California probably, if things keep going down the stupid path.

Florida if the pendulum swings back to sanity.

I’d bet it’s slow.

I will bet on that happening in my lifetime too.

We need Universal Basic Incomes, for everyone.

There’s no way he’s getting 100M pounds a year in stipend, the King doesn’t even have that kind of money privately accessible. King Charles has probably got a couple of billion dollars that he privately controls separately from the crown, but the vast majority of that is tied up in real estate and jewels, and while the real estate does generate some yearly income, it’s on the order of tens of millions. The jewels generate no revenue.

Now, that being said, Andrew is probably going to get north of a million dollars a year, so it’s not going to be anything like a pauper’s life. However, it may come with strings attached that keep him from showing his face in public, so it’s unlikely we’ll see him jet-setting around the world with that money. Most of it will likely be spent on having help, a maid and a cook and butler so he never needs to actually do anything. His own private retirement home/jail.

City owned grocery stores don’t really solve the affordable food problem.

Grocery stores aren’t particularly profitable in the scheme of things. Neither are distributors, food processors, or farmers.

Each link takes a bit of profit of course, but for most non-luxury foods there’s just not a lot of profit along the line.

In order to solve it for real, you need to a) make farming cheaper, especially for certain labour intensive foods b) control the entire supply chain from farm to grocery store

However, this tends not to work well for any sort of non-commodity food item like say cookies or ice cream. There are just too many different preferences for that to work well. The government could produce 3 types of cookies really cheap, but if they tried to produce even 30 different types they’d just end up being worse than what we currently have and we currently have 300 types.

That’s called Canada.

We also let criminals vote, and even set up polls inside prison for them because they’re (mostly) still citizens.

3 meals away from riots.

Wouldn’t it be shorter to just list who he doesn’t have animosity towards?

Dehydrate then first.

Nobody said they needed to be alive…

Trans men in men’s categories is a non-issue. It’s a non-issue for a reason, they have no advantage and they’re usually at a disadvantage. There are like a half dozen famous attempts of trans men who have tried to break into competitive mens sports, and none of them have been successful at climbing the rankings or winning any significant competitions, any medals I’ve seen are like (they won silver at the 34-40 age category for Duathalon - This was Chris Mosier) where yes it’s technically competitive, but nobody is winning any prize money.

The public generally speaking doesn’t have any issue with trans men competing against men.

This is the opposite in women’s sports, despite making up such a small portion of the population, there have been more than a few instances of trans women medaling in international competition.

Lia Thomas did such a significant amount of harm to the trans image because of her choices in this regard, but she is living proof that transitioning CAN be unfair in women’s sports. When something can be unfair in competition, it needs to be banned.

At the end of the day, I wish trans women all the opportunities of the world, except competitive women’s sports.

FINA (The world Swimming body) banned them a few years ago. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/19/1106173020/swimming-bans-transgender-women

World Boxing banned them recently. https://worldboxing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/World-Boxing-Sex-Eligibility-Policy_FINAL_20Aug25.pdf

World Rugby banned them as well. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/19/1106173020/swimming-bans-transgender-women

World Athletics goes even further, banning any transgender woman who went through male puberty from rankings AND also banning some female at birth women in the ban if they have certain sex-disorders and don’t keep their testosterone levels extremely low.

I’m not sure any of these groups are writing them to be more inclusive, unless they simply had no policy before. Lots of the groups that allowed them are even increasing the restrictions, since the old guidelines around testosterone less than 10 nmol seem to have been found to be insufficient and some of those groups have dropped it to 5 instead.

Testosterone is a hell of a performance enhancing drug.

You and I both know that women are not competitive with men in most sports. You pretending that they are (or could be) is just a bad faith argument.

The darts argument is also in bad faith, there’s no restriction in the primary darts tournament series based on gender at all, and they do not have a separate women’s category for the normal tournaments. There are a handful of women’s only events, but they are not part of the main tours in which anyone can compete.

Find me an example of a professional female boxer beating a professional male boxer within the same weight class. I’ll wait. Here’s arguably one of the best female boxers, with a 54-0 record and multiple world titles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_Rijker, She got KOed in the second round by an amateur kickboxer, who was male and 10 pounds lighter than her (1-2 weight classes down depending on the ruleset). He wasn’t as good on technique, but just cleaned her out with more speed and power anyways.

The whole point of having a women’s category is to allow fair competition. Allowing trans women to compete breaks that fairness principle. Just like any sort of doping breaks that fairness principle. If something is possibly unfair, then it’s unfair. Even if most people don’t gain an advantage, it’s still unfair. Unfairness cannot be allowed in competition, it ruins the whole thing.

You’re right that the government shouldn’t be involved, but they were getting banned by sports bodies left right and center for competing unfairly, so it’s the same outcome. The government should still back off and lets sports bodies do it, but it won’t change the inevitable outcome.

Sure, but many sports have banned it without the government’s intervention. So my point still stands.

It really doesn’t. The polling on this issue is very clear, even trans supporters aren’t very in favour of it and its causing a massive backlash against trans rights in general.

It is not throwing trans people under the bus to keep trans women out of competitive female sports.

This needs to stop being a hill that people want to die on. It’s fucking rediculous to argue they should be allowed to participate in a discriminatory category we created intentionally to allow non-competitive persons to have their own competition.

Sorry trans women, theres literally one extremely specific thing you aren’t allowed to do. I support you in literally any other life endeavor, or in playing that sport recreationally or competitively in an open gender category.