It’s hard to generalize because it differs by age range and location, but figures for how many people identify as transgender tend to hover around 0.5% to 1%, so a bit more than you suggest.

I hope cis people are prepared to actually fight for trans people’s rights, because in the current climate we need to show some solidarity and stand up for each other.

I don’t believe it’s good faith. Google is trying to curry favor with the emperor, and if that means throwing women and trans people under the bus then so be it.

How’s your family doing?

It’s worth reading the whole article, because it makes pretty clear that it was Israeli forces that did this, that they initially struck the ambulances and then proceeded to execute the people in them, and that there were other slaughters of civilians involved in the same action.

Thank you. That is helpful and clear.

I’m pretty ignorant of physics, but isn’t it only certain kinds of ways of acting on the first particle that “affect” the other, namely actions that measure a property of one particle that is correlated with the same property’s value on the other? At first you don’t know the value of either but you know they’re correlated; but then when you measure and collapse the wave function on one and discovered a value for the property, you have automatically collapsed the wave function on the other too, yielding a predictably correlated value. If it were just any kind of action that affects the other particle, you’d be able to use it to sent information instantaneously, which you can’t do. So it’s not quite like how people imagine voodoo dolls: do something to the doll (make a change to it) and the person feels the effect. But perhaps someone who studies this stuff can help clarify.

I expect it makes students think twice about enrolling too, if your degree can be taken away because the university doesn’t like something you said.

Centuries of despots, despair and drinking.

Trump replaced the top brass with loyalists. I wouldn’t be so sure.

Yeah, but the book also says the book is true, so you can’t argue with that. It’s just logic.

This is from the 2018 AIPAC conference. There’s some critical commentary on this page:

https://rethinkingforeignpolicy.org/2025/03/22/unpacking-an-old-chuck-schumer-aipac-speech/

It’s the first rolling distro I have tried, and I’ve been running it for about 3 years now without any real problems. I think maybe twice there have been updates that cause issues, out of hundreds of updates per week. It’s surprisingly solid, and everything’s up to date.

Not everyone would want hundreds of updates per week of course, but it’s up to the user to decide how often to install updates. Unlike Windows, the updates don’t intrude, and they are fast.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed helps because you can create a btrfs snapshot at any moment and then roll back to it if you get in trouble. And it does this automatically whenever you update the packages.

Don’t you have to install that? I thought Ubuntu came with vi and nano.

A laptop should easily handle a database of 60,000 rows. I run much bigger databases on my own laptop for development purposes.

No one does. That’s why they need to go.

allying with Russia

Russia is as untrustworthy as Trump. Alliance with Russia promises nothing good.

He wasn’t worth the trouble.

I bumped into the CEO again about 10 years later at a funeral. He was thoroughly obnoxious and spent the time making fun of the deceased (a colleague of ours) and taunting my friend about how many hours he had tricked him into working for free. Then he bragged about his current business and its success. Really one of the most awful people I’ve ever met.

That wasn’t the first deceased colleague of ours he had disrespected. We had a very skilled but very obedient guy working on our team - call him Jim - whose brother (also an colleague) was terminally ill in hospital. These brothers were good guys and popular with all their colleagues. One day Jim got the message that his brother had taken a turn for the worse and might not have much longer, so he asked his manager if he could take the afternoon off to visit his brother. Word came down from Mr. CEO: no, Jim was needed in the office so could not have the afternoon off. Being a loyal employee, Jim stayed. His brother died that evening and he didn’t get to say goodbye. I left the company soon after that.

Miserable as this all was, it was a good lesson in just how self-centred and self-important some people are. This CEO is now very wealthy and still goes through life convinced he’s a success and we’re all losers who don’t know how to do life like he does. He’ll probably never figure out the truth.

I’ve never had a boss who didn’t do this. Promise, set timeline and price, get contracts signed, then come to the development team to ask whether it’s possible to do by Wednesday. Many years ago I had a boss who promised a major client that we’d provide an entire online advertising network to rival Google Ads, and gave us 4 days to design, develop and deliver it. Then when it wasn’t ready he threw one of the developers under the bus in a meeting with the customer. He actually used the words, “This is Dave’s fault.” Dave was professional and didn’t argue. Good look for a CEO. I’m sure he thought he had won. The project went nowhere because all the execs had different ideas about what it was supposed to do, and the dev team was oddly unmotivated to help them out.