Congratulations! I’m just past a month, and I absolutely get it. It’s especially fun on those days when you’re feeling extra dysphoric 🥲

Something that’s helped me a lot was realizing that it’s just a really lazy coping/defense mechanism from the brain. Being trans is kind of (incredibly) scary, and so it’s just those echos of fear and doubt saying “Well, maybe if you just weren’t trans, things would be way easier!”. Then you can calmly tell that to shut the hell up, and continue living your best life :3

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But you can only sell if someone is buying, and the moment you list that huge skyscraper on the market and find out that the only offers you’re getting are 1/10 the asking price, suddenly the other massive commercial buildings you have on your balance sheets (and those of all your rich buddies) suddenly drop 90% in value, and it’s revealed the emperor has no clothes

Accidentally screenshotting your bank acct and routing number is the only one I can really think of.

That’s because conservatives are very individualistic for whatever reason. Instead of seeing systemic issues they see bad apples.

Because conservatism inherently relies on fear of change, simple thinking, and avoiding the discomfort of questioning the status quo at all costs. You want to believe that everything is hunky-dory the way it is, and avoid thinking too hard about all the ways it might not be.

It’s uncomfortable to think that the system you’re participating in and benefitting from might be the cause of it. No one ever wants to think they’re the bad guy. It’s the reason they hate stuff like CRT so much, because it’s an incredibly uncomfortable thought to imagine that everything they’ve known and tried to maintain is actually a complete nightmare and they’ve been part of it in some way.

The world is much scarier when you see the pain and suffering so many experience, and it’s through no fault of their own. No matter what they do or didn’t do, some people just get dealt a shit hand, either by chance, or because of systemic issues. It’s much easier to say “The system I believe in is totally fine and just, it’s their fault they haven’t been able to reach the same place I have”.

It’s almost always whatever you you threw out last week though.

Ah, I guess I meant that you’re getting 2 of the 3 phases, which is 208V phase-to-phase, or 120V phase to neutral.

Residential service is a single split 240v phase off of a 480V 3-phase line, while something like an apartment is 2 phase 208Y, with a single phase is 120V.

Getting rid of Title IX protections is going to make surviving pretty fucking hard if you wind up with a bigoted manager who decides to fire you… Or just companies decide they don’t want to hire trans people at all.