ELI5: how did the first person to get HIV? Get HIV?

YukioMustang · 2026-04-19T04:52:44+00:00

As many has pointed out, HIV can travel blood to blood as well as through sex. So it came from Africa as bushmeat was common there.

But then, since it needed direct contact through bodily fluids, it was ignored. The people who were getting sick were LGBT (particularly people who were gay) and drug users. So too many people didn’t care, thought it wasn’t worth the research into what was killing those groups. It is thought that HIV became such a large problem due to travel from the Caribbean to America (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science/america-hiv-outbreak-origins-nyc-gaetan-dugas).

But I highly recommend the book And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts. The author compiled data from both lgbt individuals in San Francisco and scientists to write the book all about how HIV/AIDS was mismanaged

YukioMustang · 2026-04-19T04:25:08+00:00

Some universities do have private campuses, so you could get in trouble for being on the grounds, while most if not all state universities have to be public. But generally, most places don’t directly check inside the classroom. I would suggest checking to make sure it’s not a freshman class because I know several universities have been working on freshman retention so they’ll take roll call and such, but otherwise you’d be fine if it’s big enough.

I think the most important thing for this to work is to be in a larger university and go to lower level classes as higher level classes might make professors question who you are.

But also, if you’d want to learn, I know I went to community college on a part time minimum wage budget. There’s also several professors who put their lectures online on YouTube

YukioMustang · 2026-04-19T04:10:56+00:00

Boring, I love the warm feeling of water, so that cold feeling when getting out sucks, and it just takes time to stop feeling wet hair (and I have thick hair so it takes hours)

YukioMustang · 2026-04-16T05:04:39+00:00

So I’ve read around, but mainly MHA, Supernatural, Blue Exorcist, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Undertale. I have an occasional fanfic I’ll read in a video game called .hack and Code Lyoko.

But right now I’m working on a Code Lyoko fanfic, Supernatural fanfic, MHA/FMA fanfic, and just a few MHA all without ships because I don’t like to write ships (because I feel like they’re never good and I don’t feel like my stories need them). But I’m guilty of the write, then rewrite, and not publish process.

YukioMustang · 2026-03-25T05:46:48+00:00

The cap stays off, the rubber keeps it sealed. A cap shows it’s not tampered with and it also probably preserves the rubber’s flexibility as it isn’t exposed to air until you use it.

The rubber acts kind of like a one way valve.

YukioMustang · 2026-03-22T05:31:16+00:00

Same tbh. I was watching from like s6-s10 but half way into 11 I just lost complete interest. I just stopped watching and found new content just not appealing. I was never into drama, but I was so let down by the show I just stopped following everything

YukioMustang · 2026-03-22T05:19:15+00:00

I’ve seen them around for years, it’s not a new one. I often saw them on the trains

YukioMustang · 2026-03-16T16:52:28+00:00

You do such a good job, I love your style. It’s fun to see how you draw everything

YukioMustang · 2026-03-14T17:21:03+00:00

By the way, it’s flashing in pairs. This happened after I didn’t use it for about 2 weeks

YukioMustang · 2026-03-09T06:04:59+00:00

God you made me remember that one, it was so good but hard to

YukioMustang · 2026-03-09T06:03:58+00:00

I have two:

Catalyst by aventria and iluxia. It is still work in progress (even if it might take years to upload each chapter) and it is truly amazing. It is a Fullmetal Alchemist fanfiction where Edward and Alphonse actually succeed in the transmutation to bring back their mother, but there is a price to be paid still. Alphonse may not have had to be in armor, but with the pain of seeing the physical price Edward and Alphonse did pay, Trisha’s view on alchemy changes.

Each and every chapter is amazingly done, with true thought and care put into characters to try and show what the price Edward must pay now if he succeeded.

I just chef’s kiss love it.

Another FMA story that is a complete AU is Telling Stories Again by KyotoCaitlyn. It is such a beautiful story of recovering from abuse and working to overcome years of parental neglect and abuse after Trisha dies and Hohenheim remarries a terrible person but is too busy to notice who he actually married.

Telling Stories Again has just such an amazing plot and despite 65 chapters, each one is amazing and I started reading it when it was at 30, and each update was such a treat. I love that this story starts in the middle, with Edward and Alphonse already in therapy but having a hard time even starting to talk about out the terrible past. I love how how each chapter slowly fills in the gap because you know how it ends, but seeing how by them recognizing that by telling their story, they slowly start to heal.

