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Measure to ban trans Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from women's bathroom fails
  • They do actually want to ban Buck Angel from using the men's room, and this is the point I always use to illustrate the real hatred underlying this issue. They want people like Buck to be forced into the choice between facing arrest for using one bathroom, or facing violence for using the other. That's the only point of these measures - to make violence and legal threat the only two options available.

    The goal is to ban trans people from existing in public.

  • Women and LGBTQ+ people take up guns after Trump’s win: ‘We need to protect ourselves’
  • Training and familiarization helped me a lot with that exact feeling. I had the same feeling about circular/table saws. My dad was a carpenter, and those things freaked me the hell out - one tiny mistake could have devastating consequences, and that was all I could think about when I was around them. But with careful instruction and exposure, learing to use and be more comfortable with them, that feeling was gradually replaced by calm and confidence, and they changed in my mind from these objects of terror into valuable tools. There was still fear, but it was a healthy, respectful fear.

    I went through the exact same process with guns as well. Some classes with a good instructor, giving you a chance to get more comfortable and familiar before you bring a gun into your home, could help a lot.

  • What vendors make good dumb TVs or big monitors?
  • I have a 43-inch Insignia N10 that works great in exactly that role. Dumb TV with HDMI inputs, audio outputs, and that's about it. Best Buy's in-house brand, it was like 120 bucks about a year ago, when my Vizio TV from 2003 finally died in a way I couldn't fix :(

    The built-in speakers aren't great, definitely recommend hooking it up to something else.

  • Can you scale down a firearm to make an identical looking firearm that fires a different round?
  • More changes would be needed than direct uniform scaling - .22lr is rimfire, whereas .45acp is centerfire, for example, and their aspect ratios are different. The mass and strength of uniformly scaled-down parts also might not match the recoil and pressure provided by the smaller round, and might result in failure to reliably cycle the action or the gun bursting if the mismatch is too much.

  • Is "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy considered a good book? Because I read it, and I'm not sure it should be.
  • The thing I remember most about this book is the heroic American Mary Sue rescuing an Icelandic damsel in distress from a traumatic sexual assault by Soviet soldiers, and then immediately afterwards she falls in love with him and they have sex in a hot spring or something. Standard conservative male military-nerd wish-fulfillment pulp fantasy written by a guy whose main protagonists are all thinly-veiled self-insertions.

    That said, as a fellow nerd, I love it when Clancy tells me all the little details about a submarine, and it's a fun read. But I wouldn't call it good.

  • No NAT November
    1. sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.disable_ipv4=1
    2. sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0
    3. for link in $(ls /sys/class/net); do ip -6 addr add $(openssl rand -hex 2):$(openssl rand -hex 2):$(openssl rand -hex 2):$(openssl rand -hex 2):$(openssl rand -hex 2):$(openssl rand -hex 2):$(openssl rand -hex 2):$(openssl rand -hex 2)/128 dev $link; done

    Everything should work perfectly forever right out of the box with the above setup.

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