Of course it would affect your habits! People would in a better position to be selective about what jobs you take, forcing employers to stop the race to the bottom. People working fewer days would mean more work spread around, so less unemployment. More time to improve your skills if you so choose, or to work on family life so you avoid the costs (financial and emotional) of a divorce later down the road. Less stress.
When this was done in Manitoba, there was an 8.5% decrease in hospital visits. That's a LOT of money. More kids graduated. Less domestic violence and fewer car accidents. Seems to me that the ones who would be most against this are insurance companies and lawyers.
This has been tested to death. Yes, there will be some outliers - some few people who will use the opportunity to expand their horizons. But that is mostly a matter of will. And will tends to actually decline, for the vast majority of people, when there is not urgency. The vast majority of people will no longer have as much reason to get out of bed in the morning, much less work up a sweat.
This would ultimately be one of the problems of life extension for everybody, btw. Most people are already wasting most of the life they have. Reducing urgency will produce more waste. It's an absurd experiment; try conducting it on rats and see what you get before you scale. Or is there more of a meaningful experiment here than it might otherwise seem? One would hope so. Y-combinator must surely be more clever than to re-try the Morlock-Eloi angle.
Too bad that the facts disagree with you. The people who worked less were teenagers (resulting in more kids graduating) and new mothers. Couple that with the money saved by an 8.5% reduction in hospital visits, fewer hospitalizations from car accidents and domestic abuse, fewer work-related injuries, increased adult education, and improved mental health.
It would be insane not to repeat this experiment on a wider scale.
A final report was never issued, but Manitoban economist Evelyn Forget conducted an analysis of the program in 2009 which was published in 2011. She found that only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies, and teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families, which resulted in more teenagers graduating. In addition, those who continued to work were given more opportunities to choose what type of work they did. Forget found that in the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 percent, with fewer incidents of work-related injuries, and fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse. Additionally, the period saw a reduction in rates of psychiatric hospitalization, and in the number of mental illness-related consultations with health professionals.
People dropping down to part-time work will increase demand for other people to fill in the gaps. It's better to have two people working part-time than one full-time and one idle, and the financial cost is the same either way.
With all the productivity gains in the last 45 years, we should be down to a 16-hour work week if the increases were divided equitably between employers and employees. So, since that didn't happen voluntarily, looks like the invisible hand is going to impose it on businesses whether they like it or not:-)
I believe that those who have decided that reparative therapy is somehow harm, are being more abusive than the reparative therapists ever were.
So-called "trans women" have been lied to and mutilated by sadistic quacks who should not be considered "doctors". Proper treatment would be to actually solve the issue, not create more issues. You are the one preventing people with this mental illness from getting proper treatement- because you were denied proper treatment.
Well, snowflake, the courts have decided you are wrong. In at least one state, people offering reparative therapy have been successfully sued for damages under consumer protection laws for false advertising when claiming they could "repair" a person. Many governments are banning the practice because it has been proven harmful, and even deadly. Maybe you should read how reparative therapy is practiced, and you'd see who the real quacks are.
In the case of children, it is now clearly child sexual abuse (after 2 investigations of Kenneth Zucker, his gender clinic that practiced reparative therapy was closed down and he apparently is in hiding, possibly from law suits from survivors and the parents of non-survivors - people are really angry at how they were deceived and mistreated for years - would like to have a "little conversation" with him.
Proper treatment does solve the issue - just not in the way you would want it to. This has been proven with a 98% satisfaction rate in recent decades Even breast augmentation doesn't have anywhere near as much of a satisfaction rating. Too bad, the world doesn't work they way either you or the bible say it does.
Oh, BTW - its no longer classified as a mental disorder as of 2013, 40 years after the APA (1973) stopped classifying same-sex attraction as a mental disorder. However, most people treating transsexuals dropped the "mental disorder" model long ago, based on their observations of their own patients.
Don't worry - the magic words "We're open-sourcing $X" means they're looking to cut staff. This is what most businesses without a clue do, not realizing that in fact they will need to hire more staff to deal with it.
Interesting, could you please elaborate? What does open-sourcing a product have to do with cutting staff? Do you mean they will rely on the formation of a community of volunteers to maintain their product and let their in-house developers go?! That is pretty insane.
No wonder you post anonymously - you must be REALLY new here. Whether it's insane or not is irrelevant - this is management decisions we're talking about, logic is optional.
