Bunch of landed aristocrats acting in self interest is exactly who you expect to found the ultimate dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and why the whole ‘its a republic’ sorts just play into it heavier than most. They were heavy into mysticism (John Dee comes to mind as one of their mystical inspirations, though they used that Rousseau and whatever else Enlightenment thinker fraternity of humanity concept as just lip service and its nothing but white Christian supremacy ever more codified in ever more obscure legal jargon), since economically its required to have that degree of dissonance and act on it, since if you’re too rational you don’t fall for such simplicity and realize its short sighted to try to steal from so many to benefit so few and think you’re better than everyone else and generally be immune to but the most idle dreams of selfcrit. I don’t buy ‘hurr durr it was meant to be a living document’, that idle argument doesn’t line up to English derived legal system imo.

It usually is lol

Same but for voice, I feel the same way watching some coworkers that are also trans and apparently affording voice therapy and progressing rapidly. It took me almost 10 years to find something accessible and its still DIY and taking its time. My voice still outs me a lot, I’m passing a lot better but not great. On the flip side, my trans man coworker has the voice down, but doesn’t physically pass, and I recall having similar troubles as him early in transition with people being miserable bigoted assholes.

That’s how you get epic heartburn

I just want to contribute to something larger than myself that has a long term beneficial effect for the most and ideally meets some interests. Even that, is asking for a whole lot I’ve found. I think being driven to continuous self growth and learning is a fine thing.

When I was younger I played some MMO at a professional level for a short bit, I saw it more as consistent fun challenge and maybe some tangible RL money than actual standing. I like anonymity to a degree, but I realize the whole joker quote and people like to have some familiarity with strangers they encounter.

I wish sociology was mandated in schools, and if not that at least a fucking art class that makes you mold/sculpt a project into your ideas, and resulting ideas from your interaction with hard reality into your project.

The snuggle all day business sounds legit

Should be gay rage all 12 months of the year with the way shit is around here.

Plants are very, very kinky by human standards. People back in the day hated on Linnaeus for observing this.

Same, though I have phantom penis sensations in the morning (sort of like a limb being asleep and that painful tingling). If I wear a packer to bed it helps a lot interestingly.

Going to xth the chorus of posts saying ‘omg masturbate’, that whole antifap shit is another method to control people using bourgeois morality. If you get rid of that urge before you won’t be so thirsty in your dreams.

Anyway, like RL you have varying degrees of awareness and ability to act on autonomy in a LD, so don’t feel too bad when you sleep into a habit. It helps to have a list of non sexy things to do when you LD and incubate those before bed.

Big spoiler for LDs, expectation is the law of dreams, you expect sex to mess up stability it will, a very common one is people thinking merely being excited about LDing will interfere with the LD. Even larger spoiler, no it won’t, manage your expectations and it will lead to better control. A more material hack is rubbing your hands or spinning helps with control, why, something about proprioception and pattern familiarity-expectation if I had to guess. If you ever figure out how to feel that you’re lying down sensation that makes a good reality check, one doesn’t walk around life with the sensations/pressures of lying on a bed. Makes me think of a video game glitch.

A good alternative to rufus I highly, highly recommend is ventoy, basically you can run a whole bunch of isos as virtual from one usb and select the one you want at boot.

I’ve struggled with employment all my life, I’ve been NEET as a period though my family still expected to find my own food, rides, etc, they just provided a place to stay. I was required to do things at home to try to counter as well. All the NEETs I’ve known IRL have never been NEETing by choice, its always been forced by economics and luck that they either have family to crash with or had cars to stay in.

Because they interact with baristas and other min wage workers, they’ve never seen and likely will never directly interact with the big bourgeois, makes it easier for us to turn on each other. Despite what many of them say seeing and interacting with in physical reality is belief.

Going to xth any mouse can be a gaming mouse, just lower the dpi in settings. Because gamers aren’t of the age to combine ergonomic and gaming for it to be profitable, soon though.

I personally love staring into mirrors, you stare into a mirror long enough the abyss stares back into you you can make yourself trip and have fun illusions like out of body experiences. Jokes on you assholes, I just look like I’m here. Yea go talk to my duplicate (or even triplicate, its fun to play with) fool, while my real perception is half way across the store

Install windows and do disk size management on its size like others mention, it will break linux’s boot loader (and even its own) with one of its updates. Then I take the new fresh chunk of empty space/drive and run that in linux and just follow guides for the OS I’m trying out. You can do a dual boot on one hd just backup your files every day since windows always comes for linux (and will corrupt its own mess) in a long enough time period.

I have some sort of backup disk usually that both systems have access to or I use portable storage.

For anyone 2 alcohol swabs, one for the vial and one on the body, aspirate before injecting (if you see blood try a different spot, yes it hurts but HRT isn’t intravenous) and make sure to rub the area for a min after for all the oils and put a bandage (optional) to keep the area extra clean. Never do a shot to the backside of the legs since you have all sorts of nerves there and its how people/animals would get paralysis after shots. Always use a clean needle when drawing since that’s how you get icky infections otherwise.

Would look up an IM (intramuscular) injection guide, they used to have vids of nurses giving people thigh shots, that’s probably one of the easier ones to DIY. Subq (subcutaneous) uses shorter needles and you can get away with the stomach, very similar to insulin shots, though absorption rate is slower and I’m not sure how well that works out for E.

CW: body horror, fluids, blood and dysphoria:

I’ve dealt with many angry people in my time