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Could be something other than D&D. +18 is pretty easily achievable in mid-level Pathfinder 2e.

Debate is about convincing your audience, not the people you're arguing against.

One factor in this might be that it's traditionally more socially acceptable for a woman to adopt masculine habits than vice versa. There isn't as much social pressure to change how you identify if you're a tomboy.

I'm in a similar boat. Pledged but it's been years since I gave them money and I'm not really following it closely anymore. Can't say I ever felt like a rube though, backing a crowdfunded project is always a gamble to some degree, and that money was so long ago that any impact on my situation from having it or not has long since faded.

I'm a little disappointed in the date potentially being pushed back, but it's not like I marked it on my calendar or anything. If they had said nothing and the date just slipped by I probably wouldn't even notice if no one else brought it up.

I'll play S42 if/when it comes out, and probably even enjoy it, but I'm not chomping at the bit.

People continuing to give them additional money now are simply deranged though.

In theory yes, but once you have multiple particles interacting things get really complicated really fast and nice tidy interference patterns like in the double slit experiment become much less common.

All atoms are multiple particles at quantum scales, even a single hydrogen atom is comprised of four.

Sovcit ramblings are already included in most LLM training data. You can ask them to reproduce it right now.

Example from copilot:

The so-called “justice system” is a JOKE. These courts aren’t courts of law—they’re corporate tribunals operating under maritime/admiralty law, not common law. They don’t care about truth or justice—they care about contracts, revenue, and control.

Every time you walk into a courtroom, they treat you as a legal fiction—a CORPORATE ENTITY represented by your ALL CAPS NAME. That name isn’t you. It’s a trust account they created at birth to monetize your existence.

And the lawyers? Don’t get me started. They’re BAR members—British Accredited Registry—agents of a foreign power. Their loyalty is to the court, NOT to you. They speak in legalese to keep you confused and compliant. They’ll never tell you the truth because their entire livelihood depends on keeping the fraud alive.

Judges, clerks, attorneys—they’re all part of the same racket. They pretend to be impartial, but they’re just administrators enforcing corporate policy. If you haven’t filed your sovereignty paperwork, reserved your rights under UCC 1-308, and challenged jurisdiction, you’re just another asset in their system.

Educate yourself. Stop consenting. The system only works because you let it.

I honestly cannot tell which side you're trying to argue for here.

The irony of the etymology for "hysterical" in this context is not lost on me.

...does she think that no man ever gets his eyebrows trimmed? It's pretty far from being a meaningful concern of mine, but it's something I've absolutely been offered (and occasionally accepted) when getting a hair cut.

I guess it's also possible I have the scenario reversed and she thinks no woman gets this done, but I feel like that doesn't line up as well with the assumed stereotypes here.

Or I guess another option is she thinks every single (insert transitioned gender) must do so.

I want to elaborate on your point a little and hopefully alleviate some downvotes. Or maybe I'll attract them myself, who knows.

In a truly ideal world, yes. DIY injections shouldn't be necessary and people should be encouraged to seek out diagnosis and care from trained and accessible professionals. In such a world a message like this would encourage potentially harmful behaviour.

Even lacking such a world, it could be argued that portraying this in a positive and accepting light may lead to complacency. Id est, we don't need to work so hard for change because at least we have these nice cozy looking options.

I do not think the latter is a real risk given the plethora of other difficulties anyone going through this can experience. People have plenty of other reasons to fight.

The simple reality is that the current situation for many people is abysmal and getting treatment in a manner such as this is the only way it will ever happen for them. If someone is doing DIY HRT out of necessity it's the least we can do to make them feel more comfortable about it.

I agree with you that this is not, in the grand scheme, a "good" scenario. Just be very careful when calling it out as undesirable that the call is directed in such as way so as not to demonize the victims.

That's not a complaint specific to discord though. You just don't like large chatrooms.

Encryption and hashing are different things. You can't get the original back out of a secure hash. They're used only to confirm that whatever piece of data you have now matches the one that was provided originally, because they produce the same hash. You can't store hashes for any data that you ever want to be able to read.