Fiona

Nichr mehr: Seit 2021 ist jeder Grad der Behinderung ≥20 ist über den Behindertenpauschbetrag direktes Geld wert. (Tatsächlich ein Grund warum ich mir überlege meinen klar vorliegenden Autismus diagnostizieren zu lassen, falls ich nach Deutschland zurückziehe…)

Higher education is truly a scam.

It really depends. From what I hear about the US a lot of it is there. But in some ways that is also the exception.

Compare Germany: By most rankings KIT is one of, if not the top university for computer science in the country. The requirements to get a spot there are literally just that you are qualified to study (aka: have the right high school diploma) and haven’t lost your right to study computer science at a public university by conclusively failing to do so at a different German university. When I was there until 2019 we payed a bit over 100€ per semester in administrative fees and got a limited train ticket in exchange.

The only selection criteria were “did you pass your exams?” that during the bachelors were almost all written exams that were the same for everyone. What you learned was to an extend up to you, it was a university, not an apprenticeship, so there certainly was a significant focus on theory, but especially during the masters a lot just fully depended on what you wanted.

The main cost at the time was just general housing and living costs, which in my case was payed for by my mom, but for those for whom this is not an option, provided that they were either German citizens or legal residents for reasons other than the education, there was BAföG, which comes down to an interest-free loan from which you only have to pay back 50%.

And yes, I definitely learned a lot of useful stuff there.

you definitely don’t have the authority to say he’s definitely beyond ANY help. That’s the part I find ridiculous, not the part where you think there’s something wrong with him

It’s an approach known as perpetrator type theory (or “Tätertypenlehre” in German) that was notably deployed by the Nazis to be able to punish people they didn’t like much harder than others, by allowing them to say for example that someone was inherently and unchangeably a murderer and should thus be executed. The crime was essentially just proof of that, what you got punished for, was what some judge deemed to be the innate criminal personality you had. In particular this allowed to hand out lighter sentences to “Arians” and to decide that Jews for example were inherently bad and could thus be punished much harsher for the same crime.

It’s very obvious from your posts that you neither know what the purpose of a punishment in a legal state is, nor what the effects of them are.

The idea that a multi year sentence is “getting of easy” is insane. And from what you are writing I get very strong vibes that you are one of those people who still subscribe to debunked ideas of perpetrator types, which are unironically Nazi-ideology.

The world that you want to create is not a safer one, quite the opposite in fact. Rehabilitation is the by far most important aspect of a punishment and the idea that crimes like the one in question are committed by people who carefully weigh how many years they are willing to spend in prison and could thus be deterred is beyond ridiculous.

Sorry, das sehe ich hier echt nicht:

• Verlust oder vollständiger Schwund beider Nebenhoden und/oder Zeugungsunfähigkeit (Impotentia generandi): 0
  • in jüngerem Lebensalter bei noch bestehendem Kinderwunsch: 20
• Verlust der Gebärmutter und/oder Sterilität: 0
  • in jüngerem Lebensalter bei noch bestehendem Kinderwunsch: 20
• Unterentwicklung, Verlust oder Ausfall beider Eierstöcke, ohne Kinderwunsch und ohne wesentliche Auswirkung auf den Hormonhaushalt - immer in der Postmenopause: 10
  • im jüngeren Lebensalter bei noch bestehendem Kinderwunsch oder bei unzureichender Ausgleichbarkeit des Hormonausfalls durch Substitution: 20-30

Sprich: Verlust der Zeugungsfähigkeit begründet für alle nur im „jüngeren“ Alter bei Kinderwunsch einen GdS>0.

• Verlust des Penis: 50

• Verlust der Brust (Mastektomie, nur bei Frauen)

  • einseitig: 30
  • beidseitig: 40

• Vollständige Entfernung der Vulva: 40

• Senkung der Scheidenwand, Vorfall der Scheide und/oder der Gebärmutter

  • ohne Harninkontinenz oder mit geringer Stressinkontinenz (Grad I): 0-10
  • mit stärkerer Harninkontinenz und/oder stärkeren Senkungsbeschwerden: 20-40
  • mit völliger Harninkontinenz: 50-60
  • bei ungünstiger Versorgungsmöglichkeit: 70 Ulzerationen sind ggf. zusätzlich zu bewerten.

• Isolierte Senkung der Scheidenhinterwand mit leichten Defäkationsstörungen: 0-10

• Scheiden-Gebärmutteraplasie, ohne Plastik, nach Vollendung des 14. Lebensjahres (einschließlich Sterilität): 40

Vor dem Hintergrund, dass Männer halt tatsächlich wenig andere Sexualorgane haben, und der Totalverlust von Vulva und Scheide hier nicht gelistet ist, wirkt dass auf mich jetzt nicht absurd.

Im übrigen wird in dieser Tabelle so viel mit medizinischen Fachbegriffen um sich geworfen, dass ich da auch ganz generell zur Zurückhaltung mit solchen Beurteilungen neigen und raten würde, weil da halt dann doch offensichtlich Menschen mit einem gewissen Maß an Ahnung beteiligt waren und ich vorsichtig wäre da ohne eine solche Pauschalurteile zu fällen.

Trace the execs

Importantly you need to trace the execs who copied it, not the ones who decided to try it the first time. Giving things a try and not immediately throwing it away when it isn’t perfect is a good thing and behavior that needs to be encouraged. The problem is when others start copying it blindly because it is new before it could demonstrate benefits. It’s the people jumping on hype that are the problem, not the people giving new things a try, even if they may fail.

