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  • Transgender ballot initiative could require genital exams for WA secondary school students

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  • I mean, the current sports physical has the doctor fondle your balls if you're a dude.

    Not saying this is a good thing by any stretch. Obviously it's dumb and transphobic.

    But I had to turn my head and cough a good few times in high school, and I'm not sure this is more invasive than that, lol.

  • 3 men assaulted a trans bartender. Now she's facing felonies for defending herself.

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  • Agreed to an extent. I think if a cis-het male was in her position, they probably would have still been charged. A cis-het female probably wouldn't have been.

    There's definitely an element of a "trans women aren't women" to this, which I agree is problematic.

    And apart from that, the law should be equally applied in these scenarios, and the gender of those in involved shouldn't weigh in to those decisions.

  • 3 men assaulted a trans bartender. Now she's facing felonies for defending herself.

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  • Kelver’s self-defense claims would have to wait for trial. “Of course, that defense is perfectly available in district court,” the judge told prosecutors and Kelver’s lawyer. “And we’ll see where that goes with a different standard of proof.”

    I'll happily give 4:1 odds to anyone interested that she gets off fine. The judge simply ruled that the evidence as presented wasn't enough to get the case thrown out.

    It's Wyoming. You're not gonna see anyone sent to jail for brandishing during an assault, regardless of their orientation.

  • South Florida officers sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, claiming details in ‘The Rip’ are too real

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  • Look, I get ACAB, but these guys don't seem to have been accused of doing anything in particular.

    It's wild to make a movie clearly identifying real life people who haven't been tied to any wrongdoing, and then present them as committing a ton of felonies to include arson and multiple homicides (of fellow cops no less).

    Like, these are real people trying to quietly live their lives, and now they have people thinking they're extremely crooked based on a self-admittedly fictional narrative. It's irresponsible at best.

  • South Florida officers sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, claiming details in ‘The Rip’ are too real

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  • Aflack and Damon self admit that the entire narrative is fiction past the opening setup. The events in the film don't purport to be true.

    However, before having them burn down a building and murder a supervisor and a fed, the film sets up an establishing sequence based on real life events that clearly tie the two fictional characters to two real people.

    I get ACAB, but like, it's kinda wild to make a film where you're clearly representing real-life normal people, and then have them do a bunch of heinous stuff that they're not even remotely accused of doing.

  • South Florida officers sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, claiming details in ‘The Rip’ are too real

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  • I see no paywall, and I've loaded it a few time (though you do have to scroll past a huge ad to keep reading, which is annoying.) It's way more than 5 paragraphs though.

    From the article:

    Although Smith and Santana aren’t named in the film and weren’t involved in its production, the lawsuit claims that Santana was serving as the lead detective assigned to the real case, and Smith was the sergeant who supervised the investigative team. The film’s inclusion of real details about the case gives the impression that the characters are based on the plaintiffs, the suit said.

    This, the lawsuit claims, has given friends, family members and colleagues the impression that the plaintiffs committed the criminal acts that appear in the film, which include (SPOILER ALERT) conspiring to steal seized drug money, murdering a supervising officer, communicating with cartel members, committing arson in a residential neighborhood, endangering the lives of civilians, repeatedly violating core law-enforcement protocols and executing a federal agent rather than making an arrest.

  • South Florida officers sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, claiming details in ‘The Rip’ are too real

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  • And it's clear you stopped reading right there.

    The movie is based off a real event in which those two officers are identifiable. That event was a drug bust and a large amount of drugs were confiscated.

    The film then diverges from reality (by its own admission) and has those two identified officers murder a supervisor under direction from the drug cartels.

    The real officers are saying that they were clearly doxxed in the beginning of the film (using too many real life details), and then the film represents them doing horrible things they didn't do.

    So no, the "real life details" did not in fact make them look bad.

  • South Florida officers sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, claiming details in ‘The Rip’ are too real

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  • That's not what the article is saying. Did you read it?

  • South Florida officers sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, claiming details in ‘The Rip’ are too real

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  • It's in the article. Aflack and Damon are not just the actors. They co-own and run the studio producing the film. They hired a person from the police department in question to consult on the film.

    And, to be clear, this isn't the police department being mad because this paints them in a bad light. The film starts with events based off a real case, but moves into a fictionalized narrative where two cops murder a supervisor while working for the cartels. The cops the characters are based on are suing because people know that the characters are based on them and don't realize the rest of the narrative is fictionalized.

