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  1. Wordle 1,298 2/6 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #576 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🙂 Daily Quordle 1079 5️⃣8️⃣ 4️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  2. A look back at 4 years and 19 minutes ago.
  3. bolverk

    LBGTQ

    I tend to agree with the notion that the Great Trans Scare was one of the primary determining factors in the election. Back in October, I posted an article with a quote from the president of the Human Rights Campaign saying she was concerned because she saw that those stupid commercials were gaining traction among white suburban moms with Trump lying about kids coming home from school suddenly transitioned in a single school day. All of that Sturm und Drang over a vanishingly small number of affected adolescents: $222,000 in scary ads per kid. Congrats to the haters, I guess. 'A very, very small number' of teens receive gender-affirming care, study finds How many transgender teens in the U.S. are receiving medical care related to gender transitions? According to a peer-reviewed research letter published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, the answer is very, very few. It's a key data point as Republican lawmakers in Congress and around the country continue to focus on transgender youth in contexts ranging from sports to bathrooms to doctors' offices. In a legislative sprint over the last few years, half of U.S. states have enacted bans on gender-affirming care. Some of those laws have been blocked in court, and one such legal case was just argued in the U.S. Supreme Court in December. The care at issue includes puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone therapy — medications that help transgender teens develop characteristics that align with their gender identity. Use of these treatments is supported by major American medical groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics. "It's important to put numbers to the debates that are currently happening," says Landon Hughes, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. "There weren't any peer reviewed studies that were looking at the rate of hormone use and puberty blocker use among youth in the U.S., and so we wanted to fill that void." Hughes and colleagues at Harvard and Folx Health, a virtual LGBTQ health care company, used a data set of private insurance claims from 2018-2022 that included more than 5 million adolescents. "The total number of youth who had any diagnosis of gender dysphoria was less than 18,000," Hughes explains. "Among those folks, there were less than 1,000 [youth] that accessed puberty blockers and less than 2,000 that ever had access to hormones." In other words, the study found that less than 0.1% of teenagers with private insurance in the U.S. are transgender and receive gender-related medicines. A recent mental health survey from the CDC found a much higher percentage — 3% of high school students — self-identified as transgender. Not all transgender people seek a medical diagnosis or treatments related to their identity, notes Lindsey Dawson, director of LGBTQ health policy at the research organization KFF. "Much more common is to change hair grooming, style of clothing, using a different name," she says, pointing to KFF research. Dawson, who was not involved with the research, said the study was notable for the large sample size. "It echoes past work that has found that gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers and hormone treatment, is relatively rare among all trans and nonbinary people, but especially so among adolescents," she says. Hughes says the study puts the political attention on this group into perspective. In the recent election, Republicans spent more than $222 million on anti-LGBTQ advertisements, according to a report by AdImpact shared with NPR. "It's a very, very small number of people that has managed to eat up all of the oxygen in our political discourse over the last few months," Hughes observes. The American Principles Project, a conservative political advocacy group that has opposed transgender policy for years, is likely to push for a ban on gender-affirming care for minors under the Trump administration, Jon Schweppe, policy director at the organization told NPR in November. "We've poll tested that, and we're pretty confident that the American people agree," Schweppe says.
  4. Wordle 1,297 3/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #575 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1078 7️⃣8️⃣ 5️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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  6. Too bad the entire thing didn't come down.
  7. Ohio State fans react to a drunken post on Surly Horns: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/forum/ohio-state-football/2025/01/152419/battle-of-the-blue-bloods-also-a-look-at-texas-fb-forums (Be sure to click "View Comments" below)
  8. The puking guy would've been me. Seriously, every time I've ever eaten anything with mayo, I've gagged. That shit is Satan's sperm.
  9. I wonder which day that dude left Denver because I saw a silver one heading south on I-25 leaving Colorado last Friday. Obviously, it's a very, very long shot that it was the same guy, but those stupid things sure make an impression.
