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Do you have Google's Messages app installed? If it actually does what they claim on the tin, maybe it was only installed on phones with the Messages app installed?

Ah yes, there should have been more "in the sense of fairness, let us talk about the pros of torturing your child into submission". What is journalism coming to these days, leaving out such important information?

All trans prisoners at the federal (not state) level were already kept in a single prison where the medical staff had specialized training in the medical needs of trans people. Unfortunately, that single prison is in Texas, a state that is eager to tow the Republican party line.

And some genuinely could care less about looking at either.

My favorite is a major credit card company with case-insensitive passwords. They also only allow a small handful of special characters, so the total possible character space is roughly 42 characters. Needless to say, I chose to use a password that was the maximum allowed length (which was sadly also only 32 characters).

Researchers have done sonograms of women before and after arousal, with them having used the restroom immediately at the start of the process to control for initial urine levels. The bladder of a squirter fills rapidly with liquid prior to squirting, significantly faster than it does in similar non-arousal conditions. When you pee, you never void all of the urine in the bladder, so there is definitely pee in squirt, but the urea content was significantly lower than in the pre-arousal urine. IIRC, the researchers determined that the added liquid is mostly just water.

So, squirt is pee, but if she's gone to the bathroom recently, it's very diluted pee.

It's possible the form listed the drugs she was on, but the social worker didn't know it was their job to figure out which results to ignore.

I've literally seen a Texas judge - who not only presumably court ordered drug tests regularly, but was also an ex-nurse - not understand how drug tests work. She assumed the lab would eliminate prescription-caused positives from the results. It took subpoenaing the tech who administered the test - a person in the same courthouse - to take the stand and tell the judge "we just list what the test found and what meds the person said they were taking, it's someone else's job to cross reference the two" before the judge stopped assuming the person on prescription Adderall was a meth head.

If an ex-nurse who deals with drug tests on a nearly daily basis doesn't understand how they work, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turned out that a social worker misinterpreted the results similarly.

Gorilla Glass (the super strong glass used in most cell phone screens) was invented by East Germany after the war, before the wall fell.

Not everyone has the means and opportunity to pack up and leave a shitty state.

The flip side of this is charter schools aren't required to take special needs kids, either. Oh, your kid has Down Syndrome or is Autistic and needs additional staff or effort? Sorry, they're not welcome here. They have to go to the public school. The public school doesn't have enough funding to afford Special Ed teachers because it's all been vouchered away to charter schools? Tough titty.

Public schools work because the money pays for things like Special Education and Gifted and Talented programs. Charter schools can't afford either, so they don't provide either. Even ignoring the possible pitfalls of for-profit motives, you're going to end up with a weakened education system because without collective funding, all education must be geared towards the statistical average.

This seems like a shitty proposition...

My money is on it being a way to get around political donation limits - if you're buying a product, you aren't donating. Elon can buy a handful of these to give out to his buddies, and it doesn't count as donating a million dollars to Trump's campaign.