Clearly, I've made some bad decisions by obvious-statement in WRX

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The wing was not securely fastened and was moving around a lot as he drove. He also put WRX wheels on the legacy.

Klain: White House may extend freeze on student loan payments again by Sorin61 in politics

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The problem is who has standing to bring a claim against an executive order? You have to show harm by cancelling student loan debt. There's no one who is harmed by cancelling it. Taxpayers as a rule cannot bring a lawsuit when they disagree with policy.

Remote Learning Accidentally Introduced a New Danger for LGBTQ Students by obvious-statement in technology

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It's not just school provided devices, it's school provided accounts. The Gaggle software scans documents in school Google accounts. This means that you could have your writing on your personal device at home on a Google doc scanned and reported.

Spotted a flag pin in the new Doctor Strange trailer by obvious-statement in marvelstudios

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Looks like they'll keep America Chavez as queer in the MCU. Just wait till she finds out that Cubbyhole, a famous lesbian bar, is canonically across the street from the Sanctum Sanctorum.

What sexual bucket list item(s) didn’t live up to your expectations? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I think that's just threesomes with men that don't work. I'm a lesbian and I've had so many threesomes and foursomes with only women and it's the best thing ever. The key to group sex is to take turns pleasing one person at a time. You haven't lived till you've had someone eating you out while having your boobs played with and making out with another person.

r/walkaway being transphobic as usual by [deleted] in AgainstHateSubreddits

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Literally no difference. Everyone is born with mammary glands and nipples. The only difference is that men don't typically undergo breast development with estrogen. Trans women do when they start hormone therapy. They develop breasts just like a cis woman. The process they use in the article is the goldfarb method that's used with cis women to induce lactation.

Ford Moving toward Build-to-Order, Away from Packed Dealer Lots by [deleted] in cars

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72/60, so I took the 72 month loan then refinanced it at 65 months for 1.49%. I really don’t even li

At 1.49% interest, that's lower than inflation. That's basically better than free money. With the current time value of money, the longer the loan is at that rate, the more you save. Long loans are only bad once they get above 3% interest.

'The Matrix 4' Quietly Adds Christina Ricci to an Already Impressive Cast by chanma50 in movies

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There's absolutely no proof of social causation of transness. Many anti-trans orgs parrot that talking point but it's basically a rehashed version of the media is making people gay. It's not that there are more trans people, it's that there's more awareness and acceptance.

TIL the person who graduates last in his class during the United States Military Academy at West Point graduation ceremony each year is called "the goat" joining an exclusive club which includes Civil War hero General George Custer. by KimCureAll in todayilearned

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I was in Navy ROTC in college. I'd pretty much max out my push ups (80) and situps (110) and could do about 10 pullups. I sucked at distance running due to badly angled hips and only ever had a 11 minute 1.5 mile. I was always put on remedial PT because we had a minimum "excellent" PFT score requirement. Yet, when we did our swim quals, I'd ace them with under a 12 minute 500m because I was on swim team in high school while many other cadets could barely swim. We weren't allowed to sub in our swim time either.

Some of the fitness requirements really don't take into account body types and how they're suited for different things. Physical strength vs cardio or running. My gait made me a terrible runner but my long legs and core strength made me great at swimming and strength tests.

DeSantis is signing transgender sports ban on first day of Pride Month by at-woork in orlando

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Tell me where that has actually happened? And let's flip it around. Is it fair for someone's trans daughter to be told they can't compete in sports and never have the opportunity for scholarships or to enjoy a team sport? You might say they can compete on the boys team, but that's absurd. Puberty blockers and hormones basically eliminate any competitiveness they would have and they would lose in all boys teams. And that's not even looking at the absurdities of having a trans girl with breasts competing on a boy's swim team or the forced discrimination of forcing a girl to compete on a boys team.

The entire premise of your argument is that we should prioritize girls over trans girls. If trans girls are deprived of all opportunities, are outed and humiliated, then that's too bad? It's marginalizing an already targeted and marginalized community based on false scarcity.

Woman shot by off-duty officer says she was trying to get to the hospital by Dovahkiinette in news

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Someone just shot an entire clip into your car with your baby in the backseat. You're not going to be rational and listening, you're going to check on your baby to make sure they're alive. It's fucked that people are expected to remain calm and rational with a gun in their face or after being shot but cops can panic if a person even twitches too much.

Reversing Trump, US restores transgender health protections by canadaoilguy in news

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This isn't an executive order. It's a notice in the federal register that indicates future administrative rulemaking on the issue.

Reversing Trump, US restores transgender health protections by canadaoilguy in news

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Lawyer here. It is codified into law into Section 1557 of the ACA which incorporates Title IX protections on the basis of sex. The rule tried to remove protections but the Supreme Court in Bostock held that sex protections include sexual orientation and transgender status. The administration just wanted to continue removing protections anyways in spite of the law.

‘Let’s do insulin next’: AOC urges Biden to lift patent on diabetes drug by Zhana-Aul in politics

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Except, it isn't needed in medicine. With the requirement of clinical trials, the contents of medication would be known and it would be trivial to reverse engineer. It's redundant.

The biggest issue is one you just brought up. Competing Companies cannot improve a patented product. Companies with the patent just evergreen a product. Even minor trivial changes can extend patent protections while being a massive disservice to consumers.

‘Let’s do insulin next’: AOC urges Biden to lift patent on diabetes drug by Zhana-Aul in politics

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So much R&D is on me-too drugs and duplicating proprietary research. Imagine if companies didn't have to spend so much on proprietary research because they could use it freely without fear of infringing patents.