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andros_rex

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  • The Next (De)Generation

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  • Reseed Linux distros as penance?

  • TIL that the worst driver in New York City likes to drive around in Brooklyn. He received 259 speeding tickets and paid over $60,000 in fines.

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  • My ex was a nepo baby. He had so many speeding tickets. Didn’t give a shit about playing video games on his phone while driving. Fines don’t work when you could spend that same amount on a weeknight dinner without blinking.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Have you watched the Sagan Cosmos? I like it better than the NDT one, although I usually recommend NDT because it’s an easier sell. I love Sagan so much though. He’s just so gentle and kind, almost the same kind of vibe as Mr Rogers.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • I dislike the way they present Giodano Bruno in the NDT Cosmos. The church was more miffed at his pantheism than any of his astronomical ideas. Less of a scientist and more of a philosopher.

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  • One method of philosophical reasoning is to start with the extremes and then narrow down to the center/ more likely scenarios that are shades of the extreme…

    My state is about to follow Kansas and revoke the “M” on my drivers license, which I’ve had for 10 years. This will put me in physical danger and harm my ability to find employment. No one needs you to play devils advocate here.

    How do they prevent their bodies from producing sexual hormones they don’t want?

    Spiro for trans women, not really a problem for trans men. There’s estrogen floating around in my body right now, but the testosterone overwhelms it.

    Removal of the testes/ ovaries? Sometimes. Hysterectomy for trans men and orchi for trans women are common in adulthood.

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  • Sexual reassignment surgery and top surgery are types of treatment. Another type is puberty blockers, which I asked about and you responded with talking points instead of information.

    Surgery is irrelevant when talking about the treatment of 99.999% of transgender teens. Making the conversation about surgery is falling for right wing talking points.

    The “end game” is presumably that one goes on HRT to experience the correct puberty. Most trans men just take testosterone, trans women often take an anti-androgen (spiro) with their estrogen.

    As far as removing breast buds, I’m not sure if that would be needed or not. Regardless, removing breast buds would be possible with perioareolar top surgery, which is much less invasive than full double mastectomy (I wasn’t lucky enough to go on blockers, but I was small enough to get a peri - it was an outpatient procedure which took me like 3 days to sleep off. Double mastectomies are usually much more involved.)

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  • But really (since this is a controversial thread) I just don’t want my child taking a knife to, and hindering the functionality of, any part of their body that was already working just fine.

    But that isn’t happening. You have to recognize that there is a huge fucking propaganda campaign being held to convince you that children are walking to clinics and getting their dicks and breasts chopped off. Surgery doesn’t even make sense until all the parts are fully developed anyway.

    Care is mostly affirming pronouns and names, sometimes puberty blockers.

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  • This study on several cis girls suggests that there’s nothing unusual about puberty post blockers.

    Girls treated in childhood with GnRHa have normal BMI, BMD, body composition, and ovarian function in early adulthood. FH is not increased in girls with ICPP in whom GnRHa was initiated at about 8 yr. There is no evidence that GnRHa treatment predisposes to polycystic ovary syndrome or menstrual irregularities.

    I also want to say here that I have known two kids to be on blockers. Both had to drive several hours out of state to access their treatment. One of them almost was removed from their home by the state solely because they were trans and receiving blockers - a family friend who has received death threats and harassment and has had to go to court several times because she recognizes her son for who he is. The right wing propaganda sphere likes to pretend blockers are being handed out like candy, but that is not the case.

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  • More like they are “anti hormones.”

    They’ve been used to help cis kids who would otherwise be going through puberty at like 6 or something for decades. You stop any permanent changes from happening due to puberty. The child can choose to go off them if they change their mind and go through a “normal”’puberty, or stay on them and decide to get on HRT as an adult.

    In the long run, this means less medical intervention. If you don’t grow breasts you won’t need top surgery; if you don’t experience a testosterone puberty you won’t have your vocal cords deepen and need voice training or surgery.

    It is the “let’s wait until you’re an adult and can make a choice” option.

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  • Most children do not get hormones or surgery. Usually, the most intervention that happens is puberty blockers.

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  • Watching porn on Pornhub or any other large mainstream porn site (all owned by essentially a monopoly) is being complicit in child abuse and rape. They made money knowingly hosting CSAM and should not be allowed to be in business. Even the stuff that involves people who are of age is often trafficked Eastern European women.

  • A broken clock is still right twice a day.

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  • There’s a lot of fracturing and internecine warfare in MAGA land. You can see some of this in Alex Jones struggling to figure out whether he’s still cool with Bannon or not.

    There’s always been a split between the Nazi wing and the Christian Nationalists who support Israel because of their apocalyptic fantasies. You’ve also got the ones who only care about abortion, and the ones with Q and adjacent conspiracy theories. It’s an uneasy alliance.

    MTG is a Q type. Anti semitism is part of it, but it’s more about the insane conspiracy theory world she lives in. She’s not being “reasonable” she just thinks Trump is on the evil Jewish laser team.

  • A broken clock is still right twice a day.

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  • US man issues challenge to disprove his claim of having world’s smallest penis to raise micropenis awareness

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  • But do you know where mine is?

  • US man issues challenge to disprove his claim of having world’s smallest penis to raise micropenis awareness

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  • Learn where the clitoris is. A good chunk of women, perhaps the majority, do not orgasm from penetration alone. Clitoral stimulation is what you are looking for.

    The other part is communication. “Do you like that/does that feel good?” Start with circular motions. Some don’t like direct stimulation on the clit more in the area around. Everyone’s body is different, and something that drives one person wild might be uncomfortable and annoying for someone else.

  • Sorry, can't do scarves.

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  • The physics of knitting is so complicated that SciShow fucked it up and had a bunch of people mad at them.

    Textiles are complicated crazy wonderful things. The drape of a fabric is going to be related to the materials it’s made of (cotton, linen, wool, acrylics and polyesters, blends of all of the above and more to various percentages…) as well as just the process of making.

    Woven is very sturdy and doesn’t stretch. You can’t unwind the whole thing by getting it caught on something. Your jeans and slacks are probably made of woven material, because otherwise you’d accidentally lose your pants to the bump of a nail in a chair or something.

    Knit stretches, but accidentally bump into a door hinge and you’ve unraveled a good chunk of your sweater. It’s good at moving though. Most things are done on knitting machines in “stockinette” stitches - look for little ‘v’ shapes.

    Gotta keep in mind that the upkeep of clothing was something people use to be spend several hours a week on - beyond just laundry. Weaving takes forever and it’s not particularly exciting. Just imagine how many outfits you’d have in 1600 BC or 1600 AD versus now.

    It’s just really crazy that we are all surrounded by billions of tiny fibers that were twisted into single strands that then become fabrics that then become clothes. Each stage presents uniquely complex and beautiful physics problems.

  • How do you decide if you are living a “good life?”

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  • I’ve emphasized the last one more than everything else, and it’s only ended up hurting me. Feels like I would be happier if I could feel “good” working a 9-5 that didn’t help anyone. Teaching is the kind of thing that slowly kills you.

  • This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media

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  • Are you really comfortable with Meta having videos of your children?