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The Sopranos 3.07 "Second Opinion"

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my job after the revolution will be hedge fund guy that's been truman show'd along with other finance people to do price discovery that the actual government can then use to set prices

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Me and mom learned new English word.

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becoming a reverse-gnostic where i believe in a transcendant world of muck and protons and shit. but we are fallen creatures trapped by the demiurge in the flawed world of ideas and concepts, cursed to only touch falsehoods like "sphere" or "apple" instead of the divine truth "a bunch of stuff in a big lump"

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The state of gay rights in the early aughts was not good; criminal penalties for homosexuality were rarely enforced but were on the books in many places, there was no right to marriage, and the morality of homosexuality was hotly contested in public. Big culture war issue. In that environment, where substantive protections were lacking, Democrats could be tepid on gay rights without actively giving anything up—if, like Obama in 2008, you didn’t support gay marriage, you could still be seen (correctly) as advocating for an overall better situation for gay people, or at least one that was no worse, in contrast to your right wing opponents.

Trans rights are not in the same position. Before the big trans rights backlash started, access to gender affirming care was pretty widespread, was everywhere legal, and was a matter for private concern only. Trans people could play in school sports subject to whatever their league’s rules were, and the idea of trying to make it illegal to cross dress in public was absurd. The conservative position since has become one of an explicit rollback of rights: revoke access to gender affirming care, create new criminal sanctions to punish trans people, make it illegal for them to participate in school sports, etc.

In that environment, tacking to the right on trans issues means deciding which elements of trans rights you are willing to concede to this project of actually rolling back trans rights. The only thing comparable from the gay rights fight is maybe state constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage, or DOMA—all of which were, IIRC, passed despite gay marriage not being legal in affected jurisdictions. Their enactment, while deplorable, had no material negative affect; gay people already couldn’t get married.

And that this project of rolling back trans rights is not a particular fetish of the religious right is more worrying. Plenty of liberals and liberal institutions are pretty transphobic. Britain has been working to export its flavor of (Moderate, Sensible, Secular) transphobia to other countries in Europe and the Anglosphere. Transphobes winning these fights isn’t a status quo situation—it’s a sharp increase in repression of trans people.

In light of that, I regard calls to “moderate” on trans issues with at best scorn. I think the party of civil rights condoning the rollback of citizens’ civil rights is really bad for its brand, won’t win it more votes, and may sufficiently alienate members of the base—who are invested in the party specifically because of its historic support for civil rights—that they simply don’t bother to show up in elections.

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A: You typically don't want to log in as root; a user logged in as root can do anything, so—

B: Oh yeah? Could you create a rock so large that you couldn't lift it?

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the prisoner episode 1: arrival

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Hearty lol at this

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That only works if there are roughly as many betters on one side of a bet as the other. If the crowd has a lot of well-informed gamblers, the book will be imbalanced and the house will lose. It's the same risk market-makers face, basically, if there are as many buyers as sellers you can sit in the middle and profit from the spread, but if there are more sellers than buyers then you're just catching knives all the way down.

I'm sorry this is just so funny to me

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I like the part in uzumaki where it's chill for a moment and she's sitting on the beach w her fucked up boyfriend and they literally look like this

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I have no particular stance on whether estrogen would have saved Shinji, but I'm looking at it from the family dynamic angle, and... well, Jesus Christ. On a good day, Shinji already looks like a teenage soft butch version of Yui Ikari – can you imagine how Gendo would react to his "son" slowly morphing into his dead wife?

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Come and See Him

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