Traister101

Sadly yeah

Plus nobody would actually want to live in the metaverse we see in media; Snowcrash, Ready Player One ect. The metaverse that's being advertised is a dystopia just like the ones we've had in media. Not to mention all the practical problems of like needing to virtually walk to the virtual store to buy shit, no way in hell is that catching on.

There's been "new" battery technology in the works since we starting using lithium ion and nothing so far has come anywhere near close enough to replace it. Sodium just like all the other "exciting" failed ideas in the past decade isn't gonna go anywhere either.

Sodium batteries on the infrastructure level would work wonderfully but you'll never see them in your phone or even a car. The energy density just is shit. There would need to be some unexpected advance in the technology to gain ~50% energy density just to meet lower end lithium ion.

But really electric cars aren't the future anyway what we need to invest in is public transportation. Electric busses, trains, trams, hell why not self driving scooters that's way more practical than a whole ass car.

Nooooo really?

Managa reader for the second one, Chained soldier. Good stuff is in our future ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

People gonna use the gendered bathrooms to shoot up too wise guy

Okay sure so with your updated comment not going through puberty will have some mental and physical effects. That's obvious though since well, so does puberty, that's the point of it happening. Not going through puberty will obviously mean you won't experience the results of puberty.

What hormone blockers do is allow people to postpone puberty which is exactly what people like you should want trans kids to do. They get to decide what they want when they are older not have an irreversible puberty forced upon them. I'm not of the mind that we need to force trans kids to wait until they are an adult but that's the obvious argument you should be making, not prevention. Trans kids will exist even if you remove access to horome blockers you just make their lives worse for no reason.

Testosterone is not horome blockers. From what I recall the conservative (medical) recommendation is to postpone horome therapy until 16 since that's when the law determines them able minded enough for the rest of the medical decisions. As for regret yes, some people do regret transitioning but all the studies that have been done (that aren't using faulty methodology like counting girls playing with action figures when young children as being trans) have shown that the regret rate is lower than fuckn knee surgery. That's pretty goddamn low. And guess what? Most people who regret transitioning regret it because transphobes make their life hell. Plus the majority only de-transition temporarily, typically because they are unable to pay for their hormone therapy. However they generally are still transitioned socially IE they have different pronouns and dress differently so in reality there's very few de-transitioners. Many of the ones you see on Fox News still refer to themselves as trans even. It's pretty sad how easy it is to be a grifter.

So you think trans boys want to be... Taller?

I was on about the UK,France, Finland, Sweden, Denmark etc all these countries having given hormones to kids for years now realising its not thr best idea.

All of who are wrong. We've been using hormone blockers (that's what puberty blockers are) for decades. It's how we treat genetic malfunctions that cause too much testosterone or estrogen to be produced. The side effects are extremely well known and documented there's nothing scary about them plus at any point you can just stop taking them and your hormones stop being blocked. Typically you'll take estrogen or testosterone for awhile afterwards to go through puberty if you prevented it from happening naturally.

So to recap hormone blockers are harmless as well as fully reversible. Allowing trans people to access them greatly reduces suicidality and preventing access increases suicidality. So if you are somebody who cares about people's well-being you cannot prevent access to hormone blockers as it objectively results in more harm than allowing access. When confronted with this reality you guys typically pivot to saying that actually trans people are unhappy which no fucking shit, you people are trying to prevent them from existing.

Or hear me out we let them block puberty because that's literally hurting nobody and preventing them from doing so very clearly does hurt people.

But also you know that kids don't think they are trans cause of puberty angst right? Come on man. If you were fundamentally unhappy going through puberty as a teen then sorry to say but that's actually not normal. Most people are rather content knowing their balls will get hairy or they'll grow boobs. We're talking about kids who've been dreading puberty since like they knew what it was. I'll again repeat if you dreaded puberty that's not normal.

When did I say I'm pro genocide? Jesus christ what a strawman. Genocide is bad, it's hypocritical for the US to get so freaky over this when there's an active genocide happening but that doesn't mean it's wrong to get freaky over maritime trade vessels being threatened. They were breaking international law and were told explicitly by the UN among others to knock it the fuck off or there would be consequences.

You can very easily make a correct hypocrisy argument but it's not just the USA going out of its way to bomb brown people. They were warned (threatened really) explicitly by for example the UN that if they kept shit up there'd be consequences and well they kept fucking around. Everybody wants safe maritime trade and they were raiding civilian vessels breaking international law. What's happening is an obvious consequence of their behavior.

But again you can easily make a correct hypocrisy argument for the USAs behavior cause well you know there's kind of a genocide going on we still haven't done jack shit about.