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just imagine the bank would give your payment info to insurance companies for example

That would be a very severe violation of the GDPR and whatever bank-privacy laws are in place. On top of that, which insurance would even be affected by it? I don’t own a car, health insurance comes at non-discriminatory rates here and why would my liability insurance be affected by what I buy? Like: It’s genuinely a non-issue here.

And even if, cash is still a much better option for everything.

Not telling someone something isn’t gaslighting. That’s a very different thing.

And you are making the mistake of assuming that other people think like you, have the same preferences as you, also have memories on an at least subconscious level, …

There are just so many factors, that depend on the person and this is one of those cases where extrapolating from your own lived experience is not the right way to do things. Like: I’m trans and you can trust me, that I have my own places, where I know that I can’t apply my standards to other people (“what do you mean, people don’t like the effects of cross-sex hormones?”).

I’m positively surprised that the article acknowledges the nuance of question of whether unknowing victims should be informed, instead of just jumping on the “tell them all, no matter if it hurts them more than the crime did”.

Anyone who claims that there is a simple answer that is always best is acting out of ideology, rather than an interest in improving people’s lives…

The one thing that might help somewhat, at huge logistic cost, would be to ask everyone what their preference in a situation like that is, ideally with the possibility to have different answers for different crimes. Like, combine it with a question on being an organ-donor and a couple of similar things. Since it goes to everyone, people who don’t know and don’t want to know can stay in blissful ignorance, because the question doesn’t arise suspicions, as it would be if only they got asked. You could still get bad results, but in that case they would at least be the results the people in question choose. Though even this approach can’t easily deal with the cases of minors being involved…

All that said, there is another component to the case, that might be the biggest problem with it: The perpetrator getting of easy because it was assumed that the victims didn’t know and the implication of a much harder punishment had they been known to have known: Whether the victims knew, didn’t change the crime that was committed, only the outcome. And punishing the outcome rather than the action is an extremely bad way to enact justice. (Yes, attempted murder should be punished like murder!)

Yeah, buying medication is literally the only good use-case for cryptocurrencies, but it still is a valid and important use-case that saves lives!

It might be better to call it low skill or something like that. The point is that there are jobs that can quickly be taught on the fly and have you productive in a few days, and that this is different from jobs that may require years of potentially highly specialized training. Working in a McDonalds Kitchen and in an Amazon warehouse are both much closer to the former than to the later.

The point is: While some difference in pay might be justifiable (to compensate for the lack of income during the time it took highly skilled laborers to get their skill and as part of a system of incentives to encourage people to pursue these careers), the magnitude of that difference in most places is very much not!

A full-time job should pay a wage from which a family can live. Doesn’t have to be great and doesn’t have to come with yearly vacations abroad, but it has to be enough for food, shelter, transportation and some entertainment. The problem is that we are very much not at that point any more. (Though this even extends to a lot of jobs that do require year-long training…)

I’m willing to agree partially: AFAIK the usual classification of the economic system of the SU is “state capitalism” which is indeed distinct from capitalism and socialism and I’m even willing to grant it that, if well executed (in the SU it mostly wasn’t) it has the potential to be better than capitalism in a few aspects.

That said, I agree about the notion that fascism is a form of capitalism: The two are often associated with each other, but at the end of the day quite distinct and orthogoanl systems. Fascism is about having a powerful leader who oppresses the population and the SU very much had that in an almost textbook-manner with Stalin, though I will also acknowledge that there were of course detals in hwo it differed from say Naziism in Germany at the same time.

No it’s more likely that they are an actual leftist. China and Ruzzia are (and the SU was!) fascist hellholes that have nothing to do with socialism and/or communism besides screaming it of the windows all the time.

And people who delude themselves to believe something else are really annoying…

Wenn eine Person aber in eine Notwehrlage gerät und nur Tierabwehrspray und kein milderes Mittel zur Verfügung hat darf diese Person das Tierabwehrspray auch legal zur Selbstverteidigung gegen Menschen einsetzen.

Das gilt im Übrigen sogar in viel weiterem Umfang. Wenn ich mich nicht völlig falsch erinnere gab es sogar mal ein BGH-Urteil, dass der Einsatz einer illegalen (Feuer?-) Waffe in einer Notwehrsituation nicht nur nicht strafbar ist, sondern du danach noch nicht einmal wegen illegalen Waffenbesitzes bestraft werden darfst, weil das ja nur durch die legale Notwehrhandlung ans Licht kam und du wenn du die Waffe aus Angst vor Konsequenzen für den illegalen Besitz nicht benutzen könntest ja in deiner legalen Notwehrfähigkeit herabgesetzt wärst. Oder so ähnlich, IANAL.

Also in dem Moment in dem er sie festhält ist es halt kein catcalling mehr sondern ein körperlicher Angriff und sollte ERHEBLICH härter bestraft werden. Von 100€ + 180€ auf Bewährung lässt sich doch niemand der sowas macht abschrecken.

Ob man jetzt Catcalling das auch wirklich nur solches ist unter Strafe stellen muss kann man so oder so sehen. Aber an der Stelle ist es halt nicht okay, dass das nur als catcalling eingestuft wurde.

Aber gut, wir haben hier in NL auch einfach ein komplett verkrüppeltes Notwehrrecht. Mit der Deutschen Variante von wegen „Das Recht braucht dem Unrecht nicht zu weichen“, die im Grunde auf eine sehr harte Version von „Stand your ground“ hinaus läuft ginge da ERHEBLICH mehr.

I saw “driverless waymo” in the title.

Also: Prejudice against people wearing fedoras is still prejudice and thus not really a great thing to have. One of my best friends also likes to wear a hat at times (not sure if it counts as a fedora, I know very little about heads) and is one of the sweetest people I know.

there is technically a limit of “too high” E but its so incredibly high you’ll never get anywhere close on normal dosing.

To add to this: The usual joke on /r/transDIY whenever someone manages to miscalculate and do a 10× overdose is “congrats, you are pregnant now”, because E-levels during pregnancy are crazy high. And you don’t exactly see pregnant women dying left and right either, so don’t worry too much.

Ouch! I’m not in the UK, so I didn’t follow it too closely, but they had some problem with the NHS recently, though it seemed that they got it under control. Maybe that is not the case though. In that case, hrt.cafe says that the following homebrewers also sell to the UK

• voixceleste
• astrovials
• silvermaplelabs
• teahrt
• Otokono Pharmaceuticals (old and trusted, but suffering massive shipping delays due to immense load, last time I checked)

You probably want Estradiol Enanthate which has to be injected weekly. I’d recommend to get a multi-year supply just to be on the safe side. With injections monotherapy is viable! Most people seem to calculate one vial lasting for about one year, give or take depending on your exact dosing.

There is also the option to buy raw estradiol and mix your own spray or gel. The advantage is that a lifetime-supply of E is comparatively affordable this way. Check /r/estrogel on reddit for more info on that.