On the off chance that you’re actually asking, there have been studies that have shown the regret rate for transitioning is less than 1%.

Here’s an article about a recent study which tracked people up to 23 years post-transition, showing median regret as 0 out of 100.

Now, you might be thinking to yourself “but that’s just one study, with around 200 participants, and the results were so uniform it caused issues with the statistics. Maybe it’s wrong.” Well, here is a meta-analysis of 27 additional studies, with almost 8,000 participants, which also shows regret rates are <1%.

Hope that helps.

This is basically the plot of Leverage, and part of why it's such a good show.

"It's only 13% and not 100%, so it doesn't count!"

The Supreme Court blocked his attempt last year to forgive debt for another 43 million people, which was set to take effect before repayments started back up. He's trying to help but is being blocked by conservatives who want him to fail so Trump can be reelected.

Can't speak for the person you're replying to, but I'm a security engineer and stuff still makes its way to me that you would think would get filtered out by others (and isn't my job to fix). It just takes the right person thinking "this is obviously a problem with $system, let's just send it straight over to them so they can fix it quickly!" And then we get the fun job of proving it's not us and has no relation to us.

We got a ticket today for packet loss between two systems, neither of which have any of our tools on them...

I use this too. I've had people over who wanted to connect to the Wi-Fi, pulled up the list, and waited for a minute because "it's still loading!"

11/10, no regrets.

While you're not wrong about there being other constellations in the works, Starlink is the first to actually launch more than a (relative) few. Over 50% of satellites in orbit, total, belong to Starlink.

So while there are other projects planned or under construction, Starlink is the most visible by far, and that's a lot of why we hear about it the most.

Also yeah, it's owned by Elon Musk, so that alone guarantees it'll stay in the news.

Depending on where you work, your employer may be able to take that personal device you're using for work in the event of a lawsuit against the company (where they need to retain anything that may be relevant to discovery), or in the event of a security incident (where they may need it for forensics).

I work in information security, and I practice strict isolation for that exact reason. Two laptops, two phones, because if anything ever happens they can and will take devices for analysis or evidence. If you are using an issued device, they'll assign you a new one; if it's a personal device you'll get it back when they're done with it, which could take years.

Edited to add this is dependent on your employment contract, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Cover your camera and use your work computer.

We don't know what was on those servers, but it was apparently sensitive enough that the government redacted descriptions of the data in court filings.

The US government brief said the relocated servers were not wiped before being moved to a new data center. The type of data on the relocated servers was apparently so sensitive that it could not be described in the US court filing, which redacts the sentence that describes what the servers contained.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/us-government-slams-musk-in-court-filing-describing-chaotic-environment-at-x/

The Fed only has a couple of tools to combat inflation, and none of them work very well for supply-side inflation. Personally I think they shouldn't be raising rates to deal with supply-side shortages (ideally you'd want to make it cheaper for companies to produce more and decrease shortages), but politically speaking they need to show they're taking some form of action to rein in inflation.

I know you're being facetious, but for anyone thinking seriously about this, shooting down aircraft, which drones are categorized as, is a Federal offense. Same with shining a laser at it, trying to jam its communications, or spoofing GPS to throw off its navigation.

And if the cops are the ones operating the drone, they'll probably be highly incentivized to arrest and prosecute you.

This is why I always record calls with major corporations when I'm talking about money. I've never had to actually resort to sending them recordings, but I have used the "Well, every call made from this phone is recorded, so I can go back and pull the recording of what I've been told if you don't have it in your system" line a couple times.

I bought a smokeless firepit, which works by surrounding the fire with a compartment of air which gets superheated and shot back out into the smoke, igniting it and getting rid of almost all the smoke a fire normally puts out.

The day I set it up, I had it sitting on the grass and started wondering if the outer wall was hot enough to set my yard on fire. There happened to be a lot of dead leaves around, so I decided to touch one against the outer wall of the firepit and see if it caught on fire.

When I actually went to go do this, my brain skipped over the "pick up a leaf first" step, and I just touched the firepit with all five fingertips of my dominant hand.

I somehow ended up with mostly second-degree burns and only a couple smaller third-degree burns, but 0/10, do not recommend. Fire is hot, and touching it results in a lot of pain.