>>pessim+sb7
Gender dysphoria is a potential cause of mental illness, not a mental illness in itself. If someone has a job they hate or an unhealthy relationship which is causing them to be severely depressed, the best treatment is simply to quit that job or that relationship and work towards something better.

It's just the same for transgender people. Growing up feeling that you're in the wrong body can cause a lot of mental distress, and the best and most universally effective option for fixing that distress is to simply transition to living as another gender.

Not all people who are transgender experience severe enough dysphoria to cause serious mental health issues, and yet they still decide to transition and report being happier afterwards. [1] However, many transgender people do experience distress over it, and a proportion of that population are even suicidal over it.

This is why I consider it to be a cause of mental illness, not a mental illness in and of itself. And it's important to note that, even for the group that experience suicidality, transitioning is still an effective treatment. [2] [3]

Plastic surgery, on the other hand, is not even close to universally effective for people who are depressed about being "flat-chested" or "ugly." Cosmetic surgery such as breast enhancement has been shown to have a much, much higher rate of regret than transgender surgeries. [4]

In short, the reason that gender-affirming care is considered a treatment for gender dysphoria, whereas breast enhancement and rhinoplasty are not considered treatments for body dysmorphia, is simply that the former is effective and the latter is not.

1. https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/transgender-people-gender-i...

2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10925986/

3. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7869522/

4. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38688814/

>>cipher+Si7
Gen Z only voted democrat by a 4% margin which is an absolute death sentence for the democrat party considering people only vote further right as they get older. For context Obama won that demographic by 20% in 2012, and won it by even more in 2008. If those numbers hold democrats have no path to winning national elections

https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latin...

>>gortok+Wh7
> farther right than I’ve seen it in recent memory —- outside of very rural areas.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/985183/size-urban-rural-...

>>In 2023, there were approximately 55.94 million people living in rural areas in the United States, while about 278.98 million people were living in urban areas

If Trump won, it couldn't have been solely because of people in the boonies, who represent a much smaller proportion of total demographics. The same goes for Brexit, and all the happenings that have been shifting Western societies as a whole towards the far right.

This sort of obliviousness is not helpful in fixing the situation. Same energy as the media acting like Trump could never possibly become POTUS. These incompetents are getting in positions of power because the left and moderate right are, it seems, still not perceiving what is going on outside of their very specific bubbles.

>>mkl+9T7
The problem that I noticed is if you open two terms on different hosts (say by ssh) and run watch commands then, regardless of resolution, they'll be out of sync. There's no hard tick event common to both kernels. And as someone already said, you introduce sampling effects.

So I figured you need a time "diff", a single command that updates from both timeservers and then presents the offset in a single operation. So (I just researched this again and) there's three answers here [0], using ntpdate and something I've never seen before called clockdiff.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2296981/how-can-i-work-o...

>>ghostp+Xr8
The cheapest one I could find was about $250:

https://timemachinescorp.com/ntp_poe_wifi_dotmatrix_clock_ti...

>>jazzyj+4J6
Gen Z exit polling data from the 2024 US Presidential Election shows a significant rightward shift among gen Z voters. Instagram is still popular with "the kids", and it does tend to have more lax moderation. It leans somewhat conservative/right favored through inaction/sheer mass of posts.

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-genz-kamala-harris-trump-...

>>DiggyJ+wJ8
It would be if those were not specific exceptions to the hate speech policy: “ Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.””

Source: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/h...