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I'm glad these two are going to keep working together! Their writing styles complement each others very well.

By no means am I an expert, especially on the intricacies of being trans and I don't want to cis-splain their experiences, but I do know that cross dressing has an overlap of necessity with them, but it's a ven-diagram/intersection rather than a circle.

People who are trans typically explain it as having always felt like they've always been in the wrong gendered-body. Wearing clothes that correspond to the gender they feel they are
(also, keep in mind MRI's have shown brain activity that more closely matches the gender they feel they are than the gender they were born with, as well) is way for them to try and reconcile the way they feel with the way they were born. It's usually an early stage in socially transitioning, whether they later choose to chemically/medically transition or not (and keep in mind, this is not always the end goal for people ... simply being acknowledged as the way they see themselves is enough for some people and they shouldn't be afraid to be in public because of that!).

People who cross dress on the other hand may be doing it because they're trans and feeling out the early stages OR ... just because. It could be the way a textile feels, it could be sexual, it could be non-sexual, it could be because they just like it, it could be because ... you see where I'm going with this? There are as many reasons that people cross dress as there t-shirt designs (I may be exaggerating a bit with that one, but you get my meaning, I think).

I know NOFX is problematic, but I feel like "I’m a Transvest‐Lite" explains it decently (for one particular person anyways!):

I'm not transgender, I'm a lazy crossdresser
Who thinks makeup is too much of an ordeal
I paint my toes and wear shiny tight clothes
Not for the look, but how it makes me feel
I don't need things just right, I'm a tranvest-lite
I only shave to do the Time Warp midnight Saturday
I'm done with self-pity, I don't have to feel shitty
'Cause I wanna look pretty, so I give it the old city College try
Don't get me wrong, I still wanna be a guy
Who sometimes likes to dress like a girl
(He sometimes likes to wear diamonds and pearls)
Don't think I don't know I'm not fooling anyone
(He's a cross between Adele and Charlie Chaplin)
You gotta know it's not just girls who just wanna have fun!

Also, the beginning of the song is about the shame felt early on about it and is generally about getting the courage to not give a flying fuck about what people think.

Hopefully I did a decent enough explanation without trampling on anyones lived experiences. The simple truth is that both groups of people have completely individualized experiences and it's a different journey for every single person.

FYI -- The "fan" was later found to be on staff, unless we're thinking of different events, which, sadly is always possible!

DJ Roomba for me ... I am not a creative person, lol.

There's also the "oh shit, I'll get this fixed, but nothing I say can be in writing or I'm definitely getting fired" possibility.

Nah boss, I just apologized for my misunderstanding, I have no idea why $InsubordinateContractor is saying that I said he'd better come in or I'm going to blacklist him in the entire industry and ensure he never works again ... I mean, why would I say that?! I don't have that kind of power!

If you're a single man with infants (under age 1) and/or children (under age 5) then, THEY are eligible for the benefits of the program. Women are specifically added in because the program is designed to also help pregnant, breastfeeding and/or postpartum women who have their own nutritional needs. Women who don't meet those requirements are also not eligible.

So, you don't get help with food for yourself, but you can get assistance for infants/children ... there are other programs to help you.

Search terms used on Google in Incognito mode: single man with children WIC eligibility
Brings you to this page: https://www.joinproviders.com/state/illinois/wic/
Which has the below information:
There are four kinds of eligibility for WIC:

1. Categorical: you need to be a mom, child, or have custody of a child.

Moms have to be pregnant, up to six months past pregnancy, or up to your baby’s first birthday if you’re breastfeeding.

Children are eligible up to their fifth birthday.

Foster parents, guardians and single fathers who have custody of their children are also eligible.

1. Residential: You need to live in the state where you’re applying.
2. Nutritional: A health professional needs to determine if you are at “nutrition risk.” This might mean you have a medical condition like anemia, or a diet that could be healthier. You can see a health professional for free at a local WIC clinic.
3. Financial: Your household needs to make less than the amounts listed in the income limit table below to qualify for WIC. A pregnant woman counts as two (or more) household members. If you know you’re having more than one baby, count each one as a household member.

