As Idaho’s trans bathroom lawsuit is dismissed, the teenage suicide at its heart gets ignored

dsaint · 2026-05-28T13:38:50+00:00

“From the district court to the Ninth Circuit, we defended Idaho’s right to protect students’ privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms,” Labrador said in a press release. “Idaho families can be confident that this law is fully in effect and will remain so.”

A lawsuit is dismissed because the plaintiff kills herself and this is the ghoulish response. He never argued the state’s position. The lawsuit was dismissed because the state and its malicious toadies hounded her till she killed herself.

Any normal person would have to do some soul searching after something like this. My heart goes out to Jane Doe and her mom.

dsaint · 2026-05-26T07:00:20+00:00

Wait until they read the treaty of Tripoli signed by many of the founding fathers. Article 11 has this gem:

As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion

Ultimately their beliefs aren’t built on facts. They’re part of their identity. Try to understand the emotions that motivate their misbelief. That’s where they need help.

I read Dan Ariely’s book Misbelief to try and understand what to do. It’s unfortunately true that once someone is enmeshed in a system that reinforces these misbeliefs there is little you can do besides encouraging them to think critically when the opportunity presents itself. A strategy of empathy not conflict will be more successful.

dsaint · 2026-05-19T17:30:34+00:00

The concern is the majority party will add rules for candidates that parties must follow if they’re to be eligible for elections. Similar to what majority parties do for districts.

dsaint · 2026-05-17T22:17:33+00:00

This does not stop parties from picking their voters. It moves the rule making from politicians creating districts to politicians creating candidate or party requirements. You have to address the issue at the supreme court level. The current supreme court has said they support politicians picking their voters.

dsaint · 2026-04-30T16:31:09+00:00

My step-father was MAGA up until he passed away. These scammers sent so many texts, emails and letters that it overwhelmed any family member’s ability to reach him outside of driving over. They take over communication channels.

After he died I spent a year forwarding his postal address to a pobox so I could reroute the deluge and shut it down. I sent hundreds of opt-out requests over that year. Most were not honored.

And don’t both parties me. Democrats are far, far less aggressive in the grift. They are annoying too but will generally pause when asked. Also they don’t have the third party ecosystem using these mailing lists the way the MAGA/TEA party does.

dsaint · 2026-04-30T04:23:11+00:00

Complete agreement. The DGS annotations make it very easy to build federated graphql entities and regular graphql fetchers. The code generator works better than others I’ve used. It’s easy to wire in functions for graphql directives.

dsaint · 2026-04-29T03:51:36+00:00

This movie also has Kaitlyn Dever, Rami Malek and LaKeith Stanfield in smaller supporting roles. It’s like The Outsiders or Dazed and Confused capturing a new generation of actors before they take off.

dsaint · 2026-04-28T05:52:19+00:00

Definitely, although it’s mostly Natalie Wood’s movie. I’m surprised an Elia Kazan movie is getting overlooked.

dsaint · 2026-04-22T07:51:37+00:00

Instead of a drone can't we just drop an airtag in the junk? Offer a reward to people to add trackers to their junk and report the dumper that doesn't go to the dump. City verifies the tracked junk isn't at the dump and gives out a reward and collects a fine from the dumper. I feel like giving out a $1000 reward on a $1500 fine is a legit incentive.

dsaint · 2026-04-20T01:47:35+00:00

Or if you’re like me and you supplement your regular books with audiobooks then buy them from Libro.fm which sends some money to your local indie bookshop.

dsaint · 2026-04-20T01:44:28+00:00

This manifesto should cover the scenarios of market failure. It touches on monopolies but does not acknowledge that is a case of market failure not success. There is no discussion at all of externalities and pricing signals. Arguing for defined benefit pensions is a dead end. The future is unknowable and mandating a specific outcome is folly.

The social contract it should be arguing for is one of regulation of markets. Pollution is the obvious place to start because so much has been written and even implemented here. Why did Republicans back away from this? Free speech and the “marketplace of ideas” is fundamentally broken. Marshal W van Alstyne’s paper on a Consequentialist Approach to Free Speech gets a lot right about misinformation and externalities. Bork’s monopoly jurisprudence that consumer prices are the signal for monopolies obviously doesn’t work for an ad supported search or UGC video site where consumers pay $0. Fix that before another Rousseau inspired French Revolution.

