To generalize: in general, defer to the person’s judgement. If they’re giving their real name or their dead name or whatever, assume they did their own tradeoff calculations using more info than you have access to and just go with it, but also be willing to change if they decide to change their decision.

it is not is “it’sn’t”

Maybe you can tell them how they’re making you feel? It’s plausible they could be trying to accommodate you but in a way where they make bad assumptions rather than asking you. If so, maybe they’ll listen.

At the very least, even if asking burns the friendship even more, you’ll have some data to predict how someone might think in another/future friendship.

That doesn’t negate the good times. I remember when I struggled to make friends, and most of my “friends” weren’t really friends, but it was still better than nothing.

My type of person! Same!

tbf, most of my stuff also felt like not a huge deal at the time, I just had no point of reference to see how bad it really was. Now that I have a reference, I see that the gap between being fine and being very not fine is much smaller than I’d thought for most of my life, it’s not like it’s gatekept behind suffering Enough™. I guess the same sentiment goes for gender, autism, and a bunch of other things.

• Hated being topless, even while swimming
• Curious how having boobs would feel
• Drawn to lesbian relationships
• Never even tried to look good as a man
• Been taking antidepressants since a little after puberty
• Cried when a psychiatry form asked if I had thoughts of being the opposite gender
• Hated being juxtaposed to men
• Didn’t dream much about romance or sex because every time I thought about them they would just feel underwhelming and draining
• When I imagined myself following a similar life path to my dad or any other male figure, I felt like life wasn’t worth living if that was my future
• Wished I was born a different person, because I had no attachment to who I was and nothing to lose
• Disassociating in the mirror
• Hated being seen as a big man, I wanted to be seen as soft instead
• Just like, all the signs that who I presented as made me feel awful

Can I have both?

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation lobbied against waiving intellectual property laws that would’ve let countries produce the vaccines themselves. Instead, only the pharma companies that owned the IP could produce it, and those vaccines were immediately gobbled up by wealthy countries leaving millions in poorer countries without a vaccine. So no, he’s not one of the good ones, his philanthropy is still evil with a hint of good purely to launder his reputation.

I’m pro Israel for saying your anti Zionism is good but your attacking random (non Zionists) people online is bad?

The links I gave were definitely not those things you just said and we both know it, so drop the motte and bailey and own up to what you’ve been doing.

Really take some time to reflect on why you’re so angry and defensive. Judging by the 3 replies I got from you, I think this was you desperately responding to save face, and I don’t want that, I want you to take some time to think about this.

Like this where you attack a woman for having the gall to say men are scary, or this where you bully a neurodivergent person for explaining that they can’t parse sarcasm? idk, kinda seems like “people you individually disagree with” is pretty apt. I mean, one of the posts is you not understanding a bad joke.

It’s weird, because your profile shows you’re aggressively anti Zionist and anti Russian imperialist, but then you also have this weird community for calling random people “fucking idiots” for seemingly no reason? Maybe direct your anger more towards the imperialism and less towards people who, at worst, are mildly annoying or wrong on the Internet.

“I mean, some of us are nonbinary, but that’s not the reason for they/them!”

My keys were fine, I’d used them on a previous system. My best guess is boot failed because GPU firmware wasn’t signed with my keys, only Microsoft’s keys. And of course, I can’t just CMOS clear, and I don’t have an iGPU. It’s crazy that an OS can brick my motherboard; I’d be a lot more forgiving if a BIOS option bricked it, but exposing a “brick me” option in efivars for any ring 0 software to press??

I enrolled custom keys and bricked my motherboard 🙃

I guess it’d be a good place to post screenshots of your stuff. I did read it, you’re not magically a genius for telling others to read slower.

Point 2 is covered by having a control group and point 3 seems to be missing the point: well yeah, don’t take the conclusion too far, but that doesn’t mean measuring arousal is bad science.

Bigger issues are low sample size (as you mentioned) and the fact that it’s a correlational study that hasn’t done any work to causally link them.

I didn’t get straight As, but I did get gay As

Now I’m unsure as to whether this study would accept trans women or not

A part of me dies when I say the lie

How does anyone know what socialization I had? Also, why does it even matter? This just feels like grasping for straws.