The headline is misleading. A vacant secondary property that is maintained but boarded up is not the same as a family's primary residence, which "family home" implies. No one has become unhoused due to the demolition.
Doesn't change anything about how messed up it is to demolish the wrong property, though.
Phobia-friendly settings/modes. There are so many games that I can't play or have to find a mod for because the fantasy genre is obsessed with giant spiders. The only way I could ever play Skyrim was with the Arachnophobia mod that replaced all spiders with bears. I haven't played Grounded, but I know it has an arachnophobia setting that can simplify/cartoonify the spiders or replaces them with floating orbs. I'd love to see these types of settings in more games, and ideally similar settings available for other common phobias/triggers besides spiders and blood.
Finished up a refreshingly boring week at work and this Sunday I will be traveling to Manhattan for employee training! I visited Manhattan last month and did all the classic NYC tourist stuff but I feel I missed out on the food side of NYC; the recommendations I got at the time were subpar. If anyone has tips for worthwhile food spots to check out nearish to Moynihan/Penn Station, lemme know!
Apparently your comment really got to them, because the blogpost now contains a direct quote of you and a response.
This is purely my own speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is partly to do with the reasons that cis people get the same operations. If a cis teen gets breast cancer (which is rare but does happen), there needs to be a legal and medical process to authorize a mastectomy as soon as possible, since waiting will allow the cancer to spread. A cis teen with a genital injury won't be physically harmed by waiting until adulthood to get reconstructive cosmetic surgery. Whatever authorization process that exists for these purposes is probably the baseline that processes for transition surgeries are built on.
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The whole transphobic claim of being seen as our AGAB by future archeologists is especially ridiculous considering that modern ones are already saying things like this:
While the skeleton’s biological sex is not in dispute, Gowland cautioned that nothing is known about the Ivory Lady’s gender identity, and scholars shouldn’t impose modern gender norms onto past populations.
As an American, there isn't any official paperwork I've ever seen in the US that requests, let alone requires, my skin tone or race, with the sole exception of the US census and the occasional optional and anonymous EEOC questionnaire that some job applications have, neither of which record anything to do with skin color or appearance.
I feel like this is an article that tells me more about the author's mind than it does about the thesis topic.
The introductory concept—that people who travel treat it as a virtue—rings false immediately to me. Everyone I know, myself included, treats leisure travel as a luxury to be enjoyed, not a virtuous activity to be lorded over others. Most people I know do roughly the same thing in travel destinations as they do at home, whether that's museums, hiking, golfing, or sight-seeing.
Ultimately, the whole argument seems to be that "travel doesn't improve you as a person the way you think it does" which is not an argument against traveling so much as an argument against inaccurate self-perception.
Yes, I'm Christian. I am also queer and staunchly opposed to American bible fascism. An unfortunate number of people seem to believe that these traits can't coexist in one person without hypocrisy or denial.
Myself, I enjoy how my religious beliefs and my queer identity support and bolster one another. 😁
My parents are in their 50s and do not view video games as an unusual hobby. My father regularly plays games with his friends (aged 30s to 50s) on Friday nights and the weekend.
The only person I've met who viewed video games like what you describe was a mid-60s gentleman who struggled to believe that I played video games regularly and had a good GPA in college. His hobbies were golf and walking, though, so he wasn't about to call anyone else's hobby "boring."
There is no age or demographic for whom video games are an unacceptable pastime. There are merely individuals who have their own weird hangups regarding the hobbies of others.
Edit: wanted to add that I love to hear of parents gaming together with their kids! Some of my favorite childhood memories are playing games with my family and we still sometimes get together to play a co-op game.
I celebrated Juneteenth with a friend by going to the city, visiting a cool history exhibit, getting sandwiches and boba, and walking 11k steps!
Also played in a DnD session and GMed for another one, which was fun.
Following that concept, a platform called Ripple where individual posts are called Pebbles and responses/reshares are called Waves wouldn't be half-bad, branding-wise.