I’ve hated myself for long enough, no more. If people hate me because I’m trans, that’s a reflection on them.

In a hypothetical future, I think using “excess” renewable energy during the day to run electrolyzers to make green hydrogen makes sense. I’m not sure how hydrogen stacks up against methanol or ammonia fuels though.

I’m so happy for you! I just recently visited a sanctuary city, and it was so nice, to see all the progress pride flags and openly queer people everywhere. I hope my relatively-progressive-for-the-area home city gets there someday

How did you figure out that this is the battle you want to fight?

It’s not a battle I would choose to fight, but I don’t have any other choice. I know who I am, and I’m going to live as who I am, and I’m not going to let anyone stop me. I grew up in a very repressive environment, where I was taught to accept that I had to be who others (especially authority figures) expected me to be. And through a lot of therapy, I discovered that that was the root of a lot of my personal torment. It isn’t always easy, day to day, but I’m going to keep pushing every day to love and celebrate the person that I am, because I can’t stand to live any other way.

Use an app or some other web blocker to stop yourself from loading the site. And when you have the addiction itch and get blocked, try to remember that you’re blocking it for a reason, and you don’t actually want to go there. It’ll take a while for your brain to adjust, but after a few days or weeks, you won’t even try to go there any more. YMMV, but that worked for me.

Hey, look, it’s me!

Thanks so much, Mom, for thinking that prayer and church are the way to fix things, not medication and therapy 🙃

Do we really need to bother pretending we don’t already know what this court is going to say? They’ll vote for it 6-3, and thousands of kids are going to be forced into this torture by their bigoted parents. It’s disgusting, and I hope these justices are haunted to their graves by their inhumanity.

Billions of people, yes. Especially considering that Meta also owns Instagram and WhatsApp

I mean, yeah, I don’t trust a single word out of his mouth. He’s a fossil fuel stan. I think we should assume that anything this administration says, the opposite is true

I did. But I could easily see how people are put off by the “fan base”. I actually avoid talking about Linux at all irl because I don’t want people to think I’m a fossbro

I don’t know, the idea of initiating conversations with conservatives about whether they think I deserve rights or not (when they probably don’t think I do), does not sound like a good time, nor do I expect it to be particularly fruitful.

I don’t know how we get out of this, but I don’t think putting myself in hostile situations and arguing is going to be effective, you know? I think conservatives will only turn on Trump when they are personally negatively impacted by his actions. Appealing to their empathy and logic isn’t going to work, because they didn’t logic themselves into supporting him and they think empathy is woke bullshit.

I’m generally quite skeptical of Buttigieg’s sincerity about anything he says, but I’ll take all the support we can get right now, even if his perspective is flawed in other ways. It’s easier to have a conversation with someone like him and educate them on where they can improve.