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Puberty blockers for transgender and potentially transgender teens aren't meant to be taken all the way through to adulthood, if that's what you mean by "otherwise stopped growing.…

The "desistance" measured in that study is between going to the clinic as a child (before any treatment would be offered) and the time they would go to receive medical treatment fr…

Puberty blockers are not meant to be prescribed from onset of puberty to adulthood. (I don't think anyone wants to be just starting puberty at 18.) They're meant to buy time for th…

The pattern I've observed repeated around issues of transgender health care is "ordinary levels of scientific uncertainty used to argue for the most extreme possible restrictions."…

This is what finally made the idea behind Watt's condenser click for me.

the sun seeker wrap is a cool retro look. can anybody place what it's based on / inspired by?

The museum has not, in fact, made any indication that it would wish to cancel (to decide not to conduct or perform) its Charles Dickens exhibition. The sense of 'cancel' being used…

Skeptics said SpaceX would fail, but it succeeded. Therefore, skepticism in general is wrong and SpaceX will have an annual revenue of $11 quadrillion by 2030.

I don't think the demand for second homes worth over $5 million is a major driver of construction of new units in NYC.

I keep javascript on because i want websites to not be broken by default. but if they insist, i can add their domain to my ublock filter

There's a political backlash against vaccines because of mandates too, and I think we shouldn't listen to them either.

The next administration needs to mandate the big American auto companies produce more EVs in more models in order to save them from the irrelevance they seemingly desire and arguab…

They think their dog food tastes great now, not because they improved it any, but because they've forgotten the taste of human food. Karmically hilarious.

An interesting article. I wonder if there's a valid point in here buried somewhere underneath the endless obnoxious comparisons of his opponents to cultists.

I was hoping this would have some application for human solving. I gave up on Semantle because I couldn't figure out any sort of strategy.

The paragraph about the stove making dozens of breakfasts as the house collapses at the climax of the story is what always stuck with me most. It would take a better writer than me…

Bayer dithering in particular is part of the signature look of Flipnote Studio animations, which you may recognize from animators like kekeflipnote (e.g. https://youtu.be/Ut-fJCc0z…

Steam doesn't need to lock down the Steam Machine to subsidize it with store purchases. The casual user could theoretically install another OS, but that doesn't matter because they…

I started dieting recently and I've come to understand the people who say that American portions are huge. An automat lets you sample a bunch of different stuff instead of the typi…

I can't help but notice similarities with certain conservative attacks on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans people. > A general subjective notion that the evidence "is…

Proposing a CLI command as a candidate for "simplest UI ever" is a great gag.

that's less than i was expecting. i was looking for a ps2 around then and i'd definitely have paid $150 plus shipping for all of that.

> Unfortunately, nobody wanted to buy these even for a cost that would cover all the expenses spent on this project. Makes me wonder how expensive these were to make.

I can imagine it. If I were the kind of person whose needs and desires could all be satisfied by mass-produced products sold by the top 5 or so largest retail corporations, and who…

You'll need to explain this a little bit more, because the TC article seems to indicate the issue is that he is accused of targeted harassment. I doubt you could design a poll to m…