holding people in power accountable (musk visit D.C. musk flies to china. whatever).
tracking & pointing out grossly polluting means of travel.
market making information (musk spends more time visiting ___ faltering plant or ignoring ___. Musk makes trips to __ location, acquisition in the works)?
elon is a public figure and his movements/actions create legitimate news. same as any other celebrity or politician.
gawker did this first and that was actually stalking precise irl real time locations of celebs.
Most people only ever learn high school level biology, where that "fact" is taught. That's not bad, it's just an incomplete picture.
Few people take the time to study further because there's no need for them to do so. Just like I haven't studied veterinary medicine - it's just something I never needed to understand beyond a common sense level.
The problem arises when people who have been working with simplified models make assertions using those models.
> Or that such "assignments" can be made without ending with suicide.
Well for one, it'd cause dysphoria, not necessarily suicide. Some people feel bad their whole lives without killing themselves.
But the main point is, that's why doctors shouldn't do these assignments. Why on earth should the decision of what sex characteristics to have be up to anyone but yourself.
> But the main point is, that's why doctors shouldn't do these assignments
Do they ACTUALLY do them, though? I've read about some freakish case when a child was mutilated during circumcision, and the doctor had advised to bring up the child as a girl, but I am having a hard time believing that this is a common practice, that just doesn't pass my sanity check.
> Why on earth should the decision of what sex characteristics to have be up to anyone but yourself.
It's not like anyone actually "decides" these things, but rather has to live with what nature gave you. One can surely try to cosmetically "fix" this and strive for social acceptance, but this won't change medical facts. And theoretically it shouldn't, if we actually distinct between biological sex and gender.
It seems to me that most of all the confusion and the fixation on genitalia comes from people not actually truly believing gender to be an actual social construct.
Otherwise, HRT would be sufficient in 99.9% times and SRS wouldn't even be a thing.
>There are lots of kids born with ambiguous & differing genitals where parents & doctors make an assignment for that kid outside the womb.
I don’t think most people would argue against medically intersex people identifying outside of traditional norms, which I would imagine is a small subset of people identifying as trans.
I have something like 600 stuck in blockfi (original 1k - market value since then).
I had almost totally forgot about it until someone posted something on reddit, and they sent an email, and now I can't get the money out. I believe it's 50% 'stablecoin' 50% btc.
I do not follow crypto and think the proselytizers are a bit crazy.
In my mind I wanted a small amount of crypto exposure.
But post this stupidness, 5-6% or whatever interest does not correlate with what the actual risk seemed to be in my mind.
well rated corporate bonds are approaching that now. I was just googling examples I think big name corporates are sitting like 5.3%
so in my mind 5-6% was not a big bright ponzi warning sign, especially since they stopped taking new deposits to 'go legit.'
Like afaik there are big brand name corps that are b level rated that have coupons that or higher.
and would be shocking if they all went bust in the same week.
The risk -> return % seems like the yield should have been bigger
There are a bunch who basically pay apps to use their api and then take the data.
Apple was right to kill that imho. IIRC that was foursquare's pivot
There is also lot/lon in programmatic bid requests, but I don't think they're super accurate or granular and lots of fraud. (could be wrong, just from my small experience buy side using DSPs seeing lots of lat/lons being smack in the middle of a city)
'only' for a middleman, who doesn't even do the bare minimum job of saying: hey, we're shipping more opiate pills to this zip code every month than there are people x 100
Of all the links in the chain for the Opiate Crisis, you're going to blame the distributor of the pills?
I get it, hindsight in 20/20 etc., but those pills were prescribed by highly-trained doctors and fulfilled by highly-trained pharmacists who thought they were doing the right thing and you expect some non-M.D. to have the foresight and understanding to say 'Sure, CVS is ordering this amount from us because they have this many pharmacist-approved scripts (keep in mind, this is one of thousands of items CVS is ordering), but I think something is fishy.'
It just seems like that expectation diffuses blame from the actual villains here (the pharma companies that specifically worked to manipulate pharmacists and doctors into writing/approving those scripts).
there were HUGE amounts of MDs purposefully not doing the right thing and running pill mills.
And yeah, distributors for sure have experts and resources to hire experts. And they were repeatedly warned/directed to stop the insane volume. They knew of this. They weren't ignorant, even on purpose.
The opiate lobbyists slyly got the law changed so the DEA couldn't enforce with stop notices.
IIRC In Gibney's documentary they interviewed some of the Congresspeople who voted for it and they thought the bill did the opposite.
pharmacists also had the right to refuse and some did! but Purdue often intervened and pressured them to fill the scripts. I think that was shown either in gibney or maybe the great hulu purdue miniseries?
They did seem to make a push for more business API and more marketing messaging permissions. I invested some time in developing it for political campaigns.
Only for them to yank the more open permissions away.
tracking & pointing out grossly polluting means of travel.
market making information (musk spends more time visiting ___ faltering plant or ignoring ___. Musk makes trips to __ location, acquisition in the works)?
elon is a public figure and his movements/actions create legitimate news. same as any other celebrity or politician.
gawker did this first and that was actually stalking precise irl real time locations of celebs.