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Yep. I removed their comment locally after replying to it. The reply was because those removals won't federate
Not so much.
Sex and gender are distinct elements. So whilst they're not the same thing, they do interact with each other and influence each other to some extent or another. If they didn't, then the world wouldn't be full of people whose gender and sex are in alignment. For that matter, if they didn't, we wouldn't even understand the concept of sex and gender being in alignment.
Also, "transgenderism" is a term popular with transphobes, because it frames trans people as a belief/ideology, rather than acknowledging their identity.
no non-sapient creature can ever be trans, because you need consciousness to have a gender identity in the first place.
But for all of that, strictly speaking, this is true.
Were it a "curious, socratic style question" you wouldn't have framed your question with loaded terminology designed to make trans people sound unreasonable and fake.
Friends was probably the wrong word. What I was really referring to is community and social events. My good friends are still there in my life, but the broader queer community is now harder to connect with, and lots of social events and meetups that are happening in my city happen without me even knowing.
Are you happy? Is your partner happy?
There's your answer
I experienced this when I got rid of facebook (or more accurately, when I wouldn't provide them with my ID to get my account unlocked).
But the other side of it is that a lot of the social groups that I was involved with, and a lot of my contact with my friends, was done through facebook, and my real world social life has been impacted by losing facebook.
I still wouldn't go back, but it's a first hand example of just how wide the facebook network effect can reach.
Feishin. It's a navidrome/jellyfin player.
I love it, because it has smart playlists that are actually smart! It lets me create "random" playlists from my music collection, in a way that works for me.
Transformers (the original G1 animated one).
Robocop
The Never Ending Story
The Dark Crystal
Another problem is that cosmic expansion affects the wire itself.
Not if its mithril :P
Says the two day old account...