Pictured: typical parking job from cyber truck owner.

As if having insurance means you get treated...

For my it wasn't about expressing them, it was about feeling them at all. Only the very very strongest ones could even crack through.

Of course there was also the fact that my father threatened to beat me for crying "if I didn't have a reason", so there are obviously confounding factors, but interventions like therapy, meditation, changing my name, presenting female all the time, etc didn't have anywhere near as much effect on my access to emotions as a couple of weeks on HRT.

They were all helpful in different ways (sometimes enormously so), but it felt like there was an impedance mismatch between my conscious mind and the rest of my body, and the HRT fixed it.

A rich white cis gay man backstabbing trans people?

This never happens, I'm shocked!

I'm trans and, until I started HRT, had very little access to my emotions. I would desperately want to cry, and just would be unable. Or I would know I was supposed to be having some kind of emotional reaction to something, and just...wouldn't.

Very very soon after getting my hormones straightened out, I discovered that I was having emotions in sympathy with characters on tv or in movies. If I was sad I could actually cry for a bit and process the emotion rather than having to channel it into anger or physicality. It was like living in color instead of black and white, this whole arena of human experience I'd read about but hadn't ever really felt.

I've heard the same from trans guys as well; they didn't ever feel like their emotions made sense until they got on T.

My now-ex reacted to this, first with concern, then with contempt.

I think "AI" has just become shorthand for LLMs and diffusers though in general conversation.

Dogs served in war at least as much as horses, and are currently doing so in larger numbers.

The party in charge over there is called "Labour", in case there was any doubt where George Orwell came from.

Musk did not buy this as an investment. He bought it to flip elections and manipulate public opinion.

Tesla is writing him a check that will cover the entire purchase price, and Saudi Arabia and Russia will pay the operating costs.

Active users are what matters; if they lost 75% of their users then I'm paying attention.

"But he says he'd cut my taxes 5% so I'm giving him $100 million in dark money," they continued.

I would mind less if the American auto industry was producing affordable lightweight EVs...

Over half of tech industry workers have seen the "great demo -> overhyped bullshit" cycle before.