But not necessarily!

No no, you see those are European desert breakfasts. And they all fail compared to the proper and healthy European breakfast: coffee and a cigarette

There’s also V-coding as an explicit and intentional practice

You could do it in a way similar to how name changes are. My name change wasn’t terribly expensive, but it was kinda a pain in the ass. Hell you could make it an optional part of the name change process as well.

Ideally you won’t have to publish it in a newspaper (archaic bullshit I had to do), but other than that the whole having to schedule with a judge and go on public record and under oath saying “this is what I’m doing, I’m not trying to do anything nefarious, this is just how I’d prefer to live my life”.

But yeah, the therapist (or social worker) thing also works, I know some US states allow for them to sign off gender marker changes.

And yeah, any time I move or change insurance getting hormones is a pain in the ass, even when I can just tell a Dr what dose I’ve been on since bottom surgery

Yeah as a trans woman if I were in a DV situation I wouldn’t even think I could go to a shelter. To my knowledge when we flee such situations we generally rely on friends (we’re less likely to have family we can stay with).

Though tbh in the modern day we need shelters that can accommodate anyone, because anyone can be victims of financial abuse alongside DV. Additionally the problems associate with abusive men entering a shelter are still faced by women fleeing DV by a female partner.

Well in that case you can have the trashy gay bar version of unisex bathrooms. Very little privacy, but people are still doing drugs among other things

Yeah if anything these laws gave men the justification to angrily and violently enter women’s restrooms. And that’s the purpose of them, it’s just that shockingly often these men do that against someone they weren’t intended to target doing so.

Good, a lot of countries don’t care to investigate

It’s also great for parties. It’s inoffensive, anyone who’s good for pizza can default to it. It’s often the only meatless option ordered (though I prefer something with as many veggies as I can get)

News to me that she learned the power of human empathy

Good to know, glad to not live there anymore

The thing is, even if that was true, massive amounts of unpaid labor with long commitments done solely for the love of it, are the first things to go when it’s looking like you’re gonna need to pick up more paid labor

To the detractors, this experiment is based off one done in Australia, and it can have good results. Some may decide they actually don’t need to drive as much and start using more public transit, and others will be able to more precisely point to pain points with not using a car.

Yes, they need more transit oriented development and better transit access, but this should be able to help

Yeah, a train won’t do much without transit oriented development.

Defederation is often seen as a last resort and generally seen pretty negatively. Defederating everyone would also get rid of most content

It’s going to impact initial emotions, which filters how they see it after even as they imagine it different

You get used to it as an eternal renter

We don’t use checks except very rarely and we have manufactured houses (called mobile homes here). They just don’t come with the land under them so they constantly lose value and cost rent for the lot, are generally smaller and worse than in situ buildings, and are stigmatized as “for poor people” because of the fact that they’re cheap in the moment and expensive long term, which is the opposite of normal housing.

To clarify what others are saying, the design and layouts are repeated, but done in situ. So especially in a new house/neighborhood you’ll have a neighborhood with maybe 1-4 variations (possibly also mirrored versions of them), but each was made on the spot with a mostly standardized lot. Then over time some will slowly be modified and they’ll all get their owners’ touches to them.

It’s very much an industrial process in the suburbs starting after the world wars.

I think the happy medium is modernism. A handful of colors that look good together, maybe a simple pattern or two. Idk i think the 60s and 70s both had great home aesthetics