Approaching middle age is the new old, I’m afraid.

Now give me the positive statistics. Cars save lives as well. Think of all the emergency vehicles that help people every day. I’m pretty sure guns are way less helpful.

Haha, yeah, but you get the point.

Passports are for traveling - that’s the hole point. They are a means of communication with the other countries and should help the holder to travel easily. If they don’t because of their design, it’s not the fault of the other countries. Passports are emmitted by our country to help us travel even ti stupid countries if needed.

Important for dating - yes, evolution - yes, government, administration and passports - no.

Cars are made for transport, guns are made for killing. They are not the same.

“passports to trans people that allows them safe passage” - that’s what you wouldn’t give them. What is a passport good for if you cannot travel with it because the information it carries makes you a target in many countries?

How is it critical outside of reproduction? Why should anyone except for your doctor and partner care?

So how about the toilets and changing rooms mentioned?

Depends on definition

1

I’m doing it the latter way. I chose 1.

I think you’re talking to one.

If an artist is an evil asshole, I don’t support them anymore. I may still think their art is good, but I don’t buy from them, because I don’t want to support them financially and I also don’t want to spread their twisted message and normalize their behaviour. I don’t want to be connected with their evilness in any way. So separating art from the artist is possible for me only in some cases of artists that are long dead and that I think can do no more harm.

TV, newpapers and facebook is what I’m talking about. I’m the only lemmy person in my real life bubble.

I wonder where you’re from. In the parts of Europe I know it seems to be everywhere, all the media, all the information channels, just inescapable. And it’s not US politics, it’s international politics - tariffs, visas, research financing, USAID, military alliances, new territory ambitions - these are not US internal politics, it influences other countries in a massive way.

Progressives would be those accused, not accusing. Or is there something wooshing above me?

That’s just like your opinion

There are things the human mind tends to come up with again and again.

Unfortunately that’s not the way it works.