The top link for that search is for a page in IL, but I saw similar for other states.

Is that planes that are packed to the gills or private planes that actually have space that people aren't crammed into?

Also, 3-4/6 liters of what? ICE cars and modern planes aren't burning the same fuel, so I'm not sure what this is intending to portray by directly comparing how much of each (in liters) that they burn (serious question, no snark)

Agreed that they can't get a 40G link when attaching to a 10G device, but the 40G QSFP can be split into 4 10G SFP+ connections instead

1 for AntennaPod, has tons of options but also gets out of your way if all you want to do is find and listen to podcasts.

I can't see Google ever adding in all the options people want in a podcast app into YouTube Music, it's just never going to happen.

I would expect they'll probably use it to try and switch you over to the video version (if it exists) since it's going to have the more expensive ads (I assume the video ads are more lucrative anyways), which isn't overall a bad thing, but also not really a good one either.

Even in at will states (which, let's be honest here, plenty of cities have more people than the population of the only non-at-will state - Montana, so it's not really even worth the distinction) there is a pretty huge difference between being fired for having red shoelaces and being fired for physically adding a device to circumvent building security or removing a security implementation from your work PC.

Sure! Click the link at the very top of the page! You know, what this entire conversation is theoretically talking about? It takes you to a Home Assistant page and even has some details on their philosophy and links to even more details about their privacy focused philosophy! I thought saying essentially "read the fucking article" would be pretty asshole-ish and wouldn't contribute anything to the conversation, but I also thought that your question contributed nothing, so I downvoted.

Did that answer your question sufficiently?

I thought it was 30, but it looks to be 20USD, which like you said, not a terrible price by any means. I usually get the 100W capable ones for around 10-12 when they go on sale, so I even retract my "I wouldn't pay their prices" comment since I have paid 18-20 when I needed a good cable ASAP.

People just like to complain about the "apple tax" and I can't fault apple for not trusting their brand to shoddy products because the news isn't going to report that a shitty cable burned down a house, it's going to be that an iPhone burned down the house.

Hard to say. A LOT of USB-C cables don't meet spec and are either hot garbage or a risk waiting to happen, even if it's not immediately apparent to you as a user of them, based on the testing that Benson had previously done.

If Apples devices can detect this, you may get an error. People are already ragging on the cost of Apples USB-C cables, but to my knowledge, they all meet the spec and will also 100% work at 100W of charging and the other auxiliary items in the spec that most manufacturers seem to just ignore.

Now, with all that said, I'd never pay Apples price for a single cable, but if you absolutely want a cable that's going to meet spec, I also can't fault you for buying one either!

Lol, Kutchers is with James Franco, a man completely devoid of any scandals with girls and young women! /s

Q:What's the difference between someone who has 1 million dollars and someone who has 1 billion dollars?

A:Roughly a billion dollars.

Really, it's practically the same at 10M.

A billion is just so fucking much more that our brains have a hard time even conceptualizing it.

Nice! I'll have to give them a listen!

Much appreciated!

ETA quite the backlog on both, that'll fill in some gaps with ones I'm caught up with!

My top 3 are:
Foss Podd - Has interviews with open source devs from some pretty large projects
Self Hosted - If you're interested in self hosting, you've probably come across some of their resources, why not listen to them?
Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast - Interviews with hardware hackers and talking about the tools they use. Very interesting.

Wordpad is a rich text editor not a plain text editor.

I can't say I've used Wordpad intentionally - ever -, but they do serve different functions.

The people that'll tell you not to pay off a house before the end of your mortgage are the same ones that're first in line to buy up houses in recessions as quick as they can.

Are there other things that might be better investments? Sure, but having your home paid off is a solid investment in your future too.