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Canadians are not yankees. Yankees are from the southeast. The entire east coast of the US is far further south than most people realize.
You don't determine demand for a bridge by measuring the number of swimmers.
And I was scared as to how people would react, hence delaying the coming out part. Fortionately I keep good company so it was pretty much a non-issue.
I also had long hair and was clean shaven for over a decade. Would have been nice if I asked myself why I liked looking like that... but no not for a long while.
I could have been much more overt with my transition. Might have been better, who knows. But it was important to stick with what I was comfortable with.
I transitioned socially after starting HRT. Perfectly fine way to go about it.
I gradually changed how I presented myself publicly over around the first 9 months of HRT. I gradually changed my public facing wardrobe from full masc, to plausible deniability, to full fem. Started wearing bras at 4 months. Stared voice training, and began using the new voice in public around 1-2 months. I was out to some people, those who were close friends, and those few who asked. At 9 months my employer published the new annual personnel roster, so I used that as the moment to change my name and pronouns for everyone.
I love the comment about being a bloater. I said very similar things about myself. Worrying self-deprecation was a pre-transition coping mechanism. I liked making that kind of joke, they are funny! But HRT put a stop to it. Insulting myself as a joke no longer lands, because I don't believe it anymore. Estrogen did that. Negative self-talk is more of a symptom than a cause in my experience.
I transitioned in my 30s. I think there probably is an age component to it. I suffered two full decades of accumulated testosterone damage, and I'm at a stage of life where I'm supposed to have figured myself out. Transitioning socially in advance of HRT felt like a non-option. I imagine if I knew transition was an option in my teenage years, I probably wound have done it social first.
Do what feels right. A gradual social transition after hormones is a fine way of doing things.
It actually doesn't. The outer skin of the corn doesn't get broken down, but the rest does. Don't ask how I know this.
I thought I didn't want boobs, until I started the E and grew some and that changed my mind.
My brain likes estrogen. When I'm on the right dose I feel fine and good and normal. Testosterone makes me depressed. And changes to my body like boobs are a nice bonus as it turns out.
Don't delay HRT. I waited about 4 years between realizing I was trans and getting the hormones. It seemed like a big thing, it sounded scary so I put it off. Biggest regret.
Getting hormones, is a timely process. Seeing results takes even longer. No sense adding extra time to the process without reason.
Pretty normal shape for that stage. They grow forward before they grow outward. With time and/or progesterone they'll round out.
I'm at about 18 months HRT 6 months progesterone, they are slowly becoming fuller and rounder, but are still quite pointy.
But when I wear an underwire bra, or top with a shelf bra, they look full and round. Many women with small breasts have a pointed shape, its normal and fine. Clothes create the shape; breasts are very malleable.
Being a man is a solvable problem :3
Then why is ever subaru I see driven by a man or a straight couple? They said that was the lesbian car.
I know they're in the modlog. That's how I know about them. I think the PHP command used would not have counted them. When I, as a browser user filter the piefed modlog page by the term used on the PHP command, it excludes delete_user entries.
According to the spreadsheet, the data was scraped from the piefed modlog. It searched for entries for ban_user, which seems to include both instance bans, community bans, and temporary bans. So it appears to me, it just scraped the piefed modlog within the last year and counted any entry for ban_user, associated the entry with the moderator who performed the action and returned the count. I'm no PHP expert so I've included the PHP code below. Pretty sure user_id is the moderator who did the action, because the target seems to be suspect_user_name.
select ml.user_id, u.title, u.ap_id, count(*) as c from mod_log as ml inner join "user" as u on u.id = ml.user_id where ml.user_id is not null and ( ml.action = 'ban_user') and ml.created_at >= now() - interval '1 year' group by ml.user_id, u.ap_id, u.title order by c desc;
As far as I can tell, instance bans appear as one single entry, and community bans are also a single entry. And this seems to be counting total ban actions, not the total number of user accounts that have been banned.
Any instance that moderates in a way that allows users to accumulated multiple bans will be over-reported. If an instance does mostly community bans and is reluctant to give a sitewide ban will be over-reported. A forgiving instance that only bans temporarily, or allows users to be unbanned easily will also be over-reported. A weeklong ban and a sitewide permaban are all one counted entry in the modlog.
