Ok so I reread your post and realized that you meant for US ask YOU a few questions... ngl you're reminding me of myself right after I gathered the cohones to actually transition, I really wanted someone to do that too.
Umm...
So, how does cilantro taste to you, is it soapy? Genuine question.
What is something that you would like to go do, now that you are a little more "you" than you used to be?
Hello, you may be a stranger to me but I am very proud of you. It always takes courage and strength to get to where you are now and you should be proud of yourself for that.
Don't ask too much from yourself, but ask for more. The key is to make sustainable incremental changes over time, trying out new things and seeing what sticks.
Discussion of weight loss, potentially triggering for those who are sensitive to the subject.
Regarding weight loss, changing eating habits is pretty much the most effective means of achieving that. Dieting is generally counterproductive and it can cause one to develop a problematic relationship with food as a whole. Like I mentioned earlier, its the sustainable incremental changes over time that get the results that stick. You mentioned cardio, and cardio is very good for you, but... Building muscle mass is the more effective means of lowering one's bodyfat percentage aaaaaaand the most effective means of gaining muscle mass is through weight training. That can be intimidating but a simple at-home dumbbell routine can be a wonderful introduction to fitness as a hobby.
I really wish the fitness comm was more active here.
Is this thing you're speaking of happening when you go back to change it?
No, I applied for a new passport in janurary, just after Donny decreed that the federal government would only recognize sex at birth. When my passport came back it said I was a man. There's been some successful litigation since then and even though the state department is supposed to comply and give trans people documents that match their identities, its unclear as to what they're actually doing. Some people say they got through and some people say they got rejected, the official help line is useless because they don't get told shit and the last I heard is that they're putting anyone who gets a gender marker change onto a list. I was instructed to send mine in as an error correction, I did so two weeks ago and I have yet to get any word from the state department... so we'll see I guess.
I sadly didn't say I'm nonbinary because of fear of mistreatment
Good call tbh. I once asked an NB friend who got an F on his drivers license, why he didn't go for the X. He said "the absolute last person I want to come out as nonbinary to is the man with a gun and the full force of the law who just pulled me over". Which went pretty hard and made a lot of sense, especially now, with the trajectory being as dismal as it is. Its an injustice though, lets be clear our nonbinary siblings deserve to be recognized and feel safe doing so.
Mixed feelings about this, on one hand I get an icky feeling knowing that someone out there did an energy drink because of me... but also like, I know right? its fucking delicious wtf.
blaze it Lenny boi!
back in the day
cracks in the ground
Oracles? Back in your day you had oracles? Damn, Hexbear is so diverse that we have immortal leftists shitposting on here.
I think it also has something to do with how distanced most of us are from creation and maintenance of machines, particularly electronics. if you don't quite understand what a transistor is, or how code works, or how a large language model turns inputs into outputs, then "well there must be a little dude in there somewhere" makes as much sense as anything. Plus people tend to personify inanimate objects to begin with.
Thank you!
Are there any restrictions on what topic I can write about? I was thinking about writing an article on obscure weapon sighting systems.
Yes, I went and replied to your other post.
Ah! There it is! I would like to make the mega for the week of 8/18-8/24
Timothee Chalamet was a surprisingly good Paul Atreides but WTF happened to Zendaya? She looked nothing like this in Spiderman. The end of the movie wrapped things up pretty good so is part 2 an adaptation of Dune Messiah or something?
Pic related.
Shoutout to Tervell for keeping this comm active. If it weren't for him this place would be SPARSE but instead we've got multiple posts a day of interesting gun pictures. He's pretty cool for doing that.
Thanks dude!
Pic unrelated, it's a Cuban soldier, the optic on the AKM is the domestically produced Visor Patria.
Wall Street Journal Article archive.ph link
Boeing has been awarded the contract for the NGAD program, and will produce the next generation of fighter jets used by the United States. The aircraft is said to be the first 6th generation fighter, said to employ novel technologies such as AI assistance. It will be part of a new "family of systems" that will include unmanned "loyal wingman" fighter aircraft . The designation F-47 appears to pay homage to Donald Trump, the 47th president.
The Wall Street Journal says that the price tag per aircraft will be "several hundred million each", for reference, the final cost per F-35 is around $80 million.
This feels like a story from The Onion ngl.
Audibly cackled when I saw this one today, it's got about 32 hours of relevance left lmao
I couldn't finish the article, that was incredibly bleak. How astroturfed is this movement? There is no way that young women and girls are seriously buying into this, right?