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    Finally, a win

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  • Yeah, it turns out a lot of recent changes in education (see Lucy Calkins, common core, etc) have actually been pretty hugely detrimental. Education is pretty fraught with fraudsters who sell school administrators these programs that aren't backed by any kind of research, and turn out to not work at all.

    The places that have avoided this the best are the Alabama's and Mississippi's of the US who, by stint of being hyper conservative, have basically said, "Fancy new types of city learnin'? No thanks. If it was good enough for my great grandpappy, it's good enough for my kids."

    Turns out, this actually ended up being a really good thing, as a lot of that new stuff turns out to be straight fraud that's ruined an entire generation of young people.

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  • That's fair. A standardized stick measurement for shorter lengths, and a standardized wheel of diameter 1-stick for longer lengths. That tracks.

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  • Yeah, I missed that he said 5 diameters, not rotations.

    Though, it strikes me as odd that people would be making diameter based measurements with a wheel tool for the same reason it would be weird for people to be making measurements with the short side of a yard stick. Seems like a needlessly difficult way to get a measurement when your existing tool already has an easy and codified way of getting measurements.

    I'm no historian or whatever, so maybe that's something they did do in antiquity. But it seems unlikely to me, and if we have evidence that they did, I'd be interested to see it.

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  • Ah, reading is hard. My bad.

    Though, it seems like if you were measuring using wheels, to use the diameter to measure something would be a little odd? It's way easier to roll a wheel a certain number of times vs trying to use it as a circular yardstick.

    And if rotations isn't giving you the granularity you want, just use a smaller wheel?

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  • I don't think that's true though?

    Like, if you have a wheel who's diameter is 3.18m (10/3.14), it will have a circumference of 10m. So 14 wheel rotations will be 140m, and 5 wheel rotations will be 50m.

    Comparing 14 rotations to 5 rotations (140m to 50m) doesn't seem to yield pi in any meaningful way?

    How are you suggesting that pi would emerge?

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    Karoline Leavitt to Fox before the WHCD event: There will be some shots fired tonight

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  • Welcome to Lemmy.

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  • The sauna you're in is 100°C? 212°F? I think you might be dead bro.

  • ‘God, you’re hot’ Tennessee school board member says to student during board meeting

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  • Setting aside the fact that polygraphs are pseudoscience mumbo jumbo that don't work in any meaningful capacity, and the results of which are really just the vibes of the person running it (with all of their bigotry/biases on full display.)

    The bigger issue is that there are over thirteen thousand school districts in the US. If each school board is four people on average, that's over fifty thousand people you'd have to do polygraphs for. And that's if all you wanted to do was school boards.

    Trying to get all of those people polygraphs would be an absolute logistical nightmare. There aren't that many polygraphers out there.

    And we shouldn't be legitimizing polygraphs anyway. They have time and time again been shown to be absolute bunk, and to discriminate against people with issues like anxiety (or really, anyone who gets agitated when you accuse them of something). The only people who can reliably pass polygraphs are sociopaths, which feels like the opposite of what you want to be selecting for here.

  • ‘God, you’re hot’ Tennessee school board member says to student during board meeting

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  • Absolutely! It's just a complete coincidence that the people who the school system is failing are barred from fixing it because in order to pass the test you have to have done well in school. It makes perfect sense.

    It's not like the US has a history of refusing to educate people, and then refusing to let them participate in civic matters by gating that access behind tests. The US certainly has never, say, made passing a test a requirement to vote to disenfranchise people.

    And we all know that, of course, that any test would be super effective at preventing the abuse the above article is about. You just put the question "are you sexually attracted to children," on the test. That way you'd keep out creeps. And no one would ever lie on a test. That'd be ridiculous.

    I don't know why people are disagreeing. It's a perfect system!

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    How are the said Israeli lobbyists involved?

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  • The Jews control the media. /s

    In reality, the article is arguing that the people in charge of LiveNation and a few other big concert management companies are run by pro-Israel leadership, and if a band refuses to play Israel they will get denied concerts in other areas those companies control.

    Though the article also says that, in the old days, artists would only ever make music if they actually had something to say, never for commercial gain. So, you know. It's maybe not the most intellectually honest opinion piece.

    Not saying it's wrong. I don't know. Just that the author has some interesting thoughts writ large, lol. I don't know that I'd take them as the most reliable source of information.