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Hell, I'll be surprised if they even have to do that. All the limiters are about to come off of every megacorp in America. Especially ones that were complicit in right wing propaganda.

The Greeks had [a bit of a story](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)) about that...

Hmm. Can't wait to see this disappear into smoke in a few weeks' time.

Huh, today I learned that that is a neurological test.

I'm not a doctor, but I was always under the impression that when they do that they're whacking on the tendon directly and the leg-jerk reaction is just.. well, physics. The tendon is manually flexed and the leg should jerk in response and I always assumed this was just testing to make sure your knees are in good shape. But according to Britannica.com where my brief searching led me,

Exaggeration or absence of the reaction suggests that there may be damage to the central nervous system. The knee jerk can also be helpful in recognizing thyroid disease.

Personally I find it silly that bathrooms are segregated at all when stalls exist.

You mean the 3-foot particle board separator with a 2-foot gap at the bottom and a solid inch of space around the entire door, the gap large enough to make eye contact with someone at the sink while you're sitting with your pants down?

Because that's what passes for a "stall" in 99% of America. Privacy never even came into the conversation when they designed those damn things. They are designed to give the bare minimum illusion of privacy while still being easily stared through to make sure no one is doing drugs in your bathroom. At any point in time any employee of any company has a right to come into the bathroom, peer through the crack in the door and make sure you're in there dropping a dook properly and not say, shooting up heroin. And you can't stop them even if you wanted to, the stalls are designed to make that possible.

So, with that knowledge, I sort of almost understand the people that get all up in arms about this. Because there is almost NO expectation of privacy in ANY American public bathroom. If we had European style stalls this would never have been a problem in the first place. But because anybody can just walk up and literally make eye contact from outside the stall while you've got your pants down, some folks can be understandably concerned about that.

That doesn't excuse any of this mess and it doesn't make them correct, but non-americans don't realize how shoddy our typical public restroom is. The anger at trans folks should instead be directed at the cheap-ass building contractors that mandate bathrooms that don't give you privacy.

Edit: These are what I'm used to seeing.

If you're tall, your eye level is over the top of that door. If you're a young kid, the bottom of the door doesn't even start until your chest or shoulders. If you're medium height the gap around the door is your peephole, whether you want it to be or not.

anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law

There is no situation outside of basic ID verification where any statement you make will benefit you in any way. If a cop has decided he's going to arrest you then you're getting arrested. The proper time to fight against that is in court, not at the time of arrest.

For a very long time we had a robust system of public violence that prevented a lot of this. Not all of it, but a lot.

Back in the day if you were a sex pest and an asshole, chances were good that someone who lived in your community would either be firmly escorting you out of the local area never to return, or digging you a shallow hole back behind the churchyard.

Now if you were a royal sex pest then that's a different story, but guys like Tate? He's just some dude. In a past age someone would have broken 33 bones in his arms, legs and face and he might have even learned something from it.

He intentionally misgenders his own children so honestly I'm not that torn up about it.

There's nothing wrong with being a woman, it's only an insult if Musk thinks it is. We're allowing him to torture himself with it.

To a better world, free of bigots who feel that they have a right to exist in the sunlight with the rest of us?

I agree.