Darth Fluffy

Oh, sure.

"I am a James Cameron 2000. I was sent back in time to create an instructional video."
Oops, I guess it is.

Cat had knittens.

 
FIREBALL!
FIREBALL!!
FIREBALL!!!

It honestly saddens me that the person in the White House, in the middle of a hurricane causing massive troubles, is spending more time on justifying a simple mistake that anyone could have made than on the people in need of disaster relief.

I only count 3, one each splat, splorch and squish.  6 blams however.   She obviously was double taping them.

Occam's Razor is not a law. We should tentatively assume that all green hair color has the same source, until we find some reason to think otherwise. However it's a very weak assumption, and it's about the limits of our understanding more than about the reality we're trying to understand.

I'm pretty sure the only part of the Pharaoh's post directed at you was "Is there actually such a place?"; everything else looks to me to have been directed at The Old Hack.

How is your family taking your revelation? Hoping they are supportive.
Be careful. The incidence of violence against transgendered m to f is rather high. Be safe. Find a mentor if you can.

Not just the brutal murder, but also the bullshit trial.

Don't feel bad about being slow - I figured out that I'm mildly genderfluid about a month after my great-grandson's first birthday.
But this could explain why I've occasionally gotten an impression of carefully-contained, undirected bitterness from you.
Maybe the realization will help you. I know that while the 20-minute bouts of gender dysphoria a few times a year weren't ever really a problem for me, finally actually recognizing what they were helped me deal with them when they happen. So it would make sense that the same sort of understanding would help someone with a more substantial case (but then, there's a lot about humans that doesn't make sense).
And I hope the realization doesn't cause you a lot of grief from outside.
Aside: swiped from notalwaysright.com
 

Well said, so I will echo this.
I know two transgender young people, it has not been easy for them, but they have found acceptance when needed. My impression is that you've been around a while and will be more sure of yourself and need less validation. One bit of advice; live somewhere that minimizes stupid people.
 

With the possible exception of Germans, who actually can speak their own language.
And it only got worse from there. Soon after JACKETGATE shook the White House to its foundations...
And it is not as if there were no warning signs. Even during his candidacy he committed the atrocity of not wearing a FLAG PIN.
No president has ever done anything worse.

Seems like a hot air balloon would be the proper conveyance for a politician.

Content note: Homophobia.
 
 
A brilliant reply to Dr. Laura, who claims homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God.
https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/areasontosmile/2011/11/dear-dr-laura-why-cant-i-own-a-canadian.html

Seems like a hot air balloon would be the proper conveyance for a politician.

AH, that's fair. I saw the EU tag, guess I should have connected those dots. Thanks.

I'm ok with that, as long as my point is clear. What I might react disproportionally is when someone is opposing my point without hearing it out, or not understanding what I'm trying to say.
(And, probably, sometimes when I'm not understanding what they are saying ... )
I might be nitpicking sometimes ... well, often ... but I'm not going for controversy just for the controversy. Also, I'm never pretending to have opinion I don't actually have just because it gets "better" reaction that the opinion I actually have, or for any other reason. (Not counting cases where I preface sentence with something like "Playing devil advocate" ... I hope THOSE are clear.)
However, I don't think I can convince you about this. Either you would believe me or not.
Thank you.

OK, good to know.

Tongue firmly in cheek, I assure you. Fissionable isotopes are incredibly toxic.

'Merely'...

I was thinking of the fact that it was a Hindu who invented the concept of positional notation sometime around the birth of Christ. I don't think whoever did it managed to do so out of the blue without a thriving study of mathematics behind them. That hints at a society with considerable resources available for pure theory work. How much is known of these Hindu mathematicians and their roots? And what about other East Asian societies, many of which were also very advanced? Isuspect that they might have possessed a good deal of rational theoretical scientific know-how that just might have been overlooked when it comes to the number one spot.

My instructors tended towards overkill. They were oceanographers and US Navy divers doing graduate work at the Naval War College (it’s right across the bay from the oceanography school.) To be fair it was in the pool and it did pay off for one student. She had her regulator fail at around 100 ft. And her buddy was one of the SEAL instructors. She swam over to him, signaled her loss of air, and used his secondary regulator to ascend with him.  She was so calm the instructor thought one of his friends or professors we were diving with had put her up to it.  
In order to even dive in open water we were required to drop our weight belt, mask and snorkel at the bottom of the high dive pool, then surface dive in full winter wet suit back down, put the weight belt back on, put the mask on and clear it of water, put the snorkel in and ascend slowly to clear the snorkel. That’s not part of any civilian scuba training, but I never felt ill prepared for any dive I ever did. 

To be fair, safety is not their long suit either. I've heard to eject from a MiG is to risk your life. (Ejecting is always risky, but I mean, more so.)

Back in the primordial days of the Internet, I read an interesting article about the different approaches to artillery between the Germans, the British, and the Americans. The goal is you want your first volley to come without warning. The British kind of forewent that at sent a test fire then adjusted. The Germans could shoot for effect on the first volley, but only if they accomplished a detailed survey of the target region first. The Americans precalculated every contingency, and assembled their calculations into a filing cabinet. So, in addition to the guns and ammo, the Americans had to lug along a filing cabinet of firing instructions, but it was very effective. They were, like the Germans, able to hit their target on the first volley, but without the need for the pre-survey. So not only did they have lots of artillery (the basic American WWII strategy was having lots of whatever, which was effective even when the whatever kinda sucked), they could hit $#!% with them.
Sadly, how the Russians approached the same chore was left out.