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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you remember which model you got? I'm gonna go down the rabbit hole of reading reviews and checking specs :P

 

Hey! I wasn't too sure if this question belongs here or over in Technology but here we go.

My roommate and I want to stop cooking with the gas burners at our place for various reasons and so we were considering getting one of those portable induction stoves and using that to cook instead. We're renting the place so we don't have the option of completely replacing the stove.

I was wondering if someone has some experience with this and maybe a stove model to recommend, or is it a terrible idea and would not work for X reason? Thanks in advance!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not the most knowledgable on this, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

What should be the most important is how you yourself feel, and then labels should come with that, and not the other way around: you shouldn't "choose" to identify as demiboy, and then try to change how you act and behave to try and match what's on the label.

The fun in labels and the such is that you can interpret them as you want (for yourself)! You can say you identify as demiboy and mean with that 100 boy, 50 girl or 100 boy, 23 girl or even 100 boy, 75 girl and none of those are more correct or a better fit to the demiboy label: it all comes down to what you decide "demiboy" means to you (also this applies to any other gender you might identify as, I'm just picking demiboy as an example as it's a bit more specific).

Also, you can always change your mind after choosing a label, it isn't set in stone so another option you have is to just pick one and roll with it, find out how it feels and how YOU feel about it, and if you don't like it then pick something else and try that!

I hope this makes some sense and is maybe helpful. Good luck on your discovery journey !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha yeah it's pretty fun!! I'm pretty sure I'd also cut myself if I used a live blade but that's what trainers are for, they just have a blunt edge so the worst you'll get are a couple knuckle raps :)

Would definitely recommend! It's really fun learning new tricks n stuff and with enough practice you can do some really cool stuff (I'm not there yet though :P)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I got an ownall addax after not too much deliberation because I didn't want to go too deep down the rabbit hole and just got my hands on something and it's been serving me really well !! My country has a ban on bladed balisongs though so I don't think I'll get one of those anytime soon...

I do have trying to make one myself at one of tde workshops at my uni as a project in the back of my mind though so that should be fun!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I flip balisongs (butterfly knives)! I got a trainer earlier this year and I've been slowly learning more tricks. I find it's somethitg quite relaxing since I tend to be quite fidgety and it's nice to be fully focused on something once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Like I don't feel like I'm an ally because I don't really go out of my way to show it? I don't really know how to explain it other than my sister who is very explicitly an ally, like she has a bunch of rainbow stuff in her room and on her backpack etc and has a lot of queer friends while on my end I don't really show that? Like of course if someone was being a piece of shit towards my gay friends I'd step up and try and defend them, but that goes for any of my friends too?

Again I don't really know how to word it but I don't recognize myself in the term "ally" (although I've been considering putting a rainbow pin on my backpack or something because rainbows are cool)

 

First of all I'd like to apologize in advance for any insensitive statements I might make (I hope I don't though), I'm trying my best not to and I was just curious :)

I'm an 18-year-old cishet guy currently in uni and recently the thought popped into my head that I have no clue how the LGBTQ community would view me as someone who's not in the space or actively an ally. I would more accurately describe myself currently as a "don't care" person in the sense that to me it genuinely does not matter what someone identifies as or who someone is attracted to. I don't know how much this means, but I have multiple gay friends, my roommate is bi and I dated a person who went as a girl in day to day life because it was more convenient to her/them although she/they told me she/they partially identified as nonbinary (correct pronoun usage pls >.<) but I don't know if all this is the classic "but i have a black friend" argument that racists use.

To cut to the point: I'm curious as to how I would be seen by queer people in general, as I've witnessed both very inclusive and nice people (mostly here), but also some that said that LGBTQ places are not to be used by cishet people and I'm wondering what the best attitude to take would be.

Thanks!