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I wouldn't know, seeing as naturally, I run everything emulated in Ternac. It's a pain having to compile everything from source for tri-state logic, but I'm committed, through thick and thin and also medium width.

I'm nonbinary and I read the wiki when something breaks or I want to set up something complicated

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/15/war-on-terror-911-deaths-afghanistan-iraq/

the west isn't doing anything even close? I think Russia isn't doing anything even close tbh, there's a very big difference between invading one country that's bordering you and invading a dozen half way across the world, and there's a big difference between a hundred thousand dead and 4.5 million dead

actually while I'm here:

• Russia's invasion of Ukraine has lead to a largely symmetrical death toll; the US wars in the middle east have been far more than 99% middle easterner deaths
• Russia's invasion of Ukraine was preceded by decades of brinkmanship; the US invasion of the middle east was entirely unmotivated by brinkmanship as the militaries weren't comparable and the countries didn't share a border
• Russia has set forth terms of ceasefire; the US never did and lied at every instance they pretended to
• Russian sanctions against Ukraine are relatively minor because Ukraine has its economic needs met by the West; US sanctions in the middle east will lead to millions of additional deaths due to lack of building materials, medical supplies, food, and more

I'm not a Russia stan, Putin can hang from a barbed wire noose, but I'm not going to tolerate Russia's Ukraine invasion being used for purposes of whataboutism to defend the greater evil

I'm catching a lot of flak for this for reasons that aren't super clear to me, does anyone who disagrees with me mind telling me why they think I'm wrong? I love learning opportunities.

ah yes, causing civilians to die of highly treatable diseases is the best way to stick it to Russia

What percent is Muslim? How is that proportionality among teachers, or among legislators? And how many laws are still enforced from a time when France was much more Christian? What is the religious makeup of those who wrote the French literary classics and the history textbooks?

do we not see how it's different to ban crosses, the religious symbolism of the entrenched culture, the state, and the hegemonic culture - and the banning of headscarves and abayas, traditions associated with an oppressed minority? This is absolutely not just fair neutrality across the board on all religious expression, the kids will still be reading books by Christians, being taught by Christian teachers, following a curriculum decided by a Christian board and meeting education metrics voted on by Christian politicians so they can be part of the workforce in a Christian entrenched nation.

Any thoughts that this is good because they're just treating all religions equally is enlightened centrism.

"documented" is tricky because very little of this is super well documented, seeing as trans people are a super small and, even proportionately to their small numbers, understudied minority in medical science. this is largely a community communication effort and a lot of the knowledge is not done through academic study. that being said, it does seem like it's talked about a lot less in the transmasc community, so possibly? on paper, the mechanism of action (tendon/ligament/muscle changes) goes both ways, but I haven't really seen many transmascs talk about it, so I don't know for sure!

I'd even go further and confidently call it causal. This is very much a thing that happens soon after ( < 1 year but mileage varies) you start gender affirming hormone therapy, at any age. nobody's fully sure on the exact causes, but the one most certain thing is that it's a multitude of factors - potentially, but also not limited to, the blend of tightness/looseness of ligaments and tendons that hold your pelvis neutral, the muscle mass and strength of muscles involved in posture, the amount of fat/weight your pelvis has to carry, and for trans people lucky enough to start gender affirming hormone therapy during puberty, the actual bone shape of your pelvis (although this last one shouldn't be too overstated - again, transfems transitioning well into their 50s and 60s notice changes in gait, balance, and posture).

lol yes, you're spot on. Facial Masculinization Surgery exists as well for transmascs, but it's a lot less common because, well, I'm not fully sure? but getting a beard for the first time in your life does wonders for transmasc gender euphoria and is often plenty enough for most transmascs.

hi! just so we're clear, there's no "the" surgery, there's a number of surgeries that trans people get: phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, mastectomy, breast implants, FFS, the lot of them. generally, most of these surgical interventions don't do too much to whole body musculature and are more localized, although having/not having a pair of boobies that you weren't/were used to can do a lot to your balance, but that's not the main thing that changes posture, center of gravity, etc.

possibly more relevant to the question, one of the most common medical interventions is hormone therapy, and this will absolutely change your musculature, flexibility, strength, and more. Transfems on E will see dramatic changes in their strength, muscle mass, and flexibility to be much more in line with cisfems, and transmascs will see similar but opposite. it's a super common meme among transfems who are dating cis women that they have to hand over jars to their cis girlfriends to open after starting E. Transmascs often report gaining an inch or two of height on T, transfems often report losing an inch or two of height on E, with no other interventions. Some people see shoe size changes, postural changes, more. there's no universally agreed upon cause for this but the current leading theories are that it's a combination of fat redistribution, muscle mass changes, and changes in tension in various tendons and ligaments. Anterior Pelvic Tilt is probably the largest cause of changes in postural change in trans people (and it's caused exclusively by GAHT), so if you're looking to learn more, that's probably the first thing you may want to read up on!

so to more explicitly answer the question, starting E will add a lot of fat to your lower body and remove a lot of muscle from your upper body, cause your pelvis to tilt, and more, and starting T will add a lot of muscle to your upper body and remove a lot of fat from your lower body, cause your pelvis to tilt, and more.

i'm super comfy with good faith questions btw so if you have more, feel free to ask me!

willing to bet if you ask it 100 times it'll be a white man for over 90 of them

I do love a good jape from time to time, but colonization is when you show up and expel/enslave/imprison the people who are already there, which is decidedly not how the spread of people from Africa worked

Remember, when a corporation says they'll donate something when you buy something, like rounding up to the nearest dollar or donating $0.25 for every purchase, they are doing it because they were going to throw their money at some 501(c)(3) for tax reasons anyways and they figured they'd make it a big opportunity to publicly launder their reputation as an ad campaign

If you want to donate, never let a grocery store round up for you and take your tax write-off so they can pay even lower taxes subsidized by you, just donate $10 every month or so and take the tax writeoff yourself.

There are material reasons that airlines need to know the weight of their entire load, but 1) the real underlying problem is that people even feel the need to lie about their weight at all, if we didn't shame fat people for existing we wouldn't have situations like this, and 2) the airline made a public display of what absolutely didn't need to be a public display and handled the situation insensitively

Anyone blaming the passenger is completely blind to the influence of systemic factors on individuals

allllmost

Titanius Anglesmith, that's 8 out of 18 letters for 44%

Reputation laundering. The LDS church collected $33 billion in tithes and $15 billion in profit on private holdings in 2010 alone. Don't fall for this bullshit, they're the most hell-bound sinister ghouls this world has to offer.

The LDS church is a force of evil in the world and $1 million dollars (0.002% of their annual proceeds) is pretty cheap for an ad to control the narrative.

Reputation laundering. The LDS church collected $33 billion in tithes and $15 billion in profit on private holdings in 2010 alone. Don't fall for this bullshit, they're the most hell-bound sinister ghouls this world has to offer.

The LDS church is a force of evil in the world and $1 million dollars (0.002% of their annual proceeds) is pretty cheap for an ad to control the narrative.

Reputation laundering. The LDS church collected $33 billion in tithes and $15 billion in profit on private holdings in 2010 alone. Don't fall for this bullshit, they're the most hell-bound sinister ghouls this world has to offer.

The LDS church is a force of evil in the world and $1 million dollars (0.002% of their annual proceeds) is pretty cheap for an ad to control the narrative.

he lives on 90 acres, he's living in a camper as a choice because he thinks it's fun and aesthetic. Both before and after this song came out he could afford a 5,000 sq. ft. home