On priors, you’re talking about the Cass report, which was in fact massively flawed, and I saw a great deal of discussion on it. Among other issues, they tossed out a lot of studies, and wrote the report from the stance that the only studies worth looking at would have been double blind studies. I’m not sure if you’ve considered this specifically, but it’s pretty damn hard to blind starting to grow boobs or facial hair. Cass, the supposedly neutral party conducting the study, was handing out copies of “Irreversible Damage”, a scaremongering antitrans book about how the poor helpless young “women” were being seduced by big trans. It was garbage, and there’s plenty of writeups on it.

https://kinesismagazine.com/2025/02/16/methodological-and-ethical-failures-of-the-cass-review-why-it-falls-short-as-a-guideline-for-trans-healthcare/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-k-s-cass-review-badly-fails-trans-children/

If they can’t afford to maintain it in a changing world, perhaps we should nationalize the infrastructure that we all depend on.

In theory, we know how to build super dense city. In practice, we build gigantic suburban sprawl.

Every nominee must have a full and competitive primary every single cycle, regardless of incumbency.

What happens if a given seat doesn’t actually have primary competitors? Do we just assign someone by lottery?

Endemic is not an improvement on the situation. It’s just an acknowledgement that we were inadequate to deal with it when it was reasonably possible, and are giving up now. I don’t leave the house without a P100, because my species appears to be insane.

If someone is in prison, IE, in the care of the state, and unable to choose their own paths, the state is therefore responsible for that person’s well-being. In other words, the state is morally mandated to give that person food, medical care, etc.

If you don’t want inmates “receiving better coverage and health care than a law-abiding citizen”, fucking get law-abiding citizens, you dicksneeze!

Loans pay out.

I wear a P100 because I can’t trust my fellow Americans to wear so much as a scarf.

What do you mean, “since”? COVID is still running freaking riot. We just stopped acknowledging it.

You don’t have to fail with abandon

Cue anyone sane: “Well-regulated.”