Are the axis you are referring to romantic, platonic, sexual, etc. attraction? Because I have no problem with those, but in that case I identify as a romantic and sexual lesbian.

And yes I would say denial is a very strong word. It implies you know better about how a person feels than themselves.

Sure, words can have subjective meaning that can change from person to person and even over time. So two people perhaps don’t completely agree what it means to be a lesbian. But the general idea usually is something that can be agreed upon. But what is the point of arguing against monosexuality in the first place? Because to me it sure sounds a lot like the “you haven’t found the right man” argument. Even if I was attracted to men and was in some kind of denial, like you implied in your first post, it doesn’t change the fact that I don’t want to date men, simple as that.

Also I don’t think you argued concretely towards my historic argument? To me it makes it sound like you’re implying women willingly chose to be exclusively lesbians and men, exclusively gay, to fight for wlw and mlm rights. Which i can imagine some did, but certainly not everyone.

I really don’t like the idea that mono sexualities are just in denial. As a lesbian, there might be fictional men that I like but on real life, I just would rather not be with any guy. And it’s not like I ever tried looking at a guy to see if I find something attractive about him. But I just don’t. Kinda funny how only men that don’t exist appear attractive to me xD And compare that to women and enbies, where I just love everything: their hair, their soft face, their chest, makeup, their cuteness (and sometimes their hotness xD), the way they talk, the things they are most passionate about, and all the NSFW stuff too :D

I understand the experience is not universal, it’s perfectly fine if attraction works for you some other way. But when I analyze my attraction it works two way. First, just the sheer association with women and enbies. I don’t have genital preference, I like women with either equipment, but I would never date (or even be attracted to) a trans man, even if they’re pre-everything. Just the mere fact of knowing they’re a man simply turns me off. And the same applies viceversa: if I learn that someone I know is actually a woman, even if they’re presenting male, no hormones, etc. it’s like my mind opens up the possibility to being attracted to them (even if to a lesser extent). Which brings me to my second point, hormones.

I’ve heard this one from gay men too so I think I’m not alone in this one. When someone is taking E (or T in their case), it’s like everything changes regarding their physiology. Smell, skin, hair texture, shape, to name a few. And smell is a big one to me: manly smell might as well be repellent to me xD, but I know of people attracted to men that it is the entire opposite. And that’s ok! Physiological changes is not something that can’t be ignored for attraction either, after all we really don’t control what makes us tick, our brain is wired to determine what attracts us. I don’t make a conscious decision to find womanly smell attractive, my brain just responds to it positively.

To clarify, I think most people could be bi/pan, I don’t disagree with that. But I disagree that everyone is bi. Or else, how do you explain that throughout history, gay and lesbian people, rather than going the “easy” route and date the opposite gender, dared to date the same gender despite persecution and potentially death? You would probably say something about how they could’ve been bi but they had a very marked preference, but to that I say, isn’t that gay enough?

As a Puerto Rican this is awesome to know. Still wish there were more wlw spaces tho…

Can I transfer my calendar stuff from Simple Calendar to this one?

Yeah, The Force involves life and death. The Force’s will is actually to embrace a balance of both. But Dark Side users go against the will of the Force, for the sake of power or even for the sake of extending their own life or others.

I would argue that Luke and Ahsoka are great examples of gray Jedi (especially if we don’t count sequel material). In Luke’s case, in the OT it could be argued that his love for his friends, when he leaves Yoda to save them, and his belief that there was still good inside his father, made him a better Jedi than all before him. To me, he rejected tradition to do what was right. And that is what makes a great Jedi.

While I agree with you it would make a more interesting story to have a balance of dark and light, it’s important to note George Lucas’ interpretation of the Force is that there is no ‘light side’ but rather there is The Force and there is going against the will of the Force, aka the Dark Side. Therefore, to Lucas’ POV, the Jedi are sometimes misguided but intrisically good while the Sith are intrisically evil.

In my personal interpretation tho (which I think Clone Wars and other media tend to agree with me) Jedi in the prequels were blinded by the power they achieved and hence were ignorant and complacent to the bad stuff they indirectly and directly did or helped do. Which is why Gray Jedi (Jedi that didn’t follow the Council) were closer to being like what Jedi were supposed to be, than the others were.

At least it would be GPL tho.

1. To me it isn’t acceptable that phones and tablets have that problem too, especially devices that could still have a decent performance.

2. Windows has a lot of problems, but at least if you have Windows you will be supported for a long while, even if it gets slow due to Windows being Windows. Considering ChromeOS frames itself as a competitor of especially low end Windows, and that ChromeOS is more optimized than Windows, I would expect more.

EDIT: The article says three to six years, and that they stop functioning. That’s even worse.

EDIT2: And like most phones, you can’t flash another OS to most chromebooks.

The PCBs. With pre made magnet mounts, tactile z buttons, an already available T3 Gamecube controller, and excluding all the soldering equipment (i already had most of it) and the optional stuff, it costed me about $257, $239 . However that price is not completely right because I split the bill between me and two friends, so it costed more like $85 each. If you don’t have friends interested and you don’t want to sell it might be better to buy a single one on Etsy.

Elecrow. For 5 boards i paid $130 iirc. And I’ve seen some things in the Discord regarding JLCPCB… For example, for one person they completely covered one of the mounting points.

That’s good to hear, since I’ve been having some second thoughts about my first name.

My first name (Gabriela) is just the feminine version of my deadname. I usually prefer the shortened version (Gaby) though.

My second name (Azucena) it was actually from a soap opera my mom was watching. I couldn’t care less about the show itself, but that girl was exactly the hair style and overall look I wanted to have(and to an extent, still do). But I’m leaving it as a second name because unfortunately in Puerto Rico it’s a pretty rare name (and apparently the people I’ve asked don’t like it much?).

Yeah and besides, most if not all IRC servers have Matrix bridges.

Lemmy.world is getting a very big chunk, but other than that it actually seems fairly distributed.

I’m on the fence to whether stay visibly trans or go stealth once I transition. But if I go visible, it’s because of this.

To me everything seems to point to the fact that community developed distros, even if funded by corporations, seems to be the best option moving forward.

Same situation here, I want to come out to get it over with and to let it out of my chest, but it’s not safe for me to do so.

It belongs to where my father works so I can’t do that unfortunately. At least it looks like they will be replacing the battery so it won’t become e-waste.

However I do have another laptop collecting dust, most of the home server stuff is already done by my Rpi4, but maybe I can find something to use it for? Either way ty for the link :3

Actually yes it is! He used it as a laptop in practice though so I kinda forgot it was.