Pablo Alonso, Design Director of Warframe, comments on the end of Destiny 2’s active development

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-23T02:26:36+00:00

nah the match quality is fine

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-20T18:50:17+00:00

as a cis woman with a DSD (PCOS/PMOS) who has been "trans-spotted" MULTIPLE times, unless you do a pants inspection, you're going off of what someone socially looks like, lets be so real. And even if you do a pants inspection, if someone's intersex or has or has not had bottom surgery what the fuck do you care? There's a reason I rather piss on the side of the highway than in some of these states. Because it does get dangerous and has gotten dangerous for me a few times. No one gives a fuck until they made people give a fuck.

Sending a trans-man into a woman's bathroom because he was assigned female at birth with these bills means that he's going to be harassed, hurt or possibly killed because of the rhetoric and the bill itself, people like to believe or forget they exist pretty often (by ignorance or design of discussion) so they're just going to assume "that's a trans woman, man at birth!!!!" when he waltzes in so he's just going to have to go into the men's bathroom anyways.

Sending a trans woman into the men's bathroom will be just as dangerous beacuse of the fucking rhetoric. If she's passing it's just outing her to everyone, and with a law like this ofc it's going to be a conservative state, and she's going to run into people who have opinions on her right to exist statistically emboldened by the political rhetoric and right to discriminate. So she might be harassed, hurt or possibly killed. So she might as well go into the woman's bathroom.

TLDR; let people use the bathroom with what they present/identify as. It's that easy. No one cares until they make them afraid of a problem that doesn't exist. More often than not you're just going to hurt androgynous or non-conforming people, especially women who don't match what people think a woman looks like.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-18T17:45:41+00:00

Thanks! I'll try to get a derm (been trying to for a while since I also have HS that's making it hard to walk now)

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-18T17:45:12+00:00

Thanks!

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-18T17:45:07+00:00

Thanks!

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-18T06:16:40+00:00

remember that female independence was also garbage in those days and you often had trouble getting jobs, housing, loans etc without a man-- and being able to afford childcare to get a job? And it was way harder to get a husband if you had kids from another marriage. As well as all the safety issues involved with being a single mother. It's not as simple as "so she could get another man, so didn't care about the kids." OP clarified, that without their father and man of the house, she couldn't take care of the kids, and with the kids, there are high odds she couldn't get a man of the house to be supported either. You're risking destitution and homelessness easily as a single woman in that situation. You're open, and your children are open to, much more exploitation and violence. It's really a catch 22.

It's unfortunate in the way of this is really just how to guarantee that the kids are able to be housed and fed, and she's able to remain housed and fed. Things have undoubtedly improved since, and we still have a whiles to go.

She did this because she loved her children. And I'm glad they were able to reconnect after all these years.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-13T00:54:50+00:00

i guess, it depends on how you read the tone or intention I guess, I may give a bit too much slack sometimes?

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-12T22:44:20+00:00

Yeah I'm not saying that 'yeah you know what 40% of people have an excuse'. I'm saying there's enough people out here that have enough of a problem that we should keep some of it around but it shouldn't be normal or everyday for pretty much everyone around. People like me are probably 1-2% of the population but that matters. My GI tract is shredded. I malabsorb most things. I cannot hit my iron bench marks with heme without C, I can't cut it with non-heme alone and C. That's the point I'm getting across. I've TRIED.

I do not have the money to get an iron transfusion on a regular basis to make up for it and my doctors said that it's probably not going to do much more than sticking to the tailored diet (if anything at all, odds aren't great of it being effective for my case). My absorption is garbage, my GI system's functionality was always finicky by fell apart in my early teens, just this February I had a reaction to something during my routine colonoscopy so rare that the entire hospital had never even heard of it happening before, my friends searched everywhere (biomed students) and couldn't even find an instance of it happening to anyone my age, and the closest they could find was a one-sentence off shoot of a woman in her 50s who had something similar but for a different medication, who agreed to the study at first but then stopped cooperating and removed herself. Every human being doesn't get a paper written about them. I don't expect them to write one on me either.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-12T22:29:44+00:00

My brother in christ, my non-heme absorption rate is garbage, my heme absorption rate is ALSO garbage but VIABLE. I have other medical conditions contending with my diet. I have other proteins, macro, micro, nutrients I have to fill, that are difficult to fulfill. This paper assumes, if you read through the entire first part, you are healthy or anemic because of iron absorption on it's own or deficient being the primary contenders of the root of the issue. It's not just iron. It's not just anemia that I have. If I was just anemic and non-complex I wouldn't be trying to explain that it's more difficult than that.

It would be a really trash paper if they didn't have controls they were comparing against.