  10. Waterloo Records, an Austin music institution, is relocating and changing ownership After 42 years of ownership, Waterloo Records owner John Kunz announced Thursday that he’s selling the business. The new owners will relocate the store to a larger building five blocks north of its current home on the corner of Sixth Street and North Lamar Boulevard. “I don’t relish the idea of packing all this stuff up and then unpacking it at the new location… but the alternative would’ve been just horrible,” Kunz said. Waterloo Records, 24 Diner and the other businesses that operate in the small strip mall have known about the pending move or closure since 2019, when Austin-based real estate agency Endeavor bought the building. Endeavor did not immediately respond to KUT's request for comment on its plans for the building, but Kunz said the strip mall will likely be turned into a multistory development with underground parking. “It had been five years and I hadn’t been able to find the right place to move to and I was becoming a little bit concerned," he said. "And then fortunately the right place finally happened." This spring, Waterloo Records will relocate to 1105 North Lamar Boulevard, a former Louis Shanks Furniture store and later a Whole Foods regional office. The building is 50% bigger, has more parking and has a larger, state-of-the-art stage for in-store performances, according to a news release. All current Waterloo Records staff will be retained in the move and be given the option to be partial store owners, Kunz said. It will also remain independent and locally owned and operated. The Austin institution has survived relocation once before. Waterloo Records founder Louis Karp opened the original store in a modest 1,200 square-foot building on South Lamar Boulevard in 1982. Kunz came on as co-owner that same year and became the sole owner in 1987. The store settled at the corner of West Sixth and North Lamar in 1989. Now Kunz is passing the torch to Caren Kelleher, the founder and CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl, and Austin entrepreneur Trey Watson, CEO of Austin-based record label Armadillo Records. “There would be no Gold Rush Vinyl without Waterloo Records and the work it's done to keep physical music alive and thriving,” Kelleher said in a news release. “In a time when we're more digitally connected than ever, people still crave something tangible. Record stores offer a place where we can unplug and experience music together, and I look forward to facilitating those kinds of connections for years to come at Waterloo.” Kunz will be taking on the role of chair emeritus, which he said will allow him to focus on his favorite aspects of the job and leave the less glamorous tasks to the staff. “That’s the kind of dream job everyone would want,” he said. From its very first year in business, Waterloo Records has been a staple for music lovers. It won The Austin Chronicle’s "Best Record Store" award in 1982 and continued to win it for the next 40 consecutive years. It's also received national attention from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and BBC. Hundreds of artists have performed intimate live shows at Waterloo, including Willie Nelson, Nirvana, The Shins, Norah Jones and Jeff Buckley. "For what it's worth, [it] is going to change. I mean we're going to move, we're going to grow — that's change. There's things we did 40 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago we don't do now. And things we didn't do then that we do now," Kunz said. "But, the key is also to continue to honor all the hallmarks, the traditions, the legacies that got us where we are. And that's exactly what Trey and Caren and myself intend to make sure never gets forgotten."
  11. Where does calling people antisemitic pedophiles fall on your hypocrisy scale?
  12. Present company excepted, of course, we're a bunch of degenerate lowlifes.
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  14. Lots of the CFB world will be rooting for meteorites for the duration of the playoffs.
  15. Coach sets the example and tone.
  16. It's NFL gone goon shit.
  17. Yeah, my rootingship would ordinarily have me going for UGA: public school vs. private, makes UT's losses look "better," gives us another shot at them if both proceed, plus they're playing god's gift to college football, Notre Dame, etc. But Kirby and their fanbase are so fucking unlikeable that I'm going against my natural tendencies and pulling for ND.
  18. I WOKE UP FEELING THE CHEESIEST, COACH!
  19. Something tells me Notre Dame isn't hurting for money.
  20. This one's working for me right now. A shit load of pop-ups to get through first, though. https://www.sportsgames.today/archives/67574
  21. A brief check of Winsipedia shows Notre Dame and Georgia have only faced off three times all time, with UGA winning all three.
  22. https://buckeyeplanet.com/forum/threads/cfp-playoff-cotton-bowl-tosu-vs-texas-fri-jan-10th-7-30-et-on-espn.701213/
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