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WCDT 4176-4180 (13th - 17th, January 2020)
Cornelius:
Inadvertently teams up with Ultra Car?
You know, there is an issue with her legal ownership of her chassis, that make it hard or even impossible for the parole board to change her out. If it's comparable to the regulations I work under, any acquisition over a non-trivial amount is subject to uite an elaborate bidding process, and at least 3 levels of approval - with high scrutiny for even quite standard maintenance contracts.
So, that's a limit on how they can acquire a trade in chassis - but also on what to do with her current chassis. The question would have been easier and quicker to solve, if it had in fact been a DoC-owned chassis, she was temporarily living in.
It would probably need some additional regulation to permit a trade in. Which is a certain time (averaging, in my experience, about 6 months, if it's quick and easily adopted) with additional scrutiny.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 18 Jan 2020, 11:21 ---Would a genderfluid synthetic have multiple bodies and switch between them to fit their current identity?
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Ask Yay.
Is it cold in here?:
@notsocool is pointing out an option, getting the parole conditions modified, that we haven't seen Roko pursuing. With her old job she probably knows attorneys who do free work for justice-involved people.
That would lead to an option of doing work (copywriting is one example notsocool gave) in a server rack and saving up for a body.
One issue is whether the government agreed to her request for a humanoid body as part of their rehabilitation plan. If they did, the only ethical thing to do next would be to issue her a functional one.
Let's step back for perspective. Jeph does develop background he doesn't show in the comic, but it's entirely possible that we're looking for even more detail about May's parole conditions than Jeph knows.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Tova on 18 Jan 2020, 16:08 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 18 Jan 2020, 14:35 ---If they can change to a body different from their internal identity and not feel gender dysphoria, that's a big difference from organics.
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Do all transgender people experience dysphoria?
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I'm the wrong person to address that, but it's interesting to know that cisgender people can have pain from even voluntarily being in a mismatched presentation.
Nora Roberts wrote a book, "Self Made Man", about her adventures in stereotypically male spaces with a carefully crafted male presentation. The project gave her interesting stories, many insights, and at the end of it a nervous breakdown.
Until we hear from someone in the trans community I'm going to take a guess that any question along the lines of "Do all transgender people ______?" has an answer of "No".
EDIT: That should have been "Norah Vincent". Thanks to Tova for catching the error.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jan 2020, 09:10 ---Nora Roberts wrote a book, "Self Made Man", about her adventures in stereotypically male spaces with a carefully crafted male presentation. The project gave her interesting stories, many insights, and at the end of it a nervous breakdown.
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Interesting!
*googles*
... Norah Vincent?
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