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DanRydell

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  1. Because it's not just a matter of self-identifying but also of being treated for gender dysphoria and taking testosterone suppressants for at least one year.
  2. Turns out trust funds can’t buy human decency
  3. No. This case was literally a court enforcing Title IX, so deriving from it that Title IX is somehow unenforceable is a fairly bizarre conclusion. Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs funded by the federal government. The court ruled that transgender discrimination is discrimination on the basis of sex. Title IX regulations do allow for separate bathrooms/locker rooms on the basis of sex. In this case, the student, who was born female, had received an amended birth certificate designating him as male. But the school district policy assigned students to bathrooms based upon their genitalia, not birth certificates. The court ruled that such a policy constituted transgender discrimination under Title IX. The court did not reach whether assigning bathrooms based upon birth certificate would violate Title IX.
  4. I don’t follow your question. Under what theory would Title IX be unconstitutional?
  5. I loved the first one but didn’t really care for this one at all. Maybe the whole Deadpool schtick is just tiresome to me but the Yentl/Frozen bit was the only part that got a laugh out of me.
  6. Looks more like Jimmy Carter IMO
  7. Yup. It's shitty and the service time fuckery needs to get fixed but it would be mismanagement to call him up before the Super 2 deadline.
  8. Do you think it’s possible that even one additional person could learn of an arrest due to its publication on mugshots.com who otherwise would not?
  9. So what’s your test for when a disgrace has reached a critical mass of exposure that it can no longer be exposed by a would be extorter?
  10. Why did you dodge the question?
  11. Why do you think people want their mugshots removed from the site exactly if not to prevent additional exposure?
  12. There’s a threat as soon as the person requests that the exposure cease and is told “it’s staying up unless and until you pay us”. And it’s continued exposure. Surely you’re not arguing that as long as as I previously told someone you cheated on your wife, it wouldn’t be extortion for me to threaten to tell other people unless you pay me.
  13. I don’t really understand why you think the California definition is dissimilar from the definition I posted but sure. The website is obtaining consideration through the threat of exposing a disgrace. That placed in that context well enough for you?
  14. His cheating was referenced pretty early on. Might have been season one.
  15. “Pay me or I’ll keep publishing shameful information about you” is literally the definition of extortion. I don’t know why this is hard to understand.
  16. I would guess the “study” excluded gun homicides from those states plus DC but then divided by the national population.
  17. Any tips on getting rid of this shit? It grows to this height in about a week. I’ve managed to kill it with one of those weed (but not grass) killers that hooks into the garden hose a few different times but it only stays dead for like 4-6 weeks before coming back.
  18. It’s nice to hear a Republican publicly acknowledge that “family values” is code for bringing the Klan back to its former glory.
  19. An octogenarian aggy threatened to “stab me with a knife” at Kyle Field while I was singing The Eyes after the 2001 game. The specificity of this threat was a little disconcerting.
  20. The mugshot websites aren’t offering to scrub your mugshot from the rest of the internet for a fee. They’re only agreeing to discontinue their own publication of it. If their standard fee simply covered the costs of removal rather than being a profit engine, it would probably be different.
  21. Texas does have a child firearm access law (Penal Code 46.13) but it defines child as “under 17” and even if the child kills someone, it’s only a Class A misdemeanor.
  22. Why would something that can kill dozens of people in minutes not scare the shit out of you?
  23. I’ll still go to County Line on the Hill just for the view and that wheat bread.
  24. Extortion is basically obtaining money by threat of violence, financial harm, adverse governmental action, or harm to reputation. You have a right to publicize that I was arrested. But it’s extortion to say “I’m going to publicize that you were arrested unless you give me $1000.”
  25. Cast Away is a good call. Zoolander is what first came to mind for me.
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