That’s great, at least as long as you’re truly letting go of it and not pushing it down someplace.

It’s pretty easy for me to feel sadness, but anger is just a very unnatural state for me. Probably to an unhealthy degree in that there are probably times when I should be mad, but instead just get despondent.

I was looking at that too. Hard to say for sure, I’m not a digital forensic, but it looks kind of that way. Which would explain how he had the full details of the man behind her.

You misunderstand: I love them so much that when I see any kind of dust or anything on them, I brush them off.

“Things;” I’m leaving that typo, but fixed two others. Proof reading for the win!

There really isn’t a norm. I don’t get mad very easily- I brush off thighs that upset other people - but if I get mad it takes a long time to get over it. I had a gf once who got mad at the slitest thing (often really mad), but would get over it really quickly. There’s a lot of variation. And, of course, it can depend on the issue, too. A guy leaving the toilet set up is different from a guy kissing his gf’s sister.

Funny, I came here to make the exact same analogy. I totally agree - a mature kid and an immature adult have a lot of overlap.

Two things:

1. You’re an ally if you respect other peoples’ gender identity and support their rights.

2. Whatever you choose for yourself isn’t disrespectful to anyone else. The whole point is to be able to be your true self, whatever that is. And it’s okay if you don’t know: pick whatever you’re comfortable with (or least uncomfortable with) today.

So these people were not only depraved, they were idiots, too? Did they decide that their home Internet was too slow for their illegal content, so they’d do it at work? Crazy.

Apparently the people who have to review flagged items on social media, including law enforcement, really do suffer emotional issues. Like having to watch horrific child porn or torture videos. I get that someone has to do it, but I just couldn’t subject myself to that.

Thanks for sharing that. I was repeating things trans people in my personal life have said, but as you point out, there’s no single universal experience.

Really glad to hear you’re happier now. It very much sucks that society (and individuals in society) made you feel badly for being who you are.

However I feel in no way that I am in the wrong body.

I’m not trans, but I believe that’s the key. You said “turn out trans,” but I believe most trans folks never really felt like they were in the right body, ever, though they might not have realized what it was that was wrong earlier. It’s not like people wake up one day and think, “oh shit, I’m trans!”

Bill is a treasure, and Martin Short is so fast.

It’s amazing that so many people will vote for someone who proved to be worse than useless.

First, sometimes the lighting is terrible if you look. Like shadows going one way for some objects, another way for others.

But generative AI is generally extrapolating from its training data. It gets lighting right (when it does) because it’s processed a giant number of images, and when you tell it you want a picture of a puppy on the beach at sunset, it’s got a million pictures of puppies, and a million pictures of things on the beach at sunset. It doesn’t know if it’s right or not, but it’s mimicking those things.

Oh, so much better

I guess you could use them as mulch/ground cover where you didn’t want stuff to grow? Or maybe you could rinse them to reduce the salt?

Or maybe he eats unsalted sunflower seeds.

Oh, for sure - “career politician” has a stink to it, but those folks get stuff done

Harris doesn’t elicit the strong negative emotions as Hilary. People might not like her, but few viscerally hate her.

I honestly think Clinton would have been a decent president, and that she was consistently smeared, but this is a terrible idea. There are lots of people who have bought into her being the antichrist and who could never vote for a ticket she’s on.

My coworker who was on that flight was really anxious about it. I was pretty confident that it was just a matter of balancing the load.

In those days I was getting to take the helicopter for a meeting with every other week, and it was always the highlight of the week. Those things are just so damned fun. They can clearly haul a lot more weight than a cab full of people.

That’s actually among the better AI generated cheese holes I’ve seen. Lots of times the holes are very non-random looking.