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The Worst Trade in NBA History: Luka traded for AD
Eskimohorn replied to Derka's topic in Basketball
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Maybe read it this time. I know yall will hate this one. I could post the euro reviews, and we'll hear about TERF island or other dumb shit, but here you go. Economist piece posted as well as AAP for full balance (still waiting on their systematic review, lol). https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/gender-dysphoria-report.pdf The economist treatment: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/05/where-the-trump-administration-has-science-on-its-side And for good measure to get in front of it, the AAP response, which is lol: https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/32145/AAP-speaks-out-against-HHS-report-on-gender
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Many of us think evidence-based examination of gender dysphoria and treatments should be a thing, and don't have a problem with an honest discussion of it. What we see right through is making something that affects 0.0005% of the population a crisis issue that merits major attention. In the US, 2,000 kids receive such treatment. Again, all with the consent of their parents and under a doctor's care. They're not being killed, they're just receiving treatment that is subject to medical debate. 190 kids died in car wrecks because they were unrestrained. Nearly 4,000 people a year drown. Nearly 7,000 people accidentally suffocate. Globally, around 3 million children starve to death each year. The degree of "concern" for an issue that is, statistically speaking, a non-issue, to the point that those who are so "concerned" about it will toss in their lot with the most openly cruel political movement since the 1940s....well, see, that's where the true colors come through. It ain't about protecting kids at all. If it WAS, the "concerned" people would be in favor of things that actually kept kids safe, and fed them, and shit like that. They aren't. They are willing to SACRIFICE all of those things, to make a stand on their pet issue. Me? I mostly think we should leave people the fuck alone, including families who are wrestling with a goddamned difficult thing involving their child, who they love and are trying to make the best decision for. I agree that there are psychological and medical issues and concerns in play; I think those should be hashed out in, among, and by the medical community (which seems to be happening - it is a process, which is to be expected for a situation that has only in recent years even been accepted as something to be considered by medical practitioners). Let it get sorted out, and know that inevitably, someone may end up hurt by the fact that the process takes time; if medical treatment of gender dysphoria turns out to be a bad thing, then some kids got a treatment that they shouldn't have. Likewise, if medical treatment of gender dysphoria turns out to be a solid treatment...but we've banned it on the political level....then some kids who should have received a treatment that will help them were denied that treatment. But of course, none of that matters. That's not what this is about. At all. It's about item 7,547 in dividing society into "normal" people who get to shit all over "the other" -- we can't shit on those poor kids, of course....so we place our hatred on the evil parents of those dirty trans. THEY are the ones turning people trans! There wouldn't BE any trans people if those stupid evil parents didn't do their evil! Add it to the pile. It's not about caring for the ultimate outcome or kindness. It's about carving out a group, aiming your ire at them, and feeling superior for doing so. That's how we roll these days.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
BurntOrange&White replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Sorry objective analysis and breakdown of Quinn’s game hurts your feel feels. And if that isn’t enough there is also the objective data that he was worse in 24 than 23. Sorry about objective information. -
That sucked
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Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
TheStoicPaisano replied to GopherRock's topic in Daily Texan
I was being glib and didn’t realize this was a real guy (not a Cornballer). He must be the favorite for the name alone. -
Can't believe it took UF into the 7th to realize they were getting a steady diet of changeups, but it did. Ole Miss pitcher has been having to hit a strike zone the size of a postage stamp all day. She finally escapes in the 7th, so here we are in extras.
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Texas Softball 2025 - Sick of Being Second Place
perfectchaos007 replied to Js1's topic in UT Sports
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Steamboat1874 replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Yes these guys are always right. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Parliament replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Wait. Aggy firefighters? Lotsa jokes to write with that. -
Leave the kids alone = Block access to gender-affirming care by law
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No. Star Wars is deliberately pulp, lowbrow SF, as much as Star Trek is highbrow "ivory tower" SF. What Gilroy is doing here is showing that Star Wars can also be a vehicle for a more intellectual form of storytelling, just as Nick Meyer proved in The Wrath of Khan that Trek can be top-tier pulp adventure. But pulling it off is difficult. Fuck up, and you get the fan reaction to The Last Jedi (or, in the Trek universe, Beyond). And it's a lot easier to fuck it up than do it right.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Al_4_ISU replied to Seasick Sailor's topic in Music
Those Black Gold Band albums fucking ripped -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Francisco 2.0 replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I pictured him working in a salvage yard. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Parliament replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
20 years from now a 2025 right hand drive Tesla is gonna be an expensive collectible. -
A whole 3.5 yds, huh?
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Parliament replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Or a skid row prostitution when he was on a heroine bender. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
Elmer_Fudd replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
OTF says Jalen Lott is looking at committing on July 4th. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Derka replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
also i’m glad you brought that up, because one of the funniest things about you QE zealots is that over the last two years you’ve gone from, “he’s a future heisman winner and no.1 overall pick” to now, after he nearly went undrafted, simply trying to argue that he wasn’t the main guy holding his teams back. and yet, at no point between “goat him” and “but bert auburn missed some kicks too!” have you guys said, “yeah i was wrong about QE.” that’s some mighty fine goal posts moving if i do say so myself. -
Cam Rising is medically retiring from football. His 8th year of eligibility was apparently in play but he is two years older than CJ Stroud, who has been to the NFL playoffs twice. Fare the well, we hardly knew ye
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Gata leads off the bottom of the 7th with b2b HR 3-3
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Bullshit. His wife didn’t say that. And I know I’m right because he referred to her as his wife
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Anyone have any updates? I saw him in the dugout and looks like he just has a brace, not a cast.
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