Just got a Mac last week, and was able to set up file sharing with my PC in less than 5 minutes last night. In fact, it was way easier than getting the sharing working with my Surface, which refuses to acknowledge my desktop's existence.
I don't generally encourage buying a Mac, I'm not at all convinced it's worth the price premium. I'm only commenting insofar as I have context.
It's not about an honest belief that someone will identify as trans to commit a crime, it's about the advantage of identifying as a victim in order to push an agenda.
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside....
It's seemingly closer to $6b for that year, which is obviously a ton of money, but considering they employ north of 50,000 people, if each person costs them $75,000/yr that's already $3.75b. NYC spends $2b on just their department of sanitation. It's a city with like 8.5m people, everything costs crazy amounts of money.
We use different terms to describe different things, but not with fixed and firm definitions. We can differentiate care for children and the elderly based on the age of those involved, since age is a useful distinction in some cases. But that might not be true in all cases. For example, there are certainly going to be oncologists who work with patients from multiple age groups. Similarly, a plastic surgeon who focuses on reconstruction after accidents will also see patients from a wide range of ages. We've defined four umbrellas here. Two based on age, and two based on the category of care given. All four are biological, but they aren't mutually exclusive. While there are certainly oncologists who exclusively work with children, there are also oncologists who never work with children. We use these terms to help define what we're talking about, but they aren't strict definitions in and of themselves.
Let's look at mental health care as another example. It's a very broad category of things. It includes things like helping children deal with the loss of a parent, a college student suffering from clinical depression, or a elderly veteran suffering from PTSD. In all 3 cases, the types of treatment will be very different from one another even though they're obviously all "mental health" related. Even any one of the 3 individuals might have different treatment options. Perhaps the college student is seeing a therapist, but another similar individual might be working with a psychiatrist who prescribes medication to them. They both have the "same problem" but the smaller details are important to addressing their needs. "Care for mental health is good" isn't an argument that all mental health concerns should be treated in the same way, because of course that's not the case.
Now let's talk about transgender care as a term. Alone, it's a broad term and covers many different things, in the same way that when I say "mental health care" I might be talking about a lot of different issues, and a lot of different biological things going on with someone. The same is true with "oncology", or "cardiology", or "pediatrics". We don't use these terms because we are trying not to say something else, we just use them because talking about things more broadly is sometimes useful. If I say "cancer is bad" I'm not trying to hide the fact that some types of cancer are worse than others or that some people choose surgery over chemotherapy, or to ignore that men can get breast cancer even though we most frequently think of it as an issue women face. I'm just using the term that is most applicable for the statement I want to make. Cancer is bad.
In practice, "transgender care" is an umbrella term we use to talk about lots of different kinds of medical care. Some transgender individuals choose to seek out mental health care in different forms. Others pursue hormone care, which is one portion of the umbrella of endocrinology, the study of hormones. An endocrinologist might treat a pregnant woman with diabetes, an old man with a thyroid condition, and a transgender person who is looking for hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The endocrinologist provides "hormone care" which can include care for transgendered persons, but not only that.
Saying that "transgender care" is a term used to wave away things that one doesn't want to talk is inaccurate. Calling it that doesn't make it "more acceptable" it's just a more useful term in some circumstances. I can claim that transgender care should be accepted, and I do make that claim. But making that claim doesn't mean I think there's only 1 way to treat a transgender patient. Some individuals benefit from therapy, others don't. Some choose to pursue hormone treatment, and others don't. Some hope to have surgery, and some don't. The idea that anyone who says that transgender care is "pushing an agenda" is a deliberately incorrect portrayal being pushed onto it by people who think it's bad. Those people want to pretend like it's one thing, because simplifying it makes it easier to portray as bad.
I mean, an IPO is a pretty reasonable point to allow insiders to trade. You've just published a huge amount of information about the company, so the insider advantage is at a relative low. It's somewhat common for blackout periods to exist prior to things like earnings announcements, but after the announcement is usually when trading is permitted.
NEW YORK (AP) — A union representing New York City firefighters is raising concerns about possible disciplinary action against its members after state Attorney General Letitia James was booed and a pro-Donald Trump chant broke out during a fire department ceremony last week....
It's not explicit from the article one way or the other, but the "investigation" seems to refer to officials from the fire department, which doesn't imply that charges are being considered but instead that questions about policy adherence have been raised.
It's a poorly written article, with polarizing ambiguity.
I think this is a pretty straightforward "yes, it would be cooler" no? Energy is taken out of the "sun meets the dirt" system by the solar panels. While the heat they absorb but don't convert is released into the environment anyways, the fact that ANY energy has left this system inherently implies that less heat energy is transmitted to the ground. That energy still contributes to the aggregate heat energy accumulated by the earth in the forever term (because in the end everything becomes heat energy) but that's a non-local sort of thing.
In the same way, trees/plants presumably also decrease the temperature of the ground that they shade. The plants absorb some of the energy themselves, and convert it into "not heat" instead. (Though, I suppose it's possible they have an exothermic process, so maybe that's not true)
The hell is going on with this article, is this bot-written? The top-line reads that the CCDH are the ones running the analysis. But the very next line reads "Streaming Platform YouTube said they analysed over 12,000 videos across 96 channels using an AI model crafted specifically to be able to distinguish between reasonable scepticism and false information." So it kinda sounds like this should be titled "YouTube study investigates changes in climate denial rhetoric, finds deniers are succeeding at skirting older protections." and then go on to explain that the new model inherently identifies this problematic content.
