Um, excuse me, who said 40 years was long enough? If we don't have trials that show how people receiving these drugs turned out all the way until they died then we don't really have long term trials, do we?
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It's such a fucking cop out. Nothing will ever be good enough for some people.
Even if they eventually decide not to undergo those procedures, all you habr to do is take them off the blockers and they'd undergo puberty as normal. There's not all that much downside for an awful lot of upside for those in need.
Oh, don't worry. Statistically, people who start puberty blockers almost always go on to receive hormone therapy as adults, so you don't really have to worry about people deciding not to continue. It's definitely* because of the medicine that they go on to do HRT, and not because the kids that are getting through the bullshit to actually start blockers are the kids who are almost 100% guaranteed to be trans. Don't think too hard and it'll all just go away.
I mean, until it happened it's just a fiction. Maybe time travel wasn't possible at all until we nuked ourselves back to the stone age fighting over what was left after climate change.
Humans. Can't trust 'em for shit.
It definitely smells like that, except maybe just anti-"woke" or anti-minorities instead of just anti-women?
I'm with you. Even YouTube is classified as social media (which I guess it gets closer to with shorts and comments and everything). I definitely think that, this, and Facebook are categorically different, even if they're all "social media"
Well kinda looking for an excuse to talk about sci-fi conventions. I mean that's the entire point of this community, right? to talk about Sci-Fi especially Star Trek?
Well why do you think I brought up Starfield?
I like the addition in Starfield, if for no other reason that it shows how unwieldy and difficult it is when it's easy to implement. Stellaris has a standardized calendar with a 360 day year of 12 30-day months. I don't think it's an addition that makes a novel any better usually (they almost never mention toilets, either) but I do think they can add something to a game or even a movie as part of a set piece. I think the stories where it's a plot detail are... Less engaging.
Same. Except it's usually more, like, verify an obscure fact or something.
And yet here you are.
No, no, no, no, no.
Not no claim. Just... No legal claim.
I'm not sure I understand what point you're trying to make? Separate clocks like this are so complicated even the Battletech books stopped using them? It's easier to do environmental storytelling in video games than it is in novels? Just looking for an excuse to talk about sci-fi conventions?
Aw, little Julie tables! I wondered how you turned out after your sister left town. How's the transition coming?