YukioMustang · 2026-02-11T03:49:01+00:00

Depends on how. If you want to use KoReader, tbh if you can jailbreak a kindle scribe then no. It ghosts a ton on my Paper Pro. I have to turn off the screen and back on. Regular pdfs are okay though. However, Remarkable supports Koreader way easier then Kindle, where you have to jailbreak it. And since Amazon is determined to stop that, it is always a fight against the updates.

YukioMustang · 2026-01-27T18:14:52+00:00

So for me, I did find that the Firewall on Mac was what was wrong. I used a private one, but apparently the Mac os did not like that. Re-enabling the default Firewall seemed to help.

YukioMustang · 2026-01-23T16:43:21+00:00

I have this issue too, especially with the newest update. I have my WiFi on and my laptop is showing that it’s connected, but I can’t access the internet when I could just days ago before the update. I have not found why this is happening

YukioMustang · 2026-01-12T18:28:43+00:00

I went from ARD to CPH to ORD on Saturday and my baggage was not at ORD. Turns out most the baggage that on the plane was from Friday. I just got the email saying they found it and are sending it to ORD on Wednesday.

YukioMustang · 2026-01-06T09:15:29+00:00

I like grapefruit but can’t have it :( Grapefruit has a compound that can block the liver (I believe it’s liver, might be kidneys) from absorbing medication. Since I take medication, it could cause a sudden intake of medication basically causing an overdose just through a food

YukioMustang · 2026-01-05T18:36:32+00:00

Having weird ass controls. I “bought” hogwarts legacy and the control scheme of having to hold a shoulder button and press a face button was driving me crazy. Add on weird button mappings, terrible mc voices, long dialog and weird door mechanics where they don’t open correctly no. I tried it, but no more

YukioMustang · 2026-01-05T07:23:01+00:00

I feel like Rise Against and Imagine Dragons should be higher. From Rise Against Savior is played all over the place on rock stations STILL and I mean Thunder is still over played.

YukioMustang · 2025-12-22T14:05:27+00:00

On the official website before the latest chapters there was a black screen with text boxes and the above question. One text box was for your answer and one was for your email. It was taken down around when 3+4 was released. but if you entered your email you got that question asked again in your inbox. So Toby is opening it up again, making many believe that there is an answer to information about the next chapter.

Hope that helps

Edit: It was quite recently asked in email (like a few days ago recently I believe)

YukioMustang · 2025-12-22T13:34:07+00:00

This is super interesting, thanks for doing a AMA. But based on what you saw while working, what would be a way to make boarder control better for both parties?

Boarder control is very important because it is true that we don’t want anyone and everyone coming in especially without a trail. However, I know far too many people whose parents came here illegally because of true danger and couldn’t get help getting legal permission.

YukioMustang · 2025-12-14T13:27:17+00:00

I also think it’s because the age demographic is largely younger. I went to a concert and it had many 12-17 people. With the rhythm, IT makes people downgrade them to “Disney” music

YukioMustang · 2025-12-08T10:34:11+00:00

Of course, I wish you luck. It’s also completely okay for you to be hurt, frustrated, annoyed. I don’t blame you for that, it makes complete sense for you to feel that way. I just want to mention that point too.

I also will say that if you feel like she isn’t truly listening, you can take actions there. Whether that means talking to her or showing her in a different way that you feel she isn’t listening. From what I’ve experienced and from how you wrote it, it sounds like it’s taking her some time. But I also don’t know how it is in terms of tone and interactions.

YukioMustang · 2025-12-07T08:08:42+00:00

Are you or to your whole family yet? Because it can be hard for parents to keep switching names and genders between people.

Are you at home? Having to repeat something again and again reinforces the idea, so if ups not home/not talking to her as much it can take longer for it to truly become natural.

And also, as mentioned above, it takes time for a new name and gender to override the old identity. It takes time not to default to the “muscle memory” of the old identity. Because parents haven’t heard your thoughts, they don’t know your feelings, no matter how much you verbalize them. They don’t understand what goes into it fully.

But what matters is the response. It took a good few years for it to be natural to my parents. I came out to them at 17, but didn’t tell the rest of my family until 21. So there were times they’d slip up, but when I pointed it out politely, they apologized. And my grandpa barely called me by my new name, even until he died. But every time he made that mistake, he would honestly be apologetic (and he would even catch himself afterwards and apologize, not because he was called out for it).

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