My right to exist. I’m a trans woman who is very aware that I may need to flee the country in the next few years depending on where things go. I’m extremely aware of the attacks on my life and my access to the medication I need. This shit is not abstract for me.

There’s a very big difference between having lipservice support from the federal government while living in a state that’s literally one of the best places on Earth to transition, and hoping said state will protect me from a federal government that’s actively hostile.

Are federal Democrats actively allies to trans people? Eh.

Are Massachusetts Democrats? You bet your ass they are. We’ve got more rights than trans people in most of the EU. We have informed consent, mandatory insurance coverage for trans health care, actual legal protection from discrimination.

You act like there’s no difference, but I’m literally better protected here than I would be anywhere outside of like maybe like the Netherlands.

I’m not in this to act like a high school child, I’m in it because people want to fucking wipe me and everyone like me out.

I’m a leftist and a trans woman. My rights, you chud.

Literally more leftist than you are.

I don’t really engage with anything I don’t see as a thoughtful reply made in good faith. Sometimes. But I try not to.

For that: see the other comments in this thread. Bunch of people basking in the privilege of their rights not being directly threatened. Give me a fucking break.

Ain’t a leftist to be seen.

Harvard has its CS50 lectures online for free. Can’t hurt.

See, this is why I don’t trust y’all. How can you pretend to be leftist when to you the fundamental difference between Trump and any other political administration is literally just that he’s rude.

How is it that nothing else, from the rights of workers and of oppressed minorities to the protection of the environment to access to health care and education, means anything?

If none of that means anything more than being rude or not, you’re not a leftist. You’re a cosplayer.

We spent the five years training the model. Manually. With Captcha data.

Now we’re teaching it not to run traffic signals, hit motorcycles or busses, or try to drive up stairs.

As far as we know you only live once. Personally, I’m not waiting around to hope for another go before I live my life the way I want to. Everything has a cost, but to me the cost is well worth not having to deal with all that bullshit.

Not if we’re in the same car.

Can you articulate why?

I’m a night owl. My body wants to go to sleep around 6am and wake up at like 2pm, and if it doesn’t get to it will rebel. I used to struggle with resetting my sleep schedule all the time. Falling asleep during the day, gradually drifting later on my days off, and usually feeling kinda shit.

Went back to working nights, driving a cab 5p-12a or 3p-12a depending on the day. I love it. I feel so much better. My body is never easy, but it’s a hell of a lot easier than it was. One less thing to worry about.

It is hard to make appointments, and companies are always trying to call my firmly muted phone at 9am when I tell them not to, but it’s a lot more comfortable. I see all kinds of neat crepuscular animals and there’s like no traffic.

I think it very much depends on your body’s natural rhythm. People like to chalk it up to ‘insomnia’, but that’s just pathologizing normal behavior. Nothing wrong with being nocturnal.

When we’re driving typically left means left.

That’s not just reading comprehension. People are always answering my questions with unapplicable answers.

“Is it on the left or the right?”

“It’s 67, the one with grass in the yard.”

Just answer the damn question rather than providing me other information you decide would be more helpful!

Sounds like a decent candidate for an open source replacement project.

Seems like EA doesn’t want to make games anymore. Folks should oblige them.

This. I literally block every bot and every bot-infested community.

It’s not that people think content from Reddit is stealing, it’s that we don’t want our feeds polluted with bots autoposting bullshit.

Why would we want a whole copy of Reddit? Reddit is a toxic pit.

Queer is great. It’s one syllable rather than four plus. And honestly, I think it comes off as a little more down to Earth.

It makes my lungs seize up.