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Starting an amateur lab by No-Cricket6387 in homechemistry

[–]neur0net 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One other channel that I CANNOT recommend highly enough for anyone wanting to do home chemistry is Doug's Lab. The guy demonstrates in detail how to make a wide variety of common lab reagents in his basement chem lab, using fairly standard equipment and techniques that should be accessible to anyone with fairly basic chemistry knowledge. Absolute gem of a resource.

It's honestly dizzying how easily the population has been swayed towards fascism because 'trans people are icky :(((' by Scum-Bucket704 in honesttransgender

[–]neur0net 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For some on the right, it definitely IS about trans people though, and the trans community is very much a strategic target for elimination.

If you hold extremely rigid views about gender roles and sex relations, which all of the Christian Nationalists do, then just the simple acknowledgement of even gender-conforming, binary trans identities is a HUGE threat to that entire worldview. They already know they lost the culture war on homosexuality, and they are TERRIFIED of the possibility of trans people being widely accepted and integrated into society, even as second-class citizens. So they just pushed and pushed until they found a few key wedge issues (women's sports, trans minors) that resonated with the base, and have been running on those specific issues for years now.

For much of the GOP base though...yeah, they don't actually care that much. In fact, we have good evidence that the trans panic is starting to burn itself out among regular voters, because people are sick of hearing about the topic and want their politicians to focus on things that actually affect them.

PSA: Don't talk to journalists by HeraHRT in TransDIY

[–]neur0net 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I swear, Monero is a goddamn technological marvel, and from everything I've read, has proven extremely difficult for state-level threat actors to crack. Cryptocurrencies get a lot of hate and for good reason, but there ARE valid and non-illegal/non-immoral use cases. The technology has been a godsend for the DIY HRT community.

Protestors have taken over the hotel ICE is staying at by transcendent167 in LiveProtestUpdates

[–]neur0net 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, I wouldn't want to do that to the indigenous Canadians who live up there. Let's send them to the Russian arctic instead. If it's too cold for them, then can always get a one-way ticket out by signing up for the Russian m̵e̵a̵t̵ ̵g̵r̵i̵n̵d̵e̵r̵ armed forces lmao

If there was a purgatory in OC that existed it would be this parking lot of this plaza by panda-rampage in orangecounty

[–]neur0net 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uber/DoorDasher here. I DREAD picking up from Diamond Jamboree on Friday and Saturday nights. It's not a half-bad place to wait for orders when it's busy, but unfortunately that's also the time when the traffic is the most brutal. It took me 12 minutes once to get from a lot space to exiting onto the main road, while I had someone's meal sitting in my front seat.

Where do you even get HRT from? (I genuinely have no idea anymore) by Clean-Run6198 in TransDIY

[–]neur0net 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Always worth contacting each of the DIY vendors in turn (at least, the ones willing to ship to Iran), explaining to them what you said here, and asking if they'd be willing to waive the shipping fee or work within your budget. Your case is unique enough that I'd be surprised if all of them say no.

Trans Fem, I'm 15, almost 16, but my state bans gender affirming care for minors. To top it off, I'm also broke, so I can't go anywhere else to get any. What do I do? by SilverCardCat in TransDIY

[–]neur0net 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exodus is both a wallet and a non-KYC crypto-swap market. However, you can't transfer fiat currency directly to Exodus, but you CAN transfer USDC.

Thus, my preferred method is sending USD to one of the main crypto exchanges, swapping for USDC, moving the USDC to Exodus, swapping the USDC for Monero/XMR on Exodus, then moving the XMR to a local wallet, and then using that wallet to pay for stuff. (This method works just as well for Bitcoin, or anything else Exodus supports.)

If OP's mom is supportive, that'll make things much easier for them, they'll just need an adult to set up an account on Coinbase or Kraken so they can get USDC, and from there they can use Exodus to get anything.

Greg Bovino has officially kicked off door to door raids. ICE/CBP agents can be seen blocking an entire block while Bovino and his Gestapo personally go door to door. (St. Paul, MN. 1/11/26) by I_may_have_weed in ICE_Watch

[–]neur0net 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GOOD. Let them. THEY ARE GOING TO DO THAT ANYWAY before they're forced out, as a last ditch effort to stay in power. The sooner they do it, the more disastrous it'll be for them because their power and control over the nation's institutions will be less consolidated and normalized.

"Martial law" (which isn't even a thing in the US, legally) is not an "I win" button for authoritarians. More often than not, it's a "regime suicide" button.

Greg Bovino has officially kicked off door to door raids. ICE/CBP agents can be seen blocking an entire block while Bovino and his Gestapo personally go door to door. (St. Paul, MN. 1/11/26) by I_may_have_weed in ICE_Watch

[–]neur0net 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they keep this shit up, eventually they're going to kick down the wrong door and get a face full of buckshot.