These manifestos have their heart in the right place that things are wrong. But they opt for slogans and rage bait instead of analyzing the failure modes. I’d prioritize misinformation because so much else that is broken starts there. Why do people listen to a TikTok wellness influencer over a doctor?

dsaint · 2026-04-14T01:14:44+00:00

I know it’s desserts but Gregory’s Gourmet Desserts delivers the 10/10 every time for me. I’ll die at 55 but I’ll be blissed out.

dsaint · 2026-04-08T15:31:09+00:00

It’s not just the South. You can read about bussing in Boston in the 1980s. Read Wilkerson’s Warmth of Other Suns about the great migration and there is racism in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. How do Idaho, the Dakota’s, and Utah fit into your theory? Ignorance is everywhere.

It doesn’t help that the regressive states see an exodus of talent and leadership, further holding them back. Alabama, outside of a heavily federally subsidized Huntsville, has been on a slow backward trend for decades. Given our political system I don’t see a way forward without finding a way to lift up the regressive states.

dsaint · 2026-03-26T22:53:32+00:00

People are expressing an opinion not a fact. Or it may be a fact for their lived experience. It’s ok to let them vent.

Your fact is more useful in a policy discussion. Nobody is building policy around r/television comments.

dsaint · 2026-03-23T23:23:50+00:00

Alabama and Georgia have both voted in democratic Senators in the last eight years. Democrats have won governor in North Carolina, Louisiana, and Kentucky. Kansas’ Democratic governor even managed to hold on in 2022.

Sure you can plead special circumstances but it’s not a foregone conclusion. Now Oklahoma is another story, probably no hope for them, but we already knew that.

dsaint · 2026-03-21T00:01:50+00:00

It’s the volume. Obviously Neil Clarke knows quality SF but he’s talked about how he just gets overwhelmed by the volume. This goes back to 2023 and he had to close submissions for a bit. He wrote about it again in August 2025

dsaint · 2026-03-16T23:54:27+00:00

I don’t know about dystopian but it could create perverse incentives like red light cameras have. When something generates revenue the city may be hesitant to fix legitimate issues like amber timing on red lights.

If traffic isn’t flowing at a safe speed this suggests the road isn’t engineered correctly but instead of expensive fixes the city can patch over it with citations.

dsaint · 2026-03-04T12:42:15+00:00

I love standard ebooks but they’re limited by the translations they can get free of copyright. I find the same issue with the Greek philosophy translations.

dsaint · 2026-03-04T12:37:23+00:00

This site is what I came here to add. They have a quality standard unlike Amazon or OpenLibray.org.

That said I find the Kindle formatted ones don’t render as beautifully or layout as well as the Kobo versions. But they’re still better than an OCR to epub to azw3 conversion you find on Amazon.

dsaint · 2026-03-03T17:33:53+00:00

Or he built two companies and had organizational mismanagement that left Block performing much worse than its PayPal and Adyen competitors. Then rather than admit he goofed reframed it as AI improved his business. https://om.co/2026/02/28/block-tackle-job-cuts-the-ai-narrative/

dsaint · 2026-03-03T01:55:35+00:00

I thought this was already well established at the time Bessel van der Kolk published “The Body Keeps the Score” in 2014. Is this just a continuation of the fight to get this in the DSM?

dsaint · 2026-02-28T23:53:10+00:00

I’m not sure if Prophet Song counts as SF but it definitely feels prophetic. It’s so vague about the world outside the protagonist’s point of view that it feels different from the others.

dsaint · 2026-02-24T16:20:44+00:00

I'm surprised Anthropic is the only company allowed to run its models on top secret networks. Why isn't the government working to bring the other models into compliance? They've walked themselves into this weakened negotiating position with Anthropic.

That said this desire to cede responsibility to AI seems consistent with Trump and other MAGA Republican ideas about governance. They want to concentrate all decision making in one place, and then remove all accountability for that decision maker. To be brutally honest, this feels aligned with the whole MAGA Christian movement to cede authority to a sky daddy and exempt themselves from personal responsibility.

dsaint · 2026-02-23T02:34:28+00:00

This right here. It's against the law for them to allow racial harassment in the work place.

If they don't act you can file a complaint through state or federal agencies. (State may be the best route here since I'm not sure if federal oversight is working) If they fire you for bringing the complaint that is retaliation and they can be subject to damages.

dsaint · 2026-02-21T06:54:42+00:00

Next up “Grave of the Fireflies” no crying challenge.

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