KillingAndKindess

It feels only slightly higher for my standard of living. And back in texas, I had no healthcare, any public services I tried to use (if they even existed) throughout my time as an adult were slow as fuck and not a soul treated me as a woman.

Fortunately, I've not had to stay in a shelter since arriving here, but if I did, I could go to the women's shelter, and supposedly if any staff took issue with that they would not be staff for much longer. Unfortunately, I've only just now made real progress on plans to get myself into an apartment, so my experience is limited.

Gas is slightly more if you get it in the burbs, much more in the cities proper, but thats the case in Texas and Oklahoma too. Basic groceries are about the same pricing.

If you have a nicotine dependence, be prepared to pay a bit more than you might be used to.

Thats about all I can think of, sorry I don't have more info.

I made a slightly farther similar trek in July to the twin cities, even though I had no job here or family.

Its taken me this long, but I'm just about to get an apartment of my own, meaning I've been in my car the whole time. Its been sooooo worth it, and frankly I'd be dead if I didn't decide to leave the shithole that is Texas.

I wish I knew a place to help you out, but I may be able to help with resources (guess who has free healthcare and gets E injections 😁). Feel free to reach out to me. MN is more hospitable and seems to welcome everyone for the most part.

Somewhat agree. That can happen, but isn't only the case.

In a similar vein, attempts at helping / guiding /advising someone who does need help doing/starting something, are often wrongly called manipulation.

NY biggest problem, if you made this.meal yourself, is your choice of cut on your fries... immediately soggy, regardless of bathwater.

1. What you are experiencing is totally valid and nothing is wrong with feeling any of it. Generally speaking, you, and everyone else, should be in regular therapy, where you would have the opportunity to process these thoughts and emotions. It helps me so much just to have someone that can keep me away from mental pitfalls and traps that often cause most of my emotional discomfort about a thing.

2. Uhhh you already look like a girl (or woman). We are women, and so we look like women. This isnt to dismiss you, but to reframe your perspective. Personally, I don't look like the woman I want to look like, but that comes with time and will likely change to be a more awesome version than the compilation of ideas borrowed from all over. But I DO look like a woman.

3. Life isn't over until it is. Its cliche, and a bit meaningless if you let it be, but its still true. If you need some comparative outlooks on life, you will always find someone more miserable, older, and in more pain than yourself. If you met that person, would you be ok telling them "Hey, you're life is over"?

No? Thats because you're not an asshole (presumably), and its not kind... so why in the ever living fuck are you being an asshole to yourself? Sheeesh! (seriously though, chin up friend. Not cause its easy to do, but because seeing something good coming to you is impossible when you're staring at the ground)

I grew up with a mix of some who shared that view. Its remarkable the box they place their God in to fit their worldview innit? Lol

Those first three I don't think are exclusive to pork products, and I'm sure its not Onion/Garlic powders or breadcrumbs. I use them frequently when cooking without getting sick.

But emulsifiers.... would sausage/bratwurst of a lesser quality also have them? And are they exlclusive to tubular pork? Because they sound they may be the same thing that's in most sugar-free gums, and glyceride by itself is everywhere, unless it's a specific kind.

I appreciate the help, but like I said I have narrowed it down to something that's pretty exclusively used to preserve pork for really any duration of shelf life of a grocery store. I don't get sick when I eat fresh pork of any kind, well I guess so long as it's cooked, and I don't get sick when I eat other animal products with preservatives in it, or at least not consistently at all.

I'm good with just leading this pseudo-jewish life for the time being. Honestly unless it's like quality fresh brought worse at Oktoberfest, then I don't really feel like I'm missing out anyways.

Meet up, climbing gym, running clubs, church.

Be careful with that last one. There are some that would welcome you... but do some recon before attending.

Actually, be careful with those last 3, they all sound dangerous 😁

I don't even wanna see my soon to be gone penis erect, but if it was JKR... I'd consider it just to embarass her that she slept w a Transwoman.

Yeah, fuck her! (Or don't, like, cause she gross)

Mammals only got yeeted to their own evolutionary tree branch 40 million years prior to those that would be considered reptilian (sorta dinos too) which was somewhere in the realm of 250 million years ago.

Meaninng the reptiles of today are ~5x further apart in time from dinosaurs, than dinosaurs are from their common ancestors to mammals.

I think we really should just not bother thinking in terms of current speciation concepts. They could have had jellyfish like tentacles dangling allover their skin and we'd never know.

There are, and we need to be rid of them.

Its not awesome, but for theost part, that specific reaction is limited to just that. I'm pretty adventurous when it comes to food, so i'm sure that whatever chemical causes it is limited in use outside of that market.