When do you think puberty happens?

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-treatment-regret-detr...

The thing about Puberty blockers, is they can be mostly reversed. This isn't about children getting things cut off, it's about preventing certain features that surgery cant fix from developing. IMO it's cruel for a teenager who is absolutely sure, to be forced to go through the incorrect puberty and have to undo that later.

A reminder that actual people have been turned into a cultural wedge issue, their lives put in danger due to the vitriol the culture war issue has stirred.

If you have known a person who has transitioned, you'd likely see someone happier after being able to transition.

Laws targeting trans people won't stop an actual criminal from entering the wrong bathroom.

Children and teens can absolutely know these things about themselves. Imagine telling a child who has a hetero crush on a classmate that they're too young to know they're straight. Children are little people. It won't be the correct choice for every child, but for every child it is the correct choice for, it will lead to a happier life and a more effective transition.

last but not least, you didn't care about competitive women's swimming before, you're not fooling me that you care about it now.

Three or four years ago I landed on a desktop that let me keep my tiling but never think about placement. It took a few disconnected days to get it just right, but I haven't changed more than the occasional line in the config since.

I hate thinking about configs now. My config lets me glide through using my computer without much thought, which IMO should be the point of configuring one's setup, so you don't have to think about it. People comment how fun it is to watch me navigate when I'm in a flow(mad at the computer). Sadly, with wayland taking over, my setup isn't long for this earth and I'm dreading the level of effort I'm going to have to put in to get a remotely comparable setup.

The biggest drawback of wayland/hyprland/etc is just how much bullshit one has to wade through for a working desktop. I don't want to learn desktop rendering just to have a dynamic wm that can open a file picker. I rather give an attacker my login creds than drop x11 at this point.

It doesn't matter that most Christians don't believe it. Most Muslims don't do violent attacks on civilians, yet they all seem to pay the price either in their home countries or in the US.

It seems world-wide, a hard-right extremist subset of religious believers are ruining things for everyone else.

"Creating value" only means something if you can eat a spreadsheet.

Social programs, buses, and trains enable any of that development at all.

When you cut after school programs and social hangouts, kids get into trouble.

Buses and trains multiply the economic potential of an area.

If all you have are the vague class of "home owners", who do you have in your grocery stores? Who fixes your roof? Certainly not you.

All you'd have is an armed quasi-military of cops protecting your depreciating homes from the mobs of scorned citizens waiting to burn your shit down.

It's not a statement that people shouldn't see fruits of their labor, but that past a certain point, its no longer about the fruits or even the tree, but the power that comes with it. In a democracy, those who get lucky in business are not owed power.

So yeah, billionaires and trillionaires shouldn't exist, because their existence is a side-channel attack on society. Pay enough money and rules don't apply. Past a certain point, that wealth should be heavily scrutinized and audited as if it's nuclear fissile material. Similar to the nuclear material, it can be productive for society, or absolute destruction.

The LLM stuff is being gatekept because the people inside the gate care, and the people bringing the LLM code don't.

I drive a manual car too, and I get upset when someone who doesn't care about where they're putting their car, let alone the transmission, endangers me on the road. They're apathetic.

I work with people who have fully adopted claude in their work flows. They don't care about the code they push. They generate, prune, generate, prune in 10kloc increments. They're apathetic to others who might need to use this code and expect some kind of consistent architecture/interface. Its exhausting to deal with yet they love to say "I did this". I respect someone who tells me "I slopped this out" more, as they respect me enough to set expectations.

I think if you're trying to build a community of people who care, you must defend against those who are apathetic, or else they'll bring the whole community down.

This isn't to say all LLM users don't care about their work, but that there are far more people who are happy to push slop and take credit than the reverse. To carefully screen those people brings us back to the original complaint, LLMs turn programmers into paperwork drones. Attempting to screen these types of users takes away even more time from the purpose of the community.

The funny thing about this comment is out of the gate it screams the exact reason people don't want the LLM generated code in their zone.

This reads similar to people who make prompt art getting upset that they're not taken seriously. People demand respect for something they didn't earn. Programmers who have worked hard for their knowledge don't want to listen to the person who thinks they know everything because the magical machine spit out some working code. It doesn't matter if they're right or wrong. They're annoying and entitled.

I'll just paste the classic Ian Malcom Jurassic Park quote.

> I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox

The owners of the site are hostile to the userbase. The new reddit where it doesn't let you read more than 3 comments before redirecting you to other posts is a cancer. Not to mention the ads that are somehow even more finely woven into posts than the old reddit.

Oh but they're trying. The right-wing usage of things like "woke" and "DEI" primarily serve to hide/destroy historical realities. [1]

Florida has it's "STOP WOKE" act that forces teachers to talk about how slaves learned skills/benefited from slavery[2] and that various massacres also had black perpetrators.

What is this other than changing historical facts? About fucking chattel slavery for Christ's sake.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/judge-nation...

[2] https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/floridas-new...

The point of a government in society is for people who give a shit to guide this kind of thing.