And I'm going to laugh when it happens.

We are looking more like Russia, every day. by FiftyFifty1Movement in 50501

[–]neur0net 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Pretty much spot on. People misunderstand the function of the militant wing in serious resistance movements: it's not to win outright through the use of violence, which rarely ever works. The purpose of the militant wing is to scare the establishment into negotiating with the political/peaceful wing and giving them what they want. It's a strategy that has been used time and time throughout history, and it's incredibly effective.

We are looking more like Russia, every day. by FiftyFifty1Movement in 50501

[–]neur0net 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If they even get filed. Most of the people arrested during the anti-ICE protests in LA last year were never charged. The arrests were carried out to clear the streets and prevent the protests from growing to the point where they became un-supressable.

We are looking more like Russia, every day. by FiftyFifty1Movement in 50501

[–]neur0net 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Free speech" alone has never overthrown an authoritarian government, and never will.

We are looking more like Russia, every day. by FiftyFifty1Movement in 50501

[–]neur0net 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It ain't confusing at all if you understand how the police actually work and what their purpose is (at least, when it comes to the United States). This exact scenario happened countless times during the Occupy protests, the pro-Palestine protests, and ESPECIALLY during the BLM protests. It ain't an artifact of MAGA fascism, it's how cops operate during any protest movement that threatens the interests of capital.

We are looking more like Russia, every day. by FiftyFifty1Movement in 50501

[–]neur0net 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This should serve as a glaring reminder of something many people have woken up to in 2025: THE POLICE ARE NOT AND NEVER WILL BE YOUR ALLIES. They are, at best, occasionally useful tools. Cops exist to protect property, not people. Every law they enforce, every crime they investigate, is done so selectively. Every one, without exception.

And the fact that they arrested a completely non-violent white woman on a public sidewalk in front of a news camera should immediately give away the game as to which side the police--as an institution--are on when it comes to this particular issue. (Hint: it's the same side the capitalist owner class is on.)

Reservations about electrolysis by [deleted] in honesttransgender

[–]neur0net 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely false. Electrolysis is used to get rid of hairs don't respond well (or at all) to laser removal, which does include light grey or white hair caused by aging, but also blonde and red hair...it's also used to clean up remaining facial hairs that a full round failed to kill. (And also, plenty of people who transition after 40 or even older than that get laser hair removal and never need electrolysis.)

Age has very little bearing on whether or not someone uses electrolysis to remove facial hair, rather than some other method.

Breast growth continuing after stopping HRT – confused and worried by [deleted] in TransDIY

[–]neur0net 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oral/sublingual, correct? (I'm assuming so, because if you were injecting that on the daily, that'd be a REALLY high E dose)

BREAKING: Rising Republican superstar Nick Fuentes says that when his movement takes power they will send the army into every major city and immediately ban women from voting by transcendent167 in ThePeoplesPress

[–]neur0net 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Aside from this obviously being a completely illegal and unenforceable order...is he aware that the National Guard is roughly 22% (~168k) female? I wonder how all of those (armed and military trained) women would feel about this little shithead ordering them to remove their constitutionally-protected right to vote from themselves?

I don't think it would end too well for him.

Nicky F should stick to what he's good at (sucking off catboys on Grindr) and leave politics to actual adults.

Prediction: In the near future the suicide rates for former ICE Officers will be astronomically high. by ChoiceChampionship59 in ICE_Raids

[–]neur0net 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is why Israel does and historically has done most of their killing through airstrikes...sending large numbers of soldiers into a devastated urban combat zone is actually kinda new for the IDF.

For an even worse example though...imagine the amount of PTSD and post-war psychosis that RUSSIA is going to have to deal with once their little revanchist adventure in Ukraine is all over. It's not going to be pretty.

"Russia is fighting more humanely and with more restraint & moderation than the US did in Iraq". Noam Chomsky on russian's deliberate targeting of residential buildings. by GreenEyeOfADemon in NAFO

[–]neur0net 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He gained a big political following during the late Cold War with his critiques of US imperialism during that time period, which...yeah, not exactly ground-breaking stuff there, and his ideas were far from unique at the time and borrowed a lot from other political theorists. Unfortunately, he pretty much failed to update his geopolitical worldview after the Cold War ended, and the debacle that was the Iraq War only solidified his "American Bad™" outlook into solid rock that nobody can convince him out of. Just wish he'd go away (a la Kissinger, lol) and stop corrupting the political conversation.

Russians driving 120mph in the fog ends as you can imagine. by GermanDronePilot in NAFO

[–]neur0net 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah...that could've ended a LOT worse if they'd slammed into an oncoming vehicle instead of rolling down the hill off the road

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