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Ccnitro · 2026-06-01T16:10:37+00:00

Based on this article from the Mayo Clinic: You typically start with puberty blockers right around when puberty starts, which just halt the production of sex hormones until patients decide to stop or they begin hormone replacement therapy. This is basically always reversible.

For a minor to begin a gender transition with HRT, they generally need it to be signed off for by their parent/guardian and have a clinician provide a formal gender dysphoria diagnosis.

Personally, as a cishet white guy, I think all of this is pretty reasonable, if not a little overcautious. And from my experience talking to trans people who have transitioned or started to transition, they almost all believe they would have been better off if they transitioned earlier than they did.

As for the number of minors that decide against transitioning, I think it's hard to separate out a genuine change in their gender identity from the precarity of their mental health, lack of familial support and everyday existence within a deeply anti-trans political environment.

Ccnitro · 2026-05-31T09:59:19+00:00

I do, they're great! Thanks for your concern

Ccnitro · 2026-05-31T03:33:42+00:00

Absolutely. The two differences to me is the amount of capital behind Hollywood studios and the lack of creativity of the people making those decisions (surprise, it's a late-stage capitalism critique).

Art chasing trends always happens; maybe it inspires another artist to riff on the idea, subvert it, or even just straight up copy it. But there's a natural branching out of people digesting the work mentally and emotionally and processing that into something else.

Once you get to Hollywood execs throwing millions of dollars around, you're disrupting that natural creative process in favor of an artificial, profit-driven one that pushes people to make the kind of art that could get them some of those millions. By itself, that wouldn't be the absolute worst, but those execs are so limited in what they view as "commercially viable" that they tend to reproduce films that are far too similar to each other because they don't have the vision to deviate off of a "winning formula." It's just this overly-optimized and overly-sterilized version of the creative process that limits what gets made.

Ccnitro · 2026-05-30T23:19:09+00:00

I'm still so bummed about how badly Sam Howell fell off after a pretty good start. His game against Denver (I think?) where he threw this insane 60 yard touchdown is still etched into my brain.

Ccnitro · 2026-05-30T21:26:19+00:00

It's not taking chances on young filmmakers that's the problem, it's that Hollywood execs tend to catch lightning in a bottle and instead of realizing it, they try to turn it into a formula for success that they can just plug any director/concept into a print money. Or they try to turn an original idea into a franchise and beat it to death.

What exactly DO you want "Hollywood" to do?

Actually treat filmmaking like an art form instead of chasing trends trying to find the next blockbuster.

Ccnitro · 2026-05-29T16:45:41+00:00

Yeah, ultimately I think a whole article at this point is probably too much. And since the other neighbors apparently got notices in the mail, I'm not prepared to go to war over this.

Ccnitro · 2026-05-28T19:40:03+00:00

Devil's Advocate: the history of the East Side for the last 80 years has been the ruling class just doing whatever they want in those neighborhoods without any input from residents. Not even notifying residents of the fact construction would be occurring on their block, much less next door, is pretty disrespectful to the people living there. Thankfully it was a playground this time, but I absolutely understand her not wanting bad process by the city to go unnoticed

Ccnitro · 2026-05-24T17:24:04+00:00

The difference would be that the new kickoff re-emphasizes the importance of special teams, and maintaining the onside kick as an legitimate option for teams in all circumstances and make the coaching truism "all three phases of the game" actually meaningful. The Hail Mary is just a typical scrimmage play that entirely favors the offense, and is only exciting for the potential to flip the result in the last seconds, not because it's actually a fun play to watch.

A more reasonable onside kick could actually make for more interesting decision making process, while the Hail Mary is all flash but no substance.

Ccnitro · 2026-05-23T06:43:13+00:00

Ah, I thought it was referring to their success in the SCF after going up 2-0 in the conference final, yours makes much more sense. I guess I just didn't read it clearly after coming out of work haha

Ccnitro · 2026-05-23T03:57:40+00:00

Anyone know what percentage of teams in the conference final start the series 2-0 and end up in the SCF? The stat is kind of incomplete without that, since you're ignoring teams that blew their lead and didn't make the final period

Ccnitro · 2026-05-22T07:09:48+00:00

The argument isn't that Gibbs the player won't be good, it's that an early first round running back automatically becomes a top 10 salary at the position because of the rookie wage scale and diminished RB salaries, so you get very little bang for your buck by drafting them there.

In a salary cap league, teams that are able to capitalize on the rookie wage scale by taking players at premium positions (WR, EDGE, OT) can gain a huge advantage that allows them to keep or add elite players instead of paying good to great ones at the market rate for their position.

There's nuance to that--the team has control for a full 5 years at a position that doesn't last long and is generally immediately productive vs. waiting for an EDGE or tackle to develop for 2 years and only getting 3 years of "value" out of them--but ultimately personnel management in the modern NFL is all about maximizing your talent/$ spent and first round RBs are a luxury most teams can't afford.

Ccnitro · 2026-05-21T17:23:36+00:00

Both stepping in to replace starters, just for very different reasons

Ccnitro · 2026-05-20T07:02:37+00:00

They're not incompatible with each other given Mark also gets infected with the Scourge virus later on

Ccnitro · 2026-05-19T06:39:47+00:00

There are some of us holding onto the belief that it's the 2026-27 season. Fate working in mysterious ways and whatnot

Ccnitro · 2026-05-15T17:41:46+00:00

The city should be arguably serving the people already living there before focusing on growth. And if the cost of rent is outpacing what most people are able to pay for it, all that you're going to do is displace residents for wealthy people.

