What’s the story with KOTOR?

Pretty much all of them.

Yep, as are solar systems. But when they collapse in to single objects, those objects end up spherical once they’re about a third the size of our moon (or even less than that if they’re icy/gaseous).

At least if you make the trip to Melbourne, you’re going to probably the best city in Australia for queer folk

I grew up in country New South Wales, and left long before I came out. I couldn’t imagine living there again now that I’m out

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And it still fucks trans people over.

Using these questions, they can’t tell how many trans people there are, because the questions they have asked reduce trans people to their birth sex as if that is the single most important feature about them, and many trans people are just going to lie about that, because why would you choose to other yourself by providing “pure” data that ignores and erases your needs.

Because the questions they do ask conflate trans people with their assigned sex, the questions won’t help with medical care, social support needs, or anything else. The gender question is optional, and the sex question is mandatory, so except for the specific context of trying to determine how many trans people there are, trans people will be reduced to their birth sex, as if their needs are the same.

If they want to know if someone is trans or gender diverse, just fucking ask that. If you want to know peoples’ assigned sex at birth, then ask them their sex and have an optional question about their birth sex.

I’m happy to tell folk that I’m trans, but I’m very much not happy to be reduced to a single sex marker that stopped being relevant a decade ago and a gender that is considered optional, and can be ignored when you don’t want to think about it.

You can self host reitti, and submit to it via gpslogger on your phone. That’s how we have it set up

We call ours the magpie mafia, because they come and strongarm us every morning. Hoppy (the magpie in this photo) will ignore the meal worms we throw out, and will just yell at us until we cough up cake, or bread. If we ignore him and leave him to the meal worms, he just comes back later and yells at us again. He has started coming in to the house to really make sure we understand the gravity of the situation.

I have something similar on my stomach.

The Y chromosome doesn’t carry much of anything. It’s basically just a carrier for the SRY gene, and in most cases, it’s that gene that triggers the majority of the sexual differentiation that occurs in early development. The actual “code” for what develops and how it develops is there for male and female differentiation in all humans, and it’s hormones and other factors that control whether or not that genetic code is expressed.

And in this case, we’re talking about stem cells (ie, a cell that has the potential to develop in to any cell, but hasn’t yet done so), and then artificially triggering those stem cell to develop in to sperm cells. A trick that can be done because the genetic code for it to do so is already there if the conditions are right.

As an aside, this is also why hormone replacement for trans people lets them develop secondary sexual characteristics that they wouldn’t otherwise develop. The code was already there, it just takes the right trigger to get the code expressing (in this case, hormones)

If not exactly identical, would they be like twins?

The parents? Basically, as the only difference between them is a single chromosome out of the 26 we carry. There are slight genetic differences between identical twins, due to the accrual of mutations during cell division, but it’s smaller than a full different chromosome. That’s splitting hairs though, because both identical twins and our theoretical clones would be functionally identical.

If not exactly identical, would they be like twins?

If you mean the parents and their child, then they’d be somewhere between identical twin and regular sibling in terms of genetic similarity. Regular siblings on average, share about 50% DNA. Identical twins share 100% DNA. Our theoretical child in this scenario would share around 75% of their parents DNA

By definition, two people of different sexes can’t be clones.

But even if we ignore that, and have an example of say, two XX clones, with artificial sperm creation from stem cells of one of the clones, their child wouldn’t be a clone of the parents, because DNA is double stranded, with two different versions of each chromosome. The child would get a random combination of those chromosomes, different to their parents

North West New South Wales

I grew up in county town Australia. I definitely noticed the lack of car, but I also got by fine without one.

My partner and I got together long after I had transitioned, so this doesn’t apply, but honestly, I’d find it really upsetting if someone viewed my own experience through that lens.

The way I put it is that the person I was before I transitioned wasn’t a full person. I was hiding/repressing part of who I was. But the part that I wasn’t hiding was still me. Post transition me is a full person. I’m still the me I used to be, but I’m also more than and different to who I was then.

Now, imagine you’re flying from New Zealand/Australia to South America. That’s directly across that part of the globe. It’s a LONG flight across nothing but ocean

Nothing to be confused about. Hurting trans people is the point.

I live in a country with no land borders, so my experience with land borders is only that of a non resident/citizen.

If you’ve got a relatively recent gpu, NVIDIA is fine on Linux these days. It’s changed a lot in the last two years specifically.

HDR works fine outside of games, but is limited on the number of Wayland compositors that support it. KDE plasma and Gnome are the only two I know of. Most of the others don’t.

HDR can work with games, but it involves a bit more playing around under the hood with gamescope. But that’s an issue with steam/wine, that impacts NVIDIA and AMD.

I’ve been running an NVIDIA setup with two HDR monitors on KDE for a couple of years now, and it’s perfectly fine these days. It wasn’t when I started :)