They don’t so much ‘change sex’ as they grow reproductive organs in response to conditions and blast sperm and/or eggs everywhere, sometimes both at the same time.

I really hate that this is some of the toughest public language I have seen about Israel from an American official.

Absolute parody.

‘HOA Board member’ puts this entire thread of conversation into perfect context.

If a state is to be held accountable for non-state actors then I do not believe Israel or the United States has any moral high ground whatsoever. Even less than if we strictly limit the scope to only state actions.

Very plausibly what started as a FBI monitoring tool which no longer has any staff with knowledge of the program anymore.

Why can’t your workers be your workers, your family be your family, your friends be your friends?

They hate it when you clown on Sparta like a smug Athenian too.

It’s been the go-to opinion of the (pharmaceutical) medical community right about since… immediately after some states decriminalized.

Part of my 2025 mental and physical health plan has been building and landscaping my little slice of land to go from an unfenced hillside of lawn to a walled and terraced garden.

Removed the sod and got a dumptruck load of granite stones at the start of the year. I am building using a dry stone technique and moving it all by hand on purpose. Currently finishing the main terraces and wall base, beginning raised garden beds now. Every day I move a couple stones into place and it feels like an accomplishment that is quite literally building on itself.

I look forward to seeing how it (continues to) come together.

To be honest I had not explored the possibility a great deal on how the transmission would matter in conversion. I know a few companies had explored simulated gearboxes and transmissions for their vehicles, and that was about as deep as my understanding was.

I assumed the transmission and gearbox had utility in EV but it does appear less important. Most conversions from what I saw essentially lock the vehicle in a gear.

Still I feel like there’d be energy to save utilizing those components, but the benefit seems outweighed by the effort. I am no EV expert after all.

I have considered putting a banner like this on my old manual compact. I get post-it notes and flyers asking me to sell every other month.

Yeah the window seals are going moss, but I’ll convert that thing to EV before selling, and I’m seriously considering conversion.

Manual transmission EV would be nice…

The first one was fairly clever in that they had probably 50 years of collective ideas and inspiration to work off of. It’s a story that needed to push no boundaries and hold to established tropes, with no expectations because it was a ride: perfect for Disney.

Now when Disney gets their hands on an established franchise full of expectations…

They’re likely repurposing existing mechanisms western companies already have built and use. IIRC Apple or Amazon admitted this when they clarified they weren’t ‘listening’ per se.

My history is lacking on the conflict but IIRC the area was ‘run’ as a monarchy under British rule. The monarchy was Hindu but the population was largely Muslim.

So you had a local population in conflict with a ruling class inheriting being a mechanism of the colonial apparatus.

Ctrl+A + Del.

So clean.

Namely: there became another human in our lives. Our children became our central focus in our lives.

Being a family is a different dynamic and being a parent is a significant role in life. It is a relentless onslaught of needs and chores for someone that is neither of you. Babies don’t know boundaries and that has a very real effect on their caregivers.

If you’re birthing a baby: be aware of post partem, don’t be afraid to seek help, talk about it, and you deserve a chance to breathe regularly.

If someone is birthing your baby: giving that someone alone time with themselves (usually by having time with said baby yourself) is one of the most important devices for bringing you all together sans conflict.

Essentially if a mother can get the mental load of parenting off for a day–a few hours even–there should not be any (new) trouble acheiving or maintaining intimacy.

How many football fields is that?

as real team members with proper contracts, onboarding, and as long as they aren’t replaced every three weeks.

Yes, as that would be elevating the working conditions of workers in that scenario, which is usually on the table as an option regardless. This economic model however is reliant on enabling the opposite. The door being open for cheap expendable labor is the underlying purpose and point.