A Popular ‘Non-Binary’ TikTok Activist Described Republican Efforts To Ban Mutilating Surgeries As A ‘Genocide.’ What Is Binary Code?

Binary is a base-2 number system representing numbers using a pattern of ones and zeroes. Early computer systems had mechanical switches that turned on to represent 1, and turned off to represent 0. By using switches in series, computers could represent numbers using binary code. Modern computers still use binary code in the form of digital ones and zeroes inside the CPU and RAM.

A digital one or zero is simply an electrical signal that's either turned on or turned off inside of a hardware device like a CPU, which can hold and calculate many millions of binary numbers. Binary numbers consist of a series of eight "bits," which are known as a "byte." A bit is a single one or zero that makes up the 8 bit binary number. Using ASCII codes, binary numbers can also be translated into text characters for storing information in computer memory.

How Binary Numbers Work Converting a binary number into a decimal number is very simple when you consider that computers use a base 2 binary system. The placement of each binary digit determines its decimal value. For an 8-bit binary number, the values are calculated as follows: 1.Bit 1: 2 to the power of 0 = 2.Bit 2: 2 to the power of 1 = 2 3.Bit 3: 2 to the power of 2 = 4 4.Bit 4: 2 to the power of 3 = 8 5.Bit 5: 2 to the power of 4 = 16 6.Bit 6: 2 to the power of 5 = 32 7.Bit 7: 2 to the power of 6 = 64 8.Bit 8: 2 to the power of 7 = 128 By adding together individual values where the bit has a one, you can represent any decimal number from 0 to 255. Much larger numbers can be represented by adding more bits to the system. When computers had 16-bit operating systems, the largest individual number the CPU could calculate was 65,535. 32-bit operating systems could work with individual decimal numbers as large as 2,147,483,647. Modern computer systems with 64-bit architecture have the ability to work with decimal numbers that are impressively large, up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807! Representing Information With ASCII Now that you understand how a computer can use the binary number system to work with decimal numbers, you may wonder how computers use it to store text information. This is accomplished thanks to something called ASCII code. The ASCII table consists of 128 text or special characters that each have an associated decimal value. All ASCII-capable applications (like word processors) can read or store text information to and from computer memory. Some examples of binary numbers converted to ASCII text include: 11011 = 27, which is the ESC key in ASCII 110000 = 48, which is 0 in ASCII 1000001 = 65, which is A in ASCII 1111111 = 127, which is the DEL key in ASCII While base 2 binary code is used by computers for text information, other forms of binary math are used for other data types. For example, base64 is used for transferring and storing media like images or video. Binary Code and Storing Information All of the documents you write, web pages you view, and even the video games you play are all made possible thanks to the binary number system. Binary code allows computers to manipulate and store all types of information to and from computer memory. Everything computerized, even the computers inside your car or your mobile phone, make use of the binary number system for everything you use it for.https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-binary-and-how-does-it-work-4692749 Consider the example of “JamesIsSmiling,” a TikTok star who identifies as “non-binary” and recently took to TikTok to warn young people that “queer” people in the United Sthttps://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/transgender-activist-compares-bans-on-sex-changes-for-kids-to-the-holocaust/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usaates are facing a genocide. “I’ve always known I wasn’t a boy and I wasn’t a girl,” the long-haired man tells his audience. “When I was growing up, it was really confusing because we didn’t have words to talk about that.” But despite political gains, James says, the times are particularly dark. “You probably talk to your parents about it, or maybe your friends, and I know sometimes you DM me about it and I read them, as many as I can.” Those seeking to ban “sex change” surgeries, says James, are angry because they see “our joy and our self-acceptance and our beauty as a threat, because we celebrate who we are.” This joy is the “greatest tool for resistance,” because “as long as we have joy for who we are, they will never win.” James’ video was the follow-up to a warning he had felt compelled to send out to his young followers. Noting the “anti-trans bills” being passed across America, he stated: We are in an active trans genocide in our country, and people don’t want to name it that because they’re afraid to use that word … People want to extinguish us. Some of our most influential people in the world are calling for the extinguishment of transgender people, which is a genocide. James then compared GOP opposition to “sex changes” for minors to the Holocaust because they are targeting “trans kids” who have a “right to transition.” James isn’t just a random TikTokker, either. He has more than 420,000 followers, uses “she/they” pronouns (grammar doesn’t apply if you’re not heterosexual), and has built up quite a bit of influence. And most importantly: he seems to actually believe that nonsense. A young American man, who believes he is neither male or female and is celebrated for that belief by hundreds of thousands of people as well as most of mainstream culture, genuinely believes that people like him are currently experiencing a genocide akin to the Holocaust. Consider how delusional one has to be to genuinely believe these things. https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/transgender-activist-compares-bans-on-sex-changes-for-kids-to-the-holocaust/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa