Do WHAT to my rule?
And you can taste that utopia in our dystopic real world so long as you CONSUME every toy and movie and product we make! ඐ
We may be special snowflakes, but we'll melt in the heat all the same.
"You can't just not have a caption and make sense!"
This meme:
Sorry, I just prefer to temper expectations about hrt. Not only are there things it cannot do, there are things it might not do. While some people do see the maximum potential in different areas, your mileage will vary. It can Thanos snap away problems, but probably not all of them, and often only partially.
That said, for anyone with significant testosterone in their system who wants to avoid pattern baldness, start DHT blockers asap. Testosterone itself doesn't cause baldness, it causes it by converting into DHT. A ton of guys take it, and most don't have significant issues.
This means that trans women with higher levels of t can still see hair loss. If you're on a weaker anti-androgen like spironolactone and not injecting estrogen, you might want to supplement with a DHT blocker.
"It just works"
Not really. HRT can save follicles on the brink, but it can't revive them.
It happens
More pre Trump. More than that pre 9/11. More than that pre Reagan. Farther back, there was more democracy for white people post Depression, and probably the most right around the Civil rights era. There has never been acceptable democracy in the US, but it has been a sliding scale of marginally democratic to basically none.
Every bit of institutional democracy has cost blood, sweat, and tears. It's always easier for it to be a state of nature, where the average citizen has no real stake in the system beyond how it can ruin their lives or be exploited. When democracy becomes truly incapable of affecting the levers of power and only serves as a charade to quiet the peasants, that charade has a limited lifespan.
People are only so stupid. It's far easier to cause significant damage as a single person than it used to be. Most of that damage isn't revolutionary action or resistance, just the natural consequence of there being no social contract. People act only out of self interest, and at our level of sensitive supply chains and systems, those in power need to fight harder to maintain control.
Without some level of democracy and civil society, even those in ivory towers are less safe. They'll try tribalism and brutality, but eventually, the benefits of institutional democracy allow those providing some level of it to win out for a time. The cycle continues.
Astrophysicists with PHDs and decades of experience: "It's big"
Look at that sweet lil baby! They're gonna murder so many people when they grow up ❤
The ruling class only hates sex when people use it for enjoyment instead of creating more workers.
It's also important to prevent needing to kill people in the first place. If you can lessen the desire for crime by ensuring everyone has enough, police will become less necessary. If you can convince someone to stop doing something bad, you shouldn't need to kill them.
GamersTM when woman:
I'm happy to be capable of dismantling most bigots online. I understand how they think and what hurts them enough to keep them away. I rarely need to block because I'm not fun to attack.
They probably never live long enough to be this old and out of shape. If they can't run away, they're easy pickings for wolves and panthers. Humans are lucky that we can defend those who are unable to defend themselves. Baby deer come out prepared for running. Our babies can't lay on their stomachs for months.
The only times when it's ok to take a life is when there are NO other options.
Ruthless capitalists can cause more death and suffering than any serial killer or mass shooter. In many ways, they're a group so driven by calculating costs and benefits that the threat of death would be more effective as a deterrent than for anyone else.
However, even these people don't deserve to die if you can simply prevent them from holding that power instead. All that matters is that they can't do more harm. Unless they insist on defending their wealth like scarface, just prevent them from being that powerful ever again.
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