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I really am surprised by the number of people here who think reducing the amount of direct democracy is a good idea I don't like the house of lords, but neither do I like a system made up entirely of directly elected representatives. Such a system is IMO inherently too populist and too short-termis...

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Woo! a little widget that I thought I was going to have to make myself is a 99p item on ebay from China (a 1/4" to 3/8" thread male-to-male adaptor to replace the crappy plastic one that came with the fitting that turns my hiking pole into a monopod for a camera). The variety of stuff you ...

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But while you can cite pardons of some as abuse, it is often a mercy to some of those people who have needed, and gotten it. Justice and fairness are not always aligned. Agreed. The trouble with the presedential pardon is that it's simultaneously too powerful (in the level of abuse it allows, check...

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Why the hell does the head of the executive branch still have the power to pardon anyway? (more fetishizing of the constitution making it impossible to change I'm guessing). Seems like an absolutely massive separation of powers fail - issues of justice should be the domain of the judiciary.

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Wooo! That's all awesome. So happy for you. I'm also hoping that I'll lose weight from places other than my boobs first (I recently stopped taking medication that was causing weight gain). I'm a B cup now! I'm feeling more comfortably femme more often too, even when dressed in masc/neutral clothing,...

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Jumble wrote: public service was a vocation so we glean our rewards in job satisfaction

I get that bullshit as well in the biomedical research field. The day i can pay my rent in "job satisfaction" is the day I'll accept that argument.

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Colorado to arm teachers in classrooms Okay, how long before a child dies because one of these guns is snatched, or goes off accidentally, or a teacher overreacts? This seems like a terrible idea in general, but apart from anything else it's a fucking 3 day course, for both firearms and medical tra...

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Red tape has become a code-word for " things that stop the wealthy making as much money". Under that definition building standards definitely count as red tape

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Garlic and onions are both hardly ever worth the added prep effort As someone whose favourite flavour is probably garlic, and who was scandalised that a risotto recipe they saw recently didn't include onion (and promptly added onion when making it), I disagree with you quite strongly (which I guess...

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But I was under the impression that it's hostile architecture to shoo off the homeless? I guess it has multiple purposes. Yeah, that was the (kind of messed up) purpose for making it hostile, but the effect is that it's hostile to everyone, not just homeless people (although of course that has most...

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Benches, fountains, sculptures,.. if there's a row of objects less than 1.8m apart, you're looking at a vehicle barrier. And unless those benches happen to be made out of reinforced concrete, a large truck will just ignore it. They often are made out of reinforced concrete. This is a bench you see ...

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Remove the "behind him" and it becomes much more impressive, whether we're talking about tornados or tomatoes

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UPDATE: Stabbings in a London restaurant, appears to be related. If that's the one in Vauxhall, it appears it wasn't related (though still terrible of course). Donald Trump's first response to the attacks in his own words was, predictably, absolutely disgusting. We need to be smart, vigilant and to...

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Spoilered for unsolicited re: body hair removal: I did try cream once or twice... And it didn't touch my hair at all, something like 80% of the hair was still very firmly attached. Eventually I want to switch to sugaring, using homemade sugar wax - I've tried this on smallish areas and it works gre...

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eSOANEM wrote: Basically my gender is hella complicated a d "genderqueer" seems like a good way for summing that up without having to go into a big long description of a of my gender feels.

Yes! So much this

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When you say that you are gender queer, and that you like your beard, I get the picture that being called a man may not bother you? It would for me. I guess it bothers me in that it's inaccurate, and it does feel a bit uncomfortable; but it bothers me a lot less than changing part of me I really li...

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Congratulations on your newfound sense of fashion! I identify with the feelings of pleasantness from less body hair. Whenever I shave my face or body I feel better. Skirts are nice too definitely some of my favorite things to wear. As far as doubts go, I've had my share, however that you took a cha...

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So, I finally got round to shaving my legs (and arms and torso - testosterone sucks sometimes) so I feel comfortable wearing a skirt again.... and oh my God, it's such a sense of relief. I didn't realise just how much dysphoria I was feeling from a) all that body hair and b) being stuck in masc clot...

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freezeblade wrote: mulberries from the yard

Sooo jealous!

