Please, I hope you didn't take my hypothetical as an attack, I think based on the emoji you understood my position.

As to your hypothetical, I do understand. I had a cousin that was autistic, probably mid-slightly high functioning, and he did not understand how to adjust his "strength" when putting hands on people while joking vs angry and it resulted in many situations where we had to separate him from the younger children that didn't know how to guard themselves appropriately.

My point is that even in a controlled environment, its difficult to handle these situations and ultimately my experiences have informed me enough that despite how much I loved my cousin, I needed to think about the people around him first in certain circumstances.

My cousin is no longer living, he had a heart attack; however, despite his inability to control his strength, I did allow him to be around my kids, but never alone and never without me being on pins and needles the entire time. Its sad to say that, but ultimately I am just glad he and them got to interact. It brought joy to both of them equally, I'm sure.

But to answer my own hypothetical, I wouldn't hesitate to call the cops if I knew my cousin had done something wrong even if he didn't believe he had. At a certain point, I believe you have to put aside your concern for the unstable person and think more about the ones that could be potentially hurt.

First of all, I'm not advocating for the police.

I clearly stated in my first post that the police did not handle the situation correctly because they did use lethal force and they did not wait for the ambulance when they said multiple times they would.

What I'm stating is that everyone involved had a part in passing the buck of responsibility to the next party until ultimately the end result was almost assuredly going to be bodily harm to Yong Yang.

I have a severely autistic son. There is literally no circumstance where I would call the police for any event involving him. Unless there is a dead body on the floor, they are not getting a call.

Here's a hypothetical for you, if your son had an episode and took someone hostage with a knife, you wouldn't call the police?

I will always advocate that a big area where police could improve their standing with the communities they serve is to always strive toward better, non-lethal handling of situations where the circumstances are appropriate; however, handling individuals with behavioral / mental disabilities isn't simple...

Getting back to the hypothetical, you don't you think you have a duty to protect that hostage's life at all costs? You wouldn't call the police until that hostage was dead on the floor?

Hypothetically, for your sake, your son's, and that hostage... I hope you aren't serious or would reconsider...

Honestly, everyone sucks in this situation...

• The parents pretty much ignored the warning signs of his illness, schizophrenia and bi-polarism, for far too long. It was revealed in the body cam footage that this incident actually started the night prior when their son showed up and forced his parents out of the apartment, probably being violent to them as well, and they had to sleep in their car.

I've seen this numerous times where the parents or family members know at heart the person needs to be committed, but for various reasons mostly due to finances or not wanting to stifle their freedom, they prolong the decision until its practically too late... and here's how you know:

• The parents slept in their car over night hoping his "episode" would end and when it didn't they were forced to escalate and called an out-patient mental health facility to get him to a hospital; if they were handling his care properly, he wouldn't have been out. This reeks of them doing this "wait it out..." before and it worked, but not this time...

Out-patient mental health or rehabilitation nurses, etc are not equipped to handle a violent patient. In fact, their training is as was shown in the bodycam footage. The second a patient becomes violent or too much to handle, they are trained to call the police.

From a morbid perspective, Police at least have a union and pension clauses that help take care of their families if they die in the line of duty, but home nurses, hospice care workers, rehab nurses, mental rehab nurses, etc do not (besides the possible work life insurance)

• The only area where I think the father and out-patient made things worse was they weren't able to properly communicate the level of violence to prepare the cops. They were asked multiple times if he had a weapon, if the apartment had weapons, if he had threatened anyone, etc and the answers were all "no, but sorta" vague like.

They were almost too afraid to admit how violent or a threat the individual was because they didn't want him to be injured... but at this point its too late.

Yes, and finally... it was too late without someone getting hurt. The individual was barricaded in an apartment, had a knife, and was mentally unstable. The cops asked peacefully several times for him to come out, but he wouldn't; there's no world where this ended in someone not getting hurt.

