Soreth @Soreth@awoo.space

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah.

One of my projects I'm working on involves a timeline of scientific predictions about the future. Some stuff that's certain, like specific dates that eclipses will definitely happen. And some stuff that's fuzzier, such as the year-- or range of years-- that certain effects of climate change could happen, or that new technologies become available to the public. I found a few websites that have such timelines of the future:
* Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021
* Future Timeline http://futuretimeline.net
* Quantum Run https://www.quantumrun.com/

Some subjects that are nearly missing in those three sites are predictions about LGBT issues and women's issues. Advances in human rights are probably hard to predict. Since there are a lot of predictions about advances in medical technology, though, it seems like there should be more predictions about ones that are part of gender transition, and what year we might expect them to become available.

For example, a study found that deleting a single gene in an adult can change ovaries into testes. (That is, it makes the gonads produce an appropriate level of testosterone for testes, but they don't produce sperm.)
Source: https://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/12/16/one-gene-stops-ovaries-from-turning-into-testes

Gene editing in adults can also change testes into ovaries: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-gene-required-male-sex-life.html

And we already have CRISPR technology that has been used to edit the genes of an adult human. So far, that's very experimental and dangerous, because it can accidentally turn on a cancer gene, so it's only been used for people with otherwise incurable genetic diseases. Source: https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/j9M8sf

This transhuman article and its comments explore those and other futuristic possibilities for transition, such as creating lab-grown sex organs by building a scaffold for one's own stem cells. The author of that article predicts these will *exist* as transition options by 2024, though it could take longer than that before they're available to most people who want them. https://web.archive.org/web/20190531225121/http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/05/08/total-gender-change-within-decade/

If you have links to other pages and predictions like these, please share them... especially if propose dates by which these things could happen, just because I need that in order to put them into the timeline I'm writing.

Heya, just wanted to call out that this pandemic is really hitting Dene and Hopi people hard, and that there's now a relief fund for this;

Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund https://www.gofundme.com/f/NHFC19Relief?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet

A hunting genius our dog is apparently not. We were having dinner tonight and had the door cracked in case Parker wanted to go out.

Midway through, a squirrel jumps onto the back porch railing and scurries down to the porch. It walks right up to the open door and he finally catches sight of it, and just lazily turns his head a little to eye it. Squirrel stands there for a moment then wanders off. Only after it's halfway up the porch fence does Parker bother standing up to go investigate.

exactly what it says on the CW, with a lot more info given. if you're in the SEA area and you think Amazon should pay their gotdamn taxes, please sign! hell, if you're not in the SEA area, you're in an area where Amazon effectively does business anyway.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCoXk7A8vKtbAMxkxKRfrKNSjflNOPUClfM2kpVgC3Jz5yZg/viewform

I would like to be able to order some food via Grub hub/Doordash whenever there is an emergency. Right now my father gives me $150/week for groceries, but since the hotel room doesn't have a kitchen, just a fridge and a microwave, I cannot cook everything I may want to eat.

I need another $40 for food at least this week. Right now I am surviving off of canned foods, instant mac and cheese (the kind you add water to, and then heat up in the microwave for like 3 minutes), and cereal.

If you want to help me be able to order decent food from time-to-time, then please feel free to donate via these places:

Cash App: http://cash.me/$NatsumiKitty

PayPal: http://paypal.me/gamer0313

Ko-Fi: http://ko-fi.com/natsumiwestra

#crowdfund

On the darkest possible night, under the clearest possible atmospheric conditions, the countless stars you can see in the night sky are only 0.000001% of the total number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

#NoFoolin

I have a magic rectangle. One side of it is metal, the other glass. Inside it are crystals of exceptional fineness, metal etched into intricate patterns, and traces of many exotic elements, all from different faraway lands. Symbols appear on the glass, and if touched in the right order, many wondrous and terrible things can happen. Just as often, they do not, and I have to spend an hour working out which part of the ritual I messed up.

XKCD: "Pathogen Resistance"

https://xkcd.com/2287/

I think it may be time for this.