Hildegard von Bingen was the most talented and accomplished woman I learned about in my history classes at school. I like her name so I took it!

The sun is white, but the atmosphere reflects and scatters blue, allowing red and yellow to pass through. You see this effect in mornings and evenings when the sun’s light passes a much further distance in the atmosphere due to its low inclination. Your logic is sound, the clouds do appear orange at that time.

The only time you can safely look at the sun enough to determine its color normally is a sunset when it is tinted orange. I can see how he might have come to this conclusion but… wow…

I’m sorry to hear that. Virtual hug ❤❤❤❤❤

I also had my first panic attack after starting HRT. I now have emotions, but not yet the ability to manage them. On T I would become uncontrollably angry when thinking about negative things, and I imagine that was effective at venting the frustrations. But now that doesn’t happen, so I have to actually deal with the feelings, and it’s not gone well several times.

Take care, but rest assured it is a normal part of the trans journey, I think. (i hope)

They do that. Rest assured it means they’re growing.

I practice safe handling with the handheld barcode scanners at the hardware store checkout.

• Do not point the scanner at anything you do not intend to scan.

• Keep your finger away from the trigger until you’re ready to scan.

• Be aware of your surroundings including what is behind your target.

I would extend it to any gunlike, or vaguely gun shaped object, even those that cannot cause harm. Don’t become complacent with safety practices even when it doesn’t matter.

I’m not dysphoric, I’m just constantly half depressed because I don’t like whatever event, season, year, family gathering, employment, or pandemic is currently happening.

Estrogen makes by brain fine I like it.

Congratulations!!! I love reading stories like this! HRT is actual magic!

OSMand has been recommended many times here. Its a paid app on the corpo app stores, with subscription fees or a $70 purchase to access premium features. However, the version on F-droid is free and as far as I’m aware has those “premium” features enabled.

Openstreetmap’s address lookup is the one usability issue I have encountered. OSM can only look up building numbers if that specific building has been added, and many are not. When navigating to an address I often have to find it in another app and copy the coordinates.

You probably mean the PineNote, the 10 inch eink tablet. Pinetab is a normal tablet with a lcd screen.

I see no issues here. These AI tools came out during the game’s development. Its not unreasonable to try using new tools upon release. And its reasonable to be unaware of the harms of these new tools before the harms are widely reported on.

If things were as described, this seems fine. They now have a clear policy against AI. People, even in groups can be mistaken and learn and change their ways, which is what appears to have happened here. I can’t fault anyone for making the occasional misstep.

So long as they stick to their commitment to not use AI.

Not only is AI bad it is also bad —

You can only feel what it feels like to be you, and since you’ve only ever been yourself you have no point of comparison.

I don’t think gender feels like anything. I am trans, I have been both a man and a woman and in my experience they don’t feel different. In this moment I feel like myself, just as I did a decade ago.

The things that have changed is that I no longer suffer from a crippling depression with an unclear cause. I have a range of emotions, and can feel emotions correctly. I consider my body to be part of myself.

All the above are now clearly signs of gender dysphoria, but at the time were hard to identify. The depression always has a more plausible explanation. The other two, I barely noticed I had because I experienced that my entire life.

It took me a very long time to discover that I am trans. It took a lot of self reflection to figure it out. Feelings were useless. I did think I would be happier as a woman, but that always seemed more of a logical deduction than a feeling.

That’s wonderful! Estrogen is magic. I soo happy for you! That was my experience as well. Estrogen is the best thing.

I doubt it. It took 5 years to build the first 515 km Shinkansen line, in Japan. A coast to coast railway is a major project. 1 year is not a reasonable timeframe. Infrastructure is slow to build.

It took 5 years of construction to open the south east TGV line, 7 years to complete it.

It took 24 years to construct I-90 from coast to coast, and that’s with most of the east coast segments being preexisting toll roads.

All major Infrastructure projects are slow. Your timeline is not realistic.

Samuel Tunick, is described as a local Atlanta activist

not a visitor

Why does every search engine look exactly the same, and push the exact same AI chat feature, and have identical options for filtering arranged in out in the exact same order in the exact same location.

I think there’s only one search engine.

Yes, but only if I miss or delay a dose. I take sublingual pills every 12 hours. When I take them on schedule things feel normal. If I forget to take them, I start to feel uncomfortable around 1h30m to 2h later. I become anxious and uncomfortably hot. I feel relief at that point because taking the late dose stops some specific unpleasant feelings.

In response to your questions, I don’t think feelings are an accurate way to assess dosages. You have no way to consciously feel your own hormone levels directly. Every feeling reported in this thread is a second or third order effect of the hormones which is neither precise nor timely.

Congratulations! I’m incredibly happy for you!

I started HRT about a year ago, so the experience is somewhat fresh in the mind. The main thing I would say is don’t expect to feel much in just two weeks. The effects are cumulative, and take time to do much of anything.

It doesn’t really feel different to be on estrogen. You can’t actively feel your own hormone levels. The HRT made my brain feel much happier, but normal. Things just continued to feel normal, but a better normal. Even a new and good normal still feels like normal in the moment.

Since you’re doing a short trial to see how your brain feels, take notes. Write a journal/diary, and have a close friend you talk to about how you’re feeling. That perspective will help track mental changes.

Also have warm clothes close by. Women carry body heat in their cores at the expense of the extremities. HRT causes this in trans women too! You will probably feel colder than you expect, especially this time a year. Keep warm gloves, and cozy socks nearby.

Enjoy the estrogen! I love to hear you report back with your experience.

Yes, its a deliberate choice.

Dishonored is a descendant of the looking glass studio, 0451 immersive sim games, such as Deus Ex. These are games have flexibility, they let you choose how you approach. You can fight, or you can sneak, or you can do both. The game succeeds on this goal, as you can have a very satisfying time with the combat or the stealth, and you can do both. You can fight your way out of failing to sneak.

The morality system gives the game reactions to your actions, gives your choices an effect outside of the level you’re currently on. It does encourage a specific play style but that is deliberate. The outsider is a malevolent force, who doesn’t care for this world. He gives you these powers that come with a cost. Getting the good ending requires to resist the temptation. That’s the point.

I’ve been on HRT 1 year, and haven’t yet felt any interest in men. I don’t think changes in orientation are a thing, at least I haven’t experienced it.