I was pointing out the fact that you do not need LinkedIn to find a particular person. And given that many professionals aren't on linkedin, you're immediately limiting your chances of success if that's what you use. Why start with one hand tied behind your back, especially when you can get information from a general search that you won't get from a carefully massaged profile on linkedin?
Pointing out a fact shouldn't earn (or tar) someone with the label "SJW." Making up or distorting facts, on the other hand...
To use your example, women are often paid less than men. That's a fact. Saying that this is "because the patriarchy works to oppress women" is both way too simplistic and pushes a story arc that is both divisive and false. Men are not saying "when my daughter grows up, I want her to earn less just because she's a woman." Or "My wife should earn less, even though we could really use the extra money." People would pretty much universally see the unfairness of it.
The wheels have been set in motion - women are graduating and entering professions at higher rates than men, and that's already changing our culture at many levels - it'll get to the top eventually, but, as in the current presidential race, the fact that someone has a vagina is not a reason to vote for her, contrary to what Madeleine Albright says. That's pure identity politics, and is rightfully being called out even by democrats.
SWJ is a term with a relatively short half-life. It's as stupid as "road warrior" for people working on a laptop or tablet while going from place to place, and you don't hear the general population using either term much, if at all. These self-styled "road warriors" use it in a kind of "see how hard I have to work" appeal to martyrdom, but those outside "the anointed" will mostly just roll their eyes.
And yet there are SJW wannabes, such as Briana Wu, who manufactured drama, and yet don't have the guts to acknowledge the real elephant in the room, and in failing to do so and moving on, just drew more attention to it rather than trying to effect any sort of constructive dialog. Carolyn Cossey (Bond girl) didn't run away from it when she was outed. Neither did Lynn Conway. And yet neither of them is labeled an "SJW." Probably because neither acts like a hysterical drama queen (like pretty much all SJWs), but address the issue in a straightforward, sober manner. And there's the difference - the people who are truly working for social justice aren't self-promoting drama queens with Patreon accounts asking for money to help fight the battle for woman's rights because, in Wu's case, after blowing through a couple hundred thousand dollars in angel (mostly parents) money in not one, but 2 businesses as a "game designer", she needs to find another job.
If you believe that you've been following too many writers with ulterior religious prejudices. Reparative therapy (pushed by both religious groups and discredited (mostly gay) psychiatrists who see transsexuals as just "gay men in dresses" who can be "cured") has been banned in many places because it not only doesn't work, but causes a LOT of harm. Get real - it's people standing in the way of medical treatment, and people like you who continue to spread uninformed lies, who are the problem.
the overall mortality rate was only significantly increased for the group operated on before 1989. However, the latter might also be explained by improved health care for transsexual persons during 1990s, along with altered societal attitudes towards persons with different gender expressions.
The mental health quality of life of trans women without surgical intervention was significantly lower compared to the general population, while those transwomen who received FFS, GRS, or both had mental health quality of life scores not significantly different from the general female population.
In any right society, the people who lie to transsexuals and discourage them from seeking treatment would be in jail for willful endangerment. That includes you.
UML is one further abstraction from the code - pseudo-code is far, far better. The problem is that people can't "design" systems just by drawing pictures. If you need to draw pictures, use a flow chart. Simple is always better.
I only have friends on FB that I know in RL... like it should be
Why? That would be like saying I only have friends on slashdot who I know in RL... like it should be. There are plenty of people here I think would make great RL friends.
Religion is a mass delusion. Unfortunately, when arguing with religious people, you have to knock down the basis of their beliefs, such as the existence of any sort of god, the fact that Jesus is not a historical figure, etc. If you don't get that, you're the one who needs to seek help.
Unlike you, I do have muslim friends, and you can be sure they are not terrorists, and they do not believe in the crap you seem to think they believe. But the religious extremists, no matter what brand, are all cut from the same cloth of intolerance and ignorance.
As for the insult in your first two words, just goes to prove my point:-)
No need to ban it - it's already dying out on it's own
Ironically, the rise of the Christian Right over the course of the past three decades may well end up being the catalyst for Christianity’s rapid decline. From the moment Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority helped elect Ronald Reagan in 1980, evangelical Christians, who account for roughly 30 percent of the U.S. population, identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. Michael Spencer, a writer who describes himself as a post-evangelical reform Christian, says, “Evangelicals fell for the trap of believing in a cause more than a faith. Evangelicals will be seen increasingly as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society.”
