Nice! I like the grey with yellow accents. Those old Trek road frames are great, too.

Exactly why the focus is only on womens' sports, and not on mens' sports. These folks wouldn't tolerate their boys having to get a genital inspection before they play football, but doing it to girls is framed as necessary protection.

Sometimes. Other times the doctor pushes around on their lower abdomen. Sometimes my kids don't get hernia checks at all at their sports physicals. But that is a distraction from the larger point. Schools requiring a general physical for sports participation - possibly including a hernia check performed at a pediatrician's discretion - is one thing. The state-mandated sex screening we're seeing across the US is quite another. My own state is about to vote on a law requiring physical checks of genitalia, DNA testing, or testosterone testing, all with the explicit purpose of preventing trans kids from participating on girls sports teams. That is not okay.

mostly means a warmer, drier, sunnier winter

I really hope not, but the NOAA 3-month outlook is bleak for those of us who enjoy winter. It might be even worse than last year, and last year's snowfall was historic amounts of awful. Many snow monitoring stations were at 30-year lows, or worse. I had a planned winter camping trip last February, and instead of snow we had sunny 60-degree afternoons. Ski areas were barely operating.

Another relevant SMBC comic:

Like how every zoo is a petting zoo if you aren't a wimp about it.

Nah, it's largely driven by poverty and war and traditional gender roles. Men move abroad looking for work, leaving their wives back home to maintain the rest of the family. Men seek a temporary escape from poverty by abusing alcohol and drugs, or engaging in other high-risk activities. Men die fighting in the military.

Interesting BBC article about the shortage of men in Latvia: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11493157

The article boils it down to a combination of poverty/unemployment and toxic macho culture, which leads men to depression, alcohol abuse, and risky behavior. Suicide rates are the highest in the EU, and over 80% of those suicides are men. Latvia has the highest proportion of single mothers in the EU.

Those Gulf states also have a huge amount of immigrant labor, and it's largely men.

And just like that, an antique meme gets new life!

US Constitution Article 1 Section 9 Clause 8, "Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments":

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

It's literally unconstitutional. In the past, foreign gifts to presidents were typically turned over to the National Archives to avoid breaking the law. If Congress was a functional governing body they would rake him over the coals for this, among the hundred other laws Trump has casually flaunted.

Echoes of late 2022 when Twitter abruptly fired thousands of people, then turned around days later and tried to rehire many of them. I'm sure it's purely a coincidence that one person is closely tied to both incidents.

In case anyone forgot, Rittenhouse went to a protest with a loaded rifle looking for a fight, shot two three people, walked away untouched, was acquitted, and got speaking gigs on conservative TV shows. You can do whatever you want as long as you're on the "right" side.

Relevant quote from St. Basil:

"Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. Who is the defrauder? One who takes away what belongs to everyone. And are not you covetous, are you not a defrauder, when you keep for private use what you were given for distribution? When some one strips a man of his clothes we call him a thief. And one who might clothe the naked and does not—should not he be given the same name?

The bread in your hoard belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked; the shoes you let rot belong to the barefoot; the money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. All you might help and do not—to all these you are doing wrong"

TL;DR, the AG asked for a bench trial, Trump's defense team didn't respond, and so Trump gets a bench trial. It's possible that a jury trial would have been disallowed in this particular case under New York law, but the defense didn't even bother to ask.

Whelp, that's on your people, Donald. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Dutch is not a language. The people who "speak" it are Germans who suffered severe head injuries. The place we call "the Netherlands" is a German hospital colony where those unfortunate people can live while they recover. That's why it's flat and everyone walks or rides bicycles; their head injuries make them unfit to drive cars or to manage difficult terrain.

/s, please don't send the actual Dutch after me.

"Everything will be better if we just feed a fifth of the population to the alligators!"

Absolutely insane.

The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum.

Way to go everyone! We got noticed! And for something good this time!

https://lemmy.world/post/34021862

@[email protected] is a meme god.

@[email protected] keeps history alive and the Confederacy in check.

@[email protected] is our resident owl afficionado.

There are many others, of course, but I seem to notice these three a lot in my Subscribed feed.

I really like the maps that also indicate population, like this dot density map: