Lol no. Well until I got attractive and funny in high school

I wonder how close they could get to putting one on the jail.

If you want to mix blood and machines may I recommend manufacturing? We do it all the time.

Good. 3/5 is concerning though

Yeah a lot of trans people go for really cool names and that’s awesome but when you choose your own name it’s wise to remember the advice given to parents about their kids’ names. Yeah it’s badass and hilarious if a woman names herself Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way (no relation of course), or Margaret Killjoy, but Ms Killjoy is able to get away with it because she’s an anarchist theorist and entertainer. A trans guy naming himself Lucifer Eveningstar is going to really struggle to get jobs. Hell, making a conscious choice about names that are read as “ethnic” is also valuable. Like, it’s not my place as a white lady, but I have a very normal female name and a male dominated career and women in my career talk about whether or not you should use an androgynous nickname on your resume (you get more interviews but they’re with people who wouldn’t have given you an interview if they knew you’re a woman).

If OP looks like he’s anglo or germanic, the name Angel/Angelo will likely occasionally get him questions on if he’s Italian or Latino if he ever passes for cis. If he takes the name Uriel people will think that that’s odd (but I’ve met a cis dude named Zebulon so it’s not like weird names are auto clocking). Gabriel could easily just be a name his parents liked or a grandpa or something, it’s uncommon but normal (where I’m from). Michaelangelo is very easy to brush away by professionally going by Mike and people will assume his parents are art lovers.

Angel/Angelo are some really low hanging fruit.

There’s archangel names. Gabriel is a kinda twinky old fashioned man name and you can go by Gabe when you really need to hammer in the man aspect. Michael is so generic it hurts, a Mike could be any kind of guy. And if you wanted to make it extra you could make it Michaelangelo, who was a queer icon. Raphael is also on the list and doesn’t have much more to say about it. Uriel if you want a really trans name, but it may not always be read as masc.

You could also go for saint names.

Remember any name you take can and will be used against you in the hiring process, so names that are read as normal for a cis guy in your culture may be beneficial. Nobody ever had their resume thrown out for being named Mike.

Mixed feelings here. I hate Musk because he’s a bigot and a fascist. But Ellison is terrifying as he’s an authoritarian who can hide his power level. He just wants to stop crime and doesn’t care about your privacy or freedom

Bout 6 or so years.

I was also referring to ww1. Really the entirety of the time period between the formation of Germany and 1945

Israel showing how german they are by threatening France and England

His tomb is so toxic archeologists can’t risk opening it. Turns out mercury is really cool but not the secret to immortality.

It’s really bad for the rich and powerful to forget that. Like partly for the people whose organs they’ll steal, but also just like for their psyches. Like, they’re clearly losing it.

Honestly even Rome (the republic) managed to be healthier about it. The element of the memento mori in the triumph, was just healthy. Sure you can have your great celebration honoring your conquest, but a slave will be following you reminding you that you too will die the entire time.

Yeah organ transplants are miraculous in the way medicine is miraculous not in the way religion is.

Medical miracles have limits and drawbacks. Organ transplants save lives and drastically improve quality of life, but it’s compared to a baseline of needing a new organ. Kidney recipients would much rather deal with anti rejection meds than dialysis. Heart recipients’ alternative is to die slowly.

Many rich people seem to think that shit like this will just replace their font of yang or something. They can’t accept that someday all that will remain of them is dust and consequences.

Joseph Guillotin and the Electric Shotguns would be an amazing band name

May the pursuit of immortality go as well for him as it did for Qin Shi Huang.

If my wife wasn’t soy intolerant I’d have a bottle of soy sauce in my fridge (her issues with soy mean I really only get east Asian food when going out) and if she liked fish I’d get takeout sushi sometimes. Though honestly if she liked fish and could eat soy sauce I’d’ve learned to make sushi by now, so maybe I’m not the default here

Yeah but as another person from the American Midwest, the article seems to indicate south Australia is moving to the packets we have as they’re larger and use less plastic, though the goal is for bulk soy sauce in refillable containers

Damn she’s a badass

Because it’s a really easy way to being a Vichy leader

I think about bits of it somewhat often as well as the global history of Trans identities is complex and because as a feminist I maintain criticisms of our society’s expectations on gender. But at the same time, I’ve experimented and messed with the social roles relating to gender since I was young. So when I look at groups like the hijra and two spirits I can see that in those cultures I might’ve fit in those genders. But ultimately, it’s a thought experiment. My culture and I shape each other, and as much as I challenge it i am also bound by it as my place of understanding of the self.

But at the same time, the body wrongness that’s hard to see as anything other than innate. I remember having phantom breasts as a teenager. I remember being uncomfortable having a penis as a very young child. I do not believe there is a world in which I could be happy with a testosterone dominant body without serious neurological differences. I think in a time period where no form of estrogen was available I could have managed with mere removal of testosterone, but it would not have been thriving.