I don’t care if you don’t believe me. You’re drawing the wrong conclusions because you’re expecting me to be against hormones and blockers. You’re almost using that argument as a strawman.

You are wrong. All I said was children should wait until they’re an adult before undergoing life altering irreversible surgery. Full stop.

But you can find a boyfriend and get him into blacksmithing so he can make you one. I feel like a ton of men won’t need their arms twisted much to do it (myself included).

The context was the comment chain that at no point mentioned anything but surgery.

If anyone took that to mean I was against all gender affirming care, they made a baseless assumption.

Fair enough. I wasn’t sure since people had the mindset that the number of users moving to Lemmy were enough to take down reddit.

No, you need to not make assumptions. The comment I was responding to was discussing circumcision, and had nothing to do with blockers or hormones. I intentionally only brought up surgery.

Anything else was your assumption.

I mean, I did just buy a jaw trainer that’s basically a chew toy, so I’d be all over this if there were different strengths.

Amen. It would be nice to have posts on actual technology instead of business/financial news about technology companies, or what shitty CEOs are doing in their personal lives.

The fediverse is not anywhere near large enough to stabilize those numbers.

I never said I supported the laws blocking access to blockers and hormones. You’re the one who read more into my comment than what was there.

That doesn’t answer my question.

Yeah, for sure. I’m definitely not against hormones and mental health treatment. It’s just weird that “children shouldn’t be able to just get permanent, life altering surgery,” is a bad take around here.

The smoke from the fire is extremely toxic, so letting it burn out is a bad idea. Plus, it’s not wasting water, since the water isn’t removed from the environment.

I guess you also support letting 14 year olds get tattoos?

I’ll have to get back to you once I fix Synology webstation yet again.

I would love to have an electric smart car for running errands.

Yeah, I’ve been vaping for like 12 years now (including building my own devices) and have done a ton of research into battery safety and such, so I always try to correct misinformation on posts about battery fires.

I’m sorry you keep getting downvoted because people don’t know what they’re talking about.

Tbh, I think that irreversible sex change surgeries shouldn’t be allowed until the age of 18 (circumcision included). There’s a reason that we don’t let children do a lot of things, and that’s because their brain isn’t developed enough to make informed decisions.

There are a lot of things that I personally thought were a good idea in my teens that I definitely wouldn’t in my mid 30s, and I’m sure that’s true for most people.

It’s pretty clear from the comments that people don’t really know anything about lithium batteries. OP actually knows what their talking about for the most part.

First, lithium batteries contain little to no elemental lithium. Just because the molecule has lithium in it doesn’t mean it’ll react violently with water. Think about table salt. Just because elemental sodium reacts violently with water doesn’t mean table salt will.

Secondly, it’s not an electrical fire. A lithium battery fire is an exothermic, self sustaining chemical reaction.

Thirdly, that chemical reaction is self oxidizing, so you can’t just smother the fire to put it out.

The only way to stop a lithium battery fire is to either let it burn itself out (which is bad because the smoke is highly toxic), or cool it down enough so it can’t self sustain. Water is very good at this.

Cooling down the reaction is the only way to stop the fires. The chemical reaction is self oxidizing so you can’t smother it.

Because that’s how you put out a lithium battery fire. The fact that the batteries use a lithium based molecule doesn’t mean it’ll react violently with water.

Sodium is highly reactive with water, but table salt isn’t.