Listen, I'm not a big fan of Google, but as written this is just a shitty hit piece arguing in favor of an activist group that seems to be calling on YouTube to do the thing they've just said they already did. Unless the claim is that YouTube just went "Huh, weird. Guess we'll keep making money on it anyways!" and there's proof of that, this feels pretty deliberately misleading.
Let's take a look at Minnesota, a state with ~5.7 million people, and 8 congressional districts. We need to create 8 congressional districts with approximately 700,000 people within each, using existing county lines. Hennepin County, which contains the city of Minneapolis, has about 1,260,000 people, which is 71% more than their appropriate share. Clearly, we can't use Hennepin County as an "already drawn" line as it is, which kills the "use counties" plan immediately, but let's continue.
Ramsey County, the second most populous, has 535,000 people. Dakota County, 443,000. Anoka County, 369,000. Washington County, 275,000. Together, these 5 counties comprise 50% of the State's population. All 5 of these are relatively dense, and surround the Twin Cities area. We need to split these 5 counties into 4 congressional districts, to appropriately represent their share of the congressional districts. Hennepin is out since we obviously need to give them 1 seat on their own. After that, we need 7 districts of 634,000, 4 of which should come from Ramsey, Dakota, Anoka, and Washington counties. The easiest way to get close to this is to give Ramsey and Dakota counties their own seat, and to combine Anoka and Washington Counties into our final district. Conveniently, these two are geographically adjacent, so we don't even have to draw any weird districts with physical separations.
Now. The rest of the state is WAY less dense, so getting those districts to be roughly proportional for our 4 remaining districts is probably not going to be that bad, and I'm going to set them aside. Jumping back to our metropolitan area, we have Hennepin's district that represents 1,260,000 people, and Ramsey County's district which represents 535,000. So, the residents of Hennepin County have approximately half as much representation as the residents of Ramsey County, even though these counties are adjacent to one another, and each contains one of the two Twin Cities.
If we do allow some level of mix-and-matching some portion of certain counties, then presumably we use some other criteria in order to draw the lines. We can come up with metrics we think are reasonably fair, but ultimately it's all subjective at the end of the day. And, when we look at the actual congressional map for Minnesota, we find that it kinda looks like balancing these edge cases is already what the map looks like.
I'm not going to claim that this is a perfect, unbiased congressional map. I'm guessing many very reasonable people would disagree. But it's meant to illustrate that using previous arbitrary lines doesn't really buy us any better of results, since those lines weren't designed to facilitate political representation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%27s_congressional_districts#/media/File:MN_2022_congressional_districts.jpg
The federal government spent something like 6 Trillion Dollars last year, meaning the cost would be about 6% of our national budget. Knocking off 1/3rd for the people who would refuse to participate, 4%. If the process happened over 5 years, you're talking about <1% increase to our annual budget. And practically speaking, 15 years might be a more reasonable time frame simply given the enormous scale of the thing.
Sure, $332b is an absolute fuck-ton of money. But it's not an inconceivable amount of money. That's not to say we should do it, simply that the argument we can't afford it doesn't really check out.
No one would ever say millibits, because a bit is the smallest meaningful datapoint. It's a non-existent term, and a very pointless pedantic hill to try to build so that you can die on it
Sharing this graph casually is rather unhelpful despite your note, since most casual observers aren't going to observe the scale change in the X axis, and instead will see only that today is similar to the 12,000 years ago segment.
There aren't any limits on working more than 40 hours either. Many jobs you'd be entitled to overtime, but there are millions of people who don't get overtime despite working it.
As the title says. I severely dislike having to make accounts for every game publisher that wants to send me advertisements, collect data or whatever....
Amtrak Borealis launches, connecting Chicago and Twin Cities – NBC Chicago (www.nbcchicago.com)
The Mac vs. PC war is back on? (www.theverge.com)
I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal....
Transgender bathroom bills are back, gaining traction after past boycotts (www.npr.org)
After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail (theintercept.com)
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside....
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover (arstechnica.com)
Anti-trans Missouri A.G. can now access trans people’s medical records (newrepublic.com)
A judge ordered Planned Parenthood to hand records of transgender care over to Andrew Bailey....
Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close (www.cnbc.com)
Firefighters booed New York attorney general who sued Trump for fraud. Officials are investigating (apnews.com)
NEW YORK (AP) — A union representing New York City firefighters is raising concerns about possible disciplinary action against its members after state Attorney General Letitia James was booed and a pro-Donald Trump chant broke out during a fire department ceremony last week....
The little-known, massive advantage that renewables hold over coal. (slrpnk.net)
Source...
YouTube Makes Over $13 million off Climate Change Denial (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Republicans request liberal Wisconsin judge recuse herself from congressional map lawsuit (thehill.com)
Republicans are requesting a liberal Wisconsin judge recuse herself from potentially considering reviewing the Badger State’s congressional maps....
Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications (gizmodo.com)
Non-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion?
E.g. abortion rights, anti-LGBTQ, contempt for atheism, Christian nationalism, etc.
FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps (docs.fcc.gov)
xkcd : Earth Temperature Timeline (imgs.xkcd.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/4245345...
The american dream (infosec.pub)
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(SOLVED) Ok, so I just bought Baldurs Gate 3. Now how do I bypass the 'Create Larian Account' bit without creating an account? (beehaw.org)
As the title says. I severely dislike having to make accounts for every game publisher that wants to send me advertisements, collect data or whatever....