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Johannes_P t1_jdor73g wrote

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Laney20 t1_jdop5lj wrote

Unfortunately, that's not how the laws see it. And even if they did, it can be difficult finding a doctor that will risk the chance of being prosecuted (even if they're found not guilty or the law is overturned in their case, it will still impact their life).

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Laney20 t1_jdooiyf wrote

It's the same with the anti-trans stuff. Kids aren't getting surgeries. The vast majority of "gender affirming care" for kids is therapy, puberty blockers, and hormones. All of these are reversible. And all the science says they improve the outcomes for the kids. Yet here we are...

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SalMinellaOnYouTube OP t1_jdoni53 wrote

From the Wikipedia page on John Thorpe > Thorpe's major-but-little-trumpeted contribution to world architecture is the humble and now-ubiquitous corridor "for a house[3] in Chelsea", London, England, in 1597,[4] allowing "independent access to individual rooms". Previously, the fashion was the so-called enfilade arrangement of rooms in a dwelling in which each room led to the next via connecting internal doors. The enfilade remained popular in continental Europe long after the corridor was widely adopted in England. Flanders believes Thorpe's inspiration was the one-sided covered walkway common in monastic cloisters. Given their similarities, this is a reasonable prima facie conjecture.

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VoxEcho t1_jdojv0g wrote

I assume it would depend on the amount of water. I feel like if it is enough water to fill a helmet to the point of threatening to drown, the expanding water itself would probably block up any small vent or opening in a helmet before a meaningful amount of it was evacuated. I'm not a space man though so it very well may work.

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