I have, and never will, understand how the fuck being trans gives you any sort of advantage in chess. Only thing I have ever rationalized about this is that the people saying it surely must be sexist cave people.
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No matter what, don't go in the winter.
As someone who hates the cold with a passion, there's nothing worse than waking up cold in the morning because you either didn't have on enough to keep you warm during a cold winter night in a sleeping bag or had on too much and wake up cold from sweating throughout the night.
Winter campouts are the only camps I absolutely do not miss at all from my time at scouts. The cold mornings are enough for me to not suggest it, despite it not actually being that bad after you've warmed up.
Though, on a more serious note, one of the things I do remember being taught but never followed through with for various reasons is to put your clothes for the next day under your sleeping bag so that way the next day they should be warm or at least warmer so you aren't putting on freezing cold clothes. Especially good for things like jeans because there's nothing worse than putting on jeans with frigid cold metal buttons if your hands are already trembling a little from the cold winter morning in general.
IDK about anyone else, but if I could be secretly paid to spread anti-communist propaganda, so long as it's a connection I can easily hide from people as long as I'm alive, I would be taking secret payments. As it is, my family wouldn't think anything about it because they know my stance on this kinda stuff. And I could probably get away with it so long as I'm given a grace period to slowly start showing myself off more as anti-communist on Mastodon.
Would be up my alley, especially if/when war inevitably breaks out between China and Taiwan. I've already got plans to support any side supporting Taiwan if I'm in a country that gets dragged into the war, so yeah. Can't do military service because of my heart condition and I doubt any reasonable military would let me in, so I'd be down to be a propagandist and be doing civilian duty for said country. Even if it means being forced to learn a new language.
I haven't been necessarily patriotic for a long time because why pledge allegiance to a single nation? The only reason I really care about July 4 is the fireworks. It's more tradition than anything that I see them.
Anyways, both of his terms make me feel vindicated in not being patriotic in a country.
Haven't been touching my Steam profile a lot recently for games, but I've at least been doing some Gemcraft Frostborn Shadows.
Other than that, I actually got back into Sonic Lost Worlds on 3DS. As much as I hate the special stages, one single stage on an unmodded PC version of the game made me realize that movement sucks a little less on the 3DS version.
In other words, I don't endorse getting the Steam version of you have a 3DS unless you wanna mod it to make the movements less jank. Definitely not a good Sonic game, regardless of device, because of the movement like turning being atrocious.
On a personal level, I don't trust personal diagnoses for things like autism because, from my understanding, it could be something similar to ADHD or something else that might be confused for autism that's causing any issues you might have.
I would personally at least let people you tell this to, if you go through with using a self-diagnosis, that it's not confirmed so they don't get confused or whatever else they may feel if you ever somehow get diagnosed in the future.
Can't speak for everyone, but I'd be a little annoyed if someone kept confidently claiming it's gotta be autism and then they get diagnosed and it turns out to be something else. Not annoyed enough to wanna do anything, but more annoyed about the confidence about a self-diagnosis.
This is the type of ad I absolutely don't mind because they aren't for absolutely soulless companies that will fuck your grandma and then sue you for emotional damages afterwards.
When I originally saw it at that price, I knew I absolutely had to buy it. Have yet to start it, but I sure am glad I bought it.
Regardless of whether you're in a part of the country where the effects of you speaking up won't have as much consequence, I don't think it's morally wrong to try and keep yourself, friends, family, and loved ones safe by not speaking out.
It's either 1, 2, or 6 for me. All depends on what I'm wearing that day because I sure as hell ain't changing at night if I don't have to.
Not gonna say which way I do it because that was my old phone dot pin thing and I'm paranoid, but for that I did something different to both of them.
On the whole hate speech thing, I posted something about Odysee here and someone made some hopeful "if enough people start using it and drowning out the hate speech" kind of comment. IDK if I can find it because I'd need to do a deep dive into my old .ee account, but I don't believe that things like hate could ever be drowned out on fringe sites like that.