so I went looking for this a couple of years ago and it doesn't really exist. everyone I talked to in the trans voice community said keep working on trans voice stuff and just sing a ton. fwiw, singing really helps make trans voice easier because vocal control is key. you just keep practicing and practicing and practicing and eventually you don't suck, apparently?

lmao

yeah, I was lucky to have already taken Classical Mechanics prior to Quantum Mechanics (it wasn't a prereq so most of my classmates jumped straight into QM), so the math was all perfectly sensible. but the second any prof started trying to use English to interpret the math, I started having these moments where I'd have to sit back and think about the words coming out of their mouths, and sitting with how it was all actually gibberish. Feynman's "shut up and calculate" started to feel incredibly valid really fast, whereas prior to QM, I was under the impression that physics was natural philosophy. it's not and QM was the breaking point, at least for me, personally.

they don't actually spin but they're little bar magnets as if they do. if you charge a sphere and spin it, you'll generate exactly the same kind of bar magnet, but they don't actually spin. and just like bar magnets, like repels like. but they're neither bar magnets nor spinning. why don't they spin? because they're point masses, which don't have any extent. but actually, you can't really observe them as point masses because they're waves.

^^ this was the exact point at which I said quantum mechanics wasn't for me and I'm done with physics, after completing most of a degree. it sort of all makes sense but at the same time it completely doesn't. it all makes sense as pure math but the second you try to make sense of the math, sense goes out the window.

is it really prediction if it's just the same cycle over and over again? it's like predicting "water will be wet tomorrow".

iirc, the question that ignited a war was "are outdoor cats vegan?" -- meaning "can vegans own outdoor cats?" it devolved quickly into "should outdoor cats be killed?" with radical environmentalists on one side and felinitarians on the other, while the rest of us

MOOD

effects on the skin happen first. so body odor changes first, within the first couple of weeks, then your skin starts to soften, over the next year. for a lot of people, these happen from suppressing T alone.

oh, also, the bird got us a $50 discount. sales rep looked at him and went "hmm, let me knock that down a bit". why does a bird have pretty privilege?? spoiled brat wouldn't even say hello. he, in the most literal sense, walked all over them.

sales rep at the appliance store called a coworker over to meet our parrot by saying "come meet Mr. <bird's name>". lady looks at me and my wife, puzzled. thought we were abouta get misgendered for a hot second until the sales rep went "yeah, that's the bird's name" and her coworker's confusion dissipated. imma take it as "neither of us pass as men any longer". victory!

2016 was 8 years ago

it's probably gay