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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I echo this.

    I went with a lower tier Bosch simply because it had a built-in water softener and that was my main priority. On hindsight I may have jumped for the 800 series.

    The 3rd utensil tray becomes way more usable with the 800, and your stuff actually dries unlike in my model.

    I will say I thought my old whirlpool that came with this house was well designed (more capacity and utensil tray being out of the way on the door was nice).




  • Hope you’re doing better now. As someone who works in the medical field, it can be a real bitch to navigate everything.

    For the future: Nobody here knows your baseline. If you tell any clinical medical worker you have had chest pain followed by difficulty breathing and vomiting they’re very likely to tell you to go to the ED/ER (Emergency Department / Room). Speaking for myself only, that would depend how stable I feel following the vomiting incident and if the chest pain persisted, and baseline conditions and history (e.g., do you have a history of hypertension, high cholesterol, overweight, etc.? When was your last physical exam?).

    We also don’t know the full context on what you mean by couldn’t breathe and feeling like you could die. For example, did you have a major GERD / Acid-Reflux incident (could explain mild chest pain)? Did you eat something and have an allergic anaphylactic reaction followed by a surge of adrenaline from your fear of death and a panic attack followed by vomiting? Have you had sinus congestion say from a cold and a glob of postnasal drip obstructing your airways? Do you take drugs? And yes, it’s possible you also had a heart attack.

    Worth noting: Urgent Care has limited resources beyond an X-ray machine, usually. The moment you mention chest pain, they’ll hook you up to an ECG to take a reading. If your vital signs are okay (blood pressure, SPO2, heart-rate, temperature) and your ECG reads no active heart attack, then they might just refer you to a cardiologist follow-up. If on the other hand there are signals of a recent or active heart attack, they will pretty much demand you get loaded up into an ambulance and send you to the nearest hospital with a cath lab (due to liability on themselves). You’ll thus be triple-dipping costs from urgent care, ambulance, and hospital when you might’ve been better off going straight to the ER.

    ER will be a higher co-pay with insurance and absurdly costly without (but there are options, some ethical some not surrounding this). The good news is unlike Urgent Care, they cannot refuse treatment based on lack of insurance, if that’s your predicament. Urgent Care will.

    Also when you call 911 for a medical emergency, police aren’t going to be involved. ACAB rhetoric aside, DO NOT REFUSE TO CALL 911 BECAUSE OF THIS. The moment the dispatcher sees this is a medical emergency, nearby fire departments or ambulances will be notified.














  • Thanks for this! Very helpful in improving my understanding. Transmedicalism seems kind of absurd to me out of the gate given the entire premise behind what I at least always thought trans meant as in “transitioning”; a state of flux if you will. What point along that state largely shouldn’t matter. Yet people attempting to justify their bigotry will of course latch onto extreme edge cases the likes they will never actually feel or experience themselves or are so trivial it’s irrelevant or scientifically baseless in the first place — the obvious one being sports.


  • Thanks for writing this! This makes a lot of sense to me. I echo the same in terms of the aversion to toxicity and competitive nature (like a little friendly competition can be positive, but beyond that…). Here in America that shit is rampant especially among right-wing circles and it’s so tiresome. My wife said she was attracted to me because I wasn’t like her dad, like most other men in her life that fell into this toxic masculine competitive crap. I’d rather see more cooperative engagement.

    Where I diverge is just my lack of interest or desire to wear women’s clothing, makeup, poise, etc. Don’t get me wrong! I have no problem with anyone along any combination of the sex/gender axis enjoying those things, but yeah just not something I’ve yearned for myself, which explains why I may not have gender dysphoria? I don’t know. But this has helped me understand why others do!


  • If comfortable, could you or someone else who is trans try to explain the feelings behind transitioning to me, a cisgender? I support trans rights and maintain the philosophy of live and let live (dare I say, true individual freedom as a leftist); I’m just trying to better understand for my own sake.

    More specifically,

    • Is it a matter of societal forces imposing masculine expectations because of your physical characteristics when ultimately, what you feel deep down are effeminate characteristics of the true you? (Or am I wrongly assuming that one is transitioning to another gender and not instead to non-binary?)

    • If yes to the first, if society was more receptive to, say, masculine women or effeminate men at face-value, would that have made you more comfortable prior to transitioning?

    • If no, I’m interested in better understanding how this sort of realignment for lack of a better word improves the feelings of gender dysphoria if it’s more an internal pressure than one imposed upon you by society.

    • In terms of physical attraction, are say MtF by the statistics more attracted to M or F, or is it split, are the bisexual/asexual/pansexual, or is data unclear? Is the aspect of gender dysphoria entirely decoupled from the notion of partner attraction (gay, straight, etc.)?

    Hopefully I asked these in a way that is both respectful and makes sense. No pressure to respond, thanks.