We really also need payment neutrality. I don’t like the content that’s being removed, but I really don’t like that visa gets to decide that websites are allowed to show, sell, and everything else. I don’t give half a damn if someone decides to swipe their card at the heroin and machine gun store, visa shouldn’t be the one deciding that they can’t make that transaction

Or your professional life. My grandma spent her entire career going by the less catholic nickname she used with her first husband’s family.

Actually yeah I’d believe it then, that was post gamergate

Oh this will be the most effective means of radically propagandizing to the lonely yet.

Oh, and what should we do with the macroparticles of lead that are so prevalent in our bodies?

Your business degree does not make you an industrial engineer, you don’t even fucking understand why I keep crusading against variance!

I could see it with a framework, the repairability is worth a premium

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Youtube alternative with focus on educational creators. It doesn’t have an engagement algorithm and it claims to compensate creators better.

Most notably when they appear they’re unable to repair their ship because they don’t understand how it works.

Talk to Germans about this, but back in the day (10 years ago) when I started hormones America was just starting our informed consent thing and most doctors weren’t on board with it yet, some people would do DIY (or even just inform that they would) then go to the doctor and say that they’re already on hormones and happy with it, but would like to switch to doctor provided. It was always a risky move, but I remember hearing it worked from time to time

We also have a lot of queer health clinics that were founded in response to the AIDS epidemic and have since added stuff like hrt to the list of services. The main one in ohio even does dentistry now.

Yep, and it should be noted that this is the model recommended by experts. Rates of regret are still extremely low in America. All the other hoops they make people jump through are not reasonable.

It really depends on where you are. In the US it’s remarkably easy if you’re an adult. Basically find a doctor that does informed consent and wait the 1-3 months for an appointment. It’s one of the few things we do well when it comes to healthcare.

And if you don’t have a doctor with informed consent like I did, it’ll probably take about 3 months of therapy, but your wait list time can be during that so it can easily be 4 months. That’s how it was for me 10 years ago

Seriously, Europe needs better trans healthcare. We have family medicine doctors and general practitioners who specialize in serving the queer community’s health needs and they will prescribe hormones without much fuss

I always heard it was wheat that domesticated us

You ever just boil some wheat then leave your leftovers in a jar too long?

Always nice to hear what the cousins are up to these days

Oh jeez I thought the whole calling Thatcher girl power thing was just a meme

Some polycules are a delightful collection of nice people, some are as dysfunctional as you might expect a bad relationship to get when you keep adding people, others are barely distinguishable from a cult. This seems to be that last kind

It’s also that you’re fueling their cultural influence. Cultural influence does a lot of sanitization. Look at how japanophiles often fetishize Japan rather than seeing it as a country with good and bad elements. America was particularly good at this conversion.