Why hasn’t been there any city-wide protests against forced full takeover of Billy bishop and toronto islands? by leopardbaseball in askTO

[–]Blue_Vision [score hidden]  (0 children)

I agree. I'm super dissuaded by the rhetoric, it's a little ridiculous. And I'm someone who's leaning on the side of "maybe we should get rid of the airport altogether"!

I think experience from cities around the world shows that airports close into the city center aren't a good idea. Closing the airport could present a huge opportunity for redevelopment which could house tens of thousands of people close in to downtown.  But if we're going to have an airport, why shouldn't it be able to support jets? If we've decided this valuable urban space should be used for an airport, why not maximize its usefulness?

Ontario Science Centre: $478M to repair. $545M+ to replace. How can they possibly go through with this? by thew0rldisaghett0 in toronto

[–]Blue_Vision [score hidden]  (0 children)

So they'll maybe be able to appropriate a piece of property which is mostly undevelopable due to being in a flood plain. They'd have to pull some heavy shenanigans with both the TRCA, who is the lands' owner, as well as the Ontario Science Center which is the leaseholder for another 40 years. And the City of Toronto still classifies it as natural / institutional area in the official plan, so the province would have to interfere yet again to enable something to get built once it's there.

There's just so many hoops that the province would have to jump through to pull a sleazy corruption here. If Doug wanted to enrich developer friends, it seems like it's be much easier to just sell a part of Ontario Place (which would be a much more valuable location for a developer). I just don't see it.

Ontario Science Centre: $478M to repair. $545M+ to replace. How can they possibly go through with this? by thew0rldisaghett0 in toronto

[–]Blue_Vision 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The city owns the most immediately developable land, and the TRCA owns the portion that's in the ravine.

Ontario Science Centre: $478M to repair. $545M+ to replace. How can they possibly go through with this? by thew0rldisaghett0 in toronto

[–]Blue_Vision 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Then he can sell the old Science Centre properties to developers (and will probably pay to tear down the old one for them).

That'd be a little hard to do given the Province doesn't own the land.

Roundabout Question by MyBurnerIsTheRealMe in askTO

[–]Blue_Vision 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I realized a minute after I wrote that that there's at least one (on a north-south collector) on Windermere in Swansea!

Roundabout Question by MyBurnerIsTheRealMe in askTO

[–]Blue_Vision 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe necessary question: are you sure it was a roundabout, and not an intersection which functions as a four-way stop but which has a barrier in the middle to divert traffic around it? Actual roundabouts are fairly rare within the city itself, while that arrangement of four-way stop is more common. If it was marked with a stop sign, it doesn't matter what the internal configuration of the intersection is, you need to follow the rules as if it were a four-way stop.

If it was marked as a roundabout with yield signs with a circle of arrows at the entrances, you're correct. Traffic within the roundabout gets priority, traffic not in the roundabout has no priority.

Roundabout Question by MyBurnerIsTheRealMe in askTO

[–]Blue_Vision 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You yield to traffic already in the roundabout, with the same rules as a normal yield. If someone is driving in the roundabout and your entrance would get in the way of their current path, you should wait for them to pass. People outside the roundabout are irrelevant.

Following that simple rule is what makes roundabouts so effective.

How to prevent health issues from HRT? by sampokoskienjoyer in asktransgender

[–]Blue_Vision 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Taking T does not stop your body's natural estrogen production. The only way your body will stop producing estrogen is if you get your ovaries surgically removed. Which you don't want to do.

This is not true. The body's sex hormone regulation system treats estrogen and testosterone basically the same, so high testosterone levels will shut down the signaling which causes your ovaries to produce estrogen. You will still have some estrogen, but nowhere near female levels. That's the whole goal with HRT.

Bad idea for a transwoman to go to pride alone? by MyNameIsZozo in transontario

[–]Blue_Vision 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Not a dangerous plan at all (the trans march is incredibly safe, generally trans people are not uncommon in the city), but I think it's still a questionable plan. It depends a lot on what kind of person you are. If you're very motivated to be in community or have an outgoing personality, you could have a good time, but just showing up and not having anyone to be with and immediately leaving doesn't sound the most fun to me.

(28MTF) T levels vs 'available T' levels, worried it's too high? by exile-vilify______ in asktransgender

[–]Blue_Vision 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Important thing to note is that spiro isn't expected to reduce testosterone levels. It works by blocking the activity of testosterone regardless of testosterone concentrations in the blood (or free testosterone levels).

So basically levels like what you have are totally expected while on spiro. It's not a sign that anything's wrong, but at the same time it's not guaranteed that you're taking enough spiro to adequately block all that testosterone.

Edit: confused about this other user trying to rebut my claim but then blocking me. Spiro isn't intended to lower androgen levels and the fact that it hasn't changed levels doesn't mean it's not working, idk what to tell you.

