Bog O’Bones

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Monster kid of the new millennium.

Nearly 97 percent of transgender people who received hormone therapy as teenagers did not regret it five years later, a study found. Though some patients did regret medically transitioning, those rates are relatively low compared to other medical interventions.

Most transgender people have no regrets years after hormone therapy, study says

The study, conducted by researchers in Texas, is the largest yet to examine satisfaction and regret in people who transitioned before they reached adulthood.

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In the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, Chuck Schumer “intervened on Facebook's behalf…, telling a prominent Dem critic of the company to back off”. (See 2018 reporting.) His daughter worked for FB at the time. (See also 2018 reporting.) Another daughter now works for OpenAI. 1/

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Sen. Chuck Schumer intervened on Facebook's behalf this summer, telling a prominent Democratic critic of the company to back off
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Hey, just saw American Booksellers Association warning member bookstores that supply chain issues are forecast to be terrible this holiday season, so my advice to you is BUY THE BOOK when you see it on the shelf and don't wait until later. Because you might never see it again.

Frankly that Unity's developer support team (a level of support that developers have historically been forced to pay massive amounts for) could not figure this one out is more of an indictment against Unity's reducing ability to enable and support game development than it is of House House?

@steve-coan.bsky.social · 2d ago

took me 3 hours but I figured out the “URP culling shadowcasters behind the camera” issue House House cites in their disclosure. This culls immediately when the object is off-camera, but modifying the culling params with a custom frustrum is straightforward

"Just following orders" has long been held as an invalid justification for war crimes. The whole concept of preventing war crimes leans on the notion that anyone at any level of decision-making should refuse the execution of war crimes, and war crimes only happen if every single layer fails.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d ago

Hegseth on impeachment: "This is not about me…This resolution is the next step. Put the secretary on trial today and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow."