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Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs
  • I've been saying since EVs hit the market that I couldn't wait for them to be cheap enough used for me to justify purchasing one. That hasn't happened yet. Most I've ever spent on a car was $7k.

  • How's your week been?
  • Not out socially, so Father's day is weird, getting together with family and all; constant affirmation of my imaginary masculinity, yuck.
    At least it's over. Back home and chilling with my wife and our child, enjoying a quiet evening.

  • Right-to-Work Laws don't mean your employer can fire you at any time for any reason (US Law)
  • This isn’t my POV, this is the reality of the performance conversations I’ve been involved with.

    Pick one
    I upvoted your comment for being insightful, not trying to dismiss what you're saying. I get where you're coming from, and I agree that what you're saying is likely true for most businesses, but there are other people who's reality of conversations they have been involved with resulted in being fired unfairly.

  • What's something you want to stop doing but can't actually stop?
  • I bit my nails my whole life. One day I tasted lime. I hadn't eaten anything with lime for 3 days. I had wiped my ass maybe 10 minutes prior. That experience yucked me out of biting for good. Been over 2 years now since I've so much as nibbled.

  • Rotha Lintorn-Orman, WW1 ambulance driver, lesbian, and founder of the British fascists - history is strange. Photo from 1916
  • If we weren't addicted to scrolling social media and were esthetically blind, most of us wouldn't immediately realize it if we were transported back in time.

    I don't know about that. We didn't even have a public radio station in the US until 1920. Television didn't come around until 1925. Frozen food in 1929.
    The simple act of driving to the store to get shopping done for dinner would be quite different.

  • Lauren Boebert loses it on debate moderator as he grills her on Beetlejuice lies
  • I mean, whether they are natural or not shouldn't matter. The "shallow decision making and poor choices" are just as accessible to a leftist woman. It feels kind of yucky to be setting standards for how you think it is acceptable for women to present themselves, regardless of whether they are on the same side of the political aisle.
    "We can shame women for how they choose to present themselves as long as they disagree with us about Palestine" is a weird take when you examine it for what it is.

  • Lauren Boebert loses it on debate moderator as he grills her on Beetlejuice lies
  • I don't know, there's nothing morally wrong with her makeup and face. If she happened to be a leftist but otherwise looked the same, I doubt we'd be rushing to the comments to mock her style. This is alienating to women who are like minded to us but have a similar sense of fashion to Boebert.

  • Good resources for build guides?

    Hello, title. I have been playing pf2e coming on 2 years now. Unfortunately, I have never enjoyed character creation or progression in this system. I like playing with my group, but would rather never again make a decision when it comes to character options.

    I am surprised because it seems like there are very few written resources or videos which just make a build with feats/spells chosen, retraining recommendations by level, etc. Any recommendations?

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    Trans Voice Help @lemmy.blahaj.zone Kayday @lemmy.world
    No explanations, just instructions! (feminizing)

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    Has anyone observed a change in their temperament after being on feminizing HRT?

    [Requesting engagement from trans-feminine people on HRT]

    I don't yet know when I will begin hormone replacement therapy, but the anticipation leaves me prone to developing expectations I worry are unrealistic.

    Not sure how best to explain. My emotions, and sometimes my expression of those emotions, will feel masculine when heightened. Feeling intensely happy or angry about something even unrelated to my identity, those feelings give me dysphoria because of how masculine they seem. It's not that being happy or angry is inherently masculine, of course. The dysphoria comes from the emotion's manifestation seeming masculine.

    I don't know if this makes sense, but has anyone experienced something similar and/or seen changes to these sorts of things?

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    Honey wake up new Contrapoints video just dropped

    Join me on the path to Twilightenment.

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    [Update] Came out to my wife!
    lemmy.world [Update] Will properly come out to my wife of 6 years in the next week or so. Any advice is appreciated ✨️ - Lemmy.World

    Link to my first post. When we were sharing our new year’s resolutions with each other earlier this month, I told her I want to he more true to myself, and more honest with her. I told her she deserves that, and that I love her. We have talked about having “a conversation” soon. For us, we understan...

    Back on February 3rd, I came out to my wife. TLDR, she is amazing and I love her.

    We had just settled in with some cocoa for the night after getting the kiddo to sleep. We both knew yo get comfy, since we would be there a while. I told her very directly that I am a transgender woman, and shared some of how that has been exciting, terrifying, and depressing at times, still being in the closet.

    There were some tears, which she later told me were on my behalf because she had no idea how I had been hurting. She has persistently reminded me through gestures and words that she loves me, not just as a man she married 6 years ago, but as the person she has come to know.

    We are still in the process of talking through what next steps look like, but she has been incredibly open to change and has wanted to understand how I see myself and the world.

    She has always been a huge Harry Potter fan. This woman even asked me if it was still okay for her to like Harry Potter. She was ready to leave it behind for me. (Personally, consuming HP media doesn't bother me. Conversation for another time, I'm sure some here would disagree with me)

    I am so thankful for her. I also want to thank this community for encouraging me to get to this point. You girls rock ❤️

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    [Update] Will properly come out to my wife of 6 years in the next week or so. Any advice is appreciated ✨️
    lemmy.world Indefinitely forgoing transition - Lemmy.World

    Hey everyone, first time posting. Hoping there are others with similar experiences who can share insight, but at minimum I want to put my thoughts down. I [29MtF] am pre-everything, but have accepted I am trans for the last 4 years with the understanding I would never transition. Continuing to live ...

    Link to my first post. When we were sharing our new year's resolutions with each other earlier this month, I told her I want to he more true to myself, and more honest with her. I told her she deserves that, and that I love her.

    We have talked about having "a conversation" soon. For us, we understand this to mean at least 2-3 hours where we sit down intending to talk without being interrupted. Time has continued to get away from us as we are settling into being parents as well with a 2 month old.

    We have each made mentions of, "the conversation", and how we haven't forgotten, just haven't had the right moment yet.

    Girls, I am just so proud of myself for taking this step. Even though nothing has really happened yet, it feels like more has happened in the last month than in my entire life.

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    Indefinitely forgoing transition

    Hey everyone, first time posting. Hoping there are others with similar experiences who can share insight, but at minimum I want to put my thoughts down.

    I [29MtF] am pre-everything, but have accepted I am trans for the last 4 years with the understanding I would never transition. Continuing to live as a man in spite of myself seemed realistic. My dysphoria was never really that bad, so even though the idea of being a woman was amazing, I could always push it aside easily and continue with my life.

    Sure, I would have bad days where dysphoria would get me down, thinking things like:

    "Why can't I look like her? Why does it have to be such a big deal if I want to transition? Why would so many people hate me for being who I want to be?"

    But as always, these times would come and go. I could grin and bear it, pressing on to another day.

    My wife of 6 years is fantastic. I love her more than the day we were married, and we have a child on the way. In the past, I have been open with her about my general preference towards femininity. While she accepts this and loves me for it, I have never properly told her I think of myself as transgender. She and I both come from a background where being trans is considered wrong, and I know she still thinks that even though we are both supporting and accepting of our LGBTQ+ friends.

    In the last year, one of my closest childhood friends told me he was gay. He and I regularly get drinks together, and mostly tell each other everything. When he came out to me, I told him I was trans. We have both been able to support each other, mostly as confidants while he deals with backlash from his family. I wish I could tell my wife as easily as I told my friend, but obviously that has more potential consequences.

    The more time passes with me accepting who I am inside, the more natural it becomes to think of myself that way. This unfortunately has made dysphoria a more frequent and intense experience.

    Additionally, there have been a handful of incredibly euphoric experiences I have had in the last year. My wife and I cosplayed a lesbian couple at a con this summer, which was the first time I dressed femme in public. Also, with my wife's pregnancy, I have been wearing some of her maternity clothes (shorts, sweatpants) around the house since those fit me surprisingly well. (Also justice for all of my hoodies she has claimed over the years)

    I know for certain that transitioning would sever ties with almost all of my family and friends. Further, my wife would have a difficult time deciding what our future together would look like, assuming it continued at all. Despite her open mindedness, our shared religious beliefs would ultimately inform the outcome.

    I wish it wasn't so hard to keep pretending. I'm just so tired.

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