In light of the recent backlash against Republicans who supported the right-to-discriminate bills across 11 states, Spencer’s words seem prophetic. Republican lawmakers had expected evangelicals to mobilize in the aftermath of Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s veto of SB1062. Instead, legislatures in states like Mississippi, Kansas, and Oklahoma have largely backed down from attempts to protect “religious freedom” after a national outcry branded the proposed bills discriminatory.
Every denomination in the U.S. is losing both affiliation and church attendance. In some ways the country is a half-generation behind the declining rate of Christianity in other western countries like the U.K., Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, France, and the Netherlands. In those countries, what were once churches are now art galleries, cafes and pubs. In Germany more than 50 percent say they do not believe in any god, and this number is declining rapidly. In the U.K., church attendances have halved since the 1970s.
or as the bible would put it - "sowing the seeds of their own destruction"...
A recent study into the beliefs of people living in 137 countries concludes that religious people will be a minority in many developed countries by 2041. Nigel Barber, an Irish bio-psychologist, based his book, Why Atheism Will Replace Religion, on the findings. His book also debunks the popular belief that religious groups will dominate atheistic ones because they collectively have more children. “Noisy as they can be, such groups are tiny minorities of the global population and they will become even more marginalized as global prosperity increases and standards of living improve,” writes Barber.
Research has shown that religion declines not just with rising national wealth but with all plausible measures of the quality of life, including length of life, decline of infectious diseases, education, the rise of the welfare state, and more equal distribution of income. Clearly there is less of a market for religion in societies where ordinary people feel secure in their daily lives. In the most developed countries, such as Japan and Sweden, the quality of life is so good that the majority is already secular.
In my book I asked how long it would take for the average country in the world to reach a similar level of development as countries that already have secular majorities. This transition was measured either as a minority believing in God or a minority seeing religion as important. The average rate of economic development was assessed both in terms of GDP (corrected for local prices, PPP) and the human development index (HDI), which includes health and education as well as GDP. So I calculated four estimates of when the average country in the world is likely to transition to a secular majority, and the average estimate was 2041. The more reliable HDI method predicts an earlier transition than does GDP alone.
Religious people will become the new "red shirts".
Give it time, give it time... in the meantime, some nut is asking for donations to raise $25,000 to translate the bible into emojis... anything for a buck and 15 minutes of what passes for "fame" nowadays.
There's this really neat thing called a "search engine". If they're a professional, they'll be searchable. And if you're using linkdink to find/get friends, you're doing it wrong. It's spelled Facebook.
Science has confirmed it as a condition with biological roots. Of course, you're free to go back to primitive religious beliefs instead and continue to live in denial.
The ones with beards, etc., are not transsexuals, they're what's called "genderfucked". Has zero to do with transsexualism, and more in common with drag queens and other "performance artists."
BTW - everyone has an "adam's apple". The difference between the sexes is the angle at which the two plates join - in females, it's less acute, hence less visible. Go educate yourself.
A mutilated man in a dress is the fact on the ground.
Do you believe in 'Dolphinplasti' as well?
What makes one delusion different from the other? Political influence?
Considering the scientific evidence gathered in the last 20 years of a biological basis for transsexualism, you should try to keep up with the science behind it instead of making what are now silly claims.
Besides, we're everywhere. You may have even unknowingly lusted after, or had sex, with one of us.
And no no political influence wa necessary. Quite the contrary, we were accepted long before LGBT movement gained steam, and for several decades what we now call the gay white mafia has tried to erase the difference between us and them, while repeatedly throwing us under the bus to advance the gay agenda. We never needed them because we had the imprimatur of medical science long before they did. Many of the problems we experienced were reactions to the gay rights movement, which is not the same thing. - and when you point this out, they get all freaked out and say that you're "hurting the community." A community that has continuously mis-labeled us, and can go sit on a bathroom plunger and rotate as far as many of us are concerned.
Really? So, if $god created everything, who created $god? Being a skeptic isn't hate - it's just common sense not to buy into a mass delusion, same as the tulip mania.
Don't worry - the magic words "We're open-sourcing $X" means they're looking to cut staff. This is what most businesses without a clue do, not realizing that in fact they will need to hire more staff to deal with it.
Does their latest app still take all my contacts? If so then LinkedIn can go fuck themselves.
Too late - they've already done a double plus fine job of fscking themselves. Then again, considering how many of the users are just engaging in circle jerks trying to get recommendations...
