Not in the state of marriage.

This is disappointing, especially since same-sex couples are not allowed to marry. They are essentially purposefully and cruelly soft locking a person out of marriage entirely.

The requirement for sexual reassignment surgery to legally change genders is also disappointing, since that can possibly do more harm then good, as a significant portion of transgender individuals either do not want to complete a full course of reassignment surgery, such as only doing a mastectomy but not bottom surgery as a trans man; or do not want to undergo any surgery at all. So forcing the person to undergo surgery and become dysphoric with their body, or give up hope it legally changing their gender is disappointing.

Hopefully the sex change surgery requirement is dropped soon, Japan dropped a similar law in the Fall of 2023. Same goes for the marriage requirement.

Received psychological and psychiatric treatment for at least 1 year prior to the surgery and is ineffective.

That is also a very gross requirement. Psychiatric analysis is vital, but trying to be “treated” by a psychologist for a year to even be considered transgender is backwards.

This is what entrance exams were made to do by design. This isn’t a bug.

They are entirely designed to lock out students who can’t afford to pay the absurd costs of test prep, while pushing through those students who’s parents could afford tutors that cost severs thousand dollars a month.

A prime example is the LSAT exam in the US for law school.

The exam is graded on a scale of 120-180, with a score above 175 being virtually unheard of due to the difficulty of the exam. Before, a good performance in undergrad combined with a score of at least 150-160 could guarantee you a spot in an top law school. However nowadays, scores have entered a horrific cycle of inflation that to get into any middling or top law school, a score in the high 170s is required, which is absurd. Anything below that is essentially a failure. A score that only 15-20 years ago would be the mark of a savant, has been relegated to only those who have the money to pay for test prep, and the privilege of the luxury of stress free time to study.

Of course; this works to the advantage of the top law schools as they get to isolate the wealthiest for admission, but how many have been locked out of a good law education due to their life circumstances?

Further, what kind of lawyers will those wealthy students become? Statistically they will become corporate “big law” lawyers with extremely high salaries. Leading to mass shortages in public defenders, workers rights workers, and civil rights lawyers. Essentially those who protect the poorest and most oppressed members of society, while simultaneously threatening capital.

The cause of the shortage has nothing to do with the pre degree required. It is entirely the limited space in medschools and the arbitrary lottery system of the accrediting body, which is corrupt.

The point of half the classes in undergrad is to allow those doctors to branch out and not just be single minded careerists. Those classes are supposed to make them think, experience new viewpoints, broaden their perspectives, and develop them as people. Not taking those classes has the same reasoning as the compsci and engineer students who whine and moan about being forced to take ethics or humanities courses.

Also taking basic biology, anatomy, and chemistry as part of medschool would be extremely inefficient, and the predegree builds a basic level of knowledge that doctors should have going into medschool.

Also of a person stops wanting to be a doctor in undergrad, they can easily switch over, as opposed to your trade school idea which would lock them into a single grouping of career paths unless they drop out.

If it is alright for me to ask, are you from, and referring to, southern Cyprus, or to the northern Turkish puppet state?

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It’s a sound effect. That’s the Press Secretary briefing room. You’re not allowed to clap or be a nuisance since it’s technically only for professional press briefings.

Nazi Germany coined the word “privatization”. Fascists are the undisputed kings of selling out their country.

This is the equivalent of current French colonial states in Africa having French be one of their official languages.

All good, it’s a weird sentence.

Makes sense, the sentence construction is definitely wonky to say the least.

I think I only picked up on it because I’ve seen Japan referred to in a similar way before.

For becoming a NATO “ally” and sending weapons to Ukraine?

You can’t use that for meaningless optics. Plus you have to spend precious capital creating a new design, whereas with this you can use the old design, make a tiny alteration that saves you money on material, and cash in on the contract.

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He’s a disgusting war criminal. But he’s black, and speaks carefully, so to liberals it’s simply “Imperalism Lite edition”.

That’s why it’s Imperialism lite.

Do you really think Trump did less imperialism then Obama? Tightening the noose on Cuba, doing nearly triple the air strikes in half the time, killing Solemani, militarily antagonizing Iran in general to provoke a response, sending troops to directly occupy Syrian oil fields and hand them to Exxon Mobile, the list goes on.

Jesus Christ, they’re both pieces of shit, but one pile is still bigger. Do you think Trump was a better president and less imperialist?

Trump was and still is significantly more mask off then Obama ever was. Obama was the most lukewarm, optically inoffensive, status-quo supporting, capitalist neo-liberal to ever grace the presidency. Trump is substantially more honest in his convictions then anyone before him, for example somehow even managing to usurp Obama’s air strike grand-champion title in half the time.

They did.

https://gript.ie/fg-councillor-we-need-more-of-these-wheelchair-friendly-park-benches/

How does it ignore the profit motive or nature of capital at all?

Lower cost = more profit. It is the bare essence of the profit motive.

Also it’s a joke. Of course that isn’t the entire answer, but it’s pretty close to it.

It’s cheaper. That’s it. That’s the entire answer.