Social security stopped allowing changes when trump. They allowed it before and presumably will again sometime after.

From my understanding social security gender is the official gender on federal documents. And there will be issues if you have mismatched genders on federal documents.

EDLs are issued by states, the realid law leaves it to the states to determine what info is correct. Real states will issue EDLs with correct gender markers.

It helps if you cook the pan with seasoning.

My point was about politicians generally, but using Kamala as an example. Many do this and its a bad idea every time.

I have no opinion on her. Its irrelevant, its not like she holds any elected office.

The only thing wrong with sex work is the fact that it is work.

I would suggest trying it, especially if the bitter or astringent notes are the issue with tea and coffee for you. Cold brewing minimizes those notes specifically.

I cold brew myself, it’s simple and doesn’t need any special tools, just any container and some way to separate the grounds. Cold brew coffee has become more popular in the past 5 years or so. I’ve started to see premade cold brew coffee in grocery stores and coffee shops, but never cold brew tea.

For tea you can just leave a cup of water with a tea bag in the fridge overnight, and have a cold brew to try in the morning. Or a cup of water with medium coffee grounds in the bottom, gravity is a sufficient grounds separator to test the brew.

I don’t mean coffee that has cooled after being brewed with heat. Its the brewing technique not the temperature of consomption.

Coffee that is brewed hot and then served cold is nothing like cold brew. At the same time heating cold brew doesn’t make it taste like hot coffee.

You comment made me think about adding baking soda to coffee to neutralize the acid. Might work, might ruin the flavor, not sure. I’ll try adding a pinch baking soda one of these days presumably.

Decaf baking soda coffee might be just the thing for you. Or cold brew, I’ve heard its a lower acid way of brewing.

Have you tried cold brew? If you put coffee grounds or tea in cold water, then leave it in the fridge overnight, you’ll brew a drink with a very different character. I would describe it as smooth and understated. Many of the strong notes are those that are extracted from the heat, and without heat they are absent.

No, at least not beyond a certain point.

Entertainers increase guest happiness. Happiness is part of the rating, so entertainers do cause an increase. Most increases are capped, so you can only get so many points for happiness.

Lost guests lowers the rating directly. As I recall the lost guest penalty is uncapped. Blocking the entrance usually results in a park rating of 0 in the fullness of time, regardless of the park.

There are strange manipulations that allow guests to be trapped without the game realizing, which avoids the penalty. But as a normal player there’s no action that overcomes the lost guest penalty.

Doing so will cause a decrease in your park rating, When guests are trying to leave but unable to find the exit, it lowers the rating significantly. There’s a reason every guest goal scenario has a park rating requirement as well.

It is effective up to a point. It takes time before the guests realize they’re trapped and kill your rating. You have to time it right. The guest spawn rate calculations include the rating, so a low rating also reduces the number of guests who spawn. Trap the guests too soon and you’ll never get enough.

Trapping guests with no entry signs or removing the route to the exit will ruin your park in time. It can be effective in some specific circumstances but not many.

Politicians need to learn to not comment.

Kamala wasn’t involved in national politics at the same time as cheney. When cheney was last in office, Kamala was the district attorney of SF, an local office that only deals with the laws of California. No plausible working relationship between the two. They were not even interacting with the same laws. They worked in entirely different levels of government. There is no need for any statement.

Regardless of politics, any statement like this will sound disingenuous. If she knows Lynne, Liz, Mary, and the entire family well enough to have them in her thoughts, she could tell them directly. Calling someone to wish them the best in a hard time is a commendable act. Making a public statement telling other people that you care about someone else is just weird.

I have no advice, but sympathy. I know what this feels like, and wish you the best. Though I have not yet felt pregnancy dysphoria specifically, I have felt like I’m missing a core part of womanhood by not having periods. And I personally know the sting of invalidation when someone says you shouldn’t want an experience because it’s unpleasant.

Take care <3

Location context for those reading from elsewhere:

Onondaga county is in New York. It is located near the geographic centre of the state of New York, and has a population of around 500 thousand people. Syracuse both the county seat and only city in the county.

how dare you now I’m not going to all tell you about my products that you don’t want to hear about at all.

How often does someone assume you’re a man when talking on a phone? It happened to me yesterday, and I took it as a sign that I need to do my voice training practice more intensely. But it did make me wonder, how often does that happen to cis women?

I just got my blood taken. It sucked. It hurt a little bit but now its over, and I’m fine. I have a phobia of needles. It continues to be difficult every time I need it done, but I can get through it. You can too. It will not be easy, but it is worth it.

You are strong you can overcome your fear. I believe in you! <3 <3 <3

I prefer women with makeup that doesn’t draw attention to itself. Makeup with strong colors and unnatural shades isn’t my preference. Now that I’ve transitioned and wear makeup myself I wear the minimum needed to cover the remaining beard shadow. I am consistant if nothing else.

Before I transitioned the topic of makeup came up in conversation. I mentioned my preference. One of the women in the conversation normally wore naturalistic makeup, but the next day had incredibly sparkley and colorful eye shadow. Clear statement, and probably the best possible response.

I love the outfit, but those shoes especially!

You seem naive believing that corporations in other countries operate with restraint.

I agree with you that both modern tech and china are bad. However, these things are not related. You seem blinded by anti chinese prejudice, which is leading you to conflate these two issues.

If china imploded and stopped existing, modern tech would still have all the issues we discussed.

If Canada were able to implement a perfect data security law that was fully effective in banning all of these technological bad practices we discussed, it would not change china’s position in the market.

That has been my point this whole time. These issues are unrelated. If you disagree, please address my point directly.

Korea is a major world player with aspirations to dominate the world economy. That’s kind of the premise behind capitalism. Samsung isn’t content being a small company, they are a megacorporation involved in pretty much every part of Korean society, from heavy machinery, to insurance, to medicine, electronics, capital investments, construction and more. Your assertion that only china wants to dominate international markets is patently untrue. Capitalism is defined by endless greed. No corporation would turn down domination if it has the means.

Corporations are not democratic. Korean citizens do not get to vote for the samsung president. Corporations are the ones doing these things, not democratic institutions.

Security and privacy are issues that matter. Violating privacy and making devices less secure isn’t only a problem when china does it.