Bribers also get a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you're not satisfied, let us know and you'll get a full refund within 30 days of signing up. TFNN.com, Educating Investors. The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento. Call now. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, Larry Pezzavento. Okay, looking good, Billy Ray. What we're going to be doing here is taking a look at the action today. I posted the chart of the E-mini as you can see here. In the E-mini, we went through the 3A2 like it didn't exist while the Fed Chairman was getting ready to speak. It went up exactly to the tick of the 50% retracement at 4220 and broke 110 handles. That's a significant amount, folks. No matter how you're going to measure things, but it's on a Friday in a summertime week, so anything is possible. I want to show you the next one that was even clear, because we've been saying that the one that has been the weaker of this group has been the Dow Jones Industrial Average, only being six stocks. And if we get this up here, we'll take a look at it. You'll see there we are, beautiful ABCD. Look at that, folks, to the tick right there, a little above the 61 retracement there at 33,330. We ran 80 points higher than that to complete the ABCD there. And then we've broken down 900 handles. That's not unusual, folks. I think it's important that we pay close attention to that. And the main reason is, if you remember here, we were talking about this. Well, let me do it with the longer-term chart first, because this really shows the whole picture. It's just exactly like the E-mini, the Cash S&P 500. So let me get this up here to see where we are. I'm not sure our guest is going to be able to make it today at Stan Harley, but as you can imagine, he's up to his neck in alligators today with this action that we're having. You'll notice here we have this big island reversal happen. This is the same thing we had in the S&P 500. That is, by far, the most bearish of all the patterns you can possibly get. So remind ourselves of that. That's not an unusual thing to look at. Okay, now, next thing I wanted you to see is I want you to take a look at the... that was the chart of Microsoft, okay? I want you to see Microsoft, because now I want you to see Microsoft over here again just on a smaller time frame so you can see what I'm trying to show you. I'm just so bearish, folks. I haven't been this bearish since Hector was a pup and that dog's 39 years old. You'll see this is the 382 retracement, okay? Well, this morning all we could do was open slightly higher, boys and girls, in Microsoft, slightly higher. And let's just see what happened to Microsoft after we opened slightly higher. Same thing.  Gotta get this ball game in business. Oh, no, lost data. This is not fair. Hold on just a minute. Dog got it. Shucks. Okay, now here is the chart. You'll see Softee went up, went up basically not even close to the 382 retracement, and now we've broken down into new low ground. Folks, this pattern, if it completes today, I thought it's gonna complete because we got three hours to go. But if we close poorly today, anything under, you know, Dow down 600 points or more, look out because, boy, Monday's gonna be really, really nasty next week. This is such a bearish pattern that we've seen. I know the federal is out there telling us what's going on, and they came out and, you know, after he starts talking, it drops 900 points. Come on, you know, something's not right here in River City. So remind ourselves that that's what we're looking at here when we're watching these things, that we're seeing these things that are looking, you know, very, very interesting. Now we preach here a lot about 382, and since we're talking about 382, let's just take a look at the NASDAQ. Again, we're gonna do the same thing here with the NASDAQ. By the way, if any of you of our listeners are in Redmond, Washington, I would like for you to give me a call. Eight, seven, no, that's the TFNN. This is my private number. It's<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you're anywhere near Redmond, Washington. Hold on just a minute here. Let's move on. You can see there's the 382. We went slightly above it. You can see here by about 20 pips when the Federal Reserve was in there talking, and now we have broken more than 300 points, 350 points to the downside. This is not good action, folks. This is not good action at all, so remind ourselves of that. Very, very, very important. Okay, now, before we get on to anything else, I want to share with you a little bit about value and trying to pick things. Let me show you something here, folks. This, you know, I watch the horses at Saratoga because this is an old family thing with my grandfather, but I want to show you, just to show you what can happen at the races. If you're ever at the races, this is what you want to do, okay? Remember, the races take 16% off the top. Now, you see the winning jockey here, Flavian Pratt. He went off at 12 to 1, okay? Now, if you were to bet him to win with all the other horses, which would have been a bet of $33, you'll see that Superfecta paid $1,600. In other words, you bet $33 to win $1,600. That's what value betting is all about. What happened here was, look at all these long shots at 52nd, 3rd, and 4th, you see? So what you're doing is you're picking this horse to win and all the others to line up here, so there's 120 different combinations at 10 cents apiece, okay? You're betting $12, okay? 120 times 10 cents is $12, but you get back $16.80, okay?  