My experience is that getting a landlord to fix things is a nightmare. They say "oh I'll send someone over" and then when there is a no-show you have no idea what happened and its days of back and forth to get somebody out to fix things.

I don't think I have ever once had a positive "hey this is broken let me call the landlord and they'll fix it quickly" experience.

Obama could have done more to pressure RBG to retire into a friendly Senate.

Who doesn’t get free yacht trips from their buddies?

I’m curious what you think will happen with Crow’s gifts if Thomas doesn’t strategically retire this term.

I'm not sure what you mean by happen "with." But, as a random online, my prediction is that nothing will happen. The whole media hubbub came and went, and IIRC Thomas slowed down the gift getting afterwards. I don't see anyone bringing suit or admin action or something.... I guess it's not impossible if and when Democrats gain control in 2028 they'll try something, but probably not, given the time separation and the desire to avoid the appearance of lawfare.

By "with", their meaning is, will the gifts continue if the recipient is no longer a Supreme Court justice?

If Thomas becomes disfavored by rich conservative activists because he refuses to retire when Trump has an opportunity to safely replace him with somebody decades younger, do you think those rich conservative activists will keep spending millions of dollars on him?

The appearance of corruption has always been a valid concern too.

The "bleach" in the bleaching process for foods is not the bleach you buy to clean your bathtub.

This is a misunderstanding.

Because suicide is so rare and the number of people receiving gender affirming care is so low it is nearly impossible to get population sizes to demonstrate a statistically significant reduction in suicide.

We can instead show a statistically significant reduction in depression, anxiety, and suicidal thinking. In every other medical context this is used as a strong shorthand for "reduces suicides." It is completely reasonable here as well.

Well, you said it directly reduces suicides. Now you are saying it doesn't. Which is it?

At some point you need to understand this is why 95% of the population disagrees with your side.

Good luck! I will stop responding here because you seem ill-equipped to form a substantive argument.

The research community is happy to use "reduces suicides" as shorthand for "reduces depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation in statistically significant amounts." It is only in this one context that people insist that this is somehow misleading and therefore actually gender affirming care is evil.

But okay. Imagine that in this circumstance it really is the case that gender affirming care doesn't reduce suicide rates (rather than this just being difficult to collect data about). It merely reduces depression and anxiety and suicidal ideation in people. Oh no. That still sounds good to me.

He's not me, but from our understanding it reduces suicide as he explained.

Also, you pulled the 95% number directly out of your asshole. Most people don't give a shit if someone gets hormones prescribed by a doctor. You care for reasons that are unclear and you have failed to explain. I'm guessing because they're stupid reasons, and you know it, and you don't want to embarrass yourself so you figure you can just not say anything and hope nobody notices.

It is so incredibly rich to be talking about a "substantitive argument" when you haven't even brought AN argument. You just said "uh it don't work" and "durr people don't like this" and then refused to elaborate further.

Yes, you should stop responding because obviously you are far out of your depth and liable to humiliate yourself.

Thanks for proving my point.

State legislators in Iowa are mad that faculty lean left. So they created this institute that expressly hires conservatives and has conservative leaning curricula. But students would rather take a history class from a historian than some reactionary weirdo who thinks that all historians are communists. So the university is mandating students to take courses from this program.

This is the opposite of free intellectualism. It is faculty hired for their political beliefs and curricula created for political ends and mandatory enrollment so students must be exposed to these ideas whether they like it or not.

Itd be better if these domains were banned

That's fine if we aren't destroying existing products to replace them with AI.

People can already use AI mode in google search if they want. "It'll be better later" is a shit reason to kill one product for it.

Exactly. I work at Google and I’m relatively high level. And I’ve got zero input into AI being shoved into every surface. What influence will these grads have?

Did your generation think you would get to have any influence?