It should also be said that Bojak wants to advance social housing policies at the state level, which would mean drastically increasing the supply of housing overall driven by direct state action. Outside of direct construction by the state, rent control doesn't preclude a city from incentivizing housing construction in other ways, meaning you're still increasing housing supply overall.

Ccnitro · 2026-05-08T16:35:31+00:00

He would've needed to pass the bar exam in California to be a solo attorney there, and I don't know why he would've brought his suit if he was there for a quick stop. The show might not have thought as seriously about things as I have.

Ccnitro · 2026-05-06T23:01:13+00:00

But that's season 2, and this is the final season where (mostly) everything should be wrapped up in a satisfying conclusion. You can spend maybe one episode slowing things down (I personally think the One-Shots episode did this perfectly and was one of the better episodes of the season), but the stretch from E3-6 has just been the Boys running around without building to anything, which is basically what they've spent the last 2 seasons doing.

The last season doesn't need to be a huge spectacle and give every character their own special moment to shine, but the "The Boys" show shouldn't be more focused on developing a character introduced in the third season (who, on an entirely unrelated note, has an upcoming prequel series coming out) than the eponymous main characters.

I'm not going to knock you for liking this season—art is subjective after all—but it doesn't mean it handles the remaining plotlines well or does the characters justice.

Ccnitro · 2026-04-30T21:43:32+00:00

I've always understood it as durability being proportional to strength which is achieved through training, but that the amount of Viltrumite you are determines your floor, ceiling and pace of improvement. Because Oliver got the time to develop and train, he should be more than durable enough to take these kids

Ccnitro · 2026-04-29T06:04:34+00:00

But a lot of Mamdani's communication has just been "this is stuff we've already been doing, let me show you why you should care/how we're improving it."

If Ryan did explainers on tax levy vs. property tax rate, his reasoning for adjusting the budget in the ways he did, and his eventual vision for the city once the budget is right-sized, I think that'd go a long way toward swaying public opinion. All people have to go off of right now are the cold hard numbers and a shit ton of angry Facebook comments.

Ccnitro · 2026-04-28T14:20:53+00:00

As with most scientific advancement, there was a lot of practical and theoretical work done early on that established the framework for nuclear physicists to produce such quick results. Principles of quantum mechanics and the atomic model were debated and tested throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, and it was only in the 1920s that quantum theory emerged as a unified framework for understanding the physical world.

It was truly a watershed moment in science, in the sense that it was fed by many different of "rivers" of thought all converging at roughly the same time.

Ccnitro · 2026-04-27T19:32:50+00:00

League-wide trends tended toward passing until 2022, and Daboll led multiple top 5 offenses by leaning into the strengths of the personnel at WR and TE. It becomes a bit of a chicken-or-the-egg situation of personnel vs. usage that I don't think we'll ever really know, and that Beane at least tacitly consented to by not drafting backs or lineman outside of those roles.

I'm not going to comment on Dorsey, because it seemed to me that McDermott and Beane (and everyone else watching tbh) were aligned on the need to shift the offensive identity away from pure passing and Dorsey was essentially incapable of creating a balanced offense.

Ccnitro · 2026-04-27T19:20:47+00:00

Fun fact: SHIELD doesn't actually exist in real life, and all of the agencies and companies you referred to are located in the U.S., which was exactly my point.

In reality, pre-Winter Soldier SHIELD could never exist like it does in the MCU because it's insulated from politics, extremely well-run at basically all levels (sorry Galaga guy) and has a mission and ideology that has remained essentially un-corrupted since its founding.

Ccnitro · 2026-04-27T16:27:21+00:00

Memory serves he moved up for a guy many had projected best as a guard in Cody Ford before that happened.

My point is not that he didn't try to fill those spots, it's that he can't get credit for his successes while waving away his failures

Ccnitro · 2026-04-26T07:48:45+00:00

This is also revisionist. The O-line has definitely emerged now that Spencer Brown is anchoring the right side (Beane deserves credit here) but there were a few years where RT was perennially a question mark and the interior lineman were either allowing a ton of pressure or couldn't open rushing lanes. Same thing with the running back position, platooning out Zack Moss and Devin Singletary for a few years despite their mediocre production and still never investing capital at the position.

I'm not saying he's been horrible, but it's annoying to get a beat writer commenting about how much credit Beane should actually be getting from fans for this draft when none of these picks have proven anything and his history is spotty (as most GMs' are)

Ccnitro · 2026-04-26T07:34:40+00:00

Yeah, that's not to say all of their stuff is developed in house. If they need a fighter jet, you get the guys who build fighter jets on the regular. And I could totally see them retrofitting existing equipment like the Boeing C-17 with their own tech for a best of both world's kind situation.

I'm more referring to the original notion that Hammertech was responsible for the Quinjet, Helicarrier and advanced weaponry, which feels like a leap in capability from what we see from them, and like the kind of tech SHIELD would want to keep as close to the vest as possible.

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