Honestly not sure if it made a difference. What did for the kid was the requirement to use bits of their digestive tract to mock up a vagina (itself a requirement caused by the early use of puberty blockers); the digestive tract is where most of the really unpleasant interactions between your body and the outside world take place (there's a reason why digestive cancers are such bastards to treat; your digestive system is one of the tougher bits of your body, so anything that can affect it badly enough to kill the cancer tends to be extremely hard on the rest of you)

I'm not seeing a great deal of mercy here, unfortunately:

Despite large doses of intravenous antibiotics and “repeated surgical debridement,” the previously healthy patient went into multiple organ failure and died.

That means that the surgery went badly enough for flesh-eating bacteria to take hold faster than the surgical team could safely scour away the resulting dead tissue.

That was someone's child.

Seems safe to assume that anybody who doesn't exit the market will have agreed to the government's terms.

I'm not sure if it is forgotten.

The alternative is that your lords and masters have decided to grind your faces in the fact that the US now enjoys a two-tier legal system.

I mean, honestly, there's even a registry for this to stop this kind of confusion:

https://lccn.loc.gov/70618134

Is it even possible to play Stellaris if you're not going to enslave or slaughter the other races?

Actually, thinking about it, Alpha Centauri is far better for that kind of thing...

Fires up Civilsation 2 with significant intent

Actual genuine question here, because I've heard different things about this.

Do "normal" Americans "normally" cook their own food?

I've had some people tell me it's all takeaway all the time, which I find difficult to believe, and some people tell me the opposite.

... games journalism has talented writers and editors?

Where have they been hiding all these long years?

There isn't any way a democracy can sign up for this and remain a democracy, as I understand the rules.

I wouldn't be surprised if significant pressure is brought to bear to get this implemented, blamed on Tedros, who's then unceremoniously shunted out the way in favour of the next one, who's just as bad - with the regulations left in place.

I'm fairly sure the intent is to browbeat people in general to the point that woke zealots are permitted to implement their agenda without public oversight.

Aimed at men

A whole series telling men that they should KYS? That's about all media's capable of regarding men these days...

the whole concept of "frontier day" is fucking stupid & contrived just to make an excuse to put all Federation ships in 1 place for a ... parade? absolutely idiotic.

Agreed. Point to note, one of the larger naval reviews in history, that of the Royal Navy in 1897, was notable because the 170 warships present were only half the Navy's available ships. The other half were off doing Royal Navy stuff - Queen Victoria still had an empire to run, after all...

Fine.

The objection is to a policy that operates on any kid that might be trans, ending up with large cohorts of cis kids miserable and isolated.

But this lot don't care if they cannot make cis kids trans - in the end, it's to their benefit if large cohorts of cis children kill themselves at an early age after irreversible surgery, because they're fundamentally playing a zero-sum game, so they're under the impression that fewer cis kids means more resources for trans kids.

They know that's not popular enough to get the required votes.

Rather than taking this as an indication that perhaps they should reconsider, though, these people are fundamentally dishonest and so instead seek to achieve their objectives by deception.

"Rules for thee..."

Because mental health discussions won't let them revoke or neuter the second amendment.

I think all the people who were have long since left.

"There's nothing to see here!"

In addition to the obvious squalor, look at the actual pavement ... that's pavement that's not been clean for a long, long time.

"Siri, what are the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?"

"No, you see, I've defined my revolutionary terrorism as a good thing, so you're the bad person for opposing me!"

I suspect that NY will spend as much money as they have to in order to keep this case - and Trump - tied up until election time.

Expect to see every shitty trick imaginable and every opportunity taken to prolong the process.

My main question is if NY thinks they have a chance of getting Trump killed in an Antifa riot. I'm fairly sure that if that could be arranged with a decent level of deniability quite a few politicians in NY would jump at the chance.