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  • Something else that I think is an important part of this discussion, especially in regard to family members, is long-term medical issues.

    There are a lot of medical conditions that are gender-specific, especially with aging. For one example, an FTM transitioned individual will likely still experience menopause. That is the actual menopause condition, not just similar symptoms. An MTF individual may experience menopause-like symptoms due to complications with estrogen therapy. Evidence also suggests that transgender women have the same risk of cardiovascular issues as the general male population:

    Evidence from several studies suggests that cardiovascular risk is unchanged among transgender men using testosterone compared with non-transgender women. Evidence in transgender women is less clear. Some studies have found increased morbidity and mortality from myocardial infarction and stroke compared with non-transgender men, however these studies did not adjust for a number of risk factors including tobacco use, obesity, and diabetes.

    https://transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines/cardiovascular

    Functionally, if you were born male then your cardiovascular system is still the same. However, as noted in this study there is not a large body of research on this specific subject and there are many complicating factors, so the above conclusion is tentative. Hopefully we will get more research and better statistics, but long-term studies are slow.

    Unfortunately these issues don't go away just because you look and feel different now - we just don't have the technology to make real changes to your genetics, not yet anyway.

    If you are transitioning, obviously you're having a lot of conversations with your medical team about all of this. I would encourage you to please also discuss it with your family. They won't have all the specifics that you do about the side effects unless you talk to them about it.

    If your family is disassociating with you because of your transition - first of all I am very, very sorry and I hope you either have or find some new family. Please please make an effort to have a person in your life (other than a medical professional) who you can trust enough to discuss your medical situation with. I know it's very personal, but like... everybody needs care and support, and to get that you need other people with patience and understanding, and to have understanding you need communication. Talk to people who care about you, and give them at least some of the specifics. And really... you need that care and support from someone directly involved in your personal life, not just the trans community on the internet. You need someone who can look at you and see that you are struggling.

  • Then you provide the enemy with ammunition.

    They claim that the purpose of the cameras is to prevent crime, and that the people who oppose them are violent extremists. They've even tried to label deflock.me as a terrorist organization.

    Don't provide the enemy with ammunition.

  • Even better, a group should cut down several dozen of them and mount them all on poles outside his house during the night, so that he wakes up to them in the morning. No vandalism, no violence, no threats, just a blunt statement that the media couldn't possibly ignore.

    Heck, no need to even risk collecting that many real ones. I hear there's some fairly decent 3D printed fakes available.

  • As the fediverse grows, you can't just assume that everyone connecting to it is an adult. NSFW content needs to be segregated by default.

  • Come and get someSkinning the children for a war drumPutting food on the table selling bombs and gunsIt's quicker and easier to eat your young

  • A revolution without a solid, detailed plan for how to actually run the country afterword is just teenage angst exercised at a larger scale.

    "We're going to be a social anarchist commune!" does not count as a plan. It's an aspiration at best.

    If there is no plan laid out, with strong community buy-in, then what always happens is that the "revolution" gets co-opted by someone to serve their own power-hungry ambitions.

  • Care to tell me where that gullible userbase is coming from?

    They're not all gullible. A lot of VC types are obsessive gamblers, they'll throw money at anything that sounds like it might have a high return.

    Pray, tell - what do they come for?

    That's where the marketing comes in. Elon is pretty good at selling these big ideas, making them sound futuristic and world-changing. He not only sells those ideas to VCs, but also to the government. A lot of his businesses have pulled in substantial government contract money. The public rarely gets any return from those tax dollars.

  • A lot of it has to do with over-promising and under-delivering. The rest is marketing.

  • Per Julian, he reads a lot of fascinating security reports which he then can't talk about with anyone because they're classified.

  • True, but we also know that the Borg have more advanced tech than the Federation, including nanoprobes/nanobots, which presumably would help in sealing re-fabricated parts together vs. having a technician weld them together. We also know from scenes inside Borg ships that the drones start moving around when repairs are needed, I assume performing some kind of labor related to the repairs.

    Basically I don't think replicator/transporter technology can solve the whole problem by itself, even for the Borg.

  • She was SYN flooded, if y'know what I mean...

  • 502 Bad Gateway

  • Per the technical manuals, there are large industrial replicators in the engineering areas. They don't have the detail to reproduce complex molecules like food, but they can manufacture large forms of homogenous materials like metals. If they have to make new hull plates, I assume they use the industrial replicators to manufacture the parts, then a cargo transporter to beam the part into its location, though it probably still needs human technicians to bolt it in.

    The replicators are not built directly into the hull of the ship because they're delicate equipment.

  • That's worse, not better. Ignorance of the danger is not an advantage.

  • So here's the problem: you can't adopt someone else's hobby, and find it interesting by proxy. Any activity (not just hobbies) can only be "not boring" if you yourself are actively interested in it for its own sake, not just as a time sink. Your attention and investment in the activity is what makes it interesting and engaging. You get out of it what you put into it. Low-energy, low-investment time sinks are entertainments, not hobbies. Play some video games, no shame in that, it's relaxing, inexpensive, easy to start and you can pick it up and put it down whenever.

    To really give you an answer on a hobby, we need to know about what you're interested in. Hobbies are about developing some kind of skill, for your own benefit and growth as a person (probably not financial benefit). Hobbies are about exercising your personal passions on your own terms, with no obligations except those which you set for yourself. What kinds of skills do you have as a starting point, and what do you wish you had? What kinds of activities do you enjoy doing? What kinds of activities do you actually make time in your life to do, on your own, regardless of whether other people are involved?

  • And it snapped open and closed so nicely, very satisfying.