TerminalEncounter [she/her]

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The stars actually aren't changing color (besides variables potentially but they don't change in seconds), they're changing cause the atmosphere is distorting as the light reaches your eye - one of the reasons we put observatories on like mountain tops and space is that there isn't as much atmosphere distorting the light (there's some newer observatories that can counter-distort their mirror to cancel out atmospheric scintillation).

You can see the milky way if you go somewhere with low light pollution! It's quite breathtaking. Also every star you see with your eyes is in the milky way. You can also see planets with your eyes, but I think that's just Venus (which is reflective enough to see) they look like stars but move day to day. You can see some supernovae when they happen, sometimes they're bright enough you can see then in daytime even. The movement of the stars over the year is highly predictable, even over centuries and milleniallia, some of the real old old structures like Stonehenge are aligned with the movement of the night sky. Because our planet rotates, the stars move, except (if you're in the northern hemisphere) for Polaris which only kinda wobbles over a year - it wasn't always Polaris, it had historically been other stars (were talking long long ago history not a lifetime lol), Polaris is in Ursa Minor in the night sky if you wanna find it 😀

If you keep a journal of the night sky you'll probably notice a lot of the same stuff our ancient ancestors did! We have the disadvantage of light pollution but the advantage of thousands of years of scientific advancement and written and oral knowledge.

It's called the Sremovedhorpe Problem. On the hexbear instance we have it for a few words, like the Japanese gambling game with the balls (paremovedo). I don't mind a word filter but sometimes it can be a little too strong, lol.

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That's so nice to hear Emma!!

My dead name haunts me at work, it's been total bs, cause (for now) it's still my legal name and the assessments I make are legal documents they "have to" use my legal name. Always fun to explain to coworkers that, yes, dead name is me, no don't use it

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If all your income is from wages (like most people) the IRS already knows what you made cause your employer had to file w2 forms and withhold taxes. You just have to fill out a bunch of forms and hope youre right! Sometimes they fuck over waiters and stuff cause they get a lot of tips and don't always claim their tips, which is just so shitty.

The first big bolt of euphoria I had was when I was still questioning and a prof in an online class said something like "ah, TerminalEncounter yes, she has a really good question everyone" and I rode that high for like 3 days lol

Hearing my mom use my chosen name the first time was nice 🙂

More recently euphoria is smaller but it's more everyday which is nice, waking up and being a woman is a nice feeling. The other day I looked in the mirror and was like when the fuck did I get so curvy how did I not notice.

I didn't know that it was euphoria but doing drag way before cracking my egg and getting called she, girl, etc for the first time looking back was pretty euphoric.

The suffragettes won 😲 🫨

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Healthcare environmental team, they clean up everything and are literally front line for IPC

People do it now with stuff like Replika. Think of how they're treated. Perhaps in a society with lots of AI, embodied or not, people would care less. But it's definitely a little weird now especially with how limited AI is.

If some general human level is AI emerged like in Her, I'm sure people would fall in love with it. There's plenty of lonely people who are afraid or unable to meet people day to day. I think I'd see them with pity as they couldn't make do with human connection, at least until I understood how advanced and how much interiority this new AI had - then I'd probably be less judgemental.

Losing weight will only really help your self esteem (probably your health in general which can be appealing to others as well). You're putting yourself out there which is important, try not to make everything you do a search for a potential romance though lol.

25 is very young to think you'll never meet someone. Doctors and Lawyers can take a while to get to finish school so you're not exactly alone. If you're awkward at 25 it's not a big deal tbh, don't sweat being the only single guy in your friend group. I'm sure there's a few guys you know in committed relationships who may wish to trade places with you

Apparently the UK has some of the highest (maybe the highest) binge drinking rates in the world and highesr alcohol consumption per capita - kinda goes hand in hand. I wasn't surprised to read it, some of the lads and ladettes start drinking Friday after work and don't stop until Monday morning. Crazy stuff, like out literally all night, wake up still buzzed, get another few rounds in with your mates and just keep going.

Oh yeah, all the docs are in and all my stuff is signed and paid for. I just have to wait for them to actually do it lol

This is so cute! Reminds me of the NAND game.

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If it were up to me 17°C/63F, I can manage pretty good by blinds and windows open in the evening but I like to run the A/C an hour or two a day to help. In the winter, just leave the windows open to cool off its like -20°C out that's good enough to cool it to whatever feels good. I can't stand heat.

There's like words and longs, could probably play with that a bit. Also, a kb is 1024 bytes because it's 2^10, could play with that too lol.