I don’t get it either. I’ve always used electric and it’s fine. The few times I’ve used gas I’ve never liked the weird flavor it imparts into food plus as an asthmatic I can literally feel the air around me get harder to breath in as I cook.

Church has always been shit. My parents made me go to catechism after school for most of my childhood and if you are different (autistic, queer, etc) they are very quick to exclude you and they make it very clear that you aren’t welcome as you are. I never made my confirmation despite my parents’ best efforts cause I kept skipping class because I did not want to be anywhere near those people nor do I want to be associated with them in any way.

That honestly sounds more vulgar, or at least in English it does. Do you have the expression of “shooting rope” cause that’s what I think of, or maybe I just have a dirty mind.

wdym it’s not automatic

Dawg I said that too when I found out.

(Also I like your culture, we should get to keep our names (unless we don’t want to))

Me when no femboy :( (gif)

In addition to what erin said, I also want to point out that changing your name does not automatically change your name in the vital records. You have to do that yourself and it’s not that intuitive, plus it costs additional money on top of the other name change costs.

Being trans, I have experienced that myself and due to wording on the court order and from what the judge told to me, I incorrectly believed my birth record would automatically get updated. According to the vital record support person I talked to, that’s actually a really common mistake and happens all the time.

I’m sure there are many people with outdated records simply because they too incorrectly believed that it would be an automatic thing. For some it’s probably even intentional if they feel their married name doesn’t belong on their birth record.

I wish I read more of this thread first. In GrapheneOS it first opened my camera app and then attempted calling 911. Freaked me out so much cause I was relaxing in bed with my titties out. Also the setting is called Emergency SOS if you want to disable it.

Sorry to hear you are dealing with poopy healthcare. I don’t know about estrogel, but I can give you some perspective on sublingual pills though, which is what I’ve been taking for 3 years now. I take 4mg in the morning and 2mg at night and I don’t feel like my levels are unstable. I get my bloodwork done 6 hours after taking my morning dose. It used to put me at 130pg/mL (477pmol/L) but since getting my orchi I’m at 243pg/mL (892pmol/L). I have heard that patches are pretty good for getting stable levels, however they are also more expensive unfortunately.

Thanks ❤️ :3

Thanks! Lake Superior is one of my favorite places, this is what my view looked like:

(It had rained briefly like less than a minute before I took that picture. It actually caused a bunch of mist to appear around the shoreline it was super cool)

Thanks! :3 ❤️

I had something like this happen to me when I was 20. I was helping my disabled aunt by bringing some boxes up to her apartment. I kept seeing this one really old guy as I was going up and down and I got really off vibes from him. As I was leaving the building, I grabbed the same doorhandle I had grabbed many times before, except this time there was semen on the backside of it and it got all over my hand. I’m pretty sure it was the old guy cause I never saw anyone else except my aunt there. I was too naïve to know what to do in that situation so unfortunately he got away with it :(

Weird. It works for me without JS, although it’s a little bit jank.

I downloaded from f-droid but that works also

I did but I didn’t think about it until later so I didn’t check as many stores. I tried it in a new incognito instance to avoid tracking cookies and etc, but I still got the same prices as with wifi. Although at that point they could have already identified me in some way, perhaps looking up only spam and blocking JS* makes me unique enough to identify.

* I did have to unblock the bare minimum needed to see the spam prices, so it’s possible that could have allowed them to track me better as well.

Yeah that’s why I use what I use. I’ve checked that before and as long as I have JS disabled I’m at 1/1134 which is a pretty good score. Although sometimes you have to unblock sites to get them to work, so ¯\(ツ)/¯. Although at least webgl can be blocked separately.

I live in Minnesota and use GrapheneOS with IronFox and uBlock, NoScript, and Privacy Badger. My desktop is Debian with librewolf and the same extensions.

I decided to check Spam prices at various Targets on both my phone and desktop. I don’t typically shop at Target, though I do have an account with them but I haven’t logged in in years. I was also not logged in for the testing.

I tried at my local Target and a few around the cities and got the same prices regardless of being on mobile or desktop. Only difference was between stores with prices ranging between $4.69 and $5.59.

I did not physically go anywhere different during this test, nor did I use a VPN, so that may have been why I was getting the same prices on both devices. I also really don’t know how much Target actually knows about me other than my IP and that I block stuff.

Lmao I’m in the same boat as you. I’m a recent-ish CS grad with no job and vibe coding (or cuck coding as I like to call it) sucks the joy out of every part of CS to the point where I’ve considered going back to college to get a different degree.

Also, I’ve actually worked a manual labor job before and am fully aware of how shit they are. Very underpaid and unappreciated work imo.

My viewpoint is that genAI will always cause cognitive decline no matter what however I haven’t come across any studies yet about analytical AI also brain rotting people. If it’s trained on data with consent from it’s owners’ and they find a solution to the environmental problems, I’d be fine with it as long as it’s used for good purposes.

This post about AI detecting cancer makes me believe it might be genuinely useful, although of course it can be used for despicable, evil purposes as well.

Also, humans really like making/designing things. I don’t see the point in automating activities that many people love doing. Every time I come across an ad advertising image gen or whatever it just feels so out of touch with humanity.

While I am very anti-genAI, I’m much more okay with analytical AI as long as it’s not blindly trusted. Technically they don’t need an LLM as they could use something smaller and optimized just to find vulnerabilities. I still take issue with ethical and environmental concerns but I think there are solutions to them. We just need to slow down, take the time to do things right, and ditch the whole “move fast and break things” mindset commonly seen in tech, but I doubt that will ever happen.