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Tangent perhaps, but is there a good, up to date list of LGBTQ+, ND, or other minority owned online businesses for various things? It’s always hard to find legitimate ones. Many times large corps have swallowed them up or they were just LLCs of a large corp with a figurehead minority leader for marketing.

Gorgeous!!!

Yeah, I was agreeing. I think the many argument doesn’t much water so to speak. I think the 0 argument has some merit depending on how you define a moon, but Trojans and quasi-moons definitely shouldn’t count since they aren’t relatively permanently. Problem is the IAU doesn’t have a good definition partly because many of the more detailed definitions that have been tried tend to disqualify our own moon and that would be way more disruptive than disqualifying Pluto as a planet which is still causing a mess in education.

I just find it a quite interesting subject that can only even be a subject because out technology has improved so much over my lifetime.

Depth loss is generally permanent, though width loss is not. You a should ask a gyno or your surgeon about it, but generally I’d say don’t push it too hard to try to regain depth, it may just cause more damage and pain. But definitely don’t stop.

You’ll regret it later if you lose all of your depth and need surgery to restore it which can be expensive, hard to find without long wait lists, and may even be illegal soon.

You can try dilators that aren’t as wide to reduce pain and give up some of the width for now. It will be painful and take time and patience to regain, but if you think it’s going to help you actually do it, that might be an option. Losing depth is a big issue, though. Try not to let it go if you can help it.

I know depression can make it difficult. Try to reward yourself for doing it. Get some ice cream or your favorite desert for afterwards or something like that. I don’t have sex with people with penises usually, but I plan to keep my depth as long as humanly possible just to feel healthy and feel more like a woman. Try thinking of it not in terms of what people want to use of you. It’s your body. It’s part of you. It’s not just a fancy fleshlight. 🫂

Yeah, a quasi-moon doesn’t even orbit the earth, it’s just orbiting the sun on a similar plane an happens to be nearby. But due to it’s small mass, it cant stay for too long before it’s flung out again. It’s only the Earth’s gravity that’s keeping it around a little longer than usual, typically, anyway. There’s lots of types and thus lots of scenarios.

Yeah that’s the issue…too many for anyone to ever want to read and my inability to pick just one as they’re all “top-tier” thanks to the AuDHD combo. 🤣

It’s just ironic that the meme is using a question that someone like me can’t answer in meme form in a forum for someone like me, so great job to the OP there. Reminds me of the horrible looking socks that the horrible Autism Speaks org sells with thick seams not only in the toes, but down the side (which I’ve never seen before), despite one of the stereotypical major things that Autistic people can’t stand is bad socks. Just so ironic as hell that I dont know if they are making a point with them or more likely just dont understand Autism at all since they’re just around for the money and making parents feel better about being bad parents rather than helping Autistic people. <\rant>

Welcome to the club. I knew mine was curly since even short it’s always been that way. But I need a ton of products to keep it under control, especially in humid conditions. Hair oils and a very wide toothed comb. Maybe something with some hold if it’s windy ate what I use for the everyday. Also a good conditioner for curly hair and don’t use it sparingly.

SheaMoisture is a good relatively affordable brand for curls. Their deep moisture conditioner works well and the scent isn’t overwhelming or overly artificial like many hair products. Their curl smoothie works for the flyaways but is a stronger scent, but you use it sparingly. And it’s mostly coconut scent. It isn’t strong hold like hairspray so looks natural.

For oils, I prefer a plain as possible argan oil without added scents, but most contain a lot of silicones which can be less effective. Last longer, and look less oily, but also leave residue and don’t moisturize. They’re more for immediate effect than natural, treatment. Bonus if they have biotin, keratin or other treatments to keep the hair strong and not as frizz-prone.

But yeah, curly hair takes a lot more effort than straight.

As a witch, we don’t curse trees, that corporate polluters you’re thinking of. Witches love nature. 😁

Too hard to choose the first one. These memes need to have a single option for an individual not hundreds. 🙃

Sucks that the US shut down much of it’s more modern weather infrastructure via the DOGE initiative so these kinds of things are necessary. Can’t let modern weather radars and satellites prove climate change.

Because the random alterations create variations that allow survival of the species, not the individual, in changing conditions. For an example of what happens without that, just look at bananas. Without any evolution through DNA alteration during procreation, a single disease van wipe them out across the globe. Happened once and the current strain is being wiped out by disease, though more slowly due to human intervention, as we speak.

Sounds like a good way to impersonate and use the reputation of someone who’s active on other platforms. Just like the “verified” stuff mostly just means you paid, not that your identity was verified which is always confusing people who aren’t careful, often used/confused by right-wing “news”.

As a neurodiverse person myself, I usually try to phrase the question as “what hobbies are you currently working on” to keep the conversation more about the present rather than fleeting hobbies/interests. Open ended questions lead to taking a long time to compile all of the information, targeted questions lead to an easier time coming up with an answer. Same with favorite music or movies or whatever. I’ve been alive for decades, how can I list off every artist/song/movie I’ve liked in that time. Something like “what music have you discovered lately” is easier to answer.

Same, my hobbies change depending on how many spoons I have after working and what I need to solve to fix something that breaks or support an event or dress up for like Halloween/Samhain/Dia de los Muertos parties.

With Monty Python’s Flying Circus theme playing 🤣

It’s nice to have a GUI for those things sometimes rather than a command line for everything. If you’re doing things right, your daily login shouldn’t have access to modify system settings or read sensitive logs. But troubleshooting requires that often and ls, vim, cat, tail, etc., can become cumbersome compared to a GUI file manager and proper GUI text editor like Kate or Gedit.

Fascism requires enemies and you have to pick small groups of people to declare as enemies or you’ll end up with too many people fighting back. We trans people are just the latest.

Problem is that the scope of transgendered people is much larger than most people realize due to us having to hide for most of history. There’s a reason that estimates a few decades ago were under a hundredth of a percent, current estimates are around 1%, and if you look just at gen Z who mostly are adults and teens now (not “children who dont know any better”) with much better education and ability to be “out” in their age group communities it’s closer to 5%. If gen Z is 5%, then so is every other generation, even if they don’t know it or don’t feel safe admitting it. Which doesn’t matter as they will be more likely to strongly support their peers. 5% is a large part of the population to turn against.

So as the policies start to affect adults like me struggling to get care because health plans not under the jurisdiction of state insurance commissioners even in progressive states (basically all “employer-funded plans” which most employers now use) and corporate inclusion policies have decided to comply in advance to cut trans care and inclusive policies not just for children/teens, but for everyone, as they know that’s next, we’re ending up with finding care not just taking a few years of waiting lists, but nearly a decade, or being just impossible to get unless you are very wealthy and can afford to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. I’m still using my old name at work because I’m not safe to change it in my mid-level position. And we actually still have an LGBTQ+ ERG unlike most very large companies. But it only takes one prejudiced person up high to get you blackballed and they’re all feeling empowered right now.

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That future might not be far off considering what Trump did today. Balance of power is seriously about to shift.

Yeah, but this will make it much easier and using much better algorithms to make it more realistic because OpenAI will start profiting off of it and devoting resources to it which they have way more of than the existing systems.