But let’s not stop using them! What could go wrong?

I kissed a girl and I liked it, but as I’m a heterosexual man, that’s not especially transgressive.

My Prius has a voice control option built in already. The only time I’ve ever activated it is by accident because it’s a steering wheel button. It’s a 2016 Prius so I doubt it’s able to do a whole lot anyway. Thankfully, most of the controls do not require the touch screen or voice control. None of the essential ones do.

Not being able to quickly change wiper speeds sounds like a bad idea.

I am not trolling. You’re proving my point. You think “normal” = “white.”

I was saying that it is not relevant outside of a philosophical discussion. I’m not sure why this is so hard to understand. I never said philosophical discussions had no relevance.

Also, while you’re asking questions, maybe you should ask the person I’m talking to who I am supposedly bigoted against.

Why randomize Flo or why am I doing it for other reasons?

Interesting how your “global north” excludes an entire continent’s worth of north.

Then on September 1 2024 its body was found floating at sea, near the town of Risavika, on Norway’s south-western coast.

Had the long arm of Putin’s Russia caught up with the reluctant beluga?

I’m glad the BBC decided to close their article with a bit of humor about the tragic death of a poor abused animal who had a very short taste of freedom. Many guffaws are assumed to have occurred.

That seems low.

No, I’m arguing that your rigid definition of gender (that no reputable biologist would agree with) is not the way the world works. Because gender and biological sex are different and have always been different and biological sex is far, far more complicated than XX and XY.

This was your claim:

Gender was traditionally identical to sex and this issue didn’t come up much till relatively recently.

Unless by “traditionally,” you are going by an entirely Anglo/Eurocentric view of the world (and only really applies to the Christian era), which is pretty damn bigoted, I showed you that you were wrong.

The proper thing to do would be to admit it.

I doubt you will. But it’s either you were wrong or all of those other cultures are not part of humanity. Which would be very bigoted.

If they are required to report it to the law regardless, which is what the article sure implies, I’m not sure what difference understanding their conditions makes.

Like I said, it sounds like it’s similar to the choice doctors are having to make. In this case it’s do you report this kid or do you risk putting food on your own kids’ table?

Does Trump think Putin is his friend or does Trump need to pretend for his own ego’s sake that the man he’s taking orders from or else also likes him?

Who can afford eggs these days?

And get America to pay for it.

Oh for sure. The cops could “arrest” the kid by doing something like saying, “I’m really sorry I have to do this, Ty, but you’re under arrest.” And then say, “I have investigated and found there was no cause for arrest” immediately afterward. Maybe they couldn’t make it that quick and easy, maybe they have to get some sort of permission or do paperwork or something, but I can’t believe they have to handcuff the poor kid and take him to juvie by law.

I have a reminder app that randomizes reminders for a medical issue I’m dealing with.

Sounds like I’ll be dealing with two medical issues that app will require now.

I am definitely the former. Having an unread email in my inbox drives me nuts. So I basically never sign up for email newsletters.

Next cycle

Bless your heart.

Better not say you’re going to beat everyone at the sack race in P.E. class, Billy. That’s a threat of mass violence.

I remember going to a daycare center where not only were toy guns not allowed to be brought, not even for action figures, you couldn’t pick up a stick and use it as a gun and they would even put you in time out for a finger gun.

This is far stupider than that.