And the same thing happened a little bit later in the, hold on just a second, I'll get up here. I mean, this is really unusual to see this. It's almost like picking lottery tickets two days in a row, and I'm showing you this because this is all about numbers and that's why you're looking for value. Here's the same thing that happened. Here he is again. You can see here, this time he's only 4 to 1, but look at this. He comes back and he wins $790 or $21. So that's what you're trying to do when you're looking at trades, is to try to find those that line up like that and that's the real key to what we're watching here. So I think it's important to remember these things. And since you're looking at value when you're watching these things, we always get here at TFNN and try to talk to us about these 3A2 patterns and how they work in strong trending markets and here's the Dow Jones, look at this. There's your first 3A2 pattern right here. There's your second 3A2 pattern just hit right there.  So that's what you got to do. You got to dance with the girl that took you to the dance, as Yogi Berra would say. Anyway, closing today, folks, for God's sakes. Listen to me, please. Do not be long stocks if we close badly today. Anything under 500 points in the Dow Jones is what I consider badly. And next week is going to be a stand-up in front of the wall firing squad.  That's basically what it looks like. This is flat-out bearish. That bearish pattern that Jeff Hughes pointed out, the one we've seen in Microsoft with that, I'm getting a little too excited here. Take the digitalist, take the digitalist. We'll be back<PHONE_NUMBER>, Billy Ray Valentine, Capricorn. In a time of booming inflation, where your purchasing power is eroded, there's no better place to protect your hard-earned money than in gold. 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And what we do, we came down hard into Wednesday. We rallied Wednesday, Thursday, Friday like there was no tomorrow. But tomorrow stopped at the 3A2 on the Dow Jones Industrial Leverage. It stopped at the 3A2 on the NASDAQ and proceeded to drop 2% from both of those. And if you close badly today and if you close badly today, get ready, folks, because they're not going to take any prisoners next week. I don't know what's going to cause it. I don't know. But all I can tell you, I'm just a chartist looking at this chart. This is one bearish... buh, bearish one. I almost said something a little off the color, but I didn't do it. Anyway, it's a bearish one for sure. Anyway, be very, very careful being long. Protect yourself, folks, because closing badly today, coming into that. First of all, we're looking and staring at September coming in here in seven or eight days. And September and October are the two most logical months for the stock market to make a major bottom. I mean, that's been the case for a very, very long time. So let's remind ourselves. I don't know if we've been able to reach Dan Harley or not. I haven't seen anything from it. But for heaven's sake, we've got to give them... on days like today, we've really got to give them a lot of things to think about. Since we were thinking about it and we're going to think about it some more, we were talking about your old buddy, the 3A2. Now, if we get this up and take a look at it, bring this up here so you'll be able to see it here. There you are right there. There you are right there. There's your old 3A2. Exactly. Right off the high we made eight days ago. Right on the money. Look at that. We had a smaller 3A2 off of this one here yesterday. We backed off. There was the 135 pattern that we talked about yesterday, folks. There it is right there. 135. Bada bing, bada boom. And where'd she go? Right up to the old 3A2. That's why when these patterns work, they work pretty nicely. Not all the time. But guess what, boys and girls? Nothing works all the time. That's the main thing for sure. Just remember, if we close badly today in these markets, it's not going to be good. I mean, those patterns, they're predictive within, what do you call it, in shucks, within limits, okay? And so this is one that you got to pay attention to, folks. Not only that, we're in a downtrend. You see, we're not at January 4th. I could have been wrong on January 4th. That one worked out okay. But this one's a big one. You're trading with the trend. You're trading with the 3A2. You're trading with the gap. You're trading with the Federal Reserve out there telling you stuff that's not true. You can't ask for anything better than that. So that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. If we close above 32,800, that'd be up 180 points from where we are right now. I'd say, eh, the old Italian boys, probably off course here a little bit. But if we close badly, and if we close badly, this thing is not going to open unchanged on Sunday, folks. I don't know if there's anything really big happening. I think our Mr. Shane man is probably listening. There might be something out there that is going to be really, really quite spectacular over the weekend. I don't know what it would do. We've got a new moon today for heaven's sakes. That ought to be enough to get the thing moving down anyway. My goodness, this is the 26th with the new moon. Holy moly guacamole. Okay, now the second question we have is from one of our listeners, and that is about, hold on one second. Let me, I've lost a little bit of data here. Just one second, folks. I'm trying to show you these the best I can. That is this one here that we're watching here in the gold market. We were fortunate enough to get that short off with the 382 in the gold market at 1777. We're now trading about $2,800 under on that. You'll see the last time we went up to that level, you'll see we're right up to that 382 level right in here. Now we made that smaller 382 level and now we're continuing to go lower. One of our listeners down in Houston, Texas, Mr. AT, one of our main men, was talking about the, hold on, let me just get it up here so we can all see it together, and