Witchfire
@Witchfire@lemmy.world
Queer tiefling fire witch
- Comment on If I am speaking aloud and say I wish someone would kill so and so. And another person does it. Am I on the hook for murder? How would I defend myself in court? 11 hours ago:
Like Minecraft!
- Comment on Welcome to Central Park, New York City 12 hours ago:
There’s virtually no traffic enforcement in NYC, other than street parking
- Comment on If a person gets busted for let's say a 3rd DWI or small bag of weed or something minor, and escapes the county jail. Will they launch a manhunt after you like they do with killers and such? 1 day ago:
A 3rd DWI is not the same as a small bag of weed
- Comment on What would you do if you got message that says "do not look outside" 3 days ago:
Look outside, probably
- Comment on Cheapest sandwiches 5 days ago:
Toast sandwich
- Comment on Do rich people only wear designer clothes? Like, every piece? 1 week ago:
My partner and I dream of affording a $1Mil house on a shared income, you really need to rethink what you consider (or don’t consider) wealthy
- Comment on Wouldn't transitioning a male prisoner to female make him/her less violent? 1 week ago:
That’s what they did to Alan Turing for being gay. He killed himself.
- Comment on A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape 2 weeks ago:
It’s to avoid speed cameras and tolls. Sometimes they’ll swap them out with fake plates or dealer plates too.
I’ve got a set of old NYC film plates on my wall. They’re flimsy plastic, but from a distance you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. They even have grime painted on them.
- Comment on How does one figure out what to do, after getting out and done with high school? 3 weeks ago:
Likewise, it’s possible to change careers 10 years in. I was laid off earlier this year and don’t really feel like going back.
- Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely. 3 weeks ago:
I’m in for saying riot police should quit their jobs in shame following the Roe v Wade ruling. Nowadays I’m blocked from even accessing reddit.com for some fucking reason, even without a VPN
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 3 weeks ago:
You’re Just Asking Questions™ eh?
Firstly, so much of the world is actively hostile to trans people that trying to use it as a defense would backfire in the vast majority of courts. The trans panic defense is unfortunately a very real thing that lets killers and rapists get away with heinous crimes. A recent example of this is in Tennessee, where a court overturned a murder conviction upon finding out that the victim was trans - news article.
Secondly, assuming you do make it to a court where they have to plead, under oath, that they are trans and should be sent to a women’s prison, and it somehow doesn’t backfire- now they have to show proof of this history. A random cis dude claiming to be a woman is very unlikely to have a documented history of dysphoria or transition.
I don’t think you understand how much emotional and physical labor is actually involved in transition. Just getting approval for HRT is usually a huge task, with people often waiting up to years for it. HRT is a lifelong marathon, not a sprint. That’s not even talking about surgery which is a whole other can of worms. Now, I’m not arguing for transmedicalism and you can be a fully valid trans person without taking the medical route, but even then theyre likely to have at minimum a recorded history of dysphoria with a therapist. It’s really not feasible to just “claim you’re trans” overnight.
I find it particularly interesting that you assume being in the US would benefit you as it’s literally heading towards a trans genocide. Fwiw, I fled the US a while ago when I saw the writing on the wall.
Please take some time to meet actual trans people and talk to us, rather than resorting to strawmen
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been on HRT for 12+ years. My body fat and hormones are literally nowhere near “genetic male”. I’d also love to see what emergency meds you’re talking about that care more about hormones and where on your body your fat is than something like body weight.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not how that works
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 3 weeks ago:
“biological sex” does jack shit at telling a doctor what a trans person’s biological characteristics are. It’s a dogwhistle used to imply that trans women have the same violent sexual tendencies as many cis men.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 3 weeks ago:
They’ve been doing just that to trans women. Look into a practice called V-Coding
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 3 weeks ago:
We don’t.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s so fuckin bad now. I was an early adopter of them, they were so much better back in the day. Nowadays if I ask it to turn on the lights it starts playing Lights by Ellie Goulding. Ask it to set an alarm and it’ll make your bedroom red.
- Comment on Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream? 5 weeks ago:
Lol I had one back in the day, well over a decade ago. Even had a polycarbonate body. Loved the thing.
- Comment on Why is Christa Pike from TN being kept alive after two failed execution attempts? 5 weeks ago:
She also warned them that she had a medical condition that made them ineffective. Unfortunately, the pigs who sign up to administer those drugs are in it for the pain and misery.
- Comment on In the US can a felon own a gun if it is dismantled and hanging like a piece of art? 5 weeks ago:
Couldn’t you just weld the barrel sealed like they do for prop guns?
- Comment on How do fonts for people with dyslexia work? 1 month ago:
It looks like that one targets low vision more than dyslexia so it lacks things like heavy bottoms. However, they are both easier to read than typical typefaces.
Similarly, the US govt used Calibri for a short time since it’s more accessible than other typefaces. But as with anything intended to help people, Trump axed it
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 month ago:
Yes. Viagra, breast implants, breast reduction, hair transplants, laser hair removal, cosmetic surgery, even Musk’s botched penis job are all forms of gender affirming surgery
- Comment on Can you open up an unmanned store in the US and will it stay in business or close down? 1 month ago:
I’ve seen similar in Canada (though not public public), but never saw anything like that in ~25yrs in the US
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 month ago:
They basically wish they could be Adrian Veidt
- Comment on In about 3 or 4 years can I move to Canada with 250k US and get myself a trailer and a couple acres to grow pot for the community? Get a license to sell it to local businesses? 1 month ago:
My partner got her citizenship through ancestry, though it was relatively easier since she has a much closer connection.
You’ll have to dig up every document to prove your line of ancestry back to Canada. Word of mouth is not enough, they’re looking for certified birth/death/baptismal records. If your ancestry comes from Quebec, I hope you can read liturgicsl French.
Be warned that the cost and processing times for these have skyrocketed recently. The cost for a record from the BANQ went from around $30 to close to $300 iirc
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 1 month ago:
There’s a specific chemical extract from some berry that makes EVERYTHING taste like Splenda. You can bite into a lemon and it will taste sweet. Lasts a few minutes, fun novelty
- Comment on What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need? 1 month ago:
Bring back pre-Raegan tax rates
- Comment on TicketMaster has started requiring government IDs and facial scans 2 months ago:
Somehow it’s still in TM/LN
- Comment on Number of trackers and cookies I had to go thru after installing a currency converter app 2 months ago:
I miss when you could toss an app developer $5 and never have to deal with ads or data mining. Nowadays everything is a subscription model absolutely riddled with both.
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 2 months ago:
Autocorrect c’est pas mon ami 😂