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Of course it would affect your habits! People would in a better position to be selective about what jobs you take, forcing employers to stop the race to the bottom. People working fewer days would mean more work spread around, so less unemployment. More time to improve your skills if you so choose, or to work on family life so you avoid the costs (financial and emotional) of a divorce later down the road. Less stress.
When this was done in Manitoba, there was an 8.5% decrease in hospital visits. That's a LOT of money. More kids graduated. Less domestic violence and fewer car accidents. Seems to me that the ones who would be most against this are insurance companies and lawyers.
This has been tested to death. Yes, there will be some outliers - some few people who will use the opportunity to expand their horizons. But that is mostly a matter of will. And will tends to actually decline, for the vast majority of people, when there is not urgency. The vast majority of people will no longer have as much reason to get out of bed in the morning, much less work up a sweat.
This would ultimately be one of the problems of life extension for everybody, btw. Most people are already wasting most of the life they have. Reducing urgency will produce more waste. It's an absurd experiment; try conducting it on rats and see what you get before you scale. Or is there more of a meaningful experiment here than it might otherwise seem? One would hope so. Y-combinator must surely be more clever than to re-try the Morlock-Eloi angle.
Too bad that the facts disagree with you. The people who worked less were teenagers (resulting in more kids graduating) and new mothers. Couple that with the money saved by an 8.5% reduction in hospital visits, fewer hospitalizations from car accidents and domestic abuse, fewer work-related injuries, increased adult education, and improved mental health.
It would be insane not to repeat this experiment on a wider scale.
A final report was never issued, but Manitoban economist Evelyn Forget conducted an analysis of the program in 2009 which was published in 2011. She found that only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies, and teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families, which resulted in more teenagers graduating. In addition, those who continued to work were given more opportunities to choose what type of work they did. Forget found that in the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 percent, with fewer incidents of work-related injuries, and fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse. Additionally, the period saw a reduction in rates of psychiatric hospitalization, and in the number of mental illness-related consultations with health professionals.
Imagine that?
People dropping down to part-time work will increase demand for other people to fill in the gaps. It's better to have two people working part-time than one full-time and one idle, and the financial cost is the same either way.
With all the productivity gains in the last 45 years, we should be down to a 16-hour work week if the increases were divided equitably between employers and employees. So, since that didn't happen voluntarily, looks like the invisible hand is going to impose it on businesses whether they like it or not :-)
I believe that those who have decided that reparative therapy is somehow harm, are being more abusive than the reparative therapists ever were.
So-called "trans women" have been lied to and mutilated by sadistic quacks who should not be considered "doctors". Proper treatment would be to actually solve the issue, not create more issues. You are the one preventing people with this mental illness from getting proper treatement- because you were denied proper treatment.
Well, snowflake, the courts have decided you are wrong. In at least one state, people offering reparative therapy have been successfully sued for damages under consumer protection laws for false advertising when claiming they could "repair" a person. Many governments are banning the practice because it has been proven harmful, and even deadly. Maybe you should read how reparative therapy is practiced, and you'd see who the real quacks are.
In the case of children, it is now clearly child sexual abuse (after 2 investigations of Kenneth Zucker, his gender clinic that practiced reparative therapy was closed down and he apparently is in hiding, possibly from law suits from survivors and the parents of non-survivors - people are really angry at how they were deceived and mistreated for years - would like to have a "little conversation" with him.
Proper treatment does solve the issue - just not in the way you would want it to. This has been proven with a 98% satisfaction rate in recent decades Even breast augmentation doesn't have anywhere near as much of a satisfaction rating. Too bad, the world doesn't work they way either you or the bible say it does.
Oh, BTW - its no longer classified as a mental disorder as of 2013, 40 years after the APA (1973) stopped classifying same-sex attraction as a mental disorder. However, most people treating transsexuals dropped the "mental disorder" model long ago, based on their observations of their own patients.
Don't worry - the magic words "We're open-sourcing $X" means they're looking to cut staff. This is what most businesses without a clue do, not realizing that in fact they will need to hire more staff to deal with it.
Interesting, could you please elaborate? What does open-sourcing a product have to do with cutting staff? Do you mean they will rely on the formation of a community of volunteers to maintain their product and let their in-house developers go?! That is pretty insane.
No wonder you post anonymously - you must be REALLY new here. Whether it's insane or not is irrelevant - this is management decisions we're talking about, logic is optional.
Well, you're sure welcome to be the first. I'll even post the video on youtube. :-)
I was pointing out the fact that you do not need LinkedIn to find a particular person. And given that many professionals aren't on linkedin, you're immediately limiting your chances of success if that's what you use. Why start with one hand tied behind your back, especially when you can get information from a general search that you won't get from a carefully massaged profile on linkedin?
