Daniel Keys MoranDec 23
Nicely written.
Show threadCharlie Stross
@fatsam Funny, isn't it, how conservative bans on "gender affirming healthcare" never seem to touch their Viagra and Cialis prescriptions.
Dec 23 at 11:38amWeb
Show threadDaniel Keys MoranDec 23

@cstross that point about the sports that kids get pushed into is pretty goddamn serious as well. I've played basketball my entire life until last year, I finally had to give it up, but I loved sports, still do. Basketball, baseball, a dozen others. Things I wouldn't let my kids do when they were young? Football, boxing -- I played football, I boxed 13 amateur fights and quit after my last knockout. Ears rang for 3 days.

The rotten shit conservative parents do to their kids goes on and on.

Show threadCharlie StrossDec 23
@fatsam That's American football, yes? (As opposed to real football, aka soccer.)
Show threadDaniel Keys MoranDec 23

@cstross right, the one where you get CTE.

I boxed, played CTEball for years, and grew up in the worst lead filled air the world had ever seen. My sons are way calmer than I am, and while I think that's in large measure due to their mother, Amy Stout, breathing clean air and not getting their brains rattled probably helped.

Show threadsu_liamDec 24
@cstross @fatsam Could also probably include rugby and Australian-rules football. But yeah, we do know the long-term effects of teens playing football(et al), and they’re bleak.
Show threadBillDec 24

@fatsam @cstross

Boxing, the only sport where the goal is intentional brain damage

Show threadAlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈♾️Dec 23

@cstross @fatsam
Don't forget the boob jobs (increase, decrease) and hair transplants.

(The USA military are massive purchasers of Viagra btw)

Show threadChrisJan 1
@AlisonW @cstross @fatsam once upon a time you'd fix bayonets but ok