According to the current guidance, you can change your gender marker and it doesn't require legal or medical documentation to justify the change.

Who are you scheduling with? I guess it depends on the location, but I was able to get a consult with Planned Parenthood in <2 weeks.

You're talking about an inter-imperialist power conflict. There were no good guys. Both sides were using the war to destroy the workers' movement and contest for global hegemony.

Update. Proper color corrector is so nice. I still need to play around with the amounts, and I definitely need to try contor, but I am so much happier with how it makes my face look.

I am following the current COVID antivax lore correctly, all adverse health events can be attributed the vaccine.

I got to the makeup store, was able to get help with color matching and get some decent products. I definitely got up-sold, but I do not care.

Now I just need to practice so I can get some decent, femme-looking passport photos done.

Just want to say that I think the changes make sense, and I'll always support the leadership team when it comes to taking thought-out approaches on how to improve site culture and in avoiding tail-ism.

As an update, I decided to go for it. I actually don't have a valid passport, my last one was as a child, so I will need to go in person, which I am okay with.

The expanded malpractice liability for gender affirming care is very scary, as that could really shut down care in even "blue" states. It's also something that I think the healthcare/pharma industry would oppose vociferously, since it set precedents to expanding liability to other forms of care (like vaccinations).

If it's employer-based insurance as a state employee, then it's unlikely to be impacted in the short term. If it's Medicaid, then I believe that the jurisprudence around the ACA and Medicaid expansion means that the federal government can't withhold Medicaid funds for a state on this sort of basis, but that's something that could change with the current court.

I have now lost two handheld mirrors in the past week from trying to hang them in the shower with suction cup hooks.

No, I was worried that if I started before that there might be changes that would be difficult to hide.

There are non-Marxist socialisms and socialists that wouldn't call themselves communists.

China would have a massive upper-hand by as the entire country is on Beijing time, so I'm all for it.

I remember it pretty distinctly. While I was an arch-conservative shit up until high school, by the end of high school/undergrad I identified as an unironic social democrat. It was the pathetic Democrat/liberal response to the murder of Michael Brown and Ferguson protests, and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement, that led to me to some sort of communist belief. I would say the next big push was the histrionic lib/lib-left response to Jan 6th, which again pushed me from a wishy-washy compatible leftist to a more principled Marxist-Leninist belief system.