Lol, the US told you about this two weeks ago and you let it happen anyway. Fuck off.

Previously, employees would receive bonuses based on the overall performance of the company. But last summer, the payouts became tied to the performance of each specific franchise. Since their titles were more successful in 2023, teams on games such as Diablo and World of Warcraft received bonuses this month, but the Overwatch developers weren’t so lucky.

That is a pretty big incentive for quality developers to never push for anything new and to ditch games rather than improving lower profit games.

Wasn’t that the branch he was kneeling to the hardest? If even they don’t like him, I doubt he will remain speaker long.

The US should probably pass their lethal aid package if they want a seat at the table.

Current clever-person play is to learn a solid manual trade

Can confirm. Finding a solid tradesman is a bitch (high demand, low supply) and they get paid well.

Too many students take computer science instead of software or computer engineering. The ‘science’ part of the courses is almost never used by students as the vast, vast majority of employers do not need scientists, they need engineers. In my job searches, I rarely see a job for a scientist, and the few I do see are highly specialized roles that aren’t looking for green college grads.

The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling Thursday ends a 12-year legal battle to overturn an Alberta Human Rights Commission (HRC) decision that resulted in a $26,000 fine against Webber Academy.

This is pretty common. They are letting the lower court ruling stand.

we admit that we have to spend many trillions of dollars to upgrade the grid

This is going to be the solution. People will not voluntarily reduce power usage, forcing power reductions by massive increases in KWh cost would stiffle everyone from manufacturing to the homeowner calculating how much they need to turn down their heat to make rent this month, and rolling blackouts are so politically unviable to be laughable. The solution is to improve the grid to meet demand.

Government loans would be the way to go there. And fast tracking the regulatory approvals would go a long way to reducing build costs as well, much of which is just tangling with bureaucracy.

Sounds like environmentalists need to support nuclear, a carbon-free power source. Then complaints like yours vanish.

A solution is to build carbon-free nuclear plants. Instead we are shutting them down and replacing them with natural gas.

The former is more of a technical one. LEO has (some) air drag, so anything there is temporary; and you need them in LEO to not have pings measured in seconds. But, as you stated, the CEO is…fucktarded. I’ll fully agree there!

But, more importantly, that’s why I also mentioned cell networks. In the US, TMobile and Verizon home cell internet is competitive in quite a good percent of the country and worth looking into if you don’t like your current provider. TMobile’s is $50/mo, for example.

The proliferation of home cell internet and Starlink’s internet has had a nice downward pressure in many markets. Both are often surprisingly good, even for heavy internet users. They are something worth checking out in your area.

Edit: Note, if you look into satellite internet, Starlink is pretty much the only one that doesn’t suck. This is due to the satellites being in low earth orbit (fairly close) rather than way, way off in geostationary orbit.

At follow-up, gender identity/dysphoria was assessed via multiple methods and the participants were classified as either persisters or desisters. Sexual orientation was ascertained for both fantasy and behavior and then dichotomized as either biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic. Of the 139 participants, 17 (12.2%) were classified as persisters and the remaining 122 (87.8%) were classified as desisters. Data on sexual orientation in fantasy were available for 129 participants: 82 (63.6%) were classified as biphilic/androphilic, 43 (33.3%) were classified as gynephilic, and 4 (3.1%) reported no sexual fantasies. For sexual orientation in behavior, data were available for 108 participants: 51 (47.2%) were classified as biphilic/androphilic, 29 (26.9%) were classified as gynephilic, and 28 (25.9%) reported no sexual behaviors. source

• Gender identity/dysphoria had 139 participants, classified as persisters or desisters; of which 87.8% were desisters

• Sexual orientation in fantasy had 129 participants, classified as biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic; 63.6% biphilic/androphilic

• Sexual orientation in behavior had 108 participants, classified as biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic; 47.2% biphilic/androphilic

Read your own damn study

It states the terms ‘persisters’ and ‘desisters’ are for gender identity/dysphoria; of which 87.8% were desisters.

Again, we aren’t talking about mastectomies to remove cancer. We are talking about elective mastectomies (and other surgeries) classified as gender affirming care. Removing cancer is not gender affirming care.

that study is about sexual identity, ie- sexual preferences, not gender identity ie who one is.

You didn’t even get past the title which clearly describes it is about gender identity disorder: “A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder”. It also has info about sexual preferences, but that portion isn’t relevant to this discussion.

At follow-up, gender identity/dysphoria was assessed via multiple methods and the participants were classified as either persisters or desisters…Of the 139 participants, 17 (12.2%) were classified as persisters and the remaining 122 (87.8%) were classified as desisters.

Nobody is talking about mastectomies to remove cancer. We are talking about banning minors from elective surgeries.

With a 1% regret rate

87.8% of children are no longer gender dysphoric after reaching adulthood. That is a major reason why irreversible, elective medical changes to a child’s healthy body is so incredibly dangerous.

study source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.632784/full

Children are not receiving gender affirming surgery.

Then banning such elective surgeries for minors is not a problem.

Hormone blockers are not irreversible, it’s literally in the name

The years of blocked puberty is not reversible. You don’t get that time back. Nor does the body properly deal with a stunted puberty years after it was supposed to happen.