that is the GDX pattern, because that's something that he had an interest in. And I think it's, we should have an interest because someday these things are going to bottom in the current, in the precious metals, but it's just not, it's just not ready yet. They're just two dog on week. So hold on a second. I want to get this up here and show you folks where we are here on the weekly here because we're getting ready to break down. In fact, we are already broken down. We've taken out the previous week's lows. Let's get this up here so we can let everybody see it. Okay, bring this up here. And this is one of the things we focused on in the video that we sent out with precious metals. Look at this. This is a dead cat bounce. It can barely, can't even make a 382 on the weekly and look, we're already making new lows. We've made the ABCD, but no rally. No rally, not good. With the Crudo, we made that in the market rally 10%. This is not rallying. So it's better to be short to gold and long, at least for now and tomorrow might be different. But that's what it looks like what we're paying attention here today. It's very important. We've looked at this from about nine different ways from Sunday. So what I'm going to do now is to go down and show it to you on a daily basis and you're going to see how weak this market actually really is. So hold on one second and we will have this up here. So you'll be able to see how weak this gold miner index is. Look at this. We have a little, look at this little three-day rally here to 382, but a bang, but a bang. Look at this move to the downside. I mean, if it's moving down with stocks, hello operator. I mean, that's one of the ones you got to pay pay, you know, really, really close attention to. So keep that in mind. Very, very important to remind yourselves of these things right here that we're looking at here today. So I hope that makes a great deal of sense to you. And if it doesn't, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. You know why folks, because there's going to be another bus coming down the train, down the street very, very shortly. And if you keep a couple of quarters in your pockets, you'll be able to get somebody on the bus that'll take you to the promised land. That's what we're looking at. But anyway, the key level to watch today here folks is at 32,850. That's in the Dow Jones, Industrial's E-mini. Watch that very closely. And if the number in the S&P would be 41,42. 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Indeed Larry good to talk to you Living a dream baby on the green side of the grass Stan I have not seen stocks this bearish in a long long time do you concur? 1973 I see a very similar parallel Larry in 1973 and I know you remember that I remember that I sure do the market as measured by the Dow Jones industrial and the S&P 500 topped out in January of that year and then head itself the market made a low in the summer and then rallied up and made a right shoulder here's what's interesting unemployment in 1973 kept getting better even though the stock market peaked in January and in fact unemployment continued to improve until October and then the numbers started worsening from that point so what happened was the Dow the S&P rallied up into made a right shoulder high in October as unemployment reaches best level then turns south fast forward to 2022 Dow and S&P peak in January just like 1973 and guess what unemployment data is still getting better and I hear all the talking heads and you probably do too say gee unemployment is great you know this economy can't get bad stock market can't go down well guess what unemployment is continuing to improve I think it probably reaches its best level in the month of August and what do you know we topped out on August 16th and I think we're going to head south from here and I think very very soon you're going to need a telescope a telescope to see the current prices I agree with you today I got a little emotional on the radio show because I was trying to warn people I watch these ratios they break down from last week you know the market bottoms on Wednesday morning rallies up into Thursday Friday into the Fed and the NASDAQ stopped exactly at 382 the Dow Jones exactly at 382 the S&P exactly at 50% Stan you've got a chart here of the SPX and I think you've had you have today's action already put in is that correct I do yes because this thing looks really bearish unless it reverses today to me it looks like we're getting ready to have a really nasty week coming in here and I think September and October are the two months with the most common bottoms aren't they they are I'm not sure I would trade based on that his door please certainly that is true the markets are dynamic and we need to look at the cycles and see what's at play in the current time frame you know that's just kind of the way it is I think but what I do is I look at the market as a dynamic dynamic function I look at market cycles I look at ratios from highs to lows lows to highs and that sort of thing and what I found is this Larry is that we look at the S&P which is what I'm showing here on the screen you'll see that the highs are separated by numbers trading days that are equated to Lucas numbers so for example that the far left of the screen the September 2nd 2021 high to the November 21st high in the NASDAQ that was 56 trading days there is 58 which is Lucas 29 times 2 okay next high came in on January the 4th that separation was 29 trading days Lucas 29 and so on you can see every single high is separated by a Lucas function or it's times 2 multiplier and I see this pattern all the time in the markets daily weekly monthly yearly it doesn't matter it seems as though the high to high functions and the low to low functions are primarily a function of the Lucas