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  • One of my friends from high school was a ze for a while, while actively transitioning, and sort of going in and out of fem/ masc presentations, and dressing. Once she got her breasts done she was just a she though.

    They were very unbiased by pronouns and even dead- naming though. Like if you asked, they’d say they were a ze, but really didnt care if anyone still called them he or even she, and werent going to correct someone even if they used the old masculine name. There was also an aspect of the original name being pretty unique, whereas the new one was a more generic one, so it was often a matter of

    “oh, you know sarah…” “Sarah?” “you know, used to be Gerrard…” “oh, that Sarah! Oh course I know her!”




  • What do you mean? Ignore the kayfabe anger / hostility with Netanyahu for a minute, and this might be the best deal trumps ever negotiated by his standards ( there’s always a winner and a loser in a negotiation- and Netanyahu os a friend, hamas is an enemy)

    He got his ally (not the israel- us alliance, the trump- Netanyahu one) exactly what he wanted- all the living hostages, and many of the dead ones, which was one of the main Israeli complaints about the war.

    He gave both sides a tough guy act, hamas bought that he was really going to be tough on israel, and gave up their main leverage in exchange for prisoners israel doesnt really care about, and didnt get a peace deal, just a ceasefire, and the begining of negotiations- and they didnt even get a good starting point for those.

    The baseline is basicaly gaza surrendering all weapons, disolving hamas, and getting an israeli ally-controlled government/ reconstruction. (All that reconstruction money is going to get eaten up in graft by trump allies) And If they refuse, trump drops the tough on Netanyahu act, blames everything on hamas for refusing to negotiate, peace talks and ceasefire over, and the killing starts again in earnest, now with no fear of hitting Israeli hostages.

    Tldr, the anger with bibi was fake- and hamas bought it. They did the half of the deal (hostage swap) without getting any guarantee in return, and now trump will push them until he has ‘no choice’ but to go back to full throated backing of israel’s total war.






  • My dad apparently once told my Nana that he’d just written his second $25k check to his IRA that year.

    My mom was quick to correct him- Ira was the name of the financial planner. The money was in mixed retirement accounts, maxing iras and 401ks for both of them that year.


  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldKnow the difference
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    7 days ago

    If you allow nazis to keep promoting nazi ideas, you will inevitably have to fight more nazis at some point.

    If ypu ban nazi speech as the one major caveat to free speech, then they will never be able to exist in large enough numbers that you HAVE to fight them.

    Its the logical conclusion of the paradox of tolerance.








  • If the branches were tangled enough to keep it from falling, they were also likely enough to keep it from pinching.

    Also, with smaller pines with a lean like that, you often dont need to cut a wedge to cut them down. You can cut in about 1/3 of the on the underside, or however far you can go before it starts to affect the trunks integrity, then switch to the outside. Since the tree’s weight is pulling it away from the blade, you dont need to create the extra space /uneveness of a wedge to keep it leaning the proper direction.

    My guess it that- someone back cut from the bottom, then finished from the topside, expecting the weight to Crack the wood in the last inch or so and drop it away from them, but the branches were tangled enough at the top to keep it from falling, leaving them in position of having to separate the tops without putting themselves in harms way.