[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

I'm happy for you. I was born in a red state that doesn't allow changing info on a birth certificate. I only lived there for 10 months as an infant, and in a blue state the rest of my life. So it will never be changed, the M will stare back at me and out me to the upcoming government if I ever need to use it.

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago

I'm rushing to get my name legally changed so my updated passport can be correct. My current one has 5 more years, but so it's all my amab info. I'm terrified of how little time is left.

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe you'll survive, bunch of people will survive, but not a lot of the minorities the Republicans currently have in their crosshairs. Maybe you'll find all the skeletons in the camps after however many years or decades it will take to defeat fascism.

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 days ago

I'm so sorry. But on the one hand, if you haven't started anything yet, that'll be less of a paper trail for you. I've been on hrt for a year, and I can only imagine they'll try and ban the drugs entirely. I haven't changed my name, but I have changed my gender marker. You're losing time, time you'll sadly never get back, but in my case, I will lose time, my meds, all the progress I've made. I... don't know how to deal with this.

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 days ago

We sure do... I've been on hrt for over a year now, at least, so there's that.

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 days ago

Me too. Although I'm not out yet. I'm thinking I'll need to scramble, now, to put in my name/passport changes before I potentially lose the chance. Of course, I don't pass, don't have the wardrobe, makeup or body to pass. I wanted to wait a little longer before coming out, lose weight, fix my shit, you know. Don't have the money to do anything, change anything how I want.

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 days ago

I feel ill. I wish I could go back to sleep, but I'm too wound up on fear and trepidation.

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 72 points 4 days ago

An abusive partner accusing the other of cheating is very often a projection of the fact they themselves had been cheating. Since they know they would cheat, and were/are, they either assume the other person is the same way, or simply don't want to draw attention to their affair. It's an awful thing.

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 months ago

You're still making them do something they didn't consent to. They will still chew on bugs and small prey animals (when they get access to them, which isn't often for indoor cats), because it's etched into their behavior. They will take every opportunity they get. You can't make a cat vegan, you can only force a cat on a vegan diet. Can't you understand the qualitative difference there?

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A person understands the reason they're eating only plants with no animal byproducts. An animal doesn't. An animal is just confused and irritated that their food was changed for the worse by their owner. If their diet and mountain of supplement pills/powders did not actually meet their dietary needs because it wasn't an exact match for their regular food or natural prey, they would still end up malnourished. And not every cat's dietary needs are the same or stay the same as they age.

Malnourished or not, you also wouldn't be able to stop your cat from finding a mouse or insect which snuck into your home and devouring them to enhance their compromised diet. You cannot make a carnivore vegan, you can only abuse them into living in a way they do not naturally live and do not want to live, until they find a way to avoid you for just long enough to go against your wishes and savage another animal, as is their instinctive nature.

Furthermore, do you really think animals have no joy in what they eat, that that's only a human quality? Nutrition doesn't matter to the animal, they just want to eat what they want to eat. Cats almost never turn down an offer of cream or milk despite 90% or more of them being lactose intolerant. It's not nutrients their body needs or can absorb, and actively makes them feel ill. But they want it anyway because it's tasty and they aren't able to consider the consequences of their actions as far in advance as humans can.

Edit: In fact, going off that same point but for humans, you could probably make a human live off some kind of tasteless nutrient bar that gives everything you could need, but it wouldn't mean they'd enjoy it. Oh wait, we did do that before, as a cruel punishment for prisoners in the US, fucking nutraloaf!

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 9 months ago

No, it actually is The Onion. It's a Clickhole article. Clickhole is a side website The Onion runs.

[-] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 11 months ago

Cheaper development budgets, no room for QA, rushed out the door; still sold for 70 bucks.

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