I love it. “Ugh I love you girl but why did you have to give me ridiculous bullshit magic instead of something cool like I gave!” [Voice from the other room]“The skeletons are gross not cool”

Yeah this question really was “have you traveled to a different hemisphere”. Ok ok, there’s also central America and the Caribbean, but most American trips to either of those places are to resorts in impoverished nations unless it’s to Costa Rica, which i hear is gorgeous, but is also the equivalent of Aussies going to southeast Asia, but more culturally similar.

Why don’t we go to other hemispheres? Because they’re very far away. I’d be shocked if Canadians were significantly more likely to go to other countries (us excluded), and they’re quite a bit closer being further north. And a lot of Americans live between two mountain ranges in the middle of north America, where it’s a flight to either coast before flying to a different continent.

Yeah I went to Japan for work.

I was supposed to go to Europe when I graduated high school, but my mom got cancer instead. And by the time my sister graduated I was disowned so our father and her went without me.

I still want to go to Europe, but unfortunately it’s very far away. And I’d love to go back to Japan and see more than just factories in small cities. Tokyo was gorgeous but I only saw the airports and trains.

If the middle east were to stabilize and get really cool about a lot of things really fast I really want to see Iraq and Iran. I’d love to see Babylon and other early cities.

It’s actually quite impressive to lose a defamation suit as the defendant in America against a foreign president and his wife, and she’s expected to lose really bad in hers.

She wasn’t even. She tried to be but kinda flopped until her rightward pivot.

That one pisses me off so much. We could have had a high speed rail with actual throughput instead of claims of something better before nothing

Hell even as an American I think they look weird.

So I’ve since gotten rid of the whole dick, but no never. I got picked on for it a bit as a teenager but teenagers will pick on any differences. Nobody I’ve dated has minded foreskin (though they’ve all been the sort of women who date trans women) and in fact one bi ex of mine confided that she finds uncircumcised penises very attractive before she knew about me being uncut. Another ex of mine wasn’t into it per se, but she was an anti circumcision activist.

A big thing is when I was young and getting the talks with my mom she explained why she made the choice. Knowing that it was a decision made out of respect for my future autonomy, fear of complications, and respect for my right to have all my nerves, it made it so any teasing was irrelevant and just made me feel bad for the people teasing me.

Oh I should mention I had a friend in college who was undergoing some procedures or something in an attempt to regrow her foreskin because of how unhappy she was with having been circumcised, so take that possibility as well

Fair warning it will also continue yellowing and getting more and more brittle if you do nothing. Plastic doesn’t biodegrade, but it does undergo aging in a way that makes it less durable than traditional materials. Wood can be kept from biodegrading, metal can be kept from corroding, but aging plastic just gets more and more brittle and just really wants to become microplastics

I won’t get a second term, but that’s because I’m trans.

I’m going to start by putting forward several amendment proposals including one that removes presidential immunity, one that prohibits partisan gerrymandering, and one that mandates the right to bodily autonomy, as well as reintroducing the ERA, with full assertions of gender presentation and sexual orientation as well. I’d also push one for medical care. None of these amendments will have a deadline as I wouldn’t expect them to make it through the states.

I’d give Puerto Rico and DC the right to become a state, as well as offering Puerto Rico independence if they’d prefer, which would not be popular.

I’d push through a full blown single payer healthcare bill.

From there I’d start talking to experts in Keynesianism. I don’t like capitalism, but I’m not making America socialist in 3 years without a complete destruction of social order. But we’re in a precarious position and the economy is torn between inflation and recession which demand opposite policies. My suspicion is that it will demand taxing the wealthy and spending on the struggling. Also I’d of course instill Lena Kahn to do her thing

This is where I can do a real green new deal. If people can’t afford rent and can’t find work then they can build Council housing owned by municipalities, built around public transit lines or places to put them. They can install publicly owned fiber internet lines and publicly owned renewable energy generation. I’d also want to build a high speed rail line from Chicago to Pittsburgh with plans to extend it to NYC, as well as Seattle to the bay area and the 3CD line in ohio (Cleveland-Columbus-Dayton-Cincinnati). With all of this of course I’d be offering a better deal to American manufacturers to provide the materials with a bonus for cooperatively owned suppliers. I’d also put forward a request that every state government look into how to implement an intrastate rail network.

Furthermore I’d be doing fireside chats like FDR to explain what I’m doing and why as well as demonstrating austerity within the presidency. I’d also travel the country speaking to unions and asking everyday people about their current struggles. Making ordinary folks feel heard goes incredibly far

For foreign policy, I’d be really speaking about how my aims are to make America as stable as we once were rather than demanding other countries submit to us or trust us again. Trust is earned and an unstable country can’t be trusted.

The hope is that my directly targeting material conditions and talking my way through it I can cut the right wing support out from under it.

Hoosiers?

You are the only person who is fully stuck with you and vice versa. You have to live with your choices and behaviors, and I’ve never met someone who genuinely both should and does have no regrets.

You will fail to be a good person, you will disappoint people you respect, you will fuck up on the job and in your relationships, and you will be the asshole sometimes. Treat each of these instances as a chance for growth and humility. A sincere apology and putting effort towards being better in the future will go very far. And when others do the same show them the grace and kindness you wanted when you fucked up.

That said, some people are in destructive places and will keep fucking up and hurting people, understand when you can’t help and when it will hurt you to stay in their life.

Yeah, very few people can do opiates recreationally without addiction. Same goes for tobacco. Meth will fuck you one way or another (if you have adhd it may help while being a rough version of the treatment and basically guaranteeing you can’t get the helpful stuff if a doctor finds out).

Stimulants don’t make you smarter, but they do make you more confident, this is a dangerous combination.

Research every drug before you put it in your body, know the risks and be comfortable with them. And check drug interactions online with every recreational drug you’re taking with each other and with your prescriptions. Lots of drugs have interactions both positive and negative with each other and while sometimes that’s a uniquely good time or a particular perspective, more often than you think there’s a risk of serotonin sickness

Yeah in college I experienced both extremes. I spent about a year and a half completely isolated, just traveling between classes and my dorm. It was self destructive and my grades and mental health suffered. Then I made some life changes and started going to clubs and events and made friends and suddenly it was easier to study even though I had less time. I became extremely social and found myself spending nights doing everything from deep discussions of big ideas to long nights drinking with friends to lots of casual sex to long nights working on projects.

Because of all this I left college far more well rounded and prepared for my career and my marriage. To this day the skill of how to make friends and positive acquaintances has stuck with me and been a majorly useful skill.

Your social life as an adult is very much what you make it. Go do things that seem interesting even if you feel you’d rather stay home. Chat with people when you’re there. A huge component of modern loneliness is that we’re able to stay entertained and with a crude social life without seeing others irl, but it’s often not actually sufficient. So go get involved in something hobbies, activism, whatever events look interesting at the time. And remember that the things you do now are the memories and stories you’ll have when you’re old.

Most of those are more of kinks than hobbies

You just need to meet someone sufficiently autistic and you still won’t get it, but you will believe it

May he experience sudden hypothyroidism.

Like honestly I think struggling with his weight is something he is less capable of handling than even prison

Where’d you get that picture of me

I wish I got that out of bondage. It just bores me if not combined with mind games or pain