as well as the belief that opposing trans rights “itself constitutes a form of violence towards people who identify as [trans or gender nonconforming]... or poses an imminent threat to such persons’ emotional, psychological, or physical safety
Just imagine for a moment that one were to replace "trans" with literally any other grouping of humanity and think how insane it would sound.
"I'm not a bigot, I'm just opposed to black rights!"
"I'm not an anti-semite, I'm just opposed to Jewish rights!"
"I'm not committing a genocide, I'm just opposed to human rights!"
Christ, the veneer of legitimacy is molecule-thin at this point.
Watch the original Gone in 60 Seconds, from 1974. The car stunts are absolutely insane, to the extent that they probably shouldn't have been allowed to make the movie the way they did, but it happened and I'm glad that cameras were rolling. The Nic Cage remake was trying to make a movie safer, slicker, and more coherently, but there's no replacement for a bunch of insane stunt drivers risking their lives and the lives of everyone around them.
this guy, with the "real" camera and the phone camera, but the phone camera is the one I've most consistently got on me, because I can't lug a whole additional piece of hardware around in a camera bag, meanwhile the phone camera pictures are grainy and shitty, and I'd just as soon have a Pixel in my pocket at all times that can take fairly good pictures at all times.
Camera is probably the first obstacle. I've got a kid, and I really want to have good documentation of her growing up. If there were a dumbphone with a legit camera, that'd be a big deal for me.
After that, probably maps is the next most important thing that I want an actual smart phone for. I remember getting my first smart phone, and probably the main thing I was excited about was always being able to navigate directly to where I wanted to go.
I adore the blessed people who write up the Simple English entries.
Here's the opening paragraph from Quantum Mechanics in Simple English:
Quantum mechanics explains how the universe works with things that are even smaller than atoms. It is also called quantum physics or quantum theory. Mechanics is the part of physics that explains how things move and quantum is the Latin word for 'how much'. A quantum of energy is the least amount possible (or the least extra amount), and quantum mechanics describes how that energy moves.
Well, now I want to know if there's a regular schedule to the Jupiter-Sun barycenter being in or outside of the Sun, and how we can schedule holidays around it.
Just imagine for a moment that one were to replace "trans" with literally any other grouping of humanity and think how insane it would sound.
"I'm not a bigot, I'm just opposed to black rights!"
"I'm not an anti-semite, I'm just opposed to Jewish rights!"
"I'm not committing a genocide, I'm just opposed to human rights!"
Christ, the veneer of legitimacy is molecule-thin at this point.