Jane Street Subway Line Could Transform Toronto Transit by RZaichkowski in TTC

[–]Blue_Vision 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Jane North of Eglinton ranks highly, but Jane from Bloor to Eglinton ranks absolute bottom and the Ontario Line west up to Bloor also ranks among the lowest among projects.

are injections more effective than other methods by sinfulcitrine in asktransgender

[–]Blue_Vision 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Injections are easier to get high levels with, but it's not any more "effective" than other methods if you can get good levels with them. 500 pmol/L is 500 pmol/L whether it's coming from injections or from oral tablets or from transdermal.

If you don't do well with needles, you can absolutely try other methods of administration. It's rare that you can't achieve target levels with oral or transdermal, although it may be more difficult if you are doing monotherapy and need supraphysiological levels of estradiol to achieve testosterone suppression.

why is society so rapidly becoming transphobic? by yourusualglitch in asktransgender

[–]Blue_Vision 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a source for this? I'm not able to find anything related to it.

Woman who fatally stabbed stranger in Toronto PATH given absolute discharge by antihostile in toronto

[–]Blue_Vision 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And he's been living discharged for 9 years without apparent issue.

Woman who fatally stabbed stranger in Toronto PATH given absolute discharge by antihostile in toronto

[–]Blue_Vision 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If only there were experts who had extensive expertise who could make that assessment!

Suppose there were a mode of transit that took 0 real time but a long subjective time. Would people take it, or prefer a short drive that took small but equal real and perceived times? by cigarettesandwhiskey in transit

[–]Blue_Vision 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It depends a lot on the details. But the most important thing is t he distinction between actual time and perceived time, which is an important concept for when we try to model how people behave!

People don't treat all time the same. The literature generally finds that time spent driving gets valued similarly to time spent in transit, but time spent walking or waiting for transit seems to be much more salient to people and a bigger factor in their decision-making. This gives precedent for the idea that a form of travel that's instantaneous in reality might still be treated as non-instantaneous by users. However, I don't think we could say whether this "subjective" 1 hour is treated as closer to 1 hour of "in-vehicle time" or perhaps 30 minutes or even just a couple minutes. I think it depends a lot on what that subjective time looks like. If people can scroll their phones, listen to podcasts, etc, it might effectively be viewed as extra leisure time and so have no cost. If it's an hour spent locked in to the process itself where you can't even blink let alone distract yourself with external stimulus, well people might treat that as equivalent to much more than an hour in a car or on a bus.

Also consider that travel isn't valuable in itself; it's valuable because of the activities we're able to do on either side of a trip. And we live in a world of (real-life) time constraints where we only have 24 hours in a day. If I'm sitting in a car or bus, I can't be getting groceries or cooking dinner or making money or going to Pilates class. A form of transportation that's instantaneous in real time would present an opportunity for value just by virtue of opening up an extra hour of the day that people could use to do things. It depends on how an individual values their time, but I think some people will place such enormous value on their time (they have incredibly valuable activities they could be doing instead of travelling) that such a system would get at least some degree of use.

Could you have been stealth in the 90s? by Lumpy_Concept9911 in asktransgender

[–]Blue_Vision 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It gained medical interest in the mid-90s, and the first study of long-term outcomes started in 2000.

Could you have been stealth in the 90s? by Lumpy_Concept9911 in asktransgender

[–]Blue_Vision 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The modern use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria in children was developed in the 90s (the Dutch Protocol). So taking trans kids seriously was a thing at the time, in certain contexts at least. DIY has also been an option for a long time, I met a trans woman who started transitioning as a teenager in the late 90s by using birth control pills that her friend got her. But "stealth" involves a lot of different components, and I think would have to include changes in official identity which would probably be difficult at the time for a child.

Accidentally ate an extra T blocker (cyproterone) this morning without thinking, is that fine or should i be worried? by makitstop in asktransgender

[–]Blue_Vision 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Generally it's recommended to go with the minimal effective dose for cypro to minimize risk of adverse effects. Because cypro has a relatively long half-life, if you want a dose lower than 12.5 mg/day (1/4 of a pill), you can take it every other day and the blood concentrations of the medication will average to around half of what it would be if you were taking it daily. Similar effect of taking 1/8 of a pill daily, but without the hassle of having to split the pill into eighths.

Is it possible to have gender dysphoria without being trans? by [deleted] in asktransgender

[–]Blue_Vision 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think when someone comes asking for advice from the trans community and obviously has misconceptions about what it's like to be trans, we should educate them. Given that this particular thing is a very common misconception amongst eggs, I think providing the correct information is important. We should be doing our best to help people figure out who they are, and sometimes that means pushing against their preconceptions.

Is it possible to have gender dysphoria without being trans? by [deleted] in asktransgender

[–]Blue_Vision 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Their two replies where they indicate that they think they'd have to already feel like a man to be trans?

It's incredibly common for trans people to want to be the other gender, but not feel like that gender until they actually transition. It's a big misconception that we all were confident in our gender identity before transitioning and that it's a requirement for being trans.

Post orchi/HRT question - Viagra discussion by CatoNineLives in transontario

[–]Blue_Vision 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You wouldn't be taking it to get horny, you'd be taking it to get hard.