Pointing out a fact shouldn't earn (or tar) someone with the label "SJW." Making up or distorting facts, on the other hand ...
To use your example, women are often paid less than men. That's a fact. Saying that this is "because the patriarchy works to oppress women" is both way too simplistic and pushes a story arc that is both divisive and false. Men are not saying "when my daughter grows up, I want her to earn less just because she's a woman." Or "My wife should earn less, even though we could really use the extra money." People would pretty much universally see the unfairness of it.
The wheels have been set in motion - women are graduating and entering professions at higher rates than men, and that's already changing our culture at many levels - it'll get to the top eventually, but, as in the current presidential race, the fact that someone has a vagina is not a reason to vote for her, contrary to what Madeleine Albright says. That's pure identity politics, and is rightfully being called out even by democrats.
SWJ is a term with a relatively short half-life. It's as stupid as "road warrior" for people working on a laptop or tablet while going from place to place, and you don't hear the general population using either term much, if at all. These self-styled "road warriors" use it in a kind of "see how hard I have to work" appeal to martyrdom, but those outside "the anointed" will mostly just roll their eyes.
And yet there are SJW wannabes, such as Briana Wu, who manufactured drama, and yet don't have the guts to acknowledge the real elephant in the room, and in failing to do so and moving on, just drew more attention to it rather than trying to effect any sort of constructive dialog. Carolyn Cossey (Bond girl) didn't run away from it when she was outed. Neither did Lynn Conway. And yet neither of them is labeled an "SJW." Probably because neither acts like a hysterical drama queen (like pretty much all SJWs), but address the issue in a straightforward, sober manner. And there's the difference - the people who are truly working for social justice aren't self-promoting drama queens with Patreon accounts asking for money to help fight the battle for woman's rights because, in Wu's case, after blowing through a couple hundred thousand dollars in angel (mostly parents) money in not one, but 2 businesses as a "game designer", she needs to find another job.
If you believe that you've been following too many writers with ulterior religious prejudices. Reparative therapy (pushed by both religious groups and discredited (mostly gay) psychiatrists who see transsexuals as just "gay men in dresses" who can be "cured") has been banned in many places because it not only doesn't work, but causes a LOT of harm. Get real - it's people standing in the way of medical treatment, and people like you who continue to spread uninformed lies, who are the problem.
the overall mortality rate was only significantly increased for the group operated on before 1989. However, the latter might also be explained by improved health care for transsexual persons during 1990s, along with altered societal attitudes towards persons with different gender expressions.
The mental health quality of life of trans women without surgical intervention was significantly lower compared to the general population, while those transwomen who received FFS, GRS, or both had mental health quality of life scores not significantly different from the general female population.
In any right society, the people who lie to transsexuals and discourage them from seeking treatment would be in jail for willful endangerment. That includes you.
UML is one further abstraction from the code - pseudo-code is far, far better. The problem is that people can't "design" systems just by drawing pictures. If you need to draw pictures, use a flow chart. Simple is always better.
I only have friends on FB that I know in RL ... like it should be
Why? That would be like saying I only have friends on slashdot who I know in RL ... like it should be. There are plenty of people here I think would make great RL friends.
Religion is a mass delusion. Unfortunately, when arguing with religious people, you have to knock down the basis of their beliefs, such as the existence of any sort of god, the fact that Jesus is not a historical figure, etc. If you don't get that, you're the one who needs to seek help.
Unlike you, I do have muslim friends, and you can be sure they are not terrorists, and they do not believe in the crap you seem to think they believe. But the religious extremists, no matter what brand, are all cut from the same cloth of intolerance and ignorance.
As for the insult in your first two words, just goes to prove my point :-)
Ironically, the rise of the Christian Right over the course of the past three decades may well end up being the catalyst for Christianity’s rapid decline. From the moment Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority helped elect Ronald Reagan in 1980, evangelical Christians, who account for roughly 30 percent of the U.S. population, identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. Michael Spencer, a writer who describes himself as a post-evangelical reform Christian, says, “Evangelicals fell for the trap of believing in a cause more than a faith. Evangelicals will be seen increasingly as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society.”
