southsamurai

I dunno if I’d call it depressing. I find it to be uplifting. It’s a mother’s love, and that can be a powerful insulator against the ugliness of life. He has a great mom that loves him and is doing her best. The song shows that.

Lmmfao! Bait is necessary for a good troll, and this was excellent bait

Legit though, even if it seems detectable, only an asshole is going to make any kind of deal about it.

I say it from time to time because it needs saying.

Y’all trans folks? You’re not only worthy of love and respect, but the very fact of trans people existing is a beautiful thing, and I am grateful for it. Whether or not I get along with every individual that happens to be trans, I love you folks. I value you, just as you are, no matter how that happens to be.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Damn, thanks for the primer and links. I had no idea I was so far behind current research. I mean, I usually lag year or two on average, but this is a body of information I totally missed.

Thanks again!

You know, as much as I dislike the way llms and other models have been made and used by capitalists, I agree with you that the moral panic around it has turned into a form of slop itself.

It isn’t like people haven’t been dreaming of what the technology could be for decades. And it isn’t like it wasn’t inevitable that something would be created like the various generative models. The only part that’s bad is the execution. Which is extremely fucking bad, and it’s disgusting that it is happening. But that’s not the same thing as the underlying concept and technology being bad.

I mean, it’s tiddies…

Scissoring isn’t real

Something, something, cream all pies

I get it, I do. It’s that may or may not that makes the difference. Pcos is enough of a health risk of its own that the drawbacks of spironolactone are generally worth it, and when combined with other hormonal supplementation, can end up with a net improvement in overall health. But it takes monitoring for it to be fully safe.

We’re not talking about minor dizziness and such. It’s the liver and kidney damage that’s the main factor in making it a poor choice for unmonitored use. By the time you catch the effects without regular testing, the damage done can be life threatening.

And, if it jacks up your potassium levels, you might not even get that much warning. People do go into cardiac arrest from it. It isn’t common, but it happens.

My sister was on it for a while, for pcos, and it caused long term problems despite being monitored. It’s a great drug with careful use, it saves lives as a diuretic. Or at least prolongs them. But it is most definitely not something to self administer.

Something like flutamide is way safer, and has less side effects in general. But, again, without knowing pcos is in play, you’ve got a really high chance of wasting money you could put to other treatments, or getting second or third opinions to determine what is in play.

It’s a numbers game. What is going to give you the best results with the least risks, for the least resources used. The estradiol at least has minimal short term risks, so I can see the equation shifting to trying it to see if it helps. No telling if the probability of that is high or low without knowing what traits are unwanted that you’re trying to shift, but at least it won’t kill you in the process if things go wrong. Well shouldn’t, since bodies can have some weird shit happen sometimes, but it’s not a significant risk.

If I was being a patient advocate for someone in my life, I’d be steering them towards other options even if they were being monitored medically. It’s my opinion that the only real benefit of spiro for DIY hrt is the price/availability factor. It’s usually affordable, and easier to get. And, for someone transitioning or dealing with something like prostate cancer, it would make sense because of the higher androgen production. For a cis woman, even with pcos, I just couldn’t advise it in good conscience.

But, to be clear, I totally support self care when the system fails. The issues you’re dealing with are significant and important. I just really think you’d be better served with a different plan of action.

I’m going to echo the doubts about spiro being either useful or appropriate in this case. It’s really not ideal for what you’re trying to achieve, and even if it were, the risks are far out of proportion to the benefits it could bring for a cis woman with some kind of androgen issue.

The estradiol? Eh, the risks involved are within the range I’d say make it up to the individual as to being worth it, but I kinda doubt you’ll get what you want out of it, at least not without knowing exactly why you picked it. It’s not something I would recommend for a cis woman trying to reduce masculine features, as it tends to be weak in that regard. Not that it can’t do anything, it’s that a cis woman with normative levels isn’t going to get extra benefits.

But the spiro , you should just donate to someone in need. It’s really not going to help you, and it can hurt you.

Besides, doubling up new meds is a bad idea. You have to play smart so that you not only know what is working and isn’t, but can identify what’s causing any problems that arise. If you insist on using both, at least stagger their onset out by a few weeks so you can get a better idea of whether or not one is doing anything bad.

Going DIY with any med is iffy. So if any given person is going to do it, you have to use more caution than a prescribing doctor would, not less. You can’t get in a rush with this kind of thing.

Ngl, there’s still plenty of assholes in the current crop of under 30s and under 20s.

But, yeah, there’s a lot more of this kind of acceptance and decency. It’s a beautiful thing to see. I got to see a similar wave of change back in the nineties with gay people, men in specific, where the millennials were essentially defaulting to acceptance or outright active support. For my generation, we had a longer road to divest ourselves of outdated thinking, so watching acceptance spread was a different experience than watching the next generation just grow up without as much baggage.

Again, no generation has ever, or will ever, be a monolith of bottled belief. But it does seem like the curve of decency on average is looking really damn good right now.

Beeeeelzebub has a devil put aside for meeeeee!

Damn, what has you so aggressive here? The other comment wasn’t venomous. Hell, it wasn’t even a little snarky.

Something going on you want/need to vent about? Legit asking, I’ve had days where I got shitty to people that weren’t doing anything, and having a quick vent would have helped.

Only reason I went with the speed boat was the claim to fame of the falcon being able to veritably rip through the Kessel run. Depending on the interpretation of the whole “12 parsecs” thing, that implies either high speed or superior maneuverability. Plus, in some of the combat scenes, the falcon is both fast enough and nimble enough to hang with ships that are zipping around with little effort.

I don’t think vintage van is apt.

I think I’d go more with the something like a juiced up truck, or maybe hummer.

However, you could make the more apt comparison by sticking with ships.

The falcon was a smugglers’ ship, so it would be more like one of those fast cigarette boats drug runners use (or used to at least) rather than a car at all.

I responded to a similar question below.

It’s that the objection to the choice of “hormone replacement therapy” for gender affirming care is malarkey. Yeah, the term for those medications started for people that have a deficiency in a given hormone, typically as an age related issue. But that doesn’t negate it when used for replacing one variety of hormone for another.

In other words, the argument that it isn’t replacement therapy when the levels of existing hormones are normative for a person with a specific type of gonad that are fully functional misses the point that it’s still HRT, just a slightly different semantic expression of it.

I mean, yeah, kinda, I guess, but misses the entire point.

Dont kink shame

Everyone is ugly eventually, and ugly is as much in the eye of the beholder as beauty.

Remodel your meat machine to match the soul inside; it’s what the universe has given us via our monkey brains doing fancy stuff to chemicals: the ability and right to shape our flesh.