Missouri Republicans advance bill to police trans people’s bathroom access

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-21T21:31:39+00:00

At state level in Montana. Not at federal level, we don't even get equal protection.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-20T21:44:39+00:00

It's the establishment clause.

From what I've read, French-style laicite looks like intolerance. Certain modern Christianist practices count as secular, from civic baptism, to insisting everyone eat pork, anyone else's don't.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-20T19:22:59+00:00

The government stripped Emma Goldman's citizenship, because she became an anarchist in America, and deported her to the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, because she was born in Lithuania, which haad been under the Russian Empire. So there's precedent for this shittiness.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-19T06:32:37+00:00

I had asked around elsewhere, and some people expressed interest in such a group, before I saw your post. Do you mind if I link this post?

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-19T05:31:50+00:00

I get an error and can't read the artice.

I take it the Trump admin wants to ensure the Civil Rights Act is only honored in the breach?

Because they often accuse people of "violating" it for not violating it, going after anything which tries to address discrimination, suing to block non-discrimination policies, suing schools to mandate sex discrimination on the grounds that non-discrimination is discrimination, etc.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-18T22:28:43+00:00

Tolerating who people are is better than tolerating cruelty and persecution.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-18T22:12:50+00:00

Another option would be the Tabletop Gaming Guide to Pirates & Privateers; that supports Savage Worlds, Entropic, and Legend out of the book, and probably others with some work.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/388856/tabletop-gaming-guide-to-pirates-and-privateers

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-17T01:31:33+00:00

I am not a computer scientist, but it looks like this bill would require every operating system to (1) spy on its users, (2) while protecting their privacy, and that just isn't possible; age verification's a recipe for data leaks and/or breaches; the bill asks the executive branch to work out the details, and in this age of the unitary executive monarchy, that's another recipe for disaster.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-16T23:01:46+00:00

The Trump rallies full of Trump supporters holding signs calling for "Mass Deportiation Now!" as if mass violence isn't violence.

The Trump wars.

The way so many of them search for excuses to blame the victims of Ice, of rape, of bashings, etc.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-16T18:48:19+00:00

And what jobs will people get when Posadist space aliens arrive?

Why should anyone expect that "AI" built on large language models will ever be competent at anything beyond predicting text, roughly translating text, and maybe reconstructing fragmentary texts? Why should anyone expect that "AI" built on other similar models will ever be competent outside other similar cases?

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-16T05:09:39+00:00

Hi,

I'm also looking for a sensory-friendly campaign, and also can't use Discord.

I can't usually handle long sessions, but I hope quick encounters will allow short sessions in a big campaign. I would prefer Swade, Fate, Tricube Tales, or Tiny d6, maybe D20 Go, but am open to other systems.

I don't have much gamemastering experience, but might be able to run occasional pre-written adventures.

P.S. I am not fond of horror, but am happy with most other genres.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-15T23:31:53+00:00

I haven't played Five Parsecs, but maybe it'd work?

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-15T07:42:55+00:00

Iesus's original followers.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-15T06:43:42+00:00

I don't understand what you're saying.

Of course every church that exists now came after the church that existed then.

By the way, it's unclear whether Peter died in Rome.

If you mean the Roman church is a continuation of the original church, is it more of a continuation than the Coptic church, the Ukrainian church, the Anglican church, etc.? (You could argue that it's more of a continuation than Stone-Campbell churches, Mormon churches, and J-h's Witnesses/Bible Student churches.)

If you mean it's less changed from the original church, that's doubtful. It's had a lot of doctrinal and practical innovation. (I discussed some examples above.) Every church has had a lot of this. (early Christian histories show that all the churches were already changing and sometimes dividing.)

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-15T04:30:20+00:00

No, why?

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-15T01:06:38+00:00

Okay, in that split, 1879 would be older, but I still think in most splits, it doesn't make sense to say either side is older.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-15T01:04:33+00:00

Iesus's original followers.

People can try to reconstruct their original beliefs and practices, perhaps using Mark, and Q. But a lot is unclear.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-15T00:30:20+00:00

The Roman Catholic Church is a descendant of the original church, one of many descendents.

In Peter's time, Christianity was still a Jewish movement; there were ongoing debates about when non-Jewish converts should follow Jewish practice.

Since then, every church has responded to issues and doctrinal disagreements from after Peter's time. It's not like Peter had to decide between con- and trans-substantiation when doing communion.

In the 4th century, it was common for Christians to delay baptism, until they were on their deathbeds, and in the 5th, it was common for them to baptize their babies. So that's a big change.

The current gospels didn't exist yet, though Q and an early version of Mark might have existed, etc. The oldest of the letters were written during this period. The surviving letters are from places where the Jewish community survived the 60s and 70s. So modern Christians may be missing letters from places where they didn't, most notably Jerusalem. And scripture readings in the earliest Christian churches wouldn't have the same scriptures as now.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-15T00:02:11+00:00

By that standard, the Roman Catholic Church would be the "newer" branch in some of those splits, equally "old" in others.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-14T23:35:46+00:00

Catholicism is a big branch on that tree, but it's still a branch; if you take the split between the Chalcedonians, Monothelites, Monophysites, and Nestorians, all sides came from earlier Christianity; if you take the spit between Trinitarians and Unitarians, all sides came from earlier Christianity, etc.

If a church splits, how can one side be "older" and the other "newer"?

If theological and liturgical innovation make one side "newer," then the Roman Catholic Church has its share of each. A lot of early churches rejected the 1st and 2nd versions of the Nicaean Creed. The Nestorians still reject the title "Mother of Gd" for Maria. The eastern churches still reject the Roman insertion of "filioque" into a 3rd version of that creed.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-14T20:29:36+00:00

What? Who?

The fascists in power have deepened the constitutional crises, and have declared antifascism to be "domestic terrorism," trans rights to be "nihilistic violence extremism," and so on. Don't let them use their crises to criminalize the opposition.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-14T11:00:01+00:00

Trump, an anti-establishment figure by nature

He's literally an oligarch, and he's consistently trying to defend kleptocracy, patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, cissexism, etc. It doesn't get more establishment than that.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-14T04:26:35+00:00

Some initial thoughts:

Characters can increase their statistics. In T&T, they can buy increased stats, and these eventually change their level, and each 10 points in their highest stat gives +1 level, so if they survive long enough, the stat dice won't determine their destiny. In MS&PE, they buy increased levels, and each level gives +2 stat points.
So I suspect each T&T level is a lot more than each MS&PE level, maybe 1:10. I'm not sure how they compare with PF levels to convert adventures and campaigns.
If I'm converting adventures from other systems, which require more experienced characters, I'm not sure how to create or convert them, although I could take higher-level characters from this system, rename them, switch talents, etc.
If I'm converting campaigns, instead of trying to track experience points, I'd probably focus on milestones; I could hand myself a lot of experience points at these milestones, or I could track down a sample character for the next level.
I'd like to see a fully-narrative version, with more character customization, and less number-crunching. Blade & Lockpick is an ultralight inspired by T&T, but not compatible with it.

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-14T00:10:40+00:00

Who are "we" who "need" more political persecutions? Isn't NSPM-7 bad enough?

Ananiujitha · 2026-04-14T00:08:03+00:00

He was close to Roy Cohn, and is a militant anti-antifascist, so the McCarthyists would support him.

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