It should not be legal to hand out life sentences to minors, period.

In Germany the maximum sentence for minors is 10 years and depending on your developmental state you can count as a minor until you are 21 (You are always treated as one if you are under 18). And that is how it should be. Locking people up for life helps nobody.

This is a completely artificial US problem that has been completely solved in Germany and many other countries by requiring a 1€ deposit to unlock the cart and returning it when you relock it. So, complain to the store for failing to use basic countermeasures.

I’m not saying it’s an easy line to draw because you obviously don’t want to create incentives for bad journalism, but don’t want to make it too high of a bar to get into in the first place. I think you’d need to take things like the number of readers, the factuality of headings and content, the originality and the investigative value into account and be able to at least temporarily cut of bad outlets that spread fake/hate/… while at the same time ensuring that inconvenient truths make it out.

It’s not an easy task, but I feel there is more room to get somewhere useful than with the current model of billionaire-owned media that outdo each other with rage-bait and inaccurate/misleading/falsly balanced/biased reporting…

The honest answer are general fees like they are used for public broadcasters. It’s not a perfect system either and it requires significant effort to keep things neutral, but overall it seems to have the best results if you compare the quality of the outcome.

Also eigentlich wollte ich ja vorschlagen dass Jeder der sich so ein Auto kauft während des Zulassungszeitraums regelmäßig Testosteronblocker nehmen müssen sollte, damit niemand auf die Idee kommt sich sowas zu kompensationszwecken zu kaufen…

Aber dann ist mir aufgefallen, wie viele Transfrauen sich dann für so ein Auto in Schulden stürzen würden, damit sie endlich offiziell T-blocker bekommen können…

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From what I found that is a brand name for Bicalutamide (“Bica”). AFAIK it is a competitive antagonist for the androgen-receptor, which means that it will bind to all the places that Testosteron would bind to without activating the “sensor”, thereby preventing Testosteron from doing the same with effect. The consequence of this is that your T will actually increase, but still not pose any problem if your dose is high enough. The difficulty is then, that you cannot really measure whether your T is properly blocked, because the blood-levels will still be high. Endocrinologists hate it as a consequence, but if you are fine with that, that’s okay.

Other than that Bica seems to be popular with those who take it, but you will require a liver-function test a while in since it can cause some very severe liver-issues with some people (AFAIR you either are susceptible or you are not, so if it’s fine a few month in it should stay fine, but I might be wrong on that; DEFINITELY check the details on that one).

XXY und was auch immer fällt nicht unter F64.

Das ist eigentlich relativ orthogonal: Eine Freundin von mir ist trans und hat gleichzeitig Klinefelder, was zwar gewisse Auswirkungen auf Dinge wie Anatomie hat aber prinzipiell weder an der Geschlechtsdysphorie noch an der Notwendigkeit hormoneller und gegebenenfalls chirurgischer Eingriffe ändert.

It’s up to you of course, but don’t expect this to do all that much. I’m on 12.5mg daily and before my last blood-test I took ≈4mg E transdermal and even at that I was still very much on the upper end of the female range for T.

Then get that estrofem ready to use anyways, since adult human bodies are not made to have no sex hormone. If you get depressions or feel bad in general, add E to the mix anyways.

Also: Cypro (Cyproterone Acetate, Androcur is a marketing name for it) requires much higher doses if you do mono-therapy than if you use it to support E: With E the general wisdom is to not exceed 12.5mg/daily and rather increase E-intake if T isn’t properly suppressed, whereas without you may need 50 to 100mg per day, with a massively increased risk of bad side effects.

There is a reason why pretty much no one who has the choice does it that way, but it’s of course up to you!

IIRC, the primary thing to cause breast-growth is in fact blocking T and doing so can definitely cause it.

For immediate mitigation of hair-loss, which is the most pressing thing if you already went through full puberty you can use finasteride/dustasteride, which are DHT-blockers. In rare cases they can act like weak T-blockers, but that is an exceptional side-effect; after that waiting for half a year will just make you miserable for an additional six month, which may be worth it, depending on your risk-assessment.

OTOH: You won’t see most of your school mates afterwards and if you already have six months of effects and arrive as visibly trans at uni, it can make getting into communities at uni easier.

I’m eight month in and have B- or C-cups. But I’m also much luckier than most of my transfem friends in that regard.

Vor ein paar Monaten hier: „Beamten kriegen riesige unfaire Vorteile“.

Heute: „Beamten werden schlechter bezahlt, deswegen lohnt sich das gar nicht.“

Der Beamtenstatus kommt mit enormen Vor- und Nachteilen, bei weitem nicht alle sind finanzieller Natur. Die Entscheidung ist entsprechend kompliziert und will gut überlegt sein, ein pauschales gut oder schlecht ist da schlicht zu vereinfachend.

There has to be a meaningful number of companies where each individually is spending more on adobe licenses than it would cost them to pay a bunch of developers to get gimp to the point where it is a fully sufficient alternative. But hey, the only thing more important to capitalists than making profit seems to be, to not go for cheaper FLOSS options, rather than spending pointlessly large amounts of money on proprietary software…

just imagine the bank would give your payment info to insurance companies for example

That would be a very severe violation of the GDPR and whatever bank-privacy laws are in place. On top of that, which insurance would even be affected by it? I don’t own a car, health insurance comes at non-discriminatory rates here and why would my liability insurance be affected by what I buy? Like: It’s genuinely a non-issue here.

And even if, cash is still a much better option for everything.