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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • You can claim that your house or property is worth as much as you want

    No, you can’t. If you knowingly and grossly lie on paperwork that’s called fraud. Why the hell would that be legal?

    The fact that most people try to sneak 10% is entirely different from ballooning things by 600% and intentionally lying about the reasons.


  • Oh, so, is the defamation case something he didnt do (despite the rock solid evidence), or something he should get away with because other people do it too (the ultimate 6-year-old excuse)?

    And does everyone claim their property is worth 500%-800% more for decades on their loan applications?

    Have other people gotten away with hiding top secret files in their bathrooms, and lying about having them? Or did that not happen, despite the people moving them being on film?

    I don’t even care about the case about campaign finances.














  • I would be VERY surprised. And I NASA didn’t award blue origin a second moon lander contract because they have utmost faith in Starship/HLS.

    I will be first in line to say Falcon is an amazing piece of engineering, and Starlink is a great way to fund Falcon. It’ll never turn a profit, but it’s an amazing way to turn venture capital into cheap rockets for everyone.

    But SpaceX has missed every single HLS deadline by a mile. They’ve got 2 more weeks to do their first unmanned moon landing, according to the original schedule. It’ll take 12 (or 20?) successful launches to do 1 lunar landing and return, so I’ll take this bet.

    The 2 billion contract was for HLS. It was originally higher, but Kathy Lueders gave SpaceX a call to lower their bid to just under the (previously undisclosed) limit, making them the only valid bid. That’s what the Blue Origin lawsuit was about, but the judge said it was legal for NASA to “enter in negotiations” with single parties, so this was allowed. You might recognise the name Kathy Leuders, because right after she handed SpaceX the contract, she quit NASA and got a job at SpaceX.

    I think I’m validated in finding the whole HLS situation extremely concerning.



  • That’s a great study, but it ignores one massively important point: you can be trans and not dysphoric, quite a few trans people aren’t dysphoric.

    Dysphoria is distress you feel because a gender mismatch. It’s entirely possible for a 7 year old boy to hate the fact that he was born male and be very upset over that. And that same person at 20 could be completely at peace with it.

    They might be happily going through life as a male, female, or anything else, the paper doesn’t say. If you stop being upset over the gender assigned at birth, you’re not dysphoric anymore, that’s all that’s measured.

    This paper doesn’t say “most dysphoric boys stop wanting to be girls before they’re 20”. It says “most dysphoric boys stop hating the fact they were born as boys before they’re 20”. Hell they might have fully transitioned, the paper doesn’t say.