guess what happens when a bureaucracy can do that.
As I mentioned in another comment here, Ray Kelly himself said outright that the purpose was to make Those People afraid to leave their homes.
Nor is it legal under Terry vs. Ohio, which requires articulable facts to justify a stop. Instead, the NYC police have been using "walking furtively" as an excuse.
If you're interested in crime prevention and care equally about all citizens, you'll have to insist that police should spend more effort protecting blacks. That requires good relations with the community, to get tips about who's running the crack house and whose kid is at a turning point. The police won't get those good relations by stopping people at random and treating them like convicts or airline passengers.
Very few crimes are being caught or prevented. Gun seizures are low. Weed busts have nothing to do with public safety.
NYC police chief Ray Kelly admitted to state senator Eric Adams in 2010 "[Kelly] stated that he targeted and focused on that group because he wanted to instil fear in them that every time that they left their homes they could be targeted by police". It is, in other words, deliberately intended as racist.
Even the most primitive form of leadership starts with setting an example. An example of self-control makes the leadership more functional.
A more advanced form is setting clear expectations and communicating them, for example by having a "no photos" rule. One person I read about enjoyed Marine boot camp because unlike his family, the rules were the same from one day to the next.
Then comes raising new leaders, which is done by mentoring and assigning increasing responsibility. Intimidation creates followers, not leaders.
If this incident is typical then as a leader I consider him a total loss with no insurance.
This is a great example of what can go wrong with prepositions in English:
"The National Rifle Association has launched a website defending the use of lead ammunition against scientists and environmental organizations who argue that lead bullets are poisoning the environment and tainting game meat with a known neurotoxin"
The use of lead ammunition against scientists and environmental organizations is of course indefensible.
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Many trans people use the word "tranny" among themselves, and many experience it as a vicious slur if it comes from a stranger. It's best avoided in general.
Gender dysphoria can start in early childhood.
All our interactions with Manning will be with Manning's brain, not with Manning's chromosomes.
If the brain setting is "female", then "she" makes sense logically.
People trying to live according to their below-the-neck settings and override their brain settings often try the discipline and fixed roles of a military career.
Zhou et. al. (1997) found brain areas that differ in size between men and women, and which had the typical female size in trans women.
Rational questions remain, but add that to the experiences of trans people who know their mismatched gender all the way down and can't change it, and it's a coherent theory.
Suicide rates among gender dysphorics are horrifying.
Someone was the first to try civet cat coffee. How did it occur to him?
Biology being what it is, it's reasonable to think that the health benefits of exercise are a multi-factor phenomenon and that any one chemical will deliver fewer benefits than the real thing.
Then the odds are that the drug won't be bio-equivalent to the chemical signals released by real exercise and will have side effects as a result.
A Democrat and a Republican saw a genuine national security threat and agreed on a way of combating it without macho bullshit. They pushed their solution through even though it involved the unpalatable idea of sending money to a former enemy full of people certain to steal it. As this story shows, it worked.
I know just the place for it, in terms of technical desirability.
Lake Washington, next to Seattle, has two pontoon bridges. The surface is a bad place for them because they're vulnerable to the regions occasional but fierce windstorms. The lakebed is too deep and mucky to be good for construction (which is why they are pontoon bridges).
I don't know how bad currents get in a lake.
There was a project in the 90s in Altoona, PA for a moving sidewalk.
Wikipedia has an article about National Security Letters discussing precisely that lack of accountability. People have struggled and often failed to get independent legal review.
It's horribly unsafe to live in a non-free society. Once the gulags are there, you can get sent away for simply offending the wrong person.
If (hypothetically -- we have no real data) it was a National Security Letter, it would have come straight from an executive branch agency with no court oversight.
At least djb is the one who had a lawsuit about it.
I've seen police checkpoints when I was boarding an Amtrak train already and there was a remarkable case where the TSA searched people *leaving* a train.
The TSA gets to define its own scope. Guess what happens when a bureaucracy can do that.
Project Pluto, a missile that would destroy the territory of the nation launching it.
As I mentioned in another comment here, Ray Kelly himself said outright that the purpose was to make Those People afraid to leave their homes.
Nor is it legal under Terry vs. Ohio, which requires articulable facts to justify a stop. Instead, the NYC police have been using "walking furtively" as an excuse.
If you're interested in crime prevention and care equally about all citizens, you'll have to insist that police should spend more effort protecting blacks. That requires good relations with the community, to get tips about who's running the crack house and whose kid is at a turning point. The police won't get those good relations by stopping people at random and treating them like convicts or airline passengers.
Very few crimes are being caught or prevented. Gun seizures are low. Weed busts have nothing to do with public safety.
NYC police chief Ray Kelly admitted to state senator Eric Adams in 2010 "[Kelly] stated that he targeted and focused on that group because he wanted to instil fear in them that every time that they left their homes they could be targeted by police". It is, in other words, deliberately intended as racist.
Michelson and Morley found that the hypothetical ether had no detectable effects.
In contrast, scientists started by measuring orbital velocities and could only explain them with dark matter.
Even the most primitive form of leadership starts with setting an example. An example of self-control makes the leadership more functional.
A more advanced form is setting clear expectations and communicating them, for example by having a "no photos" rule. One person I read about enjoyed Marine boot camp because unlike his family, the rules were the same from one day to the next.
Then comes raising new leaders, which is done by mentoring and assigning increasing responsibility. Intimidation creates followers, not leaders.
If this incident is typical then as a leader I consider him a total loss with no insurance.
Sometimes Russia is considered European, sometimes Asian.
This is a great example of what can go wrong with prepositions in English:
"The National Rifle Association has launched a website defending the use of lead ammunition against scientists and environmental organizations who argue that lead bullets are poisoning the environment and tainting game meat with a known neurotoxin"
The use of lead ammunition against scientists and environmental organizations is of course indefensible.
The US Navy stopped teaching it a few years ago.