Mississippi Passes "More Dead Kids Please" bill. Texas responds w/ "hold my beer"

[Loren Pechtel]

It appears that you have once again crafted a strawman argument, rather than engaged with the actual arguments I have put forth. Once again, you misrepresent my words.
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What arguments? You're basically just proclaiming the issue not provable with current knowledge but not actually attempting to show this.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

If the Earth isn't round how can I be here? I have left home going west and returned still going west. Twice.

By that map I'm 3x dead. There isn't a plane in the world that could fly the SFO->AKL leg--nor is there even an AKL to get to. There also isn't a plane that can do BOM->HRE. (However, I won't swear there wasn't a stopover on that flight.) I also count 4 flights that would have been radically longer, as well as 7 overland legs that would have been very noticeable. An 8th involved such bad roads that a deviation in distance wouldn't be so obvious.

 

[Oleg]

Why are otherwise rational adults suddenly ignorant of the social pressures of adolescence? We’ve probably all heard the common parental trope: If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?

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[Loren Pechtel]

It's kind of funny insofar as many here (including me) are professionals at software engineering: the art of identifying necessary and unnecessary verbiage, and packaging that verbiage in the most succinct and efficient way.

While I agree that we are skilled in identifying what verbiage is needed I consider our profession to be far more a matter of translator coupled with making bulletproof directions. I will typically choose the clearest way of expressing the concept rather than the most concise, often using extra verbiage to do so. (For example, pulling code into a nested procedure when it's going to be called from exactly one point--I presume the compiler inlines it.)

 

[Loren Pechtel]

This is perhaps a little bit off topic but I'm curious about other people's thoughts and also if they have sources that discuss this:

Is it me, or does it seem that there are many more trans individuals than there were say, 50-100 years ago? Is it mostly a case that society has changed and now it is possible to discuss this?

I am aware that many cultures today and in the past have recognized more genders than two.

I think it's the same as homosexuals showing up more widely once they were more accepted--it's not that they weren't there, but that they were so hidden nobody knew.

 

[Oleg]

This is perhaps a little bit off topic but I'm curious about other people's thoughts and also if they have sources that discuss this:

Is it me, or does it seem that there are many more trans individuals than there were say, 50-100 years ago? Is it mostly a case that society has changed and now it is possible to discuss this?

I am aware that many cultures today and in the past have recognized more genders than two.

I think it's the same as homosexuals showing up more widely once they were more accepted--it's not that they weren't there, but that they were so hidden nobody knew.

How many gays and lesbians detransition, er, go straight?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Teenager. Obvious cutter. How does the gender cult “treat” her - by cutting her more.

Does it ever occur to you that perhaps she was a cutter because of her discomfort with her body?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Why are otherwise rational adults suddenly ignorant of the social pressures of adolescence? We’ve probably all heard the common parental trope: If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?

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That'd be about smoking, drinking, drug use, not changing your gender.

Teen1: Hear about Becky?
Teen2: Heard she turned back into a boy.
Teen1: That is their fourth transition.
Teen2: My gawd, they are so cool!

 

[Oleg]

Teenager. Obvious cutter. How does the gender cult “treat” her - by cutting her more.

Does it ever occur to you that perhaps she was a cutter because of her discomfort with her body?

Instead of recognizing she might need psychological treatment - like all the teenage cutters in the past - we’ll just jump to the least likely cause and perform the most drastic procedure. It’s like treating an anorexic with fasting.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Teenager. Obvious cutter. How does the gender cult “treat” her - by cutting her more.

You always looking up pics of half naked teens online?

 

[Oleg]

That'd be about smoking, drinking, drug use, not changing your gender.

Um, why not?

 

[Oleg]

Teenager. Obvious cutter. How does the gender cult “treat” her - by cutting her more.

You always looking up pics of half naked teens online?

At least now you’re admitting this is happening to adolescents. Can agree this is wrong?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I agree that your habit is disturbing.

 

[Oleg]

I agree that your habit is disturbing.

Either you think it's okay or it's not. There really is no middle ground.

 

[Oleg]

Don't call it a social contagen!

How Teens Recovered From the ‘TikTok Tics’

A wave of teenagers who developed tics during the pandemic has receded, illustrating the powerful influence of stress on the body and the resilience of adolescents.

www.nytimes.com

A wave of teenagers who developed tics during the pandemic has receded, illustrating the powerful influence of stress on the body and the resilience of adolescents.

Eighty-seven percent of the patients were female, a sex skew that was also found in previous outbreaks of mass psychogenic illness.

A surprising percentage of their patients with the TikTok tics identified as transgender or nonbinary. But without hard data in hand, multiple attendees said, the doctors worried about publicly linking transgender identity and mental illness.

Other doctors suspect that a small subset of adolescents with serious mental health issues may be more susceptible to social influences.

No, shit.

 

[ZiprHead]

Teenager. Obvious cutter. How does the gender cult “treat” her - by cutting her more.

Does it ever occur to you that perhaps she was a cutter because of her discomfort with her body?

Instead of recognizing she might need psychological treatment - like all the teenage cutters in the past - we’ll just jump to the least likely cause and perform the most drastic procedure. It’s like treating an anorexic with fasting.

How do you know she didn't have psychological treatment? You seem to gain a lot of information from one photograph. Is it a gift you have?

Or just bullshit?

 

[Oleg]

Teenager. Obvious cutter. How does the gender cult “treat” her - by cutting her more.

Does it ever occur to you that perhaps she was a cutter because of her discomfort with her body?

Instead of recognizing she might need psychological treatment - like all the teenage cutters in the past - we’ll just jump to the least likely cause and perform the most drastic procedure. It’s like treating an anorexic with fasting.

How do you know she didn't have psychological treatment? You seem to gain a lot of information from one photograph. Is it a gift you have?

Or just bullshit?

Did you miss the cutting? Have we thrown out all common sense?

 

[Oleg]

When someone has a mental illness, you don't affirm the illness. You should help them, not hurt them. If a child said they identified as a quadriplegic, do we affirm by severing the spinal cord?

 

[laughing dog]

When someone has a mental illness, you don't affirm the illness. You should help them, not hurt them. If a child said they identified as a quadriplegic, do we affirm by severing the spinal cord?

No, we affirm their feeling with psychological treatment, just like we do for transgender children.

 

[Oleg]

When someone has a mental illness, you don't affirm the illness. You should help them, not hurt them. If a child said they identified as a quadriplegic, do we affirm by severing the spinal cord?

No, we affirm their feeling with psychological treatment, just like we do for transgender children.

You don't tell them that they were born in the wrong body and need to be fixed. That's child abuse.