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  • These people also never consider that they’re measuring the wrong thing. If they’re taking the position that the effects of testosterone from birth in trans M-to-F kids gives them an unfair advantage due to bone density and muscle mass, then they’re failing to take into account that there are a number of natural health conditions that produce elevated testosterone levels in women as well.

    I’m not saying this to be funny, but women with stubble especially around the chin often have elevated T levels, often due to PCOS. There truly are some women who are “built like a man” and they’re not trans - at least certainly not in the way we use the term today. They’re natural, their bodies just work differently.

    Banning trans kids isn’t going to level the playing field in the way they say they want to. Measuring things that testosterone affects like bone density would.














  • I expect today there’s a conversation going on between Terren, Yvonne and Linus:

    "Linus, you need to decide if you want to be the public face and final authority of LMG, or if you want to be the owner of a successful business that you occasionally participate in with limited official interactions outside the board level.

    If the company continues to have crisis moments and negative PR events on the scale we’ve had the past few days, you will be the owner of nothing but debt and depreciation. And frankly, I’m not going to stay here and ride the company down into disaster. You’re the owner, if you want to continue to run the company as it has been ultimately it’s your right but I will be stepping away. I implore you to make the right decision not just for yourself but all the employees at LMG who depend on their income from working here."



  • So, I am an engineer/scientist. Products that I have developed/contributed to development are used by billions of people. Most likely you, the reader of this comment are using it right now, because some of the products I worked on are telecom products, that are widely used to transfer information.

    You’re an employee, actors are (generally) independent contractors so the comparison breaks down. Most people who don’t understand the situation have been making this comparison.

    The closer analogy for you would be if you, as an independent engineer, created a library that Oracle licensed instead of bought. Something they are bundling into their latest database server.

    Should you, as a developer, take less per unit because Oracle starts selling through a new channel? Say the Windows app store instead of through their website directly?

    I mean, it’s ok if you feel like that’s ok but I don’t think most people would agree with you when they really understand what’s going on.

    The unions gave the studios a sweetheart deal in the infancy of streaming so that it wouldn’t smother in the crib. Now that it’s profitable, don’t the artists and writers deserve the same level of compensation for streaming as they get through other channels? Not more, just the same.