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Willfully Horn

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  1. I can understand that when one’s appearance matches one’s belief of who they are, they are happier. It’s as simple as that. How’s your quest to blow up the numbers, parsing individuals given testosterone from individuals given estradiol, going? Surely you’d announce if your pet theory did not follow the data, right?
  2. Nope. Didn’t read it. I’m not to the point that I mistrust peer reviewed research, nor really adept at deciphering the details of such, in this field. I would be surprised if the summary differs from the facts. And I am surprised the details aren’t readily available to those wanting to dispute a conclusion that jibes with human nature.
  3. I do not. You can ask Stanford, though. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/01/mental-health-hormone-treatment-transgender-people.html
  4. Thanks to @Horn Under a Bad Sign, I know where to find Michael Ventura’s “Letters at 3AM” archive. It has been a quarter of a century since Ventura’s thoughts were an active influence on my worldview. I had missed this column, dated Feb 16, 2018. “Nineteen years ago – May 28, 1999 – the Chronicle published a "Letters at 3am" column concerning the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado. Two boys murdered 13 and wounded 20 before killing themselves. I looked up that column again after 17 were murdered at a Florida high school, the umpteenth school shooting this year so far. My column of 1999 follows; (spoilered;) I see no reason to change a word. Because we’ve learned nothing since and we’ve done nothing.”
  5. It fucking downgraded the credit rating of the USA. And prolonged the Great Recession. Which was yet another fine mess Rs left us. Might as well put our national debt on that list.
  6. Who could have seen this coming? Certainly no one can criticize AZ selling the water rights of their “emergency” aquifer to SA, during tfg’s America First, and (inshallah) only, term. Amirite? Arizona suburb sues the city of Scottsdale for cutting off its water supply https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/17/arizona-suburb-sues-scottsdale-for-cutting-off-its-water-supply-.html
  7. In Captain Obvious news: Transgender teens receiving hormone treatment see improvements to their mental health
  8. It’s a bit more than that. Which I am sure you understand. I can’t find the essay online, but Michael Ventura wrote about this last century, and warned that our lack of such events were societally dangerous. Rites of passage are not equivalent to nutting. They might have involved real, or perceived, deadly consequences. Scary, masked figures taking a knife and cutting foreskin, and whatnot. That’s the language societies evolved to address young men. I think Ventura was right in warning of the cost of having no such demarcation event.
  9. You’re correct. But, to answer my own question, subsequent infections can be more life threatening. Each infection can leave the body less resistant to survive. So much for infection immunity. Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-infections-increase-risk-of-organ-failure-death/
  10. I am wondering if folks like this survived one, or more, round of covid before the virus killed them.
  11. Guns don’t kill people, toddlers kill people.
  12. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image Fuck you, Matt Sclapp, you cess-fap.
  13. This is an allsome moniker.
  14. Every election needs DOJ pronouncements, last minute and without the time needed to understand the news in context? Sure, that has benefitted our country in the past. Right?
  15. How long until cigarette use is a normal sight during congressional hearings and floor debate? Were these heroes as they present, they’d chew and swallow their tobacco. Like real men. Instead, they grab their ankles and, just… present.
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