EpicKebabEater [he/him, it/its]

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My main expectation is “sweeps” of any trans people after this passes, which will also include any part of the opposition they could believably stick a “soft on gays” or “gay” charge on, like was done with the label of “Fethullahçı” after the 2016 false-flag coup. They probably already have lists based on international hormone orders, internet activity and hospital visits. This will buy the government time to pretend the economy is tanking because of the West being jealous of Erdoğan’s strong Muslim spirit and not widespread corruption, dismantling of production chains inside Turkey and literally funneling money out of the country.

Assume enforcement will be selective and everyone understands the general vibe of the actual target, but the language is very broad could refer to literally anyone.

The current government jails everyone it doesn’t like then makes up a crime. Having a crime that’s completely in the air and applicable to everyone is more of a feature than a bug.

Or just that should they choose that, it is understood they do not have to go through the same hoops as trans people.

Yes. Involuntary surgery and hormonal treatment on intersex children is really common, so this is just a loophole that if a child is decided to be the opposite of the sex assigned at birth(this is done by a fucking committee with no input from the child or parent, parents are just told to raise their kid accordingly afterwards) the change will be done without any more caveats.

If I had to guess how many such hospitals exist… I’m gonna say… zero?

Yes. Currently only a few select hospitals offer any gender-affirming care at all and the Ministry of Health looked into most of them this summer. After this I imagine most of them will be deemed too lax and kicked out.

Turkish government to play out the last part of the LGBT discrimination threats leaked one year ago. The 11th Amendment to the Criminal Code, to be voted on this month, contains changes to:

-Obscenity laws(the ones that ban public sex) to increase the penalty to 1 to 3 years. It will also now include “actions incompatible with biological sex, encouraging or praising such actions” and (symbolic) gay wedding ceremonies.

-Legal reassignment. The minimum age is now 25 and “scientific necessity” must be proven. This is in a country where legal transition is nearly impossible due to lack of professionals and absurd expectations from doctors. Any “changes to an individual’s gender” outside of the law is punishable by 3 to 7 years.

Here is a good English source: https://kaosgl1.org/en/single-news/11th-judicial-package-prison-sentences-for-lgbti-s-gender-reassignment-age-raised-to-25

I assume nobody will want to take this part out in order to not be seen as “friendly towards gays”. None of the bans before this got any attention except from LGBTQ orgs.

In med school most people are AI stans even though it’s often useless because it can’t fetch the newest info or doesn’t have anything detailed on the topic. People will ask questions about a certain topic and inevitably no matter how much actual explanation has been done someone will send a screenshot of ChatGPT. Sometimes people will insist exam questions are incorrect because ChatGPT says a different, obviously incorrect thing. I’ve seen a dude not listen to the teacher in class and ask ChatGPT in real time when the teacher was giving a very clear explanation.

Worst, we’ve had our school give conferences on “Using AI to boost productivity” to med students.

Happy birthday! I hope you have a fun day.

I live outside the West and people who want to move to the United States know basically nothing about it. I’ve never seen one acknowledge homelessness, people who need multiple jobs, healthcare costs etc.

I might be the most anti-USA person I know because I have a lot of USian friends to explain the experience first-hand.

Human Metapneumovirus is a virus with symptoms resembling the common cold. China is apparently having an upsurge of cases.

This doesn’t seem to be the Covid “like the common cold”, it’s been around for at least 60 years.

Using a Xiaomi 10A, can confirm it has all three slots. I am happy with it after a year of using it but battery might die faster than five years.

People coming here to say this don’t seem to understand we hate both candidates, vast majority of American politicians and the entire American political system.

I am personally not in the West and the identity of the president affects nothing here. I do know trans people in America and I was hoping Kamala would win, even if I was too disgusted by her stance on Palestine, until I learned her actions as a prosecutor and “we should follow the law” statement on trans people, showing she would not be a hardliner on trans issues. That was the one advantage she might’ve had over Trump.

It is because the candidates are both hateworthy and ghoulish that it’s funny to laugh at people who are convinced one of them is morally pure or advantageous for the average person. We also had a few laughs at chuds who thought Trump was anti-war.

tl;dr Trump indeed bad. The issue isn’t that Trump good but that acting like Trump is the worst person in American politics or a root cause of the current problems is rather bizarre.

I knew the ultra-rich were unimaginably wealthy but this still blew my mind. Got through Bezos, expecting for the site to end, stopped when I saw the blue rectangle starting.