My gut thought is that a malicious ban-happy instance would be one that would escalate immediately. One that gives an instancewide ban at the first violation. In this case, they would be very under-reported. In this case, a banned user could only generate one entry at maximum.
I thought that was likely why blahaj is so much lower than I would expect, but I think there's another issue.
The spreadsheet got instance information by associating the moderator action with the mod who did the action. There's a list of the moderators included and their count, but the only blahaj moderator in that list is ada. I know we have other mods, why aren't they in the dataset presented in the spreadsheet? If this data is to be believed, the entire portion of the fediverse surveyed by these modlog php requests only has 20 moderators. That can't be right. This data is very sus. Womensstuff's mod actions can be seen in the modlog of other piefed instances, and I know those mods do a lot of bans, they should be in the spreadsheet's list of mods but just aren't.
There's also the issue that piefed.social, seems to use the delete_user command instead of the ban command. My guess is that is similar to lemmy's purge user action, probably maybe? From my browsing of the modlog that command doesn't seem to be used by any other instance, at least not in a way that gets recorded by piefed. If the PHP command the spreadsheet said it used is accurate, it wouldn't include any instances of delete_user, which would result in bans from piefed.social being very under-reported.
From my digging into this, it all seems incredibly suspicious. And my digging is making me believe this is pretty manipulative framing.
I want to see this done properly. I want to see the stats where we learn the number of users that are banned by instances, rather than the total number of moderator ban actions. I want to see a better study that addresses the myriad concerns raised in these comments, but most importantly.
I want to see this study done by someone who is impartial. The developer and admin of one of the instances in the dataset has a major major conflict of interest and really shouldn't be the one publishing this kind of research.
Womemstuff is on the blahaj piefed, not the blahaj lemmy, so I guess it wasn't included in the dataset?
There's something interesting here, I'd love to read more comprehensive research on this topic.
I'm also surprised. I expected higher numbers from the instance that describes itself as
a server that is very protective of our minority members and bigotry of any variety will be squashed with great prejudice.
Or perhaps I should be delighted that few bans are needed to achieve it.
These include electronic shelf labels, which advocates have warned could allow companies to instantly change grocery prices based on the time of day, weather, and other factors that influence consumer demand.
“Digital price tags are replacing paper ones. It’s happening because we are having cameras that are watching aisles, it’s happening because we have apps that are moving from search-based to predictive,”
You are not immune.
No, lemmy.world is federated and works fine. I recall hearing something like that a while ago, but it was a temporary measure during an update to the server software. Its up and working, and been federated for a long time.
Its only cis dominated as long as you let it :3
Mass manufacturing has replaced handcrafting in pretty much every field. Its not economically vibable to handcraft when mass produced alternatives exist.
Crochet is a craft that is not automated. You could probably build a crochet machine, but it would be incredibly complicated, expensive, and doing so would be slower than a human. Its not a viable craft to automate.
There's a reason you don't see crochet clothes in stores. It takes dozens if not hundreds of hours to make a crochet garment. No one would spend thousands to pay me to handcraft a shirt over several weeks when they can buy a mass produced shirt for a fraction of the price at a store.
Hand crafting is great, as a hobby, or an act of love. Its a terrible idea as a profession outside of very niche cases. Few can afford to spend 10-100 times more for something that is hand crafted when similar alternatives exist.
This is an america problem.
Europe uses the international standard for headlight regulations, whereas the US has their own standard which is far worse for glare.
US headlights don't have the clear cutoff line. The headlights are allowed to throw significantly more light at the angles that should be dark.
Not only that, the regulations on beam alignment are based solely on angles, and do not account for vehicle height. This means higher headlights both illuminate more of the road, and dazzle more drivers, so automakers mount the headlights as high as possible. American trucks and SUVs are notorious for this. If you drive a normal car in the US, SUVs from the factory will have headlights above your eyeline, which means you get the full force of the headlight beam shined directly into your eyes. Which american regulations also mandate be brighter than Europe.
It must be nice having a real government. I hope to live somewhere that has one someday.
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