I've not noticed much of a change in taste. Others mentioned starting to like coffee, but that was me before. For a long time I've enjoyed strong, astringent, and bitter flavors, and transitioning hasn't changed that. I drank my coffee black, I enjoyed 98% cacao dark chocolate, and I've imported vegemite for my own enjoyment. Not sure there is room to grow the palette in that sort of direction.
The one exception is salt, and pickles. I like salty foods, I have cravings for salt. That's a well know effect of spironolactone, the specific antiandrogen and diuretic I'm using. I've since reduced the dose, and that made the salt cravings go away.
Tech grifters latch on to the newest and most prominent buzzword. That is AI now. Most people still talking about blockchain in 2026 actually know things about it.
You sound a lot like me before I transitioned. I would highly encourage it.
The doubt is normal. I felt the doubt constantly from the time I started considering I might be trans until I started taking estrogen. The doubt lessened greatly, but it was still there. The doubt and fear came back whenever it was time to take the next step. The first time wearing a dress in public, coming out to friends and family, changing my name, every time the doubt came back. What if I'm not really trans? The doubt is part of journey, its a fundimential part of the trans experience, but so is the courage to push past the doubts.
I would highly encourage you to take a small step. Something small, something low commitment. Take that step, see how it feels. If it feels right, take the next one.
I used to always do a forced smile for pictures. Dysphoria made it impossible to smile genuinely. Though I'm fine now, the forced smile is a difficult habit to break. Thanks for the advice I think it will help!
LLMs are predictive models. They scraped as much text as possible to create a model that predicts the next word accurately. To generate text, the LLM assembles a sequence of likely next words.
That exact same sort of model can be turned around and asked, how closely did the actual next word match the predicted one? Good test for training the LLM. A better model will make more accurate predictions.
AI checkers are usually doing that test. Does the real text match what the AI predicted? It sounds like a test of the text, but it really isn't. In this case, yes. Of course an AI trained on Mary Shelly's Frankenstein can accurately predict the next word of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. It has the whole book memorized, if it were accurate to anthropomorphize computer code.
So the "checker" calls it AI generated. These checkers don't work.
Iran is on one side of the strait, Oman is on the other. Giving Iran sovereignty would mean taking away sovereignty from Oman. Countries are supposed to be able to control their own coastlines and territorial waters.
The strait is narrow enough that there is no buffer of international waters in the middle at its narrowest. Giving one country sovereignty of the whole strait would mean violating the the sovereignty of another. Not a fair proposition.
I did basically that except I don't have a filming shelf or studio lighting. Of course from scratch using the recipe from the classic american cookbook, "The joy of cooking."
I was yapping to wifey in the other room, and most of those other things. Pancakes were very good.
I like to make thick american pancakes, but they tend to be from 1-2 cm. 3 cm is a bit beyond what an American style recipe can achieve in my estimation.
For thr true 3+ cm pancake experience you have to get Japanese style soufflé pancakes.
Crude MS-Paint drawings are the best placeholder art. Scribbles can be made as fast, if not faster than AI. It shows the information it needs to show, but most importantly its incredibly obviously unfinished art that needs to be redone before release.
AI art looks pretty good at a distance without close inspection. You have to look closely and spend time to tell AI from art. Late in production when rushing for the deadline is not a point when you have the time to look closely at the assets, so AI placeholders will get missed.
This was in Canada. Its a different country, eh?