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Honestly, it's really sad there are so few. I find it horrifyingly depressing to imagine being the single transfem high school athlete in an entire state, and being aware that her state politicians are spending their time debating and passing a law in which the only material outcome is preventing her, personally, from competing in sports.

I think it helps to bring it back to the real world, and not simply rhetorical hypotheticals. A lot of the otherwise well meaning people fall for the false premise that there is somehow vast amounts of trans women in women's sports, but there just isn't. They accept the idea that it's a popular occurrence for a male athlete to transition solely to dominate the women's sports field, but that just doesn't happen in real life.

Joanna Harper, a researcher based at Loughborough University in Britain who studies the effects of hormone therapy on transgender athletes, told The New York Times last year that out of 200,000 women in college sports at a given time, about 50 are transgender.

In 2021, just nine of the 174,000 students participating in high school sports were transgender.

It's really just a plain lie, and not at all worthy of serious consideration. If people who are presented with these facts still choose to be transphobic, then they're simply showing their true colors and using this as an excuse.

Lmao, that's news to me. Where is my pay check, Denuvo??? Nothing I said is incorrect, even if you don't like it.

Cryptobros stay losing

ehh, without hesitation I would choose Denuvo over being forced to install and run yet another third-party always-online launcher (Uplay, EA client, etc.) just to start the game.

Unpopular opinion, but I don't really get the amount of hate Denuvo receives tbh. I actually do reverse engineering for a hobby and a living, and honestly there are so many much worse DRM schemes game publishers could be pushing on consumers. People act like Denuvo is the most invasive, terrible DRM ever lol. It lets you activate the game offline, and also gives you a huge amount of machine activations per day, more than any reasonable person would need.

All the performance issues people complain about are just the game developers being dipshits in how they integrate it, by not reading documentation, etc., but that's not Denuvo's fault. Like, yes by all means blame the publishers for forcing their developers to slap Denuvo on as an after-thought 2 days before launch, but let's not pretend it's Denuvo that is the problem. They're providing a solution to publishers, and if it wasn't them it would be some other company with probably even worse tactics. I don't think its unreasonable for a company to want to protect their IP, when without it games would be getting cracked and pirated on day 1. I also don't think its unreasonable for pirates and crackers to do their thing, but to be so entitled as to expect that you should be able to easily pirate every new game the second it comes out is silly.

Perhaps it would be better if you clarified why you think it would be? There is no mention of passwords in the article at all.

I wouldn't risk the warrant tbh. Depending on how busy the district is, there might not even be a trial scheduled during the term. I've been summoned a lot for some reason, and most of the time haven't had to do anything other than acknowledge the initial summons.

So are you saying you think western sanctions have been working as intended, then? You haven't actually stated anything that refutes what others in this thread have said. I only ask because Russia seems to be doing fine economically, all things considered. Germany and the rest of Europe that were/are dependent on Russian exports, though, not so much...

Care to elaborate?

Ozempic hasn't been on the market that long (2017). I don't think its long term side effects when used for weight loss (which as noted, is not even the main thing it's meant to address) are well defined.