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Down here in Australia we constantly have people walking around with thongs (flip flops) or barefoot and in swimwear, so bikini top for women and bare for men. Honestly I don't see a problem with it, I walk around with very minimal shoes now and I used to walk around barefoot most of the time when I was a kid. If you aren't walking on a road with tonnes of broken glass and no footpaths then you are fine. As for people who complain about women having their chest exposed honestly, learn to not stare. It isn't the job of women to cover up so you don't have to put in effort.

Our beach culture is great because it is so laid back. If I had a business near the beach I would assume my customers would be barefoot and topless and make appropriate accommodations including somewhere to clean their feet off and taking care to keep the floor from being sticky. When I lived in the UK I found the constant demand to wear shoes stifling and awful and the USA felt really judgemental and gross.

Just to reply in a real and not snarky way, the BBC has a strong anti-trans bias as well. The question is about factuality and reliability. Fox News will run anything that fits their ideology and in the case of trans issues demonizes trans people and trans affirming care.

To be clear, this doctor is making a vague claim of there being "young children" getting "irreversible" medical interventions. I mean technically getting a vaccine is irreversible, getting antibiotics cannot be taken back, and setting a broken bone can never be undone. Irreversible is meaningless in this context. What he is claiming is that there is some sort of harm. This is not true.

Surgery is not done on young kids in general. The rare cases are not really worth considering and do not represent trans care in general. The exception does not prove the rule and honestly I have not seen any evidence of children getting trans surgeries.

What is common is the use of puberty blockers. These are medications used safely for preventing precocious puberty and they delay the onset of puberty. This allows time for the child to work through their gender issues and be able to make an informed decision before starting hormonal transition to trigger the correct puberty for their gender. Putting off puberty has small enough consequences to be reasonable and for trans kids it can be really important for reducing risk of harm.

Fox News is dishonest, this doctor is dishonest and violating their Hippocratic Oath, and this discussion is a bullshit anyway. This constant ranting and raving about half a percent of people is just crazy. Nobody needs to talk about this without a qualification or loved experience. If you don't know what you are talking about then it is a good idea to say nothing.

Nice, I always run a quick live image to test the hardware with a new machine. If it doesn't work with something using Linux I will try something else possibly including windows 7 just to check that sound works for example. Knowing it if is hardware or software saves days of agonising troubleshooting.

I just found out a out this a couple of days ago and it is amazing. The games look so good and are way more playable on my laptop with a native port than with an emulator. Trying to get the emulator to render was insanely hard with tonnes of characters having random black eyes or just not rendering their textures at all. The native port is beautiful and has so many improvements. Such a cool project.

Pictish.

It is a lost language from the British Isles and from one of the coolest populations in the area. They would paint patterns on their skin in blue then charge into battle naked. I reckon their insults and swearing would be absolutely raucous.

First and foremost, you sound like you really need meds. The way the your medication was managed to when you were younge was likely due to it being too high a dose. It also may have been the wrong medication for you. If you tried ritalin and it didn't work out very well for you I would recommend trying dex amphetamine, and vice versa. They work differently and have different side effects, and some people are very well suited to one while finding no function from the other.

The side effect you're describing of a loss of appetite is usually attributable to the amphetamine effect of too much stimulant. Remember that amphetamines were prescribed as a weight loss drug early in their development, so that side effect is to be expected.

To manage food while on amphetamines you often have to have either deliberate planned structured meals or you have to have meals at the right time to be able to make up for the skipped meals. This might mean having a meal before you have your dose then having your dose, skipping food through the day, and then after the last of the dose wears off having another meal. I personally only eat once or twice a day, and always in the evening after my meds have run out. There is nothing wrong with doing that as long as you get sufficient food.

As for the job I would recommend thinking about what you actually do thrive doing. I sucked at working in an office but I work in disability care now and have wildly different clients with very different needs, so every day is a new and stimulating challenge. Doing the same thing, especially something like paperwork, every day with minimal variation would not work for me at all. Maybe you are trying to do jobs you aren't suited to?

Also, if you do decide you need to escalate past this asking them to explain the joke can work really well. It works wonders for bigotry and other issues too, if they say "it's just a joke" say "I don't understand, can you please explain the joke?" This makes them articulate their explanation for why they find it funny and chances are they will sound like a complete dingus in front of you and others, heavily disincentivising this behaviour.

Freecell is good, same with Fourty Thieves and Spider Solitaire.

Yeah. The titanium is awesome. I have screws and they bonded very well with the bone, absolutely no issues. Apparently the titanium expands and contracts less with temperature changes which is good for preventing aching in weather changes.

To be clear, the current system has a similar bias against non-white people. The rate of conviction is higher for non-white people, the sentences are harsher, and defence is less likely to be adequate. This is an attempt to balance things out a tiny bit and to hopefully not completely ruin the whole life of a person due to a series of bad choices. She should have known better, she has no justification for this behaviour, and what she did was wrong.

She will serve a 3 year sentence rather than a 4 year sentence. That is still 75% of the time and still has all the other associated harms such as being denied freedom, difficulty reintegrating with society, and loss of social bonds and status. She is not getting off without punishment, she is not getting off with a slap on the wrist, she is being imprisoned and will be marked as an abuser.

If the argument was "No abuser should get off with so little time in prison" or "Prison time is I effective at preventing SA" then we could have a conversation, but in this case it is all about the fact that a factor like cultural and social background resulted in a reduction in sentence when it normally results in a higher likelihood of sentencing and long prison time.

Lindsey Vonn

She is a competitive skier and had a had injury recently and the doctor is sharing x-rays of the injury. Recovery from this type of injury is very hard because of how separated the bones are. It is hard to get them to actually knit together so you often need to use wire or screws to connect the bones and it often is only partially successful, requiring second or more surgeries to set things in place again. I had a much more minor injury which required two surgeries because the muscles in my hand were not held correctly due to the compromised bone and dislocated another bone.

My current streak for spider solitaire is 2416. I like spider solitaire and assume you probably like chess. Better than doom scrolling I think.