I looked this up and it’s being done for courts to recognise assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and same-sex couples during disputes
So the backlash is another example of how transphobia gets used to justify pushing more restrictive & conservative values across the board
Someone called me pretentious the other day for saying I read Dostoyevsky when I was 15, and that got me thinking—why have we created a culture where engaging deeply with ideas and challenging yourself is considered pretentious?
Big/bad news for consumers. Google is out today with an announcement of how they plan to integrate shopping into their AI offerings including search and Gemini. The plan includes “personalized upselling.” I.e. Analyzing your chat data and using it to overcharge you. 1/2
Pretty House Finches were enjoying the sunshine and feasting in the trees near the Catbird Playground in Carl Schurz last Saturday.
#housefinches#housefinch#birdcpp
Trump wants us to run no trade deficits with any countries, which would require Americans to massively curtail our imports of foreign goods. But he also wants tariff revenue to replace the income tax, which would require us to massively expand our imports of foreign goods.
@JamesSurowiecki Does this mean FTA's are annulled unilaterally now? Who TF will trust anything signed with US from now on? These tariffs are BS and a bluff from Trump, he just wants to get as much as possible from the countries he's threatening and then cancel these. But China won't flop imho!
Just brilliant. Because Indonesia has a high tax on coffee imports, Trump's going to put a 32% tax on coffee imports from Indonesia - even though the US exports no coffee to Indonesia (or most anywhere else). He literally does not understand the concept of comparative advantage.