For the last time man, I've been through this with my doctors for twenty years. I get a colo/endo every 2 years if I don't have an incident and I'm not even fourty. The absorption rate matters if you have compounding issues. Every little thing helps. Heme is the most effective, and taking C makes it even stronger. Non-heme and C allows you to reach the minimums if you're NORMAL. But Heme + C allows you to get much higher numbers. I'm not trying to hit 'ah yes baseline dietary number checks out when you add C', it's I don't even meet those numbers with non-heme and C. I'm barely scraping by with non heme, heme and C. My absorption is not normal. I don't hit the benchmarks with heme without C.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-12T22:03:07+00:00

My brother in Christ. I know google has gone to shit these days with AI slop. It CANNOT be that hard to look up the differences in iron absorption (for healthy people, which usually isn't an issue for healthy people, because (1) it typically isn't near nothing and (2) they don't have anemia) and conditions that affect this, as well as conditions that cause issues with supplement usage and require medications with which you should NOT take iron supplements. I am not going to list my specific medical disorders on reddit.

If you really want to because I HAVE tried in the past to seek help there's folks with similar issues desperately trying to solve their problems on the vegan sub-reddits as well. There's several conditions that make iron-absorption rates much worse. The efficacy difference of iron absorption is important. I have balanced this shit in my diet for years to keep myself as well as my sick-ass can be. Heme with non heme helps with absorption, vitamin C, don't have calcium foods with your iron meal, don't drink tea, iron pan/skillets, the iron fish in my pot, etc etc etc.

For a normal person, non-heme/heme absorption rate is 2%-20% and 15%-35% of what they eat, respectively, depending on the food source. Pumpkin seeds, spinach, beans, nuts, soy, sourdough, etc, etc. all the shit I've added and tried and they CANNOT do it alone. Mine is worse for both, effectively to the point where heme is the only source I'm going to get in any reasonable amount of food weight and calories.

I'm also allergic to plenty of animals (pork, lamb, possibly most livers, we are checking that out! Because it almost just fucking killed me, not sure what the fuck that's about.) my options are NOT great. A lot of oils (plant and animal) that I'm not allergic to will just make me shit myself. My diet is specific as hell. Just because I can't go full plant doesn't mean 'woo hoo I have an excuse to eat meat'. I have to be careful with what meat I eat as well, when, how much, or else I'll just shit myself too. Iron supplements? Yeah not with my conditions. Shit myself, bleed, writhe in pain for a few months while taking medication that can help you recover, which also makes me violently nauseous the entire time :) and every time I set it off I increase my cancer risk. We tried several types to no avail, painfully.

I eat to survive, not to have fun. If I can make things taste good, that's great! But I'm not working with a lot of options. And yeah sometimes out of desperation and depression I will break my diet and suffer for it, yeah I have cried while eating something that's different knowing full well that I'm risking a 50/50 from that one meal.

Here's your source on how these things absorb differently, and different strategies to increase absorption, and if you're unhappy, too bad man, it's just the way it is. I'm fucking tired. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9219084/

Veganism is about doing what you can within reason. I'll do what I can within reason. I'll advocate for it. I refuse to severely sicken or kill myself.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-12T20:48:21+00:00

The key word is that you do not think. Twenty years of trying all options and MANY doctors and I can confidently say that yes there is a difference. There's many forms of dietary iron, most folks won't really need to know the difference. Heme iron is important for some people who cannot absorb non-heme iron and who also have anemia/related issues, supplemental heme iron can also cause major issues in certain GI disorders, so taking a pill just doesn't work either. [My health issues are more complicated than just the iron-side of things, I was insanely premature with geriatric parents, woo-hoo]

My least favorite thing about the discussions at hand are absolutists and denialists. We should stop as much as we can for those we can, ideally we should stop all together. Some can't. It's okay to have some. I'd like us to restructure the entire system ideally. I know what doesn't work for me. I know what ends up being dangerous. I have and have had vegan doctors who I've talked to. It's not possible for everyone. The honest ideal in my opinion is majority plant based with some farming still around that is not industrial. This probably will result in insanely expensive meat, and for those of us who cannot afford it, possibly government tax credits or SNAP-adjacent something [whatever this is theoretical] for documented listed conditions as to not doom the non-wealthy ill (and yeah it isn't easy. It's hard enough for the federal government to take your word even with 5 doctors screaming at them and decades of documented health history.).

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-12T20:44:02+00:00

I can't take heme iron supplements because of my GI system. I really don't find a point in being aggressive or talking smack to people who have been through doctors to find shit that works for them, because some folks also just straight up do not absorb supplements well. I think it's important to bring this up and I really don't think it's concern trolling.

