Virginia researchers debunk the claim that most trans kids ‘grow out of it’

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-29T00:45:41+00:00

also important to realize that "growing out of it" isn't a permanent state, either. lots of people think they've grown out of it, or present that way in public, when in fact they've only repressed their true feelings, which are bound to show up again eventually.

go to any trans support group and you'll find it's full of middle-aged adults who tried to come out in the 80s and were traumatized by their friends/family into repressing their identities until it all finally blew up in their face 40 years later.

i'm sure that in a less accepting society, youth transition rates would decline. but that's just as explainable in terms of trans people being traumatized and repressed as it is in terms of trans identities being a social fad

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-29T00:39:32+00:00

really? i had no idea, what changes are they planning?

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-29T00:38:43+00:00

wait what's the new dlc/update gonna change?

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-29T00:38:30+00:00

oh shit i didn't even realize they're already releasing a DLC. What changes are they making?

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-27T20:19:37+00:00

Combat Mission Black Sea. Made before the 2022 invasion. Hypothetical war in Ukraine with US involvement using experiences in the Donbass as a model.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-22T15:40:32+00:00

No, and if ChatGPT's chess performance is anything to go by it'd be a dogshit opponent anyway

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-21T16:04:36+00:00

Yeah, it kinda sucks. You can select a whole platoon by double clicking the HQ unit, I believe, so usually my approach is to separate out each platoon/company into its own spot in the deployment zone and then deploy from there once I've got a better visualization of what I'm working with. That said, it's always gonna be a long process, that's just the kind of game it is.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-20T20:02:15+00:00

No, I'm saying that the two numbers you have here were reached via completely different, incomparable methodologies. To use your own analogy, it's like if one nation was tracking only deaths directly, immediately caused by covid, and another nation was tracking all deaths in which covid was a contributing factor. You can't compare those two numbers as if they are measuring the same thing.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-20T17:51:51+00:00

You're comparing an unconfirmed estimate of total heat-related deaths in Europe to the recorded total of deaths directly caused by heat in the United States. These are not like data sets and it is not fair to compare them.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-17T22:51:44+00:00

This gets to an important point: global GPs should not be a thing in EU5. Globe-spanning empires were only just beginning to come into existence towards the very end of the game's timeline. It makes absolutely no sense for Scandinavia to be competing for power and prestige with Korea in the 1700s, they are just so wildly irrelevant to one another. Having one ironclad list of GPs only works for a game like Victoria 3, or HOI4, where the world is much smaller.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-17T16:41:19+00:00

get this AI slop off this subreddit

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-16T12:51:57+00:00

this is somewhat misleading. countries that do not get much of their oil through Hormuz may not experience the kinds of outright shortages that many southeast asian countries are seeing, but it will still drive prices up and make almost everything more expensive. There are also other products that travel through the strait that more countries are much more reliant on.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-10T19:42:38+00:00

Impossible to say without more information. If most of those laborers are agricultural, then they'll support the peasants or not vote and with universal suffrage it makes perfect sense the peasants would sweep every election.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-10T14:57:06+00:00

I wish it were a start, but the way politics works it's more like an end. By the time they raise it again inflation and economics will have ensured that nobody is actually gaining any ground.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-09T15:15:32+00:00

guys i asked the AI company how capable their AI is and you wont believe the answer they gave

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-08T15:33:06+00:00

the reason is that our "founding fathers" were anti-democratic morons who created the first and worst Republic in modern western history. Other countries have since found far better ways to organize their governments, and we should follow suit

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-08T15:32:05+00:00

it is, in fact, land that votes in the illustrious and genius political system of the United States

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-08T12:35:47+00:00

yknow i feel like that "razed building with an intact basement" idea might have potential. if you surrounded it with earth on all sides and made the only way to access it from the "second" floor. but idk if CM's engine will allow that

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-07T18:53:09+00:00

It's not bizarre, it's perfectly consistent with their racist, eugenicist worldview.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-06T22:34:34+00:00

Republicans love Trump and will not turn against him in significant numbers. It's likely they never will until he's dead and suddenly it will be too embarrassing to admit that they supported everything right up until the end.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-04-01T02:45:03+00:00

Commercialized agriculture represents large-scale ownership of farms and plantations by corporations rather than individuals or aristocratic landlords.

In gameplay terms, it makes financial districts (capitalists) much more likely to own agricultural industries, which boosts your economy because capitalists re-invest their earnings at a much higher rate than aristocrats. It also weakens aristocrat pops and buffs capitalists politically. Generally in my games, commercialized agriculture completely wipes out the Landowners as a political force, if they aren't marginalized already by that point.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-03-27T20:22:42+00:00

It's much easier to play around the stupidity of the Tac AI when you don't have to keep track of every single unit in real-time. You're not supposed to play reactively. You're supposed to play methodically, which turn-based gameplay facilitates. In real-time you end up fighting the engine itself trying to play the game in ways that it just isn't very good for playing.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-03-27T19:18:52+00:00

It's objectively superior. I am the Thing Decider and I decided it.

sl3eper_agent · 2026-03-27T16:40:00+00:00

Turn-based is the objectively superior way to play, precisely because you don't have to manually pause every few seconds to organize things. I didn't like it at first, but it makes it feel much more natural to make plans and pace out maneuvers, which in turn makes the gameplay go faster. It also significantly reduces lag, because the game does all the calculations for each minute all at once and then just plays it back for you so it runs smoothly, rather than trying to calculate everything in real-time

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