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One of the most blatant lies about gender-affirming care for youth also one of the most ubiquitous statements made about it, so I want to be clear:

Affirming a young person's gender identity does not involve sterilizing them. Often, it doesn't involve medical interventions at all. When it does involve medical treatment, most of those treatments do not impact fertility. #trans #transgender #news #journalism

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/chloe-cole-knows-shes-lying-about-sterilization

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You’re commenting this on a Star Trek discussion forum. A show that was founded on the idea that diversity is a strength. Gene Roddenberry specifically cast women in positions of authority, and non-white actors to be the crew of the Enterprise because he wanted to portray a future where humanity had moved beyond such petty bigotries.

A franchise which has persisted for 57 years, and is recognized the world over, founded on the “diversity first” approach you’re lamenting.

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This is actually true though

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Could you please point me in the direction of the goalposts? I swear you had them right here a moment ago…

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Something like the Shawshank Redemption

In the original Stephen King novella, Morgan Freeman’s character is a white Irish guy. I look forward to hearing all about your newfound hatred of this forced diversity.

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Reasons I love #Babylon5, 80/100: 😢

A scene from Babylon 5: Lyta Alexander, looking at herself in a mirror and crying. She is wearing gloves and has a Psi Corps badge on her chest.

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Donald Trump is a fascist. Use the word. https://youtu.be/9XTJNy_OrjE

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Wow.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Michael Phelps doesn't know how to walk.

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#SunMicrosystems price list from 1982.

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Trump's Means of Bullying and His Co-Conspirator Volunteer Lawyers

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/08/trumps-co-conspirator-volunteer-lawyers-and-their-means-of-bullying/

@Sonikku That’s pretty earthshaking!

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Ugh, hate that I had to screenshot that other site but breaking physics news in the last hour of a simulation that seems to confirm the South Korean room temperature semiconductor claim.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892

#Science #Technology #Physics #Semiconductor #News

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@Andercot:

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as
a room-temperature ambient-pressure
superconductor.

Simulations published 1 hour ago on arxiv
support LK-99 as the holy grail of modern
material science and applied physics.
(arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892)

Here's the plain-english explanation:
- The simulations modeled what the original
Korean authors proposed was happening to
their material - where copper atoms were
percolating into a crystal structure and replacing lead atoms, causing the crystal to strain slightly and contract by 0.5%. This unique structure was proposed to allow this amazing property.

- @sineatrix from Lawrence Berkeley National
Lab simulated this using heavy-duty compute
power from the Department of Energy, and
looked to see what would happen to the
'electronic structure' of this material, meaning,
what are the available conduction pathways in
the material.

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- It turns out that there are conduction
pathways for electrons that are in just the right
conditions and places that would enable them
to 'superconduct'. More specifically, they were
close to the 'Fermi Surface' which is like the sea-
level of electrical energy, as in 'O ft above sea-
level.' It's believed currently that the more
conduction pathways close to the Fermi
surface, the higher the temperature you can
superconduct at (An analogy might be how its
easier for planes to fly close to the surface of the ocean due to the 'ground effect' that gives them more lift.)

in smaller energy range around the Fermi level showing the isolated two-band Cu-d manifold. The Fermi level is set to eV and is marked by the dashed line.

This plot in particular shows the 'bands', or
electron pathways, crossing above and below
the Fermi surface.

- Lastly, these interesting conduction pathways

$Tweet 3/3 only form when the copper atom percolates into the less likely location in the crystal lattice, or the 'higher energy' binding site. This means the material would be difficult to synthesize since only a small fraction of crystal gets its copper in just the right location. This is insanely bullish for humanity.$

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Green Tea

#digitalpainting #illustration #painting #drawing #art #mastoart

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Latest read, The Buckskin Line (1999) by Elmer Kelton from Lone Star Rising; a novel of the Texas Rangers, set at the beginning of the Civil War. Kelton, a seven time Spur award winner, was a masterful adventure storyteller who balanced action with characterization and emotional conflict.
Aces.
#Books #Novel #Western #Adventure #ElmerKelton #TexasRanger

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Earth: boiling

Fascism: rising

Aliens: real

Me: $20 pick up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Someone trying to tempt me back to Twitter with this screenshot, saying “come on, won’t it be fun to respond to this?” Their idea of fun may differ from mine.

Lots of people have made fun of my mental illness and openness about it, most often on Twitter. But I’m okay. So far I haven’t looked at one of them and said “wow they seem really happy and successful, I wish I had their life.”

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Hey just die for shareholder profits broiling to death, in the “wealthiest” country in the world, because that wealth is only for a few.
#heatwave
#arizona

https://apnews.com/article/phoenix-heat-air-conditioning-rationing-cooling-center-63f35e2a87fc92ebbf4ccb139ddd6496

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Burning the fossil fuels overtime to keep the AC on in Arizona...
#phoenix #climatechange #heatwave #fossilfuels

Arizona Public Service Company electricity generation by energy source

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My union, SAG-AFTRA, is striking in Hollywood. It represents 160K movie and TV actors, as well as about 500 staffers at NPR. We journalists are not part of this strike but we support our fellow union workers!!!! ❤️ ❤️
I was never part of a union before coming to NPR but quickly learned the power of colleagues helping each other to be treated fairly at work!!!

#solidarity #labor #union #sagaftra #unions #workers

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The North Atlantic just completely destroyed its June average temperature record, breaking the previous record by more than 0.4 °C (0.7 °F).

A stunningly sharp excess for such a large body of water.

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Temperature #Climate #Atlantic

https://berkeleyearth.org/june-2023-temperature-update/

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