Pup Biru

as someone else pointed out a specific example that comes up regularly (this is apparently already how it works): 1 particular brand of peanut butter was available, but their lite version wasn’t… with a cart full of groceries, figuring out exactly what gets paid for with what or what needs to be put back isn’t a fast process… this takes not only the persons time, but the cashiers time and everyone behind them in the queue

these are things we call negative externalities: costs forced to other places in the system without being accounted for in price

there are many, many, MANY more costs associated with any government program and intervention but this specific example would cost the country as a whole far more than the occasional unhealthy snack

It’s not about them existing

that’s what it’s turned into though… the UK supreme court just basically ruled that trans people don’t exist, and the US has banned gender markers on passports that don’t match your birth certificate, as well as all the horrible things happening in florida and texas

women’s changing rooms, bathrooms

there’s a few things to unpack there…

first, if you believe trans people should be allowed to exist, then there are trans men that look wayyyyyy more masc than most men do so you’re forcing a bearded, muscly dude to use the women’s bathroom: not exactly what anyone wants if when presenting good faith arguments

second, what’s the issue this causes? lesbians and gay men already exist, and are allowed into the bathrooms of the gender they’re sexually attracted to and it doesn’t cause an issue

third, it’s an invented problem… trans people have been going into the bathrooms they feel like using for quite some time and have never caused issues until it started to become a hot topic, and the people causing issues were the people trying to yell at trans people and instead started yelling at women who “looked manly”. trans people don’t want to cause waves - they want to blend in…

as for men who identify as men going into women’s bathrooms to be pervs, well, that’s easy - we already have laws against that and they were working fine

sports teams

sure, that one’s less clear cut when athletes haven’t taken steps to affirm their gender

but again it hasn’t really been a problem: men tend not to want to say they’re women, take estrogen, and have surgery on their cock and balls (a phalloplasty, which costs $20k-$50k) to beat women at sports (or to enter the women’s bathroom to be a perv)

and for kids sports - a category of humans who are not given surgery despite what some elements in the debate would have people believe - gender is irrelevant until puberty, and afaik the standard treatment for trans kids is puberty blockers, which are entirely reversible and essentially make the issue of male muscle bulk irrelevant too (again, these entirely reversible, safe medicines designed to give people more time to explore their gender identity with an adult brain have been banned in several places across the US - a move that is only about hurting people or ignorance and erasing trans existence)

personally, my reasoning for saying it trounces it is the integration of all the tools: no switching to after effects etc

but beyond that, ppro colour correction is just soooooo far behind

granted i haven’t really used it much, so i might not have “got” its workflow - it took a while for resolves to click - but it just seems so disjointed and clunky to do anything beyond cutting together a basic video

insurance is always a gamble, and the house always wins

don’t insure anything you can afford to lose, and save up money you’d put into insurance in a HISA

that said, things you can’t afford to lose probably include your house, someone else’s lamborghini, your health

buuuuuuut US health care is set up for bargaining: hospitals overcharge, pharmacies overcharge, drug companies overcharge because they all know insurance companies aren’t gonna pay what they actually charge because they have bargaining power… which, if you don’t have insurance, leaves you holding the fucking ball with no bargaining power

… all of this is said as an aussie, with universal healthcare and only a passing (but real life) experience of the US healthcare system (and in general a system that will protect me from fucking up so hard i can’t even imagine being completely destitute), so grain of salt n all that

but how are trans people impacting anyone else?

yes and no… essentially they’re http services that people run, so they can either be closed or FOSS… i could see a future where there’s like those 1-click “run on <serverless platform>” on github pages and you can audit the code if you want, and self host

they call them “feeds” if you’re interested in going deep

and you’re just using the term accessibility to mean a11y… the word accessibility is far broader than simply accessibility standards for people with disabilities

and bluesky doesn’t have a default algorithm either, but allows you to subscribe to algorithms created by other people

being able to choose how the information is presented is the way

that is both possible, and doesn’t invalidate that it’s also a nazi dog whistle

that’s what ya get for using dog whistles constantly

the only argument that matters: let people live their lives however they like as long as it doesn’t impact anyone else

trans rights fit this absolutely perfectly

i’d guess some amount of dunning-kruger… find people with too much experience and they’ll say “na that’s simplistic we can’t do it”… find people juuuust experienced enough to have done basic things and they won’t know just how complex things can get

this is a very typical thing in IT: juniors almost universally try to apply schemas to the world so everything fits in a database - they assume that people always have 3 names, that addresses are simple, that dealing with time zones is trivial… reality is far more complex than that; the universe doesn’t fit in neat little boxes

sounds like microsoft hasn’t learned their lesson with what constitutes legally anti competitive behaviour

lol look at you thinking in 2024 like the law matters

okay then, let’s stop short and say they’re neo nazi dog whistles then

Davinci Resolve has to be one of the most jam packed free software packages available… seriously, it absolutely trounces Premiere at evvvverything

the model of free for everything except if features you’d want for producing a professional movie, and financed by hardware sales - that you don’t need unless you’re a professional - is absolutely incredible for home users

either way it’s bad: either vote splitting happens or people vote strategically and not actually what they want

FPTP is a fucking scourge

really sad that FPTP here led to the inevitable outcome: the only party that shouldn’t have won did win

yeah it’s way closer than it has any right to be that’s for sure

not everyone that downloads content isn’t paying for it… they might just want it in a place or format that isn’t being provided

thankfully our 2 party preferred polls look almost the identical to canadas!