There are use cases where long passwords could be problematic. 64 would be long enough for most purposes, but short enough not to cause issues for things like microcontrollers.

It should be paired with a strongly recommended larger value, however.

Gender affirming care, for minors, is about 2 things.

1. Helping them figure out what is actually going on.

2. Stopping difficult or irreversible changes.

The first is exactly what you want. It's helping the children figure out exactly what they feel. It might also involve changing outward appearance (clothing etc) to see how it feels. Basically get their head straight with what they really want and feel.

The second is mostly puberty blockers. Puberty makes irreversible changes to the body. Blocking it doesn't do any harm. It's been used for decades to help with other conditions. When the blockers are removed, puberty proceeds normally. If the patient truly wants to transition, then an artificial puberty can be induced. This is far safer and more effective than surgery to fix things later.

No one is chopping up children.

From memory, we are statistically more likely to be geniuses. Unfortunately we are also equally as more likely to be clinically insane.

Give it a couple of grenades, and let it go out in glory!

I know, first hand, how strong the illusion is, that depression causes. It's like having a mountain poised to avalanche down on you. You just want to escape, even if it's via extreme means.

The key is that it is still an illusion. It's a paper tiger, once you get a handle to fight it, it dissolves like mist. Most people who attempt suicide, due to mental health, are not dealing with a steady chronic condition. They are at a crisis point. If they receive appropriate help, clawing their way back is perfectly possible for most.

There are exceptions, but they are quite rare. I would bundle them with terminal illness, though proving that is a lot harder. It's also a balancing act between being OK with dying, and being of sound mind to make that decision.

No, there's obviously a veteran, paid as little as possible, to put the strings on and stuck a "made in the USA" sticker on! It's creating domestic jobs! (/s)

Many places make it illegal to allow police to intercede. In most places, the police can intervene if they believe a crime is about to be committed.

There is a huge line between someone who is terminally ill, and wants to die on their own terms, and someone having a mental health crisis. The first should be legal, but still needs support and checking, the 2nd need immediate help.

You joke, but this was legitimate concerns raised in many places, when slavery was abolished. It was often phased out slowly to allow businesses to adapt.

It's at least better than nothing, but far from perfect.

"No-one is the villan of their own story."

They think they are doing more good than harm. It's fucked up, but it's still helpful to understand how they view the world. It makes it easier to predict and counter them.

To them, it's like you threatening to beat up the local priest, while on the way to a major aid drive, because he parked wrongly. They are stepping into stop you interrupting the Lords work! Of course they will be rewarded for that!

That's also just the electrical portion of our mind. There are whole levels of chemical, and chemical potentials at work. Neurones will fire differently depending on the chemical soup around them. Most of our moods are chemically based. E.g. adrenaline and testosterone making us more aggressive.

Our mind also extends out of our heads. Organ transplant recipricants have noted personality changes. Food preferences being the most prevailant.

The neurons only deal with 'fast' thinking. 'slow' thinking is far more complex and distributed.

The explosive often wasn't enough to damage a full steam engine. What it could do was terrorise the crew and guards. The ones I heard about didn't have a detonator. The guards had a habit of burning dead rats to get rid of them. Often in the fireplace of the guard shack. The goal was to throw fire and hot metal into the guards gathered around to stay warm.

The other advantage of a rat is that most guards wouldn't look too closely at it. Someone with lumps of coal might have them looked at, if they are caught. They are stealing coal, after all. Someone hunting rats, for food, the other hand? Poor and disgusting, get out of here and take the damn rats! You have an excuse to be there (other than sabotage) and nothing they will want back.

If your pads are lifting, you're overheating the board.

A couple of tips that can help a lot.

Don't underestimate the importance of flux. Cheap boards often have a lot of crap on the copper. Flux burns this off, allowing for quicker, better joints. Most solders have flux in them, some more than others. Beyond that, you can also buy rosin flux very cheaply. It's amazing for cleaning up particularly bad, or sensitive, components.

Have confidence when heating. Most newbies tend to 'dab'. They are scared to overheat the component or board, and so try to add a little heat at a time. This is actually FAR worse for heat. The heat spreads out into the components and glue, causing problems. Instead, you apply heat once. The iron stays in place until the joint forms. If you back off, you need to wait a few minutes until everything is completely cool to the touch. No tap-tap-taping.

The last point of note is to check your lighting. Most beginners struggle to actually see what they are doing. In low light, our pupils open up, to allow more in. This reduces our depth of field, and makes it harder to focus clearly. You want daylight levels of light on your workpiece. There are several apps that let you measure light levels. You might be shocked at how low it is. Multiple directional lights are the best option. You want it focused to maximise brightness, but multi source to avoid harsh shadows.

You might have figured out most of these, but hopefully, some of it will be of help.

They came for the trans ~~and I did nothing, because I am not trans ~~ and I fought back where I could. Because fuck that shit, we know there this dance will end otherwise!

It works well enough here. It's bigger than a microgram, and smaller than a kilogram. With the numbers we are working with, being within several orders of magnitude would be an impressive answer.

The boltzmann brain hypothesis. Given enough time, a spontaneous brain, identical to yours, will form. It will experience for a short period before dying (nothing says it needs to be on a planet, or even in a body).

The weirdness of true infinities.

What's screwy is that black holes are only an issue for physics if they are eternal. As matter falls towards the event horizon, time, as measured from outside, goes ever slower. It takes an infinitely lon time to cross the event horizon. Hawking radiation means that it will never actually cross, since the black hole will retreat in a finite time. If you flew towards one, you would apparently skim it, without entering. You would emerge to find the universe long dead and gone however .

It turns black holes from problematic infinity points to really weird knots in spacetime.

I've not got figures to hand, but it's incredibly slow. They are effectively perfect black body radiators, with their apparent temperature linked to their mass. The bigger they are, the colder they are.

Some back of the envelope calculations.

Right now, they are considerably colder than the cosmic background radiation, and so losses to hawking radiation are overwhelmed by even this. I just did a quick calculation on the milk way supermassive black hole, and it's about 1.5x10^-16 °C. That would work out as around 3x10^-91W/m2 or around 1x10^-71W. It's about 1x10^13 Joules per gram of matter. So you're looking at 10^84 seconds. The universe is about 4.4x10^16 seconds old, so around 10^68 times the current age of the universe.

To emit 1g will take around 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 x the age of the current universe. This ignores infalling energy.

I've seen "personal identification PIN number" used far too much in the press. I'm not sure who it says more about, journalists, or their readers.

We also set up an excellent photo booth with the same setup.

A DSLR, on a tripod, a cheap remote trigger, and some photography lamps. We used drapes to box it off a bit. Throw in some inflatable props, and let the kids/drunks make it awesome.

The photos on the TV just encouraged others to join in the fun.

Because that leads to a snowballing effect. Money begets money. Over generations, it gets sucked into an ever smaller pool of people. This (among other things) led to serfdom etc in the Middle Ages. We only broke out of that due to the Black Death.

We need a way to allow money to spread back to the general populous. An inheritance tax is a crude, but effective, way to do that.

How would you go about achieving this?