[–] 2 points 4 months ago*

Trans guy here. I haven't had to bind in a while (top surgery), but I wore binders from gc2b for years. I always found them pretty comfortable (as comfortable as a binder is going to get, anyway), and liked that they came in a bunch of different colors, including multiple skin shades. It's also trans owned, if that's important to you.

In terms of what to look for:

  • It's really worth it to get a binder from a reputable brand. I wore a cheap Amazon binder for a few months and it was painful, I really don't recommend it.
  • Shape can matter for comfort. I preferred a half tank style because I wanted as little extra fabric as possible (I'm a sweaty guy), but a full tank style can be less dysphoric because it looks less like wearing a bra. Same with racerback or full back styles.
  • It's useful to have a few different colors. White and nude are both useful when trying to hide the binder under certain types of shirts, black or colors will hide their age better. Shape can also matter here - do you wear crop tops? You'll want at least one half tank. Tank tops? A racerback will show less under those thin straps.
  • A compression bra might be more comfortable when working out, even if it's less good for binding.

I don't know your friend, but if they're just getting one binder to try it out, I'd recommend a half tank in a nude color that best matches the skin tone on their chest. That's going to be the most versatile under the most clothing. If they like binding, they can pick up more binders once they know more of what they're looking for.

Putting on a binder for the first time was life changing for me. I nearly cried from how good it felt to look in a mirror and see a flat(ter) chest. Best wishes for your friend!!

P.S. You can use tape for binding, but you shouldn't wrap your chest up in tape. The safe way to do it is to use a couple strips to "pull" your chest tissue into a more comfortable shape. There's tutorials online for this. You have to use skin safe tape - the kind athletes use for muscle injuries is available at most drug stores. (This works best if your chest is relatively small – mine was too big for this.)

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    This isn't true. Crops with multiple harvests give experience for every harvest. (In the first paragraph under Experience Points.)

    Maybe you're thinking of how crops that give multiple fruits per harvest (like blueberries and cranberries) only give Exp once per harvest? But if you plant cranberries at the start of the month, you will harvest them 5 times and get Exp every time. I leveled farming to 10 this way in my most recent playthrough.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Multiple answers to that question:

    • There are women on Grindr - in my experience, mostly trans women or m/f couples looking for a third. So men can find straight sex on Grindr, but it's rare. Women are definitely a scant minority of the users.
    • There are plenty of "straight" men on Grindr. You'd have to ask them why - I usually block them.
    • The reason why dating apps marketed towards straight people don't allow this kind of messaging (and the reason there aren't more women on Grindr) is because women, generally speaking, won't put up with the same kind of shit that gay men will. A straight dating app where men could send horny messages and dick pics to every woman they saw wouldn't have any women using it.
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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Grindr doesn't really have a "match" system. You can send a message to anyone whose profile you can see (unless/until they block you). Think of it less like a traditional dating app and more like an interactive billboard of horny people in your area.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    This is a state crime, not federal, so he can't pardon himself as president. I think he could if he was governor of New York, which seems like a long shot.

    And New York's AG has seemed pretty keen on seizing his property if he wouldn't pay before. Idk if they can do that for these types of fines but I'm sure they will if they can.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think Jenny is on Nebula. She's got a patreon where she releases smaller videos every month, but to my knowledge she's never "left" YouTube - she just takes a long time to create and edit these videos so she can only release them pretty infrequently. She's got a comment pinned on this video saying about as much.

    Are you thinking of Lindsay Ellis? She's still Nebula (and maybe patreon) exclusive.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Disney opened an incredibly expensive Star Wars "hotel experience", charging $5k plus for two nights. Jenny Nicholson visited (paying full price) and documented the experience, plus background on how and why the hotel was made, some research into what was going on behind-the-scenes, and the spectrum of fan reactions to the experience. The hotel closed down permanently while she was editing the video, and she also goes into why that happened and some larger trends at Disney surrounding the closure.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Jenny Nicholson is a really popular video essayist. She only releases like one of these essay videos a year because she spends so long working on them. (She's got a patreon where she releases a smaller, lower effort video every month.)

    The big videos routinely pull in millions of views, so I'm not surprised the algorithm spams it in people's feeds. She's got a lot of followers that watch it right away because they've been waiting for a year to see it, so it shoots to the top of the recommendations for other people in that niche. Then there's a snowball effect where YouTube starts recommending it, more people watch it, so it gets recommended more, etc. You see the same thing on Hbomberguy's yearly video.

    As one of her subscribers, I can tell you that this video has been in the works for years, so we've been hearing about it for a long time and were hyped. I just finished it today - broke it up into three different viewings. She breaks all her essays down into chapters so it's easy to watch just a portion of it at a time.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Quoting from the red cross FAQ:

    The waiting period is required due to these drugs interfering with viral replication and thus possibly altering the detectability of diagnostic and screening tests for HIV, including extending the window period prior to detectable infection or a delay in producing antibodies.

    ...

    The Red Cross and the FDA support individuals making responsible choices for their health and the broader health of our communities. The Red Cross and FDA are involved in ongoing research, data collection and assessment related to transfusion safety, including the use of HIV preventative medications, and will continue to seek opportunities that could potentially help lead to additional changes. The Red Cross does not encourage individuals to stop taking these medications in order to donate blood.

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