Boredom with a show is a good reason IMHO. So many shows drag things out when they get popular and don’t hire good writers for the filler.

Unethical and hierarchical non-monogamy is risky emotionally, ethical non-hierarchical non-monogamy without envy driven rules is not any more or less risky emotionally and can be very rewarding with truly loving partners as you don’t have to rely on a single person to provide things you need when it’s painful for them to be forced into providing those things since you can’t find another partner to provide those things.

Especially bad for ace or disabled people or women with vaginal issues and men with erectile issue when their partner is left sexless, but they need it to be fulfilled for example, or when one partner needs lots of physical touch but the other has trauma related to it, or a partner who loves to worship breasts, but has a partner with very sensitive nipples, but other than these issues the relationships are great. With ENM those things can be fulfilled by other partners while maintaining an even stronger relationship with the first partner.

Still absorbent and will stain from the blood. Not wipeable like a silicone or some other material that I can clean nearly instantly.

This is for protecting the bed and not going through so many expensive “chucks”/absorbent bed pads for minor leakage… I use a bidet, and a spritz bottle with diluted peroxide per my doctor’s recommendation until things heal better, for cleaning myself.

My hearing is in about a month, but my state has more specific laws for trans name changes and the county uses a higher court for sealed name changes than ones for more mundane changes, so I’m hoping it’s pretty smooth and I don’t end up with some shitty judge like that.

My teens and 20s were similar. I did have one friend off and on in middle and high school, but more because I tolerated him more than others did than because he cared about me. Things improved later in life once I found an extrovert who was good at gathering people and put a lot of effort into being one of the people who shows up to a lot of her events even when my energy is low. I’m AuDHD, and have a very taxing job so it takes a lot, but it’s been well worth it. It also helped that I switched from looking for a partner(s) to looking for friends which might later become partners. Having a partner who isn’t a friend but being obligated to spend a majority of time with them was a big problem.

(I eventually transitioned to ethical non monogamy, but that’s another subject, but for me it meant finding friends and partners was the same thing essentially. Especially when I abandoned the conditioning of relationship escalators, stopped being envious of partners, and stopped needing to hate partners after breaking up.)

I still have almost no energy for friends during the week, but make sure to plan well in advance and reserve energy or take time off if needed to attend regular events. This still isn’t enough social interaction for me, but the stress of the transition stuff and a major promotion at work with tons more responsibility this year has made it all I could handle. Especially after some major relationship drama tied to starting my transition last year.

Anyway, long story…well…it’s hard transitioning from school life where you’re forced together with people, to work life where positive, lasting bonds are much less likely to happen, but it still takes most of your social energy. So, getting adopted by people who thrive on social gatherings and are good at bringing people together is the way to go, but you have to be reliable to keep getting invited to things. And you aren’t likely to create a tight bond with the organizer, that type often isn’t good at deep lasting, bonds but the people they gather around them often are seeking those types of bonds.

That goes for most industries. No need to protect your reputation or be ethical in a monopoly or even really in a duopoly. End-stage capitalism consolidation at its finest.

It will just be “separate” but still “equal” like domestic partnerships were before. Same with mixed race marriages which will be not far down the line. “Leave it up to the states” or whatever, right? “It was never a problem in the 50s”, right?

In my experience it’s a safety issue kind of thing. If you’re in a place with restrooms that are shady and there are a lot of shady people, like dive bars or less high end clubs, then usually use the buddy system. Even if you don’t need to use the restroom if someone says they’re going, then go with them. You can always tweak makeup and hair until they’re done. That’s how I usually do it. Not quite as necessary in higher end clubs with good security or where the restrooms are individual ones so you’d have to wait outside anyway, like in many independent restaurants, it’s not as convenient. Anyway, more of a safety issue than social in my experience.

Wish it was that simple. Not so much in the US, unless you show no outward signs of being trans and your identity documents also magically transformed and your family and employer don’t remember your AGAB. Friends aren’t an issue since I get to pick those and picked well.

I mean it is a similar intent to a warrant canary, though more active. What they should have done is make sure all of the data is stored in their country if it’s that sensitive or use only products that allow full encryption and don’t store much metadata. There are ways to do these things if you aren’t lazy and actually hire an experienced architect (I’m one for example).

