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Kinda surprises me. I tried to force my parents to start the conversation by intentionally obviously wearing a sports bra and my mom pretty quickly asked me about it. Was wearing a tshirt with quite a larger neck hole though.

Is it gaslighting?

This is a Harry Potter community. If you think Harry Potter was mediocre why are you even here?

You expect people to know what community they're posting in?

Switch all traditional AC to being powered by Heat Pumps

Aren't traditional AC's (assuming you are somewhere where AC is a thing used to cool the air) already heat pumps?

It already happens. Look at things like pipeline leaks poisoning the water supply for certain native groups. There's obviously protests against such projects that will inevitably lead to said poisoning, people get arrested for protesting, and then they do the project anyways.

I think that's at least approximately correct. Not sure I trust my judgement on my own emotions though. I still just use my birthname, boymode for work, etc and I've been aware I'm trans for a few years at this point. But it was over I realized I wanted an orchi and never considered that it might somehow be related to gender.

Happy τ Day!

Depends on the bus system. Some primarily operate within a square mile, and therefore primarily solve the last mile situation. They don't solve the first/last 50m probably that isn't really a problem anyways.

Deafeningly loud beeps any time you press a button or don't press a button for some period of time.

People who have clear interests that contrast my own make it much easy to realize my own thoughts are not that of a cis men. Given the pressure cis men are put under to pretend they like being cis men, I couldn't trust them to be honest*, so seeing others' thoughts was helpful. So thanks for saying you actually want a penis?

*sorry to anyone who I accidentally laughed because I thought you were making fun of masculinity rather than earnestly embracing it because I couldn't imagine someone actually wanting that.

if I’m even allowed to call myself trans when it’s not exactly feasible for me to get bottom surgery.

Being trans isn't just about surgeries. If you feel there's a mismatch between the gender people assigned you and your actual gender or sex, you're more than welcome to use the label if its useful for you. I know some agender people explicitly opt-out of the trans label (I used to be in that camp), and I think its fine to think "trans" doesn't serve any useful purpose in discussions with most people and not use it if you think it'll just confuse people more than it conveys meaningful information about yourself. It could even be context-dependent what labels you prefer, similar to how A-spec microlabels might only be something you talk about within A-spec or broadly queer communities.

Before I had any clue I was trans, I used to avoid listing "they/them" as pronouns (and therefore avoided pronouns in general) because I was worried it could be seen as taking something important for NBs and appropriating it. I don't know if I'm seen a single NB who has ever expressed such an idea and if anything, I think people would find it more offensive to think they would be so gatekeepy.

I mostly want displays to not be something I worry about. Even if I just have a single port, being able to connect 3 4K monitors without worrying about their refresh rate is convenient.