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Or another very real scenario for not having it connected to the internet for over 24 hours. You're moving and your Xbone is packed away in a box somewhere and/or it takes a couple days for your internet to get hooked up at your new place.

So yeah, April fools. Medical science for transgender women has come far, but not THAT far. Thank you for the well-wishes though. :]

So it's been 3 months and I'm finally past the "danger zone" according to my OB/GYN, so I've decided I can't wait any longer to tell everybody. I've got a little girl on the way, and her name is Sophie Elizabeth Smith. My due date is September 11th (not even joking wtf) and she's looking v...

Well since the Enterpise was designed for space travel, the number of atmospheres it can withstand is anywhere between zero and one.

Of course this is all moot because the Falcon DID fight against a Borg cube in Star Trek: First Contact. And in that appearance, its firepower alone wasn't enough to stop the Borg cube. So you're asking a question that's already been decided in canon.

At least the legal system in Belize will give him a 30 day trial

To give one example, Chrissy Lee Polis was severely beaten in a Baltimore McDonald's for using the women's restroom. The employees of the store did nothing except videotape the incident and post it on YouTube, not even calling the police. Forcing trans people to reveal themselves as transgender just...

Why don't you watch the video at the top of this page. Watch every minute, every second and every frame of it and tell me that promoting this patently incorrect idea that trans women are an inherent threat in restrooms and locker rooms isn't harmful. Statistically, a trans woman like myself is FAR f...

Hey amigocabal thanks for posting this bigoted diatribe. Because I already don't feel like I'm taking my life into my hands every time I have to use the restroom. This bigoted "bathroom panic" horseshit has no bearing on reality, except to contribute towards the fact that 1 in 12 of us wil...

Sidewinder wrote:It's good that such practices are being banned, but how long do you think it'll be before some fanatic sues the California government, claiming the ban is in violation of their freedom of religion (in reality, freedom to act like a bigoted asshole)?

I give it until yesterday

Welp, neither prop 8 or DOMA were on the list of cases the court will not consider today. The full list of cases is due to be released next Monday, or else they might be waiting until after the election.

And the circuit court justices who've been ruling against DOMA? Almost all of them are George W. Bush appointees.

Prop 8 will get tossed out most likely, it's so specific to California law and the 9th's ruling was on such narrow procedural grounds that they most likely won't bother. The DOMA cases will probably get lumped together and if Prop 8 doesn't get tossed out, it'll get lumped in with that as well. Most...

Had Photo Booth open and figured I'd post an updated picture.

I do know that lately there's been a lot of backtracking and distancing going on between progressive groups and big-A Atheists. Because the Atheist Movement has finally started to get called on harboring a lot of racism, misogyny and homophobia. (pretty much everything involving The Amazing Atheist,...

My condolences Frank.

To expand on a point I made earlier, the 77 cents on the dollar wage gap is only for white women compared to white men. TransGriot Link Today Is Equal Pay Day, and the statistic is getting trotted out today ad nauseum that women make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. However, that statistic as ...

Even today, a white cisgendered woman earns 77 cents for every dollar her male counterpart makes. But to say that the pay gap is a 'myth' because women work different jobs or different hours, that argument doesn't hold up. Today is a holiday that no one is interested in celebrating. No, not Tax Day;...

He also didn't check the bottom of the barrel thread where that exact joke was already made. Oh shit, THAT's where it was! I posted my reply, and an hour or two later saw it mentioned in Testing (I thought). I checked Testing and it wasn't there. All credit to Agent Fisher for getting the joke befo...

S/he picked hir name as a provocation, I'm guessing on purpose because I don't know and will never meet hir. If I had seen a contestant with a name like that, I would have DQ'd them on the name alone! Conversely, I probably wouldn't let a contestant named Seymour Butts compete in Mr. Universe, beca...

I'm skeptical that a pre-op transsexual would be allowed to enter. While sadly, you're probably right, it is worth noting that genital surgery is a fairly minor thing in the grand scheme of things and it's really only cisgendered people who make a big deal about it. HRT does much much more to femin...

I guess with Hussie dead, that's the end of homestuck.

RIP

I send myself in the 90's a simple message: "Buy AAPL"

Well, I think that Rick Santorum is fucked

open_sketchbook wrote:The current goings-on are really interesting. We sort of assumed that the Pre-Alternia trolls were pacifistic or something, but it looks like that's an oversimplification.

well, they're pacifistic relative to the A2 troll society

which will make nearly anything seem pacifist in comparison.