This was definitely much more of a legal overstep with explicit intent to subvert court orders than a warrant canary, though, and this unethical in it’s implementation if only questionable in its intent. However, the fact that the secretive orders exist in the first place and are not done just in cases where lives or true national security are at stake and only for limited amounts of time before being disclosed or something like that as most were originally intended outside of nations with fascist-leaning administrations like the US, China, India, etc., is the real issue and the reason for both this and warrant canaries to be necessary even if it wasn’t a fascist leaning administration doing it for possibly malicious reasons.

I’d hope so considering the current US administration is friendly with multiple people they have charged and issued warrants for such things as crimes against humanity and genocide. And the US has access to Microsoft data which likely includes all documents stored in any Office cloud products.

Assuming it’s small talk…if it’s interesting, then it heals. But slower because time also dilates. lol

As someone who used to have sex with women with my penis when i had one, lube would get rubbed off at the beginning if the vagina was not naturally lubricated and you didn’t use enough. It’s always a good idea to either apply an excess of lube to the tip so it pushes in further, or pull out a bit as soon as there is resistance so the tip is relubricated by the stuff that was rubbed off on the walls earlier and reinsert (often a few gentle pushes would do the trick), or totally remove, apply more, and reinsert if there wasn’t enough applied in the first place.

This is especially true with lubes that are less liquid and so tend to rub off of the shaft/dilator/toy before it gets to depth. Same concept applies in plumbing and other jobs that use certain types of lubricants. Things like certain silicone and oil lubrication (and Teflon and graphite lubricants for plastics and metals, not body parts) don’t have this problem as much as they adhere better to the object being inserted and/or use a slightly different mechanism for reducing friction.

So, if they can’t preside over a wedding, they shouldn’t be allowed to preside over any cases that involve LGBTQ+ people since there’s a possibility that they are religiously obligated to imprison or murder such people based on many “sincerely held beliefs” and since they have the power to do those things legally, it sure seems like a perceived conflict of interest. Or something along those lines should be true. So, if any use this to decline to marry, then I hope lawyers will use that to their advantage against that judge in their own cases.

I mean probably true, but that shouldn’t stop them from being liable if ordinary individuals are liable for the same actions. Sure, punish your employees, but if a parent is responsible to pay for a child’s pirating then an employer should be just as responsible for paying for an employee’s pirating.

We’ve had to put more effort into being accepted by society so often appear more friendly. Also, non-binary people especially have a higher rate of autism and other neurodivergent traits which makes us more focused on quality due to ethical standards and better at multitasking and again to have worked a lot on interacting well with society. As for why coffee shops, there’s the need for flexibility in neurodivergence and the fact that stimulants are useful to any types of neurodivergence like ADHD.

All of this is just based on several studies I’ve read and is based on existing data. Of course incidence of neurodivergence is underreported overall due to lack of mental healthcare and neurodivergence care for adults in particular, so it could just be coincidental. It’s especially lower reported in older adults since its mostly only diagnosed in childhood and older adults didn’t have that and baristas tend to be younger so that could be a factor as well. But anecdotally as an agender AuDHD person myself, it seems to hold some water at least, though I’m a little older so that Batista wasn’t really as common of a job when i was younger, so i was never one, but an AuDHD non-binary partner of mine was until fairly recently 😁.

Yeah, but this will not require any people to add content since it’s all stollen and simply manipulated which is easier to automate than producing original content which AI can’t be trusted not to hallucinate about quite yet. The idea is to then get the search engine AIs to point there as much as possible as it will likely be optimized for AI scraping rather than human browsing. Then since the AI results are prioritized more and more, they can get their truthiness to be what people see over actual reality.

Nah, the only thing the old analog 625-line resolutions looked OK on were things like my small bedroom TV in the 90s (though the refresh rates are major improvements in some media). The smaller living room TVs look way better with 720p and regular sized modern living room TVs are significantly better at 1080p. (Note that 4:3 ratio TVs had smaller advertised inch sizes than similarly sized 16:9 ratio TVs since they’re measured diagonally so I’ll avoid using actual sizes since they aren’t comparable.)

Depends on the physical size of the screen. Which is why mostly only wealthy people with 90-inch+ screens really have ever cared about 8K. 4K is a noticeable improvement on a 60 or 70 inch screen, but the extra cost of content isn’t anywhere near being worth it for most people.