Yes, they are. Vocally so

What determines cash value in that case?

How does that work for the next generation of employees, the ones that weren’t there from the beginning? Doesn’t it mean privatisation as people retire and sell off their shares? And doesn’t it mean dilution of value for new employees as their shares represent an ever smaller portion of the company?

How do they approach those issues?

Like the European Union?

I guess they just didn’t test those of us in country towns too far from a selective school!

I was a gifted kid schooled in NSW. My kid was schooled in QLD. I’ve never heard of these gifted schools.

Yeah, that’s how we do it. Pre load the temperature before 4pm, timers, solar panels and a battery. It’s definitely worth it for us, but if someone doesn’t adjust their habits, they can end up worse off on the solar saver tariffs.

The part that this headline skips over is that it’s followed by 5 hours of pricing that are 3 times the regular rate, and then the rest of the day is a rare slightly under the old rate. The expensive rate kicks in between 4pm and 9pm, which is pretty much when the solar supply eases off and dries up.

If you work from home, it’s possible to shift some of the big load equipment to early afternoon, but some, like ovens and heaters aren’t so easy to shift. You really need to do the maths to see if it works.

If you’ve got a battery, you’re in a better position, because you can use your own solar and/or the free hours to top the battery up, and then draw on it during the expensive hours. Our battery isn’t quite big enough to carry us through 5 hours, but it gets us most of the way there, so the maths made it worth us to change to the new tariff.

People aren’t trying to trap you. What you’re seeing is vulnerable people who have seen and heard all of this before trying to get your boundaries out in the open before your instance gets momentum. That way, they can decide whether to interact with your instance, block it or defederate it before being exposed to yet more hate targeting them under the veneer of “civil debate”.

That’s not good enough. You’re saying they have the right to attack people, but at least the targeted people can defend themselves. Those are not comparable

So, transphobia, racism, misogyny, all acceptable as long as it’s aimed broadly, and doesn’t become targeted harassment of an individual?

Yep, as are solar systems. But when they collapse in to single objects, those objects end up spherical once they’re about a third the size of our moon (or even less than that if they’re icy/gaseous).

The Y chromosome doesn’t carry much of anything. It’s basically just a carrier for the SRY gene, and in most cases, it’s that gene that triggers the majority of the sexual differentiation that occurs in early development. The actual “code” for what develops and how it develops is there for male and female differentiation in all humans, and it’s hormones and other factors that control whether or not that genetic code is expressed.

And in this case, we’re talking about stem cells (ie, a cell that has the potential to develop in to any cell, but hasn’t yet done so), and then artificially triggering those stem cell to develop in to sperm cells. A trick that can be done because the genetic code for it to do so is already there if the conditions are right.

As an aside, this is also why hormone replacement for trans people lets them develop secondary sexual characteristics that they wouldn’t otherwise develop. The code was already there, it just takes the right trigger to get the code expressing (in this case, hormones)

If not exactly identical, would they be like twins?

The parents? Basically, as the only difference between them is a single chromosome out of the 26 we carry. There are slight genetic differences between identical twins, due to the accrual of mutations during cell division, but it’s smaller than a full different chromosome. That’s splitting hairs though, because both identical twins and our theoretical clones would be functionally identical.

If not exactly identical, would they be like twins?

If you mean the parents and their child, then they’d be somewhere between identical twin and regular sibling in terms of genetic similarity. Regular siblings on average, share about 50% DNA. Identical twins share 100% DNA. Our theoretical child in this scenario would share around 75% of their parents DNA

By definition, two people of different sexes can’t be clones.

But even if we ignore that, and have an example of say, two XX clones, with artificial sperm creation from stem cells of one of the clones, their child wouldn’t be a clone of the parents, because DNA is double stranded, with two different versions of each chromosome. The child would get a random combination of those chromosomes, different to their parents

In that case, I’ll take “reborn with current knowledge intact” thank you!

Even though magic sounds tempting, if I can’t remember my previous stint, my reborn persona may as well be a completely different person!

Unless the magic comes with sex and gender fuckery spells, neither. I’m not really keen on doing a whole lifetime without access to trans health care

Wait, am I meant to announce my departure when I’m at an airport? I haven’t been doing that…

As in pushing back and making noise when people post stuff that helps keep her relevant.

If I have a tool for decreasing the amount of harm she does, this is it.

Will it make much difference? No, but if a single person hesitates before posting potter stuff in the future, then it helped a little

This is what aiming at her looks like.