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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1535733409083011073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1535733409083011073%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falthouse.blogspot.com%2F " We are simultaneously being told that gender differences do not exist and that genders are so profoundly different that irreversible surgery is the only option. Perhaps someone wiser than me can explain this dichotomy. " Althouse replies <I>"But who is "wiser" than Elon Musk? If the answer is no one, he's nailed down his position while performing open-mindedness. That's wisdom for you."</I> I reply: If the answer is that YOU are wiser, than Musk, and disagree with his position, then he's invited you to use your wisdom to explain why he's wrong. If you can't use your wisdom to explain why he's wrong, then clearly you are not wiser than him.  No? Please allow me to expand his statement for you: 1: "A trans woman is

 <I>And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both.</I> There is an image I wish to make. All three panels of the meme hold two equal bell curves, offset from each other.  One is labeled Male, the other Female.  The center point of each curve is roughly 3 sd from the other curve First panel "The Bigoted Bad Old Days" Put Women on the left, Men on the right.  Draw a line in the Women curve 1 sd to the right.  Everything to the left of that line is labeled "real women" Draw a line in the Men curve 1 sd to the left.  Everything to the right of that line is labeled "real men" Everything in between those lines is labeled "not real women" / "not real men" Second Panel "The Open Minded Days" Everything's the same as the first, but there's no barrier lines. Everyone in the Women curve is a real woman, same for the men. Third Panel "The Trans Enlightened Days" Repeat th

 effinayright said... <I>John henry said... Elon Musk is already generating solar power in space and beaming it to earth to point of use. He didn't invent the technology, Telstar was doing it 60 years ago. ***************** OK, I'll bite: Please explain how Musk's satellites, which are very small, do that. </I> My guess is that the satellites have solar power panels that they use to run themselves. Raido waves are energy. Now, an actual SPS (Solar Power Satellite) system requires satellites with much bigger panels. More importantly, it requires targets on the ground that can take the high energy beams, and distribute them to the electric grid. But I've been reading about the potential of those for the last 40+ years. One of the challenges / dangers of them is that they can also be used to power orbital weapons.  Which means they could quickly become targets.  People tend not to want to build expensive targets. Some numbers: 11 pounds to low earth orbit gets

 Day 1: fertilization: all human chromosomes are present; unique human life begins. Day 6: embryo begins implantation in the uterus. Day 22: heart begins to beat with the child's own blood, often a different type than the mothers'. Week 3: By the end of third week the child's backbone spinal column and nervous system are forming. The liver, kidneys and intestines begin to take shape. Week 4: By the end of week four the child is ten thousand times larger than the fertilized egg. Week 5: Eyes, legs, and hands begin to develop. Week 6: Brain waves are detectable; mouth and lips are present; fingernails are forming. Week 7: Eyelids, and toes form, nose distinct. The baby is kicking and swimming. Week 8: Every organ is in place, bones begin to replace cartilage, and fingerprints begin to form. By the 8th week the baby can begin to hear. Weeks 9 and 10: Teeth begin to form, fingernails develop. The baby can turn his head, and frown. The baby can hiccup. Weeks 10 and 11: The baby

Comment on this: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6329595&postID=1466464481462984940&page=1&token=1652203381874 Robert Cook said ... <I>Their lives have nothing to do with yours. Live and let live.</I> We tried that. With gays, we were told before same sex "marriage" became the law of the land "if you don't want to have a same sex marriage, just down't have one!" Now that it is the law of the land, we're told "you can not be in the wedding business unless you do same sex marriages, bigot!" As for trans, if they kept it to themselves,<b> then</b> their lives have nothing to do with ours. But instead they become teachers and force it on their students, their "allies" force it on their students (who are<b> our</b> kids), they demand that men with penises be allowed to dominate "women's" sports and invade women's private places (like spas). Completely terminate the

From the document (does anyone have an OCR'd version?): Although a pre-quickening abortion was not itself considered homicide, it does not follow that abortion was permissible  at common law--much less that abortion was a legal right.  Quite to the contrary, in the 1732 case mentioned above, the judge said of the charge of abortion (with no mention of quickening) that he had "never met with a case so barbarous and unnatural."  Similarly, an indictment from 1602, which did not distinguish between a pre-quickening a post-quickening abortion , described abortion as "pernicious" and "against the peace of our Lady the Queen, her crown and dignity." That the common law did not condone even pre-quickening abortions is confirmed by what one might call a proto-felony-murder rule.   Hale and Blackstone described a way in which a pre-quickening abortion could rise to the level of a homicide .  Hale wrote that if a physician gave a woman "with child" a