Apicnic

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[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...it's definitely real words, at least I though. Did you get a non English torrent or something? Or do you not ever hear southern accents?

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

In general, body hair will reduce slightly on hrt. It's still there, but in particular I saw a lot less growth for chest hair. If laser works for your skin/hair color combos at a practioner near you, I found it very effective and tolerable. Otherwise I use a safety razor for everything else. Once you're good with it, it's a very close and low irritation save.

For facial hair, almost everybody will see no effect with hrt. New growth (as in fully new follicles) should stop, but any existing hair will need to be removed if you want a smooth face all the time. I did laser for some initial clearing and now am doing electrolysis to finish up.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

This still just feels like a muddying of technical language. If you were to write an article about autopilot killing somebody and use object to refer to them, that's certainly dehumanization, but saying that an object detection algorithm performs poorly on humans doesn't feel like it is.

Part of the problem is that in general we aren't talking about specialized human detection models that incorporate things like pose estimation. Instead it is almost always a general object detection alg, and referring to the same models differently based on the subject just adds muddiness.

I'm mostly familiar with AI within healthcare, and in my workplace, any released model is going to have a number of conversations and evaluations about the technical performance, practical impact on patients, and general ethics of the model. Those conversations blend, but it's harmful to make the language less clear in any one of those contexts.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A note for everyone who is interested in injections but doesn't like IM, you can also do subcutaneous injections. My understanding is that estradiol in common preparations is a depot injection where absorption is controlled less by physical factors and more from the lipophilicity of the medicine itself.

Anybody who's interested can look for the article "Comparison of the Subcutaneous and Intramuscular Estradiol Regimens as Part of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy" published out of Dr. nippoldts group at Mayo recently.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aw, I've been using my evo for a while and didn't realize they'd gone out of business. They were always great to deal with for me. It's a nifty device, and I like the all glass air flow. That really only stayed true when using it with extracts in the glass nails though.

Have you found a reasonable clone for the baskets? I love those little things and used them in my portable as well.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anybody dislike the production today even if the race has a great end? It felt like it took so long to see replays of any significant incidents/moves, if we saw them at all.

Plus, it was great to watch the four racing at the end for so long, but why take away the time splits? They just showed like lap times between two drivers at a time for all of it.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like hair volume and fun styles, plus a lot of late 90s early 00s clothing is coming back in style right now! I'm having fun wearing it this time around.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

If it turns out that running isn't your thing, I'd recommend trying some sports. Climbing is basically the only exercise that doesn't bore me to death. Plus, they're a great way to meet people, and a lot of cities have a queer specific league.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Probably not something you can affect, but my biggest issue with trans care is just access to it through insurance. Free clinics and out of pocket payments make it doable, but around me, the offices specializing in trans care don't cover insurances except the few largest.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried to use different types of corn flour, but it's never quite right. The nixtamilization process dramatically changes the texture of the resulting masa. Fresh masa is even better, and can be made yourself if you're up for a project day.

I agree that flour tortillas may be your best bet if you can't find maseca. A wine or round liquor bottle with the label removed makes a great impromptu rolling pin.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also interested in this for using stremio from phones and PCs. Chromecast in particular also kinda sucks due to limited codec support.

[–] Apicnic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to add that event digitizing older records these days is better. Some hospitals do make old scanned notes indexed and searchable through OCR now.

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