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New comment by locopati in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

locopati — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:56:11 +0000

It is also possible to walk away from tech. To stop chasing the demands of anything for a buck and focus on something real.

New comment by locopati in "Gender reassignment significantly increases psychiatric morbidity"

locopati — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:50:42 +0000

"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment."

Perhaps because being trans is not well supported and accepted in many societies, even the ones that may have legal protections for trans people (which is, in itself and indicator of a lack of acceptance - there wouldn't be a need for laws protecting housing, for example, if there wasn't discrimination).

Therefore there is a continuing need for mental health support.

What is with the recent uptick in anti-transness on this site?

New comment by locopati in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

locopati — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:04:28 +0000

at the highest levels are the most rigorous standards and testing. this is where it makes the most sense to allow trans athletes to. compete. trans women who have been on hormone replacement do not have an advantage over cis women. this is discrimination plain and simple and creates an atmosphere of misunderstanding, mistrust, and misinformation towards trans people (which incidentally also affects non-gender-conforming cis women).

New comment by locopati in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

locopati — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:20:20 +0000

Trump doesn't care about the results in Iran. He's getting richer through graft while making himself look big. He's pathetic and we're all paying the price in one way or another.

New comment by locopati in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

locopati — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:38:42 +0000

Just wait until the governments start really coming after the people they don't like based on their internet usage. We're already seeing this in the US around social media profiling. States have tried to associate queerness with sex (rather than existence) in ways that will lead to restricting queer content.

New comment by locopati in "Judge orders restoration of Voice of America"

locopati — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:22:05 +0000

if you're giving up that easily, you're just a troll

New comment by locopati in "Trashing American Allies Turns Out to Be Bad for National Security"

locopati — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:14:49 +0000

the GOP produced him and the Christian xenophobic anti-everyone policies have been a 50 year project that's now coming to fruition. Trump is bad and so is the rest of the Republican party. this problem doesn't go away when he does.

New comment by locopati in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

locopati — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:31:21 +0000

use AI!

no! not that way!

New comment by locopati in "Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers"

locopati — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:34:38 +0000

Otherwise similarly situation people in the present are already being grouped together into categories and treated differently...undoing that is the work that needs doing.

New comment by locopati in "Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers"

locopati — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:33:04 +0000

Have you been paying attention to who the US elected and the people who elected him? They definitely deny systemic racism and are here for ICE targeting non-white people.

New comment by locopati in "Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers"

locopati — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:08:02 +0000

In order to bring people together, it's necessary to acknowledge the harms that have been caused. That is part of repair and trust building. Germany had war crimes trials. South Africa had truth & reconciliation. The US can't paper over the ways in which marginalized populations have been harmed, especially since large parts of the country either don't believe harm has been caused or activity endeavor to perpetuate that harm.

New comment by locopati in "Disney trip turned into immigration detention"

locopati — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:22:52 +0000

and this timely article just showed up

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/inside-trumps-ice-concentr...

New comment by locopati in "Disney trip turned into immigration detention"

locopati — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:17:58 +0000

so why are they almost exclusively focused on brown immigrants vs European ones? why aren't they going after wealthy white business owners who employ undocumented immigrants? why are they going after immigrants who are here legally or are following the legal procedures? why have citizens been pulled into their unconstitutional dragnet? why aren't they providing decent food or health care to people in custody? why are there reports of sexual assault by employees in detention centers?

you are being extremely naive if you think white supremacy isn't motivating these actions.

New comment by locopati in "Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace"

locopati — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:18:05 +0000

Charitable of you to assume good faith or truth from the accusers.

New comment by locopati in "America isn't exceptional – it's the exception"

locopati — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:14:02 +0000

a lack of a social safety net (and what little there is is often punitive and degrading)

New comment by locopati in "Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings"

locopati — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:24:26 +0000

transgenderism is not a thing. transgender people are real, however.

trans people are at greater risk of violence and sexual assault (sometimes because sex work is the only way for them to survive). being arrested as a trans woman could mean being placed in a jail/prison with cis men, again, putting them at greater risk of violence and sexual assault.

New comment by locopati in "In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives"

locopati — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:22:08 +0000

Is it really a problem though?

New comment by locopati in "Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis"

locopati — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:09:24 +0000

You point out the views of anti-gun folks while failing to note that all those loud & proud 2A advocates seem to be pretty happy with the current turn of events and not showing up at all as the government overreaches and repeatedly shits on the Constitution. I imagine there a quite a number of Don't Tread On Me gun lovers in ICE.

New comment by locopati in "Ask HN: If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job?"

locopati — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:40:24 +0000

hell no. i quit tech with a lot less because life is too short.

New comment by locopati in "Presidential Immunity in the United States"

locopati — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:32:22 +0000

Congress is not powerless. They have ceded their powers over time. They have refused to stand up for their powers, especially under the Republicans, who could have voted to impeach but did not, who could still vote to impeach but will not. Why won't they? Because they are complicit. They have been working towards one-party domination for decades.