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  • Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate Error

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  • The law in question doesn't actually mandate that school sports teams must be designated “based on the biological sex of the students who participate” in the sport. If you read the law, it only prohibits biological males from participating in female sports. It does not prohibit biological females from participating in male sports. Quite the contrary, it specifically acknowledges that all students, regardless of sex or gender, are allowed to participate in "boys" sports.

    https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-15-education/az-rev-st-sect-15-120-02/

  • Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate Error

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  • The principal really needs to read the law. This school is so fucked.

    https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-15-education/az-rev-st-sect-15-120-02/

    The law in question only prohibits biological males from participating in female sports. It does not prohibit females from joining boys teams. Compare and contrast sections "B" and "C":

    B. Athletic teams or sports designated for “females”, “women” or “girls” may not be open to students of the male sex.

    C. This section does not restrict the eligibility of any student to participate in any interscholastic or intramural athletic team or sport designated as being for “males”, “men” or “boys” or designated as “coed” or “mixed”.

    I also thought this was pretty interesting:

    E. Any student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers any direct or indirect harm as a result of a school knowingly violating this section has a private cause of action for injunctive relief, damages and any other relief available under law against the school.

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    8 men own same wealth as half the world

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  • How is it enforced? A bounty system would work. 10% of any funds collected or forfeited.

    No body will be executed. They'll all figure out how to pry open their wallets and portfolios within the 90-day amnesty window.

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    8 men own same wealth as half the world

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  • No exceptions. It's not hard to become less wealthy. The only allowance I'd offer is a warning 90 days in advance that continued retention of their obscene wealth will become a capital offense. They can unload their excess in that time frame and keep their heads.

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    8 men own same wealth as half the world

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  • Bullshit.

    "Stocks" are "ownership of the means of production".

    You absolutely can feed yourself on your share of "the means of production".

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    8 men own same wealth as half the world

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  • We gather the top 8 and tell them #9 is being promoted to #1, either through a wealth tax, or a head tax.

    Repeat at least annually.

  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • Nailed it.

    What we need is a securities tax: a tax on every stock, bond, and other financial instruments in their portfolio. No need to liquidate it; the shares are simply transferred to the IRS annually. They'll liquidate those shares slowly over time.

    Natural persons are exempted on the first $10 million of their portfolio. No exemptions for artificial persons.

  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • I agree with the sentiment, but it's worth noting that the current excesses of CEO compensation through stock incentives

    Securities tax, payable in shares of the security. 1% of all registered securities are transferred directly to the IRS each and every year. Natural persons can request an exemption for up to $10 million worth. No exemption for corporate or other artificial "persons".

    IRS liquidators will auction the taxed shares over time, such that sale of taxed shares are never more than 1% of total traded volume.

  • AWS is having a bad day

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  • Government is also the entity that will be prosecuting/persecuting you when they don't like what you have to say.

  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • How about we just stay as far away from traffic as possible.

    Obstructing freedom of movement really pisses off the general public, and drives them to seek authoritarian solutions.

    Nothing turns people from "All Cops Are Bastards" to "Back The Blue" faster than cops driving through protest barricades.

    Stay away from traffic.

  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • "Farmer" has come to mean the corporate owner of fields in which crops are grown, rather than the people waking up at the ass crack of dawn to tend to the fields and bring in the harvest.

    "Farm workers" are now the ones doing all the labor.

  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • What they are doing is asking all unions to set May 1st 2028 as the expiration date for their next labor contract. They aren't actually scheduling a strike, just laying the groundwork.

  • Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting

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  • Not with that attitude.

    Be the change you want to see in the world.

  • ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

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  • ISPs like to offer, say $65 for service (without committing to a specific speed... Their 100/100 service is "up to 100Mbps" and not a guarantee.)

    They then want to charge a modem rental fee - another $5/mo. They want to charge a wifi access point rental fee - another $5/mo. They want to charge various regulatory fees, universal access fees, taxes, etc. They want their advertisements to say "$65/mo", but they want to collect more like $90/mo.

    You can buy your own modem and save that $5/mo (but they often push back against that, claiming your modem isn't compatible, or that other customers have complained about inferior service with that modem). You can use your own wifi AP and save that $5/mo (but again, they discourage it...) You can't get away from the regulatory fees.

  • Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers

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  • If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

    Probably, yes.

    The only thing the good ol' boys hate more than them "liberal queers" is the federal government sticking its nose in their business.

    Ask Cliven Bundy if he'll put up with the National Guard in his "sleepy" town.

  • This isn't a bubble

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  • The more complex answer is that the stock market at this point is just a speculative mess where numbers are made up because the price isn't dictated by what the company is currently capable of doing but rather what the company potentially could be doing in thue future.

    You seem to be under the impression it was ever anything else.

  • Struggling to heat your home? Try 500 Raspberry Pi units

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  • If thr only thing electronics are 100% efficient

    Heat pumps are much more than 100% electrically efficient. They are around 300% electrically efficient.

    Watt for watt, a heat pump sinks a lot more heat into your house than either a resistive heating element or a raspberry pi.

  • Struggling to heat your home? Try 500 Raspberry Pi units

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  • if you’re actually using the waste heat from a PC does that mean its basically 100% energy efficient?

    Yes, but there is a big caveat: Heat pumps are much greater than 100% electrically efficient.

    No, that doesn't violate thermodynamics. We don't count any of the thermal energy input into the "source" side of the heat pump, but it ends up on the "sink" side anyway. We are only comparing electrical input to thermal output, and the thermal output is much greater than the electrical input: Heat pumps are much more electrically efficient at heating your home than any form of resistive heating, including the waste heat from your PC.

    A mining rig might be able to exceed the economic efficiency of a heatpump, but we would need much more data to attempt that calculation.