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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It wouldn’t be the first time we’ve bombed Americans in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably an egg (by which I mean I’m pretty sure I’m trans and would love to take a pill right now to make it so that I had always been a dude, but I don’t know that I’d take one that turned me into a man now, because I don’t know if it’s worth it to explain it to everyone. I also don’t think I’m actually experiencing dysphoria, just aware that I’m probably a man. I think that counts as an egg for some people, trans and closeted for others, and probably cis [lol] for transmedicalists).

  If I ever do come out, it’s probably going to seem sudden as fuck to a bunch of people, because I’ve already thought about it for years, so I’ll have everything planned out as efficiently as possible and ready to go the second I decide to transition. I’ll come out to people after I’ve started hormones and right before it becomes noticeable, which I’ll time to coincide with a top surgery (my mother died young of breast cancer that was diagnosed when she was within a few years of my age, and I’m medically eligible for a full mastectomy). That might be wishful thinking, but at least from here, I think I can be patient about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cronch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well…….not safely and legally, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They began requiring it after and in response to that- that’s the James Frey scandal I mentioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Required to be published as a memoir.

  Corroboration from others, photographs, medical/police reports, receipts, travel documents, the normal ways.

  No, you have to bring receipts.

  Medical records, photographs of bruises/marks, checking with friends or teachers you might have told about the abuse at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My sister wrote one and had a publishing deal for one (as a prize for winning an essay contest), but she couldn’t prove everything. The memoir was about her dealing with some deaths and getting sober, so the unverifiable bits were most of the story. This was right after the James Frey scandal, so the publishing company bought her out instead of trying to pare it down or chase down a bunch of non-recovering addicts to confirm years old details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨science rules!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have taken it like that from anyone else, but it’s so OOC that I checked the spelling to see if it was a novelty account

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a time, in December of 2016, where I really thought that trump might come out as a democrat after taking office. I think I’d still prefer Gore had been inaugurated, if we’re changing the presidencies of this century, but trump coming out swinging for progressive causes (or at least socially progressive causes, because he’s been too rich for any actually leftist fiscal policies) would have been nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never took it in school, and I don’t have much contact with it now either. I’m picking up some Arabic now though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I took Spanish from age 12-22 and German from 18-23 and 29-31.

  I speak both those languages, though my Spanish is rusty, because I moved to Germany and don’t have much contact with Spanish speakers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greedy bastards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could always sabotage it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shoutout to finland⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know several, but they were mostly born in Germany or immigrated young.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU says ‘too early’ to assess legality of US attack on Venezuela⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What country do you think is good? Being against governments is not exactly strange on Lemmy or indefensible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cube me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not exactly how I would have imagined a kibblesmith smiths kibble, but as long as the pets get the cubes afterwards, I’m happy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cube me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Grate” joke? Or did I get double whooshed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wagon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe she doesn’t know if she’s joking or not either. Only one way to find out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would have been nice if you’d engaged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noses run, feet smell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you’re upside down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ungulate deez⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because zero is an even number or because they have an even nonzero number of carpals?

  Looking it up, the latter (or I guess both)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding hair in your food is much worse than finding food in your hair.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably actually an eyebrow/beard hair unless you really pissed someone off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding hair in your food is much worse than finding food in your hair.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehh. If it’s a clump of hair, absolutely. If it’s one hair, we live in an imperfect world and it happens- please don’t waste food instead of just pulling the hair out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't tall people also wider?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My sister and I are both tall and skinny, but also broader than shorter women. Like, my sisters ribs are all visible from every side and she wears a size 6 pants. I know short women who aren’t nearly as skinny for whom size six pants are too big.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious rocks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re an adult in no danger of pregnancy and not breastfeeding, licking the solder wire once won’t hurt you noticeably.

  But if you’re worried that you’ll like the taste and might seek it out again, that’s a possibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In California it’s 187

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they still feel slimy if they’re finely diced? I love the taste but hate the texture of mushrooms, and mincing them to incorporate into a dish is the best of both worlds for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the truth! ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like how chamomile isn’t tea? Because I probably call chamomile broth “tea” 100% of the time. Tea for me is anything steeped in muslin in boiling or near boiling water that you might sweeten

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the truth! ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also not big on tea, but rooibos tastes like essence of baked goods to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the truth! ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it’s delicious, store brand rooibos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People are talking about how smartphones didn’t have those features at first, but I just carried around a 2 language dictionary when I was traveling before translation apps were a thing. I’m not sure if they’re exactly the same everywhere, but I also always found reading an atlas/map to transfer pretty easily from one country to another (across North America and Europe, so there could be much greater variation in the world than I saw).

  It sounds harder and it was, but only a little. You already knew how to read maps and at least you didn’t have to worry about a battery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny how we all do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The weirdest part is how as soon as I decided to give up and wear comfy, ugly (to me) clothes, they came back in style. I straight up started wearing my dad’s old clothes (I’m afab, maybe an egg, but I definitely read as a woman to others) and long socks (in the cooler months- part of getting older for me is that things start to ache when they get cold), which I felt a little insecure about. Then somehow shortly thereafter the kids in my college town started doing it too. I’m glad younger women don’t feel like they have to wear all the uncomfortable stuff I did though, it’s just a little surprising.