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No clue how true it was, but there's a bit of a joke in physics that Einstein was really bad at the maths of general relativity. His incredible insight was that gravity is geometric, rather than the actual mathematical framework.

HELL YEAH!!!! I'm so goddamn happy for you!!!!!

egg_irl was a big part of it for me too, it's an awesome place

That's sort of my experience, but I'll also add that if you don't know that being trans is a thing then it's possible to just not recognise what it is or that you can do something about it.

The real sign of being trans is if you go to egg_irl and start relating to almost everything lol /s kinda (sorry I haven't got a clue how to link communities)

Tbh there's no magic bullet to be sure, but if you fantasize about being a different gender that's a pretty big one, cis people don't do that.

I'll add an edit: The only thing that confirmed it to me, was how excited I felt after I took hormones for the first time. Beginning them was terrifying, "what if I damage my body and I actually didn't want this?" kinda stuff, but then I realised I wouldn't have been waiting 6 months and been to all these appointments if I wasn't, took the damn pill and felt amazing. It's been ~9 months now and it's made me insanely happy, that's the only concrete proof I can offer to myself that I am in fact trans.

Pretty sure my inability to use a chair correctly is what makes me bi, thinking everyone is hot is just a side effect

I am trans and I can say I've never felt like I was in the wrong body, I think most of the time that's just a relatively flawed way to describe an experience that can't truely be understood unless you've experienced it.

Of course, no one has the same experience with these things and it's entirely valid if everyone else does feel that way. For me it's mostly just been that something felt like it was missing, and I fixed that when I began to transition. The main thing was how much happier the internal changes made me, estrogen changes how you experience emotions and being out to my family had a similar effect.

When it comes to "signs" the biggest was just being envious of people who had the freedom to express differently than me. I can confirm that it's a gradual realisation, though honestly most of that was overcoming shame and internalised transphobia.

That's basically the case, Labor recently (as in this last week) approved new fossil fuel extraction projects to open in fucking the 2060s and 2080s... (We are meant to be at zero emissions by 2050)

They're also giving out an ungodly amount of subsidies to fossil fuel companies, to the tune of $14.5 Billion

The climate activism group I'm with arranged a bunch of snap protests around Melbourne at Labor offices. The one federal member who came out to talk to us basically just tried to distract from all of this with the increase in renewables spending, but she also implied that they had to keep opening new projects like this because of the money...

I was so confused by this title because I kept reading it as pro hate towards Israel lol

Yeah, I like the message and totally agree with it but I don't trust that stat at all lol

Yeah, I like the message but I think that stat is misleading by design. It doesn't make sense to power a home for a year with solar.

Does that mean it's the cost of solar power itself, or is it some weird way to talk about installing solar capacity?

It should just be how many homes can be permanently powered by investing that much in solar capacity, which is probably a much lower number...

I think they're talking about immitation meat, not tofu...

I'm sorry what? Plex has ads???

Very fucking glad I just ignored it and went with jellyfin...