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[–] [email protected] 169 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Music to my ear and I wonder how much it costed them to comb through all of that.

[–] [email protected] 171 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

Fun fact, costed is a word but has a slightly different meaning than the way you have used it.

Costed means to get the details on the cost of something complex. Like "I costed the three projects and the last one is cheapest"

You tried to use it as the past tense of cost, but the past tense of cost is also just cost.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I love free English classes..

[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago

Free education? Hell yeah brother!

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So not only was it hateful, but it was wasteful, too. Good job, Utah.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 months ago (3 children)

People should keep submitting fake reports, and make them somewhat plausible. Just so they don’t get instantly discarded and can actually tie up more resources by actually getting investigated.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the support, fellow human.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Worth noting, Russia agrees very much and is flooding social media in a very similar way. The LLM makes it more effective now than in 2016

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (4 children)

But like, how would they even investigate them? That's the part I don't understand. Whoever was peeing in there, they're gone by the time the cops show up. It doesn't take that long to pee.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Republicans show up and taste the toilet seat. They claim they can tell the difference.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love/hate how I can't tell anymore if comments like this is sarcasm or real.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can we submit on a website? I can submit a million per day

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago (3 children)

only five were investigated

Can one sue Utah for gross neglience now? I mean, they got thousands of complaints from concerned citizens, and they only cared for investigating five of them? Or do they profile those complaints into "we are not investigating certain types of people", e.g. politicians that have been reported?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I want to know how they "investigate" this bullshit. This is a complete waste of tax payers money...but since it's from the party of small gov. And saving money its ok cause we have to know who's got what equipment and going into what bathrooms.

All business's should just swap all their signs over to unisex and be done with this bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

This is a complete waste of tax payers money

A lot of those rulings are. But this would be fun to exploit to the bottom just to make it really hurt.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's only 5 so far, reading the Bee Movie script takes a long time, especially when they have to keep stopping to sound out every other word.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, a huge chunk of those probably came from patriotic LGBT+ citizens cramming the reports with junk. Which is a good thing to do, but we wouldn't expect them to do more than a cursory check.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well, a huge chunk of those probably came from patriotic LGBT+ citizens cramming the reports with junk.

Of course. But they opened that snitchline with so much fanfare and claimed people using the "wrong" bathroom the end of the world. And then they only investigate five out of 12k reports. Now that sounds lame even for Republicans. What if they opened a snitchline on corrupt politicians? Will they only investigate five cases out of 12k reports? Such a snitchline would be much more important for society than reporting people using the wrong door. But chances are that they won't open such a line for a number of reasons...

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This is outrageous. They're not even going to attempt to investigate my report about an alien beaming into the bathroom and touching my peepee? Just for that, I'm filing 10 more complaints.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On this planet, you don't just leave a guy hanging like that. When you start a job, finish it dammit!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I’m struck by the fact that as a trans woman I look more cis than some women I know who’ve given birth. I’m actually worried about a cis friend of mine if we ever get bathroom laws here.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been trying to explain to my less enlightened family for years that requiring a trans man to use the women's bathroom only makes it easier for men to just walk in since having a beard and a dad bod no longer means you have to use the men's room.

These laws just don't make any sense and can only make whatever they are afraid of (men hearing their wives and daughters tinkle, apparently) worse.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's what has always stumped me. They do realize that trans men look like... men. Right? Like, they want some dude to just stroll into the women's bathroom? Like, legally want that dude to be forced to stroll into that women's bathroom?!?

The dude doesn't want to be in there. Women don't want the dude to be in there. Why do these politicians want the dude to be in there?!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and the trans person gets assaulted in the bathroom they are 'supposed' to use! Its just an excuse to banish us from public, there is no right answer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Exactly. It’s like telling black people to use their water fountain. But there isn’t a fucking water fountain for them.

Regression of society sucks to watch in real time.

Edit: hope this isn’t an offensive correlation. 💀

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've been saying that for a while. Not only does this open up many trans women to additional harassment, it also opens it up to any cis woman someone decides looks too masculine to be a "real" woman.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Let's cut to the chase.

This bill, and many like it, are created with a clear purpose: to subjugate women. Harming the LGBTQ2+ community is almost secondary, since they can do that just fine already.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Based on that numbers it will be mostly cis woman who get harassed. There have been plenty of cases of it already. There was a few big ones in my state when people complaining that their daughters lost in sport

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Conservatism has only ever been about the most superficial of ideals.

Many of them would have no issue at all with extending laws about gender to laws about appearance and I'm not even kidding. We have plenty of examples from right-wing governments and social trends of the past absolutely leaning into ideas like phrenology or inherent, essential qualities that go alongside things like hair and eye color.

You should be concerned for your friend, everyone should be concerned that if allowed to mature, conservatism in the US would throw us right back into a time when people can face legal penalties for what they choose to wear, for how they express themselves, for the shape of their face and a thousand other ways they would want to police the world around them so it continues to look the way they want it to look. And too bad if you don't look like someone who should live in that world.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

I would definitely let Utah know that you saw a great many of these people use the "wrong" bathroom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64th_Utah_State_Legislature

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Only 12000? Those are rookie numbers! Get back to work!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I suppose decades of misandric conditioning would create the opinion that all men, trans or not, are sexual predators and closet perverts. This needs to change.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And misogyny conditions to believe that all women are victims. They really aren't separate forces, they work together.

Eerybody needs feminism.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (7 children)

As long as transwomen sit down when using the loo, they are more than welcome. I'm glad that snitch line drew up nothing. Imagine if they used those funds to fascilitate free hygiene products? But noo, they gotta harass a minority...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Why does sitting matter? I’m honestly asking because I remember my twenties and about half my friends (women) would just hover over the toilet seat. We’re all in our 40s now so I can pretty much drop the percentage to 10% hovering based on complaints about knee pain lol

Editing to add: I’m actually too short to have ever hovered over a toilet seat, I’m not advocating hovering, but that’s not even my point. Splashes can happen for any number of reasons. Y’all want to say only those who sit down should use the women’s bathroom and I’m here to tell you women are just as gross as men in their capacity to urinate onto the seat, regardless of plumbing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Hovering is just as bad. Because standing causes small deoplets of urine to splash out of the toilet. Not unlike the mist at the bottom of a waterfall. By cleaning the toilet seat and just sitting down, a stall gets nasty slower.

It's fine if the stall is horrible already, but if it's clean, it's better if we keep it that way.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As a straight guy, I have just walked into the wrong bathroom or chaises a kid into the wrong bathroom more times than I want to admit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looks like they took the form down. If anyone has a new link, please post it. I've got some creative writing to share with the bigots in Utah.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather my Tax Dollars go to THAT instead of feeding Starving American Children!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Preface: I don't care at all what bathroom anyone uses, just a silly lighthearted comment:

But I do find it a bit funny that the headline mentions 12,000 complaints, but leaves out that only 5 of them were even looked into, lol.

Sensationalism is everywhere, I guess, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I think we need to start breaking the law and self reporting. We'll send in pictures of our junk spewing urine in the wrong room so they'll be sure it's a legitimate complaint.

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