That’s the point! Brian Heywood wants girls and women to avoid playing sports.

Brian Heywood, a republican millionaire who moved to WA from California to “escape liberals”, has been abusing the ballot initiative system here using his wealth for years. He (and his PAC “Let’s Go Washington”) purposefully makes them misleading or otherwise confusing to understand in order to get them passed.

A silver lining is that most of his initiatives haven’t passed (such as the initiative to repeal the millionaire tax), and those few that have over the years have been gutted, heavily modified, or found to be unconstitutional in the state supreme court. The supreme court here just became even more left leaning, and since the way he wrote the initiative makes it only apply to girls, it’s likely to be thrown out.

The user you responded to exists to shit on the WA legislature, and let the Washington Lemmy community know they voted to repeal the millionaire tax. They’re more upset about that failing than the anti trans one passing.

Hey it’s the guy that voted Yes on repealing the millionaires tax in Washington. I wonder what other initiatives from Brian Heywood you voted Yes on. Maybe this one?

Going against a misleading discriminatory bill is not “going against the will of the people”. It’s funny that you’d say that, and in the same breath complain about the millionaire’s tax that you voted to repeal failing.

Where did you see that I was feeling sorry for her?

I’m not conflating the two. Users saying that they want her to perform sexual acts for them, saying that she’s starting an OnlyFans, and talking about her appearance as many comments in this thread have done hurts all women, not just her.

Those things detract from the terrible shit she’s done, and serve only as a distraction from them. I hate her for what she’s done and who she is, and I can say that without making sexist comments about her which could affect other women.

Did you read the other comments in this thread before you decided to use the women in your life as an example?

I didn’t say you said anything misogynist. You replied to my comment talking about Lemmy’s sexism problem.

You can dislike (and even hate) her without being sexist. I sure do.

Yep, here we go again, just like with Nicki, the Lemmy sexism problem is showing itself again. Sexism and misogyny is never okay, it’s interesting that many of the sexists here probably consider themselves leftists.

Resistbot petitions are better because they’re sent directly to your representatives.

Bad press doesn’t mean they can start losing even more money on space data centers (which are going to be incredibly inefficient and costly). They already do not make a profit, they’re all deep in the red.

Drag is not the only problem (even though these would definitely be LEO, it is just even more expensive to not have them in LEO and it increases latency), nor are bit flips. The biggest issue will continue to be heat. If you haven’t been to a data center before, you may be surprised at how much heat they generate. I’ve only been to non-LLM data centers, and the heat in the warm aisles was unbearable.

And that’s without the sun heating the exterior to incredible amounts. You cannot use contact to dump heat into space.

You might also be surprised at how much e-waste data centers generate, especially LLM-geared data centers. They obliterate hardware, even with optimal cooling, and that hardware requires constant replacement. How are they going to manage that?

Also, unless they use nuclear (which would drastically increase costs and add heat) they’re going to need gigantic solar arrays, much bigger than the IIS’ array.

This is exactly what I meant, thanks.

This is true, but you know that it bruised his ego either way, which is a nice thought.

This 10d old account has pretty much just posts shit like this everywhere. They seem have no original or valuable takes, so it’s probably safe to block them.

Good thing the whole idea makes no sense, because repairs are impossible, you can only vent heat in infrared, you have to use expensive rockets to get them up there, and if they’re in LEO, they’ll fall back down to earth. Oh, and there’s more likelyhood that bits get flipped from all of the high energy particles up there.

It’ll just make LLMs at scale even more infeasible.

One can dream… there’s a reason I’ve got the Doug flag as my pfp

Yeah, it’ll probably pass, which is depressing as a trans person. But the Dems also just swept the judicial branch, and the ACLU along with other progressive groups vowed to fight it as it’s likely unconstitutional (at the state level).

There’s a chance that it’s heavily modified or thrown out like previous initiatives were. We’ll see.

Hang in there, that’s totally valid.

As far as I understand, they weren’t always required for every girls K-12 league. This makes it so it’s required.

It also obviously bans trans girls from competing in any sports, even if they have the same hormone levels and build as afabs. Previously, this was allowed by the state.

Yep, if not rejected by the WA courts, this now means that any girl wanting to play sports will have to undergo exams. The way the WA initiative is written, it will only affect girls.

The ACLU and many other trans rights groups have vowed to fight it up to the state supreme court.

The count has started to come in. I’m not seeing them doing very well at all. What do you mean?