I want to get a telescoping flag pole. That way when someone wicked dies, I can fly the flag at DOUBLE mast.

Are you familiar with the concept of cultural Judaism? Jewish is unique in describing a religion, an ethnicity, and a cultural group. Someone can be raised in Jewish faith and culture, walk away from the religious aspect, but still retain much of the culture. Someone like Einstein was culturally Jewish. He was open about and identified with his heritage, but he was an atheist in terms of belief.

I would say you’re culturally gay. You had your most formative years in the gay community. You may no longer meet the definition of ‘gay’ as an orientation, but you’re still culturally gay. If you spend long enough time in a community, you can retain cultural attachments to that community even if you no longer meet the defining central feature uniting that community.

Congress can already directly overturn Supreme Court rulings via either jurisdiction stripping or by expanding the size of the court.

To maximize this effect, sleep floating in a pool of mercury with a chain mail blanket atop.

I use 31g 5/16" long needles. Docs usually prescribe hormones as intramuscular injections, but they work just as well as subcutaneous injections. These little guys here. Unless you’re injecting something really thick and viscous like castor oil, injecting with anything else is just an exercise in needless masochism.

For needle anxiety, there are two things you could try. First, an autoinjector can help. These are basically little spring loaded devices that turn your regular syringe into something more like an epipen, where it just quickly forces the needle in before you can even feel it. Plus it creates a bit of disconnect which can help. Second, try an ice pack! It’s such a simple thing, but it helps me immensely with pain. Just a few ice cubes in a plastic bag, numb the injection site immediately before injection.

Also, if you want to practice injections to try and get passed your anxiety, there’s a way to do it without using your actual E vials. You can order bacteriostatic water. This is literally just sterilized water with a little bit of preservative in it. It has no active ingredients. It’s usually used for reconstituting dried peptides, but it would work just as well for injection practice.

Is the entire population of Germany just severely autistic?

I had SRS. Full orchiectomy/penetctomy/vaginoplasty/vulvaplasty.

I’ve never felt any phantom sensations. If anything, I sometimes felt the opposite, like a phantom vag before I got surgery. But afterwards? Nothing. The only similar effect was a bit of neural remapping that took a few days. Your body has an internal 3D representation of its own shape. That’s why if something touches your skin somewhere on your body, you can instantly know where it is. SRS is basically genital origami. Things get cut, shifted, repositioned, and sewn back together. Individual bits of tissue and nerves end up in radically different locations than pre-surgery. And this requires a bit of spacial neural remapping. For example, in the technique that was used on me, a clitoris is formed from the head of the penis. Initially when I felt it, there was incongruity. My eyes could see that I was touching something right on the surface of my body. However, the spatial awareness part of my brain was saying, “this nerve correlates to a location several inches outside the main body.” This mismatch was quite uncanny. However, thankfully it only lasted a few days. After a few days the body learns the new locations of all the relocated nerves and the uncanny sensation disappeared. I’ve never had anything that could be described as a phantom penis sensation. And I had SRS back in 2013.

Ah yes. Even today, most of the actual innovations in trans medicine are in the diy space. It’s nearly impossible to get funding even for studies looking at the basic effects of hormones on things like self-harm rates. There’s very little research funding out there on how to actually optimize transition. Hormones are complex. There’s probably a whole lot we could be doing to make hormonal transition more effective, but there’s no money to study it. The only people innovating in this space are the diyers.

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The real issue is that since any fingerprint that can be mandated for AI content must be algorithmically implemented, then that fingerprint can be algorithmically removed.

For example, let’s say companies voluntarily choose or are forced to integrate text fingerprinting into LLM output. Automated AI writing detection tools already exist, but they’re not reliable. But in principle we could make the output of LLMs easy to identify. Maybe we force them to adopt subtle but highly unique patterns of word choice, punctuation, sentence structure, etc. Then if any student attempted to upload an LLM-generated essay to their course website, the system could with high accuracy flag it as AI generated.

But…if those patterns are so clear and unambiguous, it also means they can be easily detected by third party tools. If one person can code ChatGPT to add special fingerprinting to the text ChatGPT creates, another person can create a program that you can paste ChatGPT text into that will remove that fingerprinting.

Maybe God just wants trans people to exist because she doesn’t want people too hung up on the gender binary.

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What’s this gender test?

I cannot believe this question is in good faith. Can you start with providing your own interpretation of what it might mean? This ensures you’re not just a sea lion.

It’s got carbs, fat, a bit of protein in the cream, and some fiber in the strawberries. What more do you need?

Ugh. Tell me about it. My beau has been recovering from a weightlifting back injury for several weeks. Been unable to do anything beyond just hand work. I really want him to heal to feel better. But also… :3

Still waiting for one brave soul to undergo the combined phalloplasty/vaginoplasty. That’s where they first take your existing dick and surgically transform it into a vag and vulva. Then they take a piece of your arm skin and construct a replacement dick for some reason.

You’re not going to get hantavirus from walking into a store.

Do you wear gloves every time you touch a door handle?

What exactly is your point?