Area denial weapons. The name comes from the Old English “calcatrippe”, meaning “heel-trap”, which itself came from the French “chause-trape”, or “shoe-trap”.
Their design ensures that they will always land with one spike pointing up, so they can be scattered in the path of advancing enemies to slow them down or injure their feet.
On the contrary, if the only reason you voted for Harris was to vote against Trump then it sounds like you agree with me.
If, on the other hand, there was something about Harris’ campaign that actually spoke to you, then I’d love to hear it.
Run out of points to make and repeating yourselves already? XD
Prove me wrong, vote for her again. See how well that does in 2028. XD
Trump being an evil peice of shit was never going to make Harris a worthwhile candidate.
Edit: Y’all can downvote me all you want, it’s the truth. Trump won because Harris made people not want to even bother voting.
More like November 2000
From what I’ve seen of the local scene, mostly at clubs and house parties an hour away in Denver. XD
I’m running.
Got my passport, now I just have to figure out where I’m running to.
I don’t think the Democrats or the Republicans would like that. XD
And I reject the notion that anything is settled
This, this right here.
if that were the case we should just stop all research about everything.
Immediately going absurdist maximalism about it, very “I’m just making statements” sort of statement.
What ridiculous anti scientific notion is that?Nothing is settled because science is ever evolving, especially so when social sciences are involved, because they are inherently inaccurate.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t do research, I’m saying that our research should be oriented towards improving the quality of life, not “figuring out why queer people are that way”.
The three questions I want answered are: what is to be done about the primary stressors that degrade trans people’s lives (I.E., transphobia), what causes hormone therapy to be such an effective treatment for gender dysphoria, and can we map the phase-space of endocrine system responses to better assist those (cis or trans) who have a need for hormone therapy?
The available science at any moment is based on the lines of inquiry that are being investigated and very few people have investigated in the line I suggest because:
- conservatives are happy just erasing you entirely
- it is politically nuclear for liberals to fund this
Identifying something is the first step in exterminating it, lets’ maybe not go looking for the trans equivalent of the gay gene that conspiratorial conservatives still believe to be real and instead go looking for ways to help people not be assholes to us.
The other point I made in my first comment is that we live in a democracy and we know that if there’s one thing that most people are still not on board with is accommodation of transgender people beyond what is already afforded by current civil rights, which is what transgender activists ask for.
Hence the slogan “Trans rights are human rights”. We don’t need “accomodation”, we just need the same right to bodily autonomy that’s afforded to everyone else. Opposition to trans rights is just the tip of the same spear currently stabbing at women’s rights, gay folks’ rights, and minority rights in general.
Whether or not other people are “on board” with the individual right to self-determination is entirely irrelevant. Either trans kids can get the medicine they and their doctors agree is best, or our government has pulled a China and taken the right to make your own medical decisions away from you. There is no middle ground.
Sorry to say but in this matter you are at the mercy of the masses, so you’ll need to convince them and I think that finding the root cause of transgender identity is key to that.
Just like how finding the gay gene was going to bring equality to gays, right?
No, I’m afraid I can’t take you seriously. You’re “just asking questions” and about issues that were settled over 40 years ago and pretending at reasonable dissent based on nothing more substantial than 90’s talk radio talking points.
Again, please read an actual research paper from a reputable medical or psychological association. Take your time with it and google all the $5 science words that aren’t familiar to you. You’ll learn a lot more that way.
You can’t refer to the fact that science progresses over time as an excuse to ignore the current state of the art, that’s asinine.
I’m nonbinary. Actual research studies on the efficacy of hormone therapy for nonbinary people only started getting published like 8 years ago, ~20 years too late for me to get on puberty blockers.
I had to wait decades for the medicine that saved me from dysphoria and depression, you don’t get to wield your ignorance on the topic as an argument against other people getting the care their doctors recommend.
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Please, please go read what the actual M.D.s and psychologists who study this topic for a living have to say on the subject.
Not a news article or a blog post, I want you to go to any reputable medical association, find their official policy, and read the research papers listed in the references.
Let people be horny, it’s the only thing keeping the corpo shitheads out of this place.
Spite can be a powerful motivator.
Okay, hear me out…
Mandatory ear-tags (under a government that somehow isn’t a fascist nightmare) would actually be super-helpful because my auditory processing is for shit and spoken names simply fall right out of my head. Also for kink reasons. XD
Nah, but seriously. It feels like it’s only a matter of days 'til we hear about a Puerto Rican who got extraordinarily renditioned to El Salvador.
It was a police riot, pretty common since George Floyd.
Because the real assassin didn’t want the attention, and real heroes tend to have mysteriously short lifespans.
Letting a fall guy enjoy the fame and either prison time or exoneration gives our real hero a lot of headstart on disappearing and becoming someone else.