[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

These people also never consider that they're measuring the wrong thing. If they're taking the position that the effects of testosterone from birth in trans M-to-F kids gives them an unfair advantage due to bone density and muscle mass, then they're failing to take into account that there are a number of natural health conditions that produce elevated testosterone levels in women as well.

I'm not saying this to be funny, but women with stubble especially around the chin often have elevated T levels, often due to PCOS. There truly are some women who are "built like a man" and they're not trans - at least certainly not in the way we use the term today. They're natural, their bodies just work differently.

Banning trans kids isn't going to level the playing field in the way they say they want to. Measuring things that testosterone affects like bone density would.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

If you punch someone on the nose, you can't expect sympathy when they punch back. This isn't going to produce the result Hamas was going for.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 136 points 1 year ago

They're not unemployed or underemployed by any common definition of those words. If California wants to support striking workers, great, but it shouldn't be under these programs.

And realistically there's no reason why this isn't a Union problem to solve instead of a government one. Dues are paid for a reason.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

yes the whole nation is in jeopardy because some warmongers arent getting their promotions

The whole nation is in jeopardy because these leadership positions are being held open until Trump is reelected in a rework of the Merrick Garland SC nomination. Which should be terrifying. Jan 6 failed in part because some of the military top brass (Miley) put oath before Trump.

Read up on Project 2025 if you haven't. These "unconnected events" are anything but. It's a strategy.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a lot of words to be wrong, friend-o.

Saying "Are you sure you don't want to revise your testimony, because we have factual evidence that it's false and that may lead to an indictment for perjury." isn't extortion, it's allowing this guy to not loyalty his way into a felony.

Imagine, the police/prosecution use their discretion and don't throw the book at someone and idiots still take exception to it

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Disney v. Florida GOP is the best example of the enemy of my enemy since probably WW2

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Yes. If it's a workplace injury, OSHA has the authority to come in and dictate mitigation measures.

Clearly this isn't true.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

I mean this in the least condescending way possible, but you don't understand how American politics works.

The absolute best scenario for Democrats is for the Republicans to split their ticket between Trump and DeSantis - or anyone else, but there doesn't seem to be anyone else thus far with his pull on the national stage.

It'll be Clinton-Bush-Perot but in reverse.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

If Congress lacks the authority to regulate the Supreme Court, then certainly they also lack the authority to fund the Supreme Court...

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I actually took the other side of this argument when Lemmy was ramping up, that the concept of Federation needed to change to make the system more accessible to non-technical users. And I was told that my idea (federating the communities) was counter to the freedom that Lemmy was designed around.

It can't be both ways. It's a cathedral, or it's a bazaar. But if it's a bazaar then we have to deal with the reality that sometimes people beat us to the places we want and have different ideas for what they should be.

Nothing is stopping you from starting worldpolitics, globalpolitics, politics2 or politics on another instance.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I was more meaning wanting the admins to fuck around with the communities a la /u/spez.

[-] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

How quickly we want to become Reddit I guess.

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I'm trying to stand up a Lemmy instance, and for some reason I'm just not getting it. I've got a fair bit of experience in Linux and Docker. NPM is new to me, but doesn't seem difficult.

I've looked over several walkthroughs but it seems like they all don't quite work right. Does someone have a clear step-by-step that works, or could take the time to remote in and help me get this up?

I'm running on VMWare ESXi, and I've tried both Debian and Ubuntu to get the server up. Closest I got, the Docker containers would start but seem to be throwing errors internally and don't connect to one another.

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