I won against my landlord. They’re used to people not having lawyers and tend to be pretty considerate. Be organized. Judges like that. I had a binder with a table of contents and every page numbered, also key info highlighted. I also had two witnesses - a police officer and a health and safety inspector, which bumped…

I don’t think you have to pay taxes on monetary awards like that.

10 million may be a lot to an individual person, but it’s not even a drop in the bucket for the government. Khadr getting this money (and attention) decreases the risk something like this will happen again, at least for the next while. It doesn’t matter whether we like the guy or not, he was a child soldier.

There is good news, though. Automation will bring in a basic income (there really isn’t any choice), which will relieve poverty for those who are poor now. And the job of the future will be permaculture agriculture, which can restore the land/water/etc. surprisingly quickly. It can produce new soil at the rate of 1-2"…

I know the feeling. I’ve gained weight and and apparently am no longer in the natural fibre size range. So I made one from a Burda pattern out of scrap flannel and leftover elastic. I started with a D cup, then had to increase the cup size by quite a bit and take in the band. I don’t want to think about what cup size…

Except that sex will not stop being strongly bimodal, because it’s necessary to have two sexes to reproduce. Stop reproducing and the species goes extinct. That’s not true for gender. Gender is more about how we organize people in society into roles, and that’s gotten a lot more sophisticated, to the point where…

There’s a lot going on on Twitter. Follow some trans activists and you’ll be sure to see some conflict. I’m not on Twitter myself but I keep seeing screengrabs and links to debates.

There are trans activists who *do* want to erase biological sex. (In some cases it’s their dysphoria talking, in others it looks more like misogyny.) There are people who say that biological sex is a social construct rather than a physical reality. Most natal females are going to end up being called TERFs by at least…

Sex is strongly bimodal, which is not exactly the same as binary, but it’s pretty close. I think it’s reasonable to consider someone female if they can get pregnant and give birth.

By quite a bit. :) Correcting for inflation, it might even surpass Lawrence of Arabia as the top domestic grossing WWI film. (It already has surpassed LofA internationally.)

Me too! Good luck.

I like the feel of the wind in the hair on my legs. But what really freaked me out is just after shaving, hot water wasn’t hot anymore, and cold water wasn’t cold. That was enough for me.

Nothing about plucking eyebrows? My mother cornered me and forced me to pluck my eyebrows when I was 16. It took 20 years to work up the courage to stop doing it. (There was no way she could pressure me into shaving my legs - I tried it a couple of times and could not cope with the loss of sensation, so that was it…

Oh, I see. Yeah, it’s a cliche to have the “love interest”. They did spend a lot of time alone on a boat together, and experienced a major battle just after they met, so that probably helped with the bonding. Plus she may have wanted to try out a man just to see. I think people were less realistic about relationships…

That’s weird. How long were you eating in a balanced way. A few months? A few years? If it was only a few months, maybe you got tired and couldn’t keep it up. If it’s been a lot longer than that, are you emotional about something? Has anything happened to throw you off balance?

I didn’t celebrate Canada Day. I don’t usually. When I lived in Ottawa I would sometimes go see the fireworks, and do other things, if there was someone else to hang out with. But I don’t think I’ve ever done anything for CD in any other city I’ve lived in. For me it’s not about celebrating Canada rah rah! It’s just…

I found binaural beats helpful. You can get free samples online. (Don’t use if you get seizures.)

Dieting doesn’t really work. The weight will come off when it’s ready if you’re otherwise in good shape (not under stress, etc.). I would remind yourself and them of that as needed, then focus on all the good things in your life. (Also, you may go up a size or two in perimenopause and that’s just life. What are they…

I would actually put more money into savings, until you are comfortable with how much you have, rather than pay off your credit cards. The important thing is to not use the credit cards, and having savings helps with that. You don’t have to pay any more than the minimum payment on your credit cards, and you can build…

I don’t have any useful advice on not feeling like you’re burdening people (I’m taking notes here myself), but I just want to encourage you to keep processing this stuff and not bottle it up. The more you can process it, the faster you will recover.