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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

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I don't understand how these are fundamentally different from the phone cameras that everyone points at everyone else already. holding a phone up isn't exactly conspicuous at this point.

schools should probably ban them for the case above, but schools should probably ban phones as well. in the US at least there's so expectation of privacy anywhere public and smart glasses are a tiny fraction of the doorbell cameras, security cameras, etc that are everywhere

it feels like we're approaching a circlejerk level of being against smart glasses in general, which do have a ton of interesting use cases that aren't recording related (but still require a camera for position tracking etc). the "pervert glasses" position is intentionally obtuse

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The United States of America, but for Trans People

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they're really not, slc has a pretty progressive community but it's in direct opposition to the mormons. they're officially accepting of gay people, but as long as they don't do anything gay. they aren't ok with trans people who transition at all.

utah also recently passed bathroom laws for all govt controlled buildings and schools and there are ones for colleges in the works.

generally mormons will be nice and accepting if they think they can convert you, but that's about as far as it goes

https://www.advocate.com/religion/2018/10/08/mormon-leader-lgbtq-advocacy-comes-satan https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/10/03/mormon-leader-gender-assigned-birth-eternal

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/01/30/utah-transgender-bathroom-ban-goes/

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Updated - programming.dev defederation on hold

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on that note, does anyone have recommendations for a neutral and controversy free instance but that also isn't so quick to defederate?

I understand instances like this wanting to defederate on principle and I'm sure it helps to curate a better experience for the people looking for that. Personally I'd rather make the choice myself to block communities I don't like and leave defederation on an instance level to just blocking illegal content and poor moderation and the like.

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Cost by Protein Source

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the problem is there are a ton of varieties of tofu, and they're all generally around the same price. it seems the silken tofu have around 5g of protein, but some of the extra firm varieties have over 15g protein per 100 tofu, putting it in a much more respectable spot in the bottom middle with the grains and such