The interesting thing I’ve discovered from most cis women is that the “boymoding” hoodie/sweater is an insanely common thing when going through puberty. Growing boobs is awkward as hell, even if it’s expected of your AGAB, so covering them up during that early period is just kind of normal.

Honestly, it’s super fun to chat with a lot of my cis friends and find out how much overlap there is with trans puberty and cis puberty.

If you have braces you really should have a water flosser. I’m kind of surprised your ortho didn’t recommend one, as mine made it a requirement

At the time they were red.

I literally just started watching vids on YouTube and going along. Like, there really is such a huge wealth of info out there, it’s worth just finding a set of videos you like and sticking to it.

It’s awesome that one of the best features of my TV, “Find my remote” has been completely broken. Paid extra for the fancy Bluetooth remote and everything, and now it’s completely worthless. Every time I ask, I get “Sorry, I’m not set up to do that” despite it being something that I’ve been doing the past 5 years without issue

I can tell you as someone who read the papers on very early deepfakes and AI video generation with amazement followed by dread, this is going to be feasible on a large scale in a short period of time. Researchers do stuff on an absolute shoestring budget usually, it’s incomparable to what large companies and governments have at their disposal. There are already consumer products that were able to become fairly precise motion sensors with just a firmware update. Next gen devices will be built with motion fingerprinting in mind, I can almost guarantee it.

MANGA

I think a huge factor in this is that outsiders never see all the inner thoughts and ruminating on it. I can’t tell you how many of my close friends/family say “This came out of nowhere/we saw no signs”, despite there being fairly obvious signs as young as 4, but also an insane amount of repression and masking of those feelings because I saw the attitude my parents had towards queer people, and literally calling my friends slurs behind their back for expressing even the slightest amount of femininity/queerness. Gee, I wonder why you never saw any signs?

They expect over the top displays of “transness” and when they don’t see it, they only see the “sudden” change, which usually isn’t even that sudden. I grew my hair out for years beforehand, had experimented with women’s clothes/fashion for a decade at least, and even had some friends who were very “in the know” on trans people who were not shocked in the slightest when I came out, because I was already not particularly masc presenting by the time I came out. The other friends just couldn’t see past the masc persona I had put on, so when that act finally dropped, it was some shocking and sudden revelation to them.

As much as people joke about stuff like this, a University’s music program or something could probably take advantage of something like that.

At work, we used to get the discounted NetJets subscriptions (still like $15k) from Costco because it was a crazy good deal and we would charter flights for some emergency issues where it made financial sense to use a private/charter flight to get on-site faster because the issue is costing $20-50k/minute of downtime.

Sure, your average person isn’t taking advantage of those deals, but someone does or else Costco wouldn’t offer them.

Color photography has existed since the late 1800s, and there were early color movie film processes basically for as long as movies existed. It’s the quality and cost that eventually got to a point where movies in color became feasible. Color film came later, but you don’t actually need it. Instead you can simply do take the same picture 3 times in B&W with a 3 different color filters (Red, Green, Blue) and then lay them over each other and you’ll get a color image.

At the time, color TV was still pretty early. The NTSC standard for it was out for about a decade prior to the start of the show, and color TVs had been on sale for a while, but they were far more expensive than B&W (think about the price of early HD displays). So, for filming something like the Addams Family, you’d be tripling the filming cost for minimal gain, since you’re trying to recreate the dark B&W look of the Addams Family comics anyways. There were also color TV shows at the time, but again, when most people were fine with B&W at this point, why bother with all the extra work and expense to mimic a desaturated and dark look when you can just do it in B&W?

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/lbnl_ieee-land-requirements-for-utility-scale-pv.pdf

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricity-use-in-homes.php

Based it on their 394MWh/acre estimate and ~10.5MWh consumption for an average home.

Peak output around 5.6GW, and powering about 1.4 million homes.

It’s even worse because it’s not a man, it’s a transwoman. He kissed an attractive woman, but now he’s doing this because she was AMAB.

It really sucks that this is like, the primary plot point in the movie because as much as I love Jim Carrey’s stuff and Ace Ventura is iconic, it kind of ruins the entire movie for me now. It’s not just like, a painful scene or two, but the entire third act…

A pumpkin. There’s no innuendo.

Not to defend Dementia Donnie here…but as a New Yorker, he probably knows them as bodegas?

I live in Michigan where we’ll call them party stores and corner stores, and I still know what a bodega is. No point in defending him, he’s really just an idiot.

putting his money where his neck is.

Aww, “putting his neck on the line” was right there

Honestly brilliant for a couple of reasons. Obviously keeps you from losing the chuck, but also prevents you from making an oopsie if you’re easily distracted and leave the key in like I’ve seen people do on multiple occasions.

Yeah, it makes a lot more sense when you consider that the far side has to be lit during an eclipse.

https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/37602

The “Praise Allah” one was absolutely real and many news orgs have written about it at this point. It’s pretty depressing…