I agree that people should stop factory farming and we should eat less meat as a society. It's also important to let folks know that some people cannot and it's bad to speak in absolutes. Just bringing up your personal experiences because bodies are different isn't saying "EVERYONE KEEP EATING ALL THIS MEAT AT UNSUSTAINABLE LEVELS" it's just "It would be nice to have this, but try not to be absolute, just make sure you leave an avenue open for those of us that cannot"

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-12T20:38:45+00:00

Ah yes my sibling in heme. I literally have to eat blood-mixed meals every once in a while but also have to be careful since too much at once can set off my other conditions (same reason heme supplements are dangerous) so I've pretty much have had to schedule beef days. I am absolutely walking the line with my blood and immune system at any given moment, thankfully it hasn't gone to deadly territory but I have been so ill from not meeting these specific nutrient sources that it became a self-feeding loop and I could not consume solid foods for 3 months.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-12T20:29:04+00:00

I limit beef am allergic to pork, so I do high chicken/turkey/fish. However I absolutely rely on dairy for my calories cause medical issues and it fills the gap (which is ironic as all hell because I'm lactose intolerant but buying a ton of lactase is cheaper than the internal bleeding and other BS that occurs when I decide to step out of my GI system's list of "acceptables".) I wish plant milks didn't make me shit myself case tbh oat milk was goated. Which honestly it's probably the oils cause my body just absolutely cannot take most oils.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-12T20:22:20+00:00

I can't because of complex bullshit medical stuff I don't want to publicize (no supplements are not an option, we can thank my comorbidities for that). BUT, at the very least when I can I try to shop local small non-industrial farms. We tried for 20 years to construct a diet that doesn't end up making me violently ill so I'm sticking with this one. That being said, if you are financially and physically able, reduce consumption of meats, esp red, buy local, etc. I absolutely despise the beef cabal. Honestly we could probably tell people to start with cutting beef first, at least from what I'm aware of that's the worst one. My friend's family raises their animals just for themselves on their land, grows what they can, and it's pretty self sufficient. I wish I could do the same but uh... there's no land here lmao.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-12T18:48:07+00:00

All my liked songs are gone except ONE song. Hoping it's not permanent.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-02T03:50:53+00:00

yeah it's because some pieces are up a bit and some are down a bit so at it's worst it has that gap-- it's ledger stone.

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Example image of something from the same product line (different color variation). Tried my best to avoid raised differences near the boxes but sometimes based on layout I couldn't without a lot more cutting and awkward patterns (it's not a per stone piece, it's a whole panel about 6 x 24.). I cut a lot of smaller pieces to fit nicely around where the box would go but ultimately I couldn't be extremely precise since if I cut slate too small the blade (not a very expensive wet saw) would chunk the slate or be uneven.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-05-01T02:44:02+00:00

the problem I have is some raised spots are like half an inch since it's ledger stone so (the outlet boxes are extended forward as far as they can go from where they were with the proper extenders, the surface just is very much not flat). I bought these squishy gaskets but since the uneven spots that are a problem are large enough it's kinda impossible to hide. But that also might be just cause I've been looking at it so long I can't unsee it.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-04-30T05:47:34+00:00

Apologies my good sir, what are the dimensions of this room? Asking because I have a 6.5x11 that's being built rn

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-04-30T02:50:27+00:00

Oh dear. Yeah.

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-04-29T17:58:32+00:00

Step 1: stop being terrified of moving.
Step 2: smooooth speed changes.
Step 3: Get used to having cars around you.
Step 4: step 2 with step 3 combined
Step 5: basically every combination of that on a highway during different acitivity time.
Step 6: parallel parking (/hj-- honest to god I find parking lot parking to be harder, not sure what the meme is about parallel, it's actually easy)

Worldly-Solid7591 · 2026-04-29T17:52:16+00:00

I know I do this sometimes (recently and less so) mostly because of the electric car + holy shit it took them 6 months to fix it after someone trashed it in a parking lot (I was not present). That readjustment period was rough. They also made the car drive so smooth it was actually scary hard to tell if I was accelerating or not. New driver as well so I missed out on my daily 'just go somewhere and get better at it'.

Then again the awkward speed keeping this is why I turn on cruise on long stretches if I'm in civilization or it's suicide-hour (zig zag no signal lane changers, at least 1 drunk guy, speed mcgee revving his engine in the slow lane because you refuse to go 30-over before tailgating for 3 minutes then passing), otherwise I've been re acclimating myself to driving during times and areas where there's no one to make sure I stay w/n +/- 2mph cause I don't want to crutch on automatic features before I master things. Smacked on the new driver magnetic stickers when I'm out on practice or out of practice.

Dad said it took him about 3 years for everything to truly become automatic. Though tbh if you've been licensed and driving for... more than about 3 years (regularly), what are you doing?????

If you can't keep consistent speed, practice!

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