Some wise cis person once thought:

“If I’m wrong about being trans and I take hormones for no reason, at least I’d have a more femme body.”

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Haha, yeah, on the gpt thing, remember, LLMs as they are implemented today, are the Plagiarism Machines.

    Rich fucks trained their models on the entirety of the internet, and what is the internet full of? Forums of people giving useful information to each other. People who learned to format their responses using Markdown (what gives you the italics-bold-bullets-etc to use, here on Lemmy as well), as best they could, to get their points across.

    Text that is, in my opinion just well written, has become the aesthetic of chat gpt and others, like innumerable other times in the history of rich assholes. And that makes me feel both mad, and mad (lol).

    I went back to the original comment, and dialed down the appeasement, and increased the passive-aggressiveness, to get my point more across, and be less “LLMy”, in the first couple sentences haha

    Honestly the use of “datal” does sound really interesting and cool! It makes sense in today’s context, and fills an interesting niche, for which I can’t think of another word right now.

    And it being a pleasure to speak with me, is a great compliment, haha, thank you 😄

    Also based on you using

    societal memeplex

    Have you read qntm’s Antimemetics division, like so many other trans people? I swear, when I heard the Wachowski sisters use the word “memetics” in an interview, I was so excited. If you haven’t, I highly recommend it, I think you personally, would like it a lot, from what I can tell about you.


  • Nah it’s fine. There was no LLM involved in that text wall (and I’m pretty sure I’m not autistic lol), I just like talking more than I should, and the formatting was because I was kinda in appeasement-mode, while trying to get the warnings out.

    I have also faced pointless warnings and stupid attempts by clueless doctors to dissuade me from HRT, so I get where you’re coming from, and that’s sure to be what many people need to hear. But for me, because I’m anxious, the knowledge of where the actual dangers are, has done so much to help me go ahead with leaps of faith until now. So I wanted this info to be out there too.

    Also “datal”, that’s a new word. Was hard to find definitions, one was “contains dates”, and the other two were “slang for slow/dumb” lol. Well, I’ll assume you meant something ‘data’ related haha


  • For the case you’re honestly asking, it was just an attempt to draw humor from contrast (The Edds are drawn and written in an extremely unsexy way), and appreciation (implying that I took for granted that someone may like them enough to overcome the unsexiness of their design and loop back around to being attracted to them).

    Because I consider that cartoon cool and awesome, as well as intentionally and obviously kinda ugly





  • Edit: After further research and asking a doctor, the first sentence is wrong too. Estradiol in too high doses (above the cis normal and what a body can tolerate), long term, causes thrombosis by increasing the blood lipid concentration. Sorry for the misinformation. I’m leaving the comment as is otherwise, for posterity

    I now understand what you were trying to say, and I have to first clarify, you’re absolutely right in this case.

    (1)Modern, (2)non-Oral (3)Estradiol Monotherapy HRT, is completely safe within non-absurd limits, and non-absurd experimentation with dosage, will not lead to lasting negative physical health effects.

    Also, being a trans person today sucks indeed.

    What I was focusing on with my previous comment was more on the Word-Nerd side of things, what overdosing means, by common use, and my use-vote of what it should mean.

    Being a bit of an HRT nerd too though, I have to note that outside of this very specific case of estradiol, experimenting with medication dosage can actually have severe negative effects, and that includes many other parts of the HRT family of treatments.

    I’m going to be brief, but, for a couple of examples:

    • Older conjugated estrogens increased risk of cardiovascular disease, even in prescribed doses (which is why they’ve been phased out, in favor of estradiol)
    • Oral estradiol burdens the liver through first-pass metabolism, which injections avoid (also, sublingual methods have shown more similarity to oral risk profiles, than injections, but are not well researched yet)
    • Progesterone dose increases beyond recommendations, increase cervical and ovarian cancers in people with those, and breast cancer in everyone.
    • Spiro, and anti-androgens in general, though their overuse effects are neither life threatening, nor lasting, they can be impairing, and fairly dangerous to people with kidney vulnerabilities.