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Tomorrow is name change day. I dislike going to court however am pleased that I'm finally taking a step ahead I'd been wanting to take for, like, forever. Ha-ha. :D So here's hoping the judge grants my request! The clerk that set the court date originally only had a single question about it and tha...

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Another genderqueer person here, I'm not really going to respond to the conversation (except to say that arguing against anyone's experience of their own body and mind is a shitty thing to do and I'm sorry that's happening to people), because it's 3 in the morning here and I'm not coherent enough t...

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...socially I'm way more feminine than masculine... Specifically to this point ("socially I'm...") and not to any other (mentally, physiologically, psychologically, genetically, anatomically...), I wonder if this is a property of society and not the individual. Males are "expected&qu...

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Another genderqueer person here, I'm not really going to respond to the conversation (except to say that arguing against anyone's experience of their own body and mind is a shitty thing to do and I'm sorry that's happening to people), because it's 3 in the morning here and I'm not coherent enough to...

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Ginger wrote:does anybody know what it is called?

A quick google indicates that it might be estrogel - gel rather than foam, but the same principle.

I'm glad your doctor had some ideas for alternatives for you to try.

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That said, presumably the intelligence community will just stop telling him random things that don't affect decisions he has to make, right to the point where he needs them for some decision. He acts super impulsively anyways, so telling him right when he needs to make the decision probably works j...

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No :( because my partner is late getting back from the thing she had on this evening.

Something broken that you haven't got around to fixing yet?

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CorruptUser wrote:So... obese people are more likely than average to have better sense of taste/smell? I'm now imagining the "gargle with novacain" diet.

Is that where you don't want to eat because every time you try you chew up the inside of your own mouth?

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A pot with about 5 large, healthy variagated spider plants in it. It's there because it makes the room more beautiful (and also produces many, many spider plant babies, which make great gifts)

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Yeah. That's true... I read it before i was clued into gender and feminism at all, so i didn't notice at the time. It would probably bother me a lot more these days.

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Zohar wrote:I'm very curious about where she expands the world to in other books.

You, my friend, are in for a treat! I found the way world-expanding was done to be one of my favourite things about the books

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KnightExemplar wrote:Arguably less than a page since its bullet-list form and kinda spaced out.

TIL that the Trump Whitehouse uses the same tactics as a schoolkid caught behind with their homework.

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Even under the law there is a recognition of the limits of speech. Yes, and forbz1 says they don't support those limits (emphasis mine): It is important that it [freedom of speech] is upheld in all of its forms - with no limitations and no exceptions Establishing that there are limits to free speec...

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I'm curious if anyone ever did any large-scale analysis of self-help / motivational media like this. There are of course some obvious correlations, such as luck, confidence, perseverance, making up a system at sticking to it, and a propensity for writing books telling other people how they should l...

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It is important that it is upheld in all of its forms - with no limitations and no exceptions So anyone should be allowed, by both law and custom, to show up at a stranger's funeral and start loudly insulting the deceased and mocking the mourners? Free speech without limitation or exception leads t...

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Turns out that the minimum zoom level in Chrome is 25%... good to know

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I am Eve by Harpeth Rising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB6w6oncGq4

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Yes, considering it was the result of a DNA test I was expecting the rest of it to be some other animal. Although I can't think of many animals cheaper than chicken. Um... Plants have as much DNA as animals*, and it's in the same place doing more or less the same things. *If not more - some plants ...

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Yes, considering it was the result of a DNA test I was expecting the rest of it to be some other animal. Although I can't think of many animals cheaper than chicken. Um... Plants have as much DNA as animals*, and it's in the same place doing more or less the same things. *If not more - some plants ...

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, I ended up being temporarily on low-dose estrogen for 4 months (and spiro for the latter 2) about a year ago. In all honesty, it didn't really have a serious emotional effect for me. Thanks for this. That's a really useful perspective. I've been reading so many things on reddit saying "Oh me...

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Idk, it's not a thing that's majorly important to me, but is kind of like to have a better idea of what the options are. Yeah, me too... if anything I'd just like to try estrogen (+t blockers) to see what the mental/emotional effects are like for me... I'm not particularly worried either way about ...

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