In light of the recent backlash against Republicans who supported the right-to-discriminate bills across 11 states, Spencer’s words seem prophetic. Republican lawmakers had expected evangelicals to mobilize in the aftermath of Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s veto of SB1062. Instead, legislatures in states like Mississippi, Kansas, and Oklahoma have largely backed down from attempts to protect “religious freedom” after a national outcry branded the proposed bills discriminatory.
Every denomination in the U.S. is losing both affiliation and church attendance. In some ways the country is a half-generation behind the declining rate of Christianity in other western countries like the U.K., Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, France, and the Netherlands. In those countries, what were once churches are now art galleries, cafes and pubs. In Germany more than 50 percent say they do not believe in any god, and this number is declining rapidly. In the U.K., church attendances have halved since the 1970s.
or as the bible would put it - "sowing the seeds of their own destruction" ...
A recent study into the beliefs of people living in 137 countries concludes that religious people will be a minority in many developed countries by 2041. Nigel Barber, an Irish bio-psychologist, based his book, Why Atheism Will Replace Religion, on the findings. His book also debunks the popular belief that religious groups will dominate atheistic ones because they collectively have more children. “Noisy as they can be, such groups are tiny minorities of the global population and they will become even more marginalized as global prosperity increases and standards of living improve,” writes Barber.
and
Research has shown that religion declines not just with rising national wealth but with all plausible measures of the quality of life, including length of life, decline of infectious diseases, education, the rise of the welfare state, and more equal distribution of income. Clearly there is less of a market for religion in societies where ordinary people feel secure in their daily lives. In the most developed countries, such as Japan and Sweden, the quality of life is so good that the majority is already secular.
In my book I asked how long it would take for the average country in the world to reach a similar level of development as countries that already have secular majorities. This transition was measured either as a minority believing in God or a minority seeing religion as important. The average rate of economic development was assessed both in terms of GDP (corrected for local prices, PPP) and the human development index (HDI), which includes health and education as well as GDP. So I calculated four estimates of when the average country in the world is likely to transition to a secular majority, and the average estimate was 2041. The more reliable HDI method predicts an earlier transition than does GDP alone.
Religious people will become the new "red shirts".
Give it time, give it time ... in the meantime, some nut is asking for donations to raise $25,000 to translate the bible into emojis ... anything for a buck and 15 minutes of what passes for "fame" nowadays.
How about that "no more baby parts" Christian extremist who is proud that he killed 3 people and shot 9 others? And all the other christian nutters ...
There's this really neat thing called a "search engine". If they're a professional, they'll be searchable. And if you're using linkdink to find/get friends, you're doing it wrong. It's spelled Facebook.
Science has confirmed it as a condition with biological roots. Of course, you're free to go back to primitive religious beliefs instead and continue to live in denial.
The ones with beards, etc., are not transsexuals, they're what's called "genderfucked". Has zero to do with transsexualism, and more in common with drag queens and other "performance artists."
BTW - everyone has an "adam's apple". The difference between the sexes is the angle at which the two plates join - in females, it's less acute, hence less visible. Go educate yourself.
A mutilated man in a dress is the fact on the ground.
Do you believe in 'Dolphinplasti' as well?
What makes one delusion different from the other? Political influence?
Considering the scientific evidence gathered in the last 20 years of a biological basis for transsexualism, you should try to keep up with the science behind it instead of making what are now silly claims.
Besides, we're everywhere. You may have even unknowingly lusted after, or had sex, with one of us.
And no no political influence wa necessary. Quite the contrary, we were accepted long before LGBT movement gained steam, and for several decades what we now call the gay white mafia has tried to erase the difference between us and them, while repeatedly throwing us under the bus to advance the gay agenda. We never needed them because we had the imprimatur of medical science long before they did. Many of the problems we experienced were reactions to the gay rights movement, which is not the same thing. - and when you point this out, they get all freaked out and say that you're "hurting the community." A community that has continuously mis-labeled us, and can go sit on a bathroom plunger and rotate as far as many of us are concerned.
What does that have to do with "this whole 'rechargeable storage thing is NOT new?"
Really? So, if $god created everything, who created $god? Being a skeptic isn't hate - it's just common sense not to buy into a mass delusion, same as the tulip mania.
Don't worry - the magic words "We're open-sourcing $X" means they're looking to cut staff. This is what most businesses without a clue do, not realizing that in fact they will need to hire more staff to deal with it.
Does their latest app still take all my contacts? If so then LinkedIn can go fuck themselves.
Too late - they've already done a double plus fine job of fscking themselves. Then again, considering how many of the users are just engaging in circle jerks trying to get recommendations ...