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More evidence that although I love the idea of the MIT license, it is not good when large corporate interests and their money get involved. It's too easy for the code to get scooped up and relicensed or just hidden away. Copyleft licensed projects are the only ones I'll work on anymore.

Nope I don't agree. Language has meaning to people, and has no obligation to past meanings or logic. If it did then we wouldn't have been able to reclaim the use of the word gay which has changed meanings multiple times just in my lifetime.

Overdose doesn't mean die, it means getting a larger dose in your blood than the labeled dosage. Over a long period of time dosing too high, there may be side effects. Sorry if I used medical terminology, but I work in healthcare so it's common terminology there. I sometimes forget that the media has warped the meaning of some of these terms.

But that's how language works. Things mean what the majority of people say they mean. Otherwise, everyone would still be using the n word because it wouldn't have a negative meaning. It's about communication, not absolute logic.

Can and should are two very different things. The two have different absorption rates for different things. You may overdose or it may be totally ineffective. There may be toxic contaminants that taken orally might not be absorbed much, so its relatively safe, but taken rectally might be absorbed into the blood stream. There's also the sanitation issue. The mouth is generally better at capturing and keeping infections out of the body than the rectum, so you may need to sanitize the pills which might be difficult if you don't want them to dissolve. And relatedly, there's the matter of the inactive ingredients. They're designed to be swallowed, but may cause issues left behind in the rectum. Most pills that are swallowed just use starches which isn't a big deal, but to make things dissolve quickly there are other ingredients including sometimes sugars which could encourage microorganism growth if you don't sanitize them or some ingredients may trigger diarrhea or other reactions.

There's usually not research done on a drug taken sublingually as to how it would affect a person rectally, so it's usually not going to be well known.

That said, ask your doctor. If there is any data about doing it, they would be more likely to know.

X is a right-wing propaganda platform now. Bluesky is not a good alternative though. It's just as controlled and toxic as X was just before Elan bought it and will eventually become what X is now when a major corporation or rich person decides to grab it or it goes public. The federation functionality is just for show and marketing. I wish people would stop just jumping when platforms become truly horrible and then jumping to something that will be made as horrible very easily after it becomes popular enough.

Unfortunately, the current state of the patent office is extremely understaffed and mostly nontechnical. So, there's not enough qualified examiners to examine patents, not just in software, but medical devices, voting machines, and lots of other industries. So essentially if a patent is submitted by a major company, it just gets rubber stamped. And it's up to the courts to sort it out. Unfortunately that sorting out is biased and understaffed, too, so usually the initial case will go to the patent holder by default and it's not until an appeal or two on those biases and technical misinterpretations that it can be invalidated. So it's rare for a smaller company to be able to spend that much money to invalidate an obvious idea like this. Of course this is by design to give large corporations an unfair advantage. If they want some tech, they just sue for a stupid patent, wait until the company either folds and then they can steal it legally, or goes bankrupt fighting it and they can acquire them hostilely.

I'm getting mine in 2 weeks, but getting PPT so no scrotal tissue is used as labia will be made from the shaft since that's not needed for the vagina, but I expect similar experience with the clit at first from what I've read.

But for me, I've actually had what I've been calling phantom vagina/vulva most of my life. Basically, the feeling that the peritoneum and area being the scrotum should have an opening and the shaft should be a clit. So I'm hopeful that putting things the way my brain thinks they're supposed to be will make it easier for me at least.

But everything I've read has told me your experience is normal and will change over time. But it will likely take years and even then relapses of it may come up here and there. For now, take comfort in what has improved And I've heard you should spend time looking at and exploring touching yourself with a nonsexual intent to help train your brain on what's actually there. I was reading to use your dilating time for that at the very least as well as time after masturbating when things are especially sensitive but you're relaxed.

Almost every night...

As i mentioned, DIY with doctor's monitoring if you can find a doctor with sliding scale fees and pay cash. Or if you don't mind your parents seeing the trans diagnosis, then DIY with monitoring by your doctor but find an inexpensive/sliding scale lab for the blood tests if you want to hide that. Or if your insurance will allow privacy for adult dependents, just be careful if you need an auth for the type of HRT you get, and don't use mail order pharmacies. But if you choose DIY and get them from supplement companies, be sure to research the manufacturer as there are lots of fakes, heavy metal contamination, etc., in the supplement industry.

Yeah totally get that. Just want to give other options you should look into first before risking fully DIY.

I mean, yeah, but it's the idiom for that and is why I put it in quotes. Not all idioms make logical sense.