extremely hypocritical to have the guy who made out with donald trump be pope.

resisting the urge to pet my screen

No, not self deprecating. Most people just aren't that good of people.

I just need to be realistic. I've tried doing it before and it never sticks. It works better and is easier to stick with if I move to it over time, because I know myself and I know that I will just slip later on and drop it altogether in the future if I don't.

me too

Oh, I thought it was vegetarian but not vegan. This is actually something I should very much know lol

It has not yet been relevant for me since but I appreciate knowing that

i don't think gelatin is vegetarian since it's made from bone or skin. not that it matters a whole ton for this quip but just a fun fact

like damnit

makes me agnry

my go-to website whenever anyone starts with the "free range, organic grass fed" rhetoric

This reads like an attempt at deflection by self-deprecation to me, so I'll say that we all have a duty to uphold justice in every aspect of our lives. We may be fallible by nature, but that doesn't excuse us from trying to be better. I doubt you really think of yourself as a bad person, but in case you do - what are you doing to be better? Shrugging your shoulders and saying "well, I guess I'm not a good person then" doesn't absolve you.

Forgive my bluntness, but the animals are suffering and dying on an unimaginable scale. Going vegan isn't a "personal choice" - it's a moral necessity.

"How does this taste so much like meat? Well, the egg binder and gelatin probably helps."

New pick up artist strategy

i've had much more of a social life in general ever since transitioning, i used to have really severe social anxiety that almost entirely went away after i transitioned (except for phone calls, those still scare the shit out of me). Turns out not hating yourself makes it significantly easier to socialise, who knew

I interpreted it as "Estrogen made it so girls like me", but I really enjoyed the other possible interpretations

which one is correct

more sincerely: I felt more confident around other trans girls, and I think that made them like me more. I also have had a litany of experiences, even having had been on HRT for only a few months, which allowed me to tap into that experiential empathy that I didn't have before.

i have made many Interpretations of your good post:

Estrogen-made girls, like me.

Has anyone noticed these estrogen-made girls? Did you know estrogen can make girls?

Estrogen [created] girls like me.

Has anyone noticed this? Did you know it can create girls, like me?

Estrogen made [it so] girls like me.

Has anyone noticed girls like you more after estrogen? Did you know estrogen can make girls like you?

Estrogen maid-girls, like me

Has anyone noticed the maid girl? Did you know maid girls can do that?

honorable mention: Estrogen-made girl-like (me)

i've been struggling with gender stuff, and "estrogen-made girl-like (me)" is giving me much to consider,..,

No two ways about it in that I'm like most people: not that good of a person tbh.

Sorry for the very late response; I've been busy lately and haven't logged on in a while. My experience was somewhat different, because I watched Earthlings (a documentary on slaughterhouses and factory farms), and I knew I had to go vegan immediately. I couldn't justify one more non-vegan purchase, not even in the name of a "baby steps" transition, because I would still be causing harm to animals during that process. For me, the switch was actually pretty easy, because I just looked up vegan recipes for all of my favorite foods, and made those. Purging my mind of toxic masculinity was easily ten times more difficult than going vegan. I (and every other feminist) still expect male chauvinists to do that, no matter how difficult it may be for them, because there is no justification for continuing to cause harm once they know better. I don't see why it should be any different with veganism.

If you absolutely must take things one step at a time, just remember that every non-vegan meal is still causing harm to animals. The quicker you can make the switch, the better.

I did this with last.fm api data a few years ago (here) and it looks about the same tbh

It’s not great, but i coildny really think of a better way of visualizing it and it was just an afternoons worth of work, so i think im ok with it

This has a few errors in it (i called it % full when it's actually not scaled to 100, for starters) but it gives me an idea of what rate it's growing at so that's something.

Still I'd like it to look nicer.

Yeah my first idea is literally just find all the file sizes and time stamps, sort by time stamp, then have a running total of the size. Then make a scatter plot with the X axis as the time and the Y axis as the total size.

If you like a scripty solution, Python's matplotlib is pretty good, but pandas (dataframe manipulation library) also has a quick dataframe.plot(...) method that I lile.

If I had a better idea of what your data would look like (pairs of date string x file size?) I could give you a quick 10-liner that would do it too

Just a simple trend line, I could just do it with google sheets probably pretty easily.

for any scripting language i'm sure there's a charting library or two out there if you want to be codey about it.