My understanding from the reporting I’ve seen about that is that was being prompted by payment processors like Visa and MasterCard threatening to stop processing payments to them if they didn’t remove sexual content. A little less stupid than Tumblr not understanding how much smut is on their site and trying to court advertisers.

It’s even better to me because the guy is giving Matt Walsh and implied in the main thing he cares about being XX chromosomes is the fact that he’s a gigantic creep when it comes to age. See his rant about teenage girls being at their most fertile.

I’m right there with ya kid. This adulting shit is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Overstepping? Maybe. It’s at the very least… Less-bien here

Biggest reason I was never interested in tobacco or weed. My asthma was pretty bad when I was younger and smoke was one of the big ones for triggering an attack.

He/They… Because I’ll never be Him.

Just-killed Da-pope Vance what?

Cool, cuz I didn’t know if you could really call it courage when you effectively black out for the whole thing but like… Not in a bad way. Kinda worried my partner the first time we were together like that cuz she thought I was straight up dissociating or something.

Look at you missing the point entirely again or being intentionally fucking obtuse.

They might have an induction stove. The community housing project that owns the apartment I rent recently joined this pilot program to switch appliances from gas to electric to see how much it helped air quality and energy use in the home. It used to take me like 3 minutes to boil 2 cups of water on the stove, now that they replaced it with an induction stove it’s like 30 seconds. It’s amazing.

Is it still courage if the reason you’re a bottom is because your brain turns to mush and you melt into a puddle of goo when your partner does stuff? Asking for a friend >. >

Yes, the comic assumes people struggle with the order of operations. It does not however assume that of the reader. It is intended to make the reader assume that the character struggles with it and it’s enthusiastically wrong rather than that they’re using the ! operator.

At worst the comic is trying to be engagement bait and trick those people into commenting some variation of “Wrong, the correct answer is 24. You always do the division first,” to which someone can reveal to them that they were bamboozled because “4!” is in fact 24.

Edit: and if they catch that it’s like “Haha, you almost tricked me with that sneaky factorial. Well played.” That’s where the humor comes from. Whether or not it manages to trick you into thinking that they did it wrong.

What are you even talking about? In what world is the assumption supposed to be that the actual answer is 4 and that 24 is some kind of secret hidden answer?

The assumption being made by the comic is that the reader knows the order of operations and will think that the person answering 4! is the one that did it wrong and mistakes the ! operator for them being enthusiastically wrong.

The answer in the comic is correct. It’s just written in a way to make you as the reader think he’s got it wrong for a second.

The ! operator in mathematics indicates a function called a factorial. Four factorial, or 4! = 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 24. Which is the correct answer if you follow the proper order of operations.

No no, they’re saying “4!” literally is the answer. The joke is that you say 4!, the other person who presumably knows the order of operations assumes you got it wrong and did 25 - 5 = 20 ÷ 5 = 4 when really you do division first so the real answer is 24. The punchline is that “4!” is how you write 4 factorial or 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 which is 24.

I didn’t even notice that when I was writing it I was so mad, lol.

I’m so mad at how feckless these people are. I can empathize with Rep. McBride not wanting her entire existence as a lawmaker to be spent on trans rights. It’s exhausting having to constantly justify your existence as a trans person and I imagine doubly so as a lawmaker. But the fact of the matter is that we don’t have that option. But the Democrats see the right swaying public opinion with lies and are saying “Welp, guess trans people aren’t popular anymore. Time to drop trans people.”

“Got too far ahead of public opinion” my ass. The right was allowed to lie pervasively about trans people for years with barely any pushback. They were allowed to drag public opinion away from us. What little pushback there was often capitulated to right-wing framing on the subject.

To be fair, that’s a very hard connection to break because it is just everywhere and still gets repeated as gospel. But it does make a lot of sense when you think about it. There are many more opportunities to identify an internal feeling like one’s gender identity than there are for something external like who they may be attracted to.

I myself knew that being a boy felt wrong as early as 10. I’d had some run-ins with that feeling before then because of the way my father treated me. Things like getting berated for being too emotional, and him getting rid of a baby doll that I carried around and took care of when my Mom was doing things for my baby brother that I couldn’t help with. With the stated reason that he didn’t want me to grow up to be some kind of queer (though the word he used was much worse). But 10 is where I first remember recognizing the feeling of my body being wrong.

Of course I didn’t have the words for it at the time so I didn’t know what I was experiencing was dysphoria. Nor did i know that nonbinary was even a thing you could be. I understood that trans women existed, but no matter how hard I thought about it over the next few years I didn’t feel like a girl either. It took until I was 26 before I finally realized with the benefit of hindsight that I’m nonbinary. So I’d already been forced into a male puberty which hit me like a train. I’m 6’2" (~188cm) and built like a balding fridge in a fursuit. I’m almost 35 now and because of other medical issues I haven’t been able to transition so it is very hard to not feel like it’s too late for me even though I know it’s not. Especially in the current political climate.

The big things to remember with this discourse is that one, the regret rates for going through transition are exceedingly low. Like so low it’s virtually unheard of for almost any other medical intervention. This heavily implies that not only is the current standard of care very good at weeding out people for whom transition is not the correct treatment, but that it might even be too good and there’s a significant cohort of people for whom transition would be the best treatment but they get filtered out because they don’t present as being trans enough. Furthermore when you dig deeper into those regret and detransition rates you find that most of the time the reason for detransition was external. Meaning things like can’t afford the medication, discrimination, getting kicked out of housing, etc.

The second big thing was already mentioned and it’s that there isn’t a neutral option. Imagine telling a 13 year old girl “how do you know you’re not a boy unless you go on testosterone for a few years?” Just because we’re talking about the puberty that they’d naturally go through without intervention doesn’t mean that it’s good.

But realistically the most any kid younger than ~16 is gonna get when they show up to the gender clinic saying they’re trans is therapy, social transition so things like trying out a new name, pronouns, and/or clothes, and at most puberty blockers. Puberty blockers by the way have been proven safe for trans kids since the 90s. Then if they still want to transition they might start HRT after months if not years of this therapy.

Livestreaming the encounter could also potentially work. But yeah, ideally you probably want as many different camera angles and recordings as you can.