• I think the police actually screwed up the most when they attempted to enter without the Ambulance being on-site. They had a 'contained' situation, the individual wasn't going anywhere and didn't want to leave, so let him be until the ambulance shows up. They said multiple times they would wait for RA, but in the end.... they didn't.

Everyone sucked... except Yong Yang

Doesn't surprise me; here in Arizona, charter schools greatly out-number state public schools, usually have a majority of white students enrolled, and have access to the same government funding that state public schools have access to.

What started out as a way to offer private education on a state subsidized budget for disabled children like deaf, blind, or autistic, has been over-run by the elite as a way to have a private school without bearing 100% of the cost.

Interesting study and others: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17765230/

Not saying you are wrong, but a few things to note / discuss:

• The study indicates that CYP17 is a "candidate gene"? It isn't fully proven...
• The study indicates the CYP17 gene is valid for FtM but not MtF transitions... which means at best it can only explain half the population of trans right now
• The study I linked was done with under 2000 people in 2007, and a later study in 2015 was done with under 700 people. When you compare that to the estimated 30-70 million transgender potential people, the study is lacking in my statistical opinion...

Further, have you considered that maybe trans-racialism simply is too new and hasn't been studied enough?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transracial_(identity)

Except that there are biological components that are also part of transgenderism that explain why someone with male physiology expresses female thoughts and feelings or vice versa, or other types of internal gender identity.

What biological components are those? Please explain what you mean

I love it and own 8, but I'm willing to bet it sold the second least right behind Steam Machine. Steam Link probably sold the most ...

Regardless of why it came into existence, it would be a better Steam Controller successor in every way except that it is ugly; Never say never dude... 😜

I seriously doubt they would maintain the current Steam Controller profile, but I wouldn't say it's impossible.

I'd be perfectly happy if they did just refresh the original Steam Controller, but I doubt they will. I think it sold poorly enough to the point where the second iteration has to be a slam dunk -- and what better way to ensure that than to base it on the ever popular Steam Deck.

Yeah, I don’t know why they’d use that image. It’s so lazy and uncreative. That’s not what it’ll look like.

I don't care what any future Steam Controllers look like as long as it is comfortable and maintains base feature parity with the original.

You seem to think that Valve would never release such an uninspired design, but Valve has already shown images of their Steam Deck prototype iteration with exactly this: the screen of the Steam Deck removed with the left and right sides right up against each other.

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Valve even went on record in an interview talking about it saying that they did it to iterate faster on the ergonomics and comfort of holding the Steam Deck without wasting the material or manufacturing time to include the screen; therefore, they very well could release something similar as a future Steam Controller knowing that it would have the exact same ergonomics as the Steam Deck

I think there needs to be more government involvement and protection in how data is collected, shared, and consumed; however, I also think people don't realize that their perception of 'privacy' has always had the major benefit of being from the perspective of an individual that largely is unprofitable.

Many celebrities would very likely tell the public that 'privacy' is largely a myth and the reason their perspective is that way is because their lives, activities, and actions are viewed as profitable to someone. A lucrative paycheck from acquiring that salacious photo in a vulnerable position, etc is a big motivator, and if the celebrity gets mad at the paparazzi, there's even more news about how the celebrity lost their shit for all the world to see; however, if the celebrity embraces the media and tries to work with them to conserve what little 'privacy' they have, there is negative news about how the celebrity is fake or too controlling about their image. At the end of the day, these celebrities simply want to have dinner out with family or friends and they can't.

The general public isn't used to the idea that someone cares enough about every nuanced detail of their decisions that it would matter... but it does. Sadly, a celebrity must spend thousands of dollars to secure their privacy, and even then it isn't a guarantee... what hope do we have? In today's society we use debit or credit cards, but all of the transactions are data mined by the banks and privacy is non-existent; however, with cash you have some built-in 'privacy' because at its core it is not easily profitable to track.

And that is the point; Data collection is slowly bridging the gap between a celebrity's reality and normal everyday human perception of 'privacy'.