number series and there are 2 times and sometimes 3 times multiples but generally Lucas numbers and their doubles time spans from low to high and high to low tend to for the most part be a function of the Fibonacci series and their doubles so anyhow long story short we had a mid-June low we rallied up and kissed the 200 day moving average that's that line in red and now we're heading south and the Dow last I checked a few minutes ago was down about a Fibonacci 610 points and the S&P was down somewhere between 89 Fib number and 94 which is 2 times Lucas I think we're heading south I think ultimately this thing bottoms in December I think you could see the market shave a good 25 to 30% from present levels wow Stan we have a question for one of our listeners how close are Fibonacci numbers and Lucas numbers together I know you mentioned it before but he asked the same question that I was thinking how close are these numbers most everyone is familiar I say most many of our viewers who are market technicians are probably familiar with the Fibonacci series 358, 13, 21 34, 55 and so on the companion Lucas number series not so well known probably not so well understood but if you take the Fib numbers and you multiply by 1.382 that's the Lucas number series okay so there you go there's more than half that goes behind it and simply put just take the Fib numbers multiply by 1.382 and you get the Lucas series and then what I do is I take another column and I double them and those numbers show up I'm telling from experience time and time and time again how about the full moon I mean we got a full moon today we never talked about lunar cycles I think we have but I don't know because you know Dewey did a lot of work with that and I just wondered if you did that's more of your area of expertise oh no no no I'm just a reporter I've looked at your work I've looked at a lot of people who specialize in the Astro area and Larry I gave up my hands my arms up I understand I found some astrological operations would coincide with market terms but I couldn't find a consistency that I could hang my hat on and I eventually gave up so I tend to focus more on the Fibonacci and the Lucas aspect for turning point prediction and then I look at recurring market cycles and I do a rigorous statistical and regression modeling to capture the past so I can model it mathematically I can calculate the mean, the variance, the standard deviation and then I can use that as a forward predictive tool those are the numbers that the algorithmic boys are playing with so that's for sure very very important now we got another chart here of the composite and of course that is hold on one second here my alerts are going off we're going to make new lows we're going to be making lows here one second here Stan I'll get this up here this is the NASDAQ composite that you've brought to our attention here it's much weaker than the Dow and also the S&P is that correct it is yes oh Stan we got to take a break here pretty quick so when the music comes up if you'll stay with us for your last couple of charts it would be kind enough to do that<PHONE_NUMBER> folks we will have Stan Harley back as soon as we finish with the commercial and I was not able to install the tiger clock it was beyond my pay grade so I'm fortunately going to have a dead zone in here and there's nothing nice well it was only a few seconds so we'll be... you might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market you're going to need a crystal ball to predict the future right? like any endeavor in life before you decide it's impossible get some advice from the experts you might find 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those three major benchmark indices the NASDAQ comp is certainly the weakest and I think it's probably going to lead the market lower to new lows mm-hmm today we're down almost 3% today that's a heck of a move yeah and I'm looking for this thing to stair step its way down into mid-December we're going to be I believe we'll be substantially lower and we will re-evaluate at that point but right now that's how the tea leaves look to me well your tea leaves have been pretty good my friend we had you on here a few weeks ago and you had danger flags flying all over your charts so they're coming true today so listen I want to thank you for being our guest today and we'll have you on it again I know you have to really squeeze us in on days like today but it's certainly appreciative where's the best way the folks can reach you if they wanted to see a copy of your newsletter Stan they can log onto my website my contact information is there mm-hmm okay just stand Harley Harley stock market letters right the Harley market letter it's called Harley market letters okay hey thanks for joining us my friend stay on the green side of the grass we'll see in a few weeks absolutely thank you so much folks Stan Harley the Harley stock market letter three beautiful charts showing you that the market is in a rather peculiar situation right now but you know these things can change in a heartbeat since we were on just a little while ago when we hit the 38 the ABCD up there at 3266 we've now dropped another hundred handles whoops let's try that one handle down a hundred points in the Dow Jones down to I see it just clicked off at 3256 so you know we're starting to get lower I think we got as much as lower so if we close down more than a thousand points today folks this thing's going to be really nasty I don't know what the news is going to be out there but something's going to happen over the weekend it's not going to be very nice so remind ourselves that that stuff can happen it doesn't happen all the time but when it does you and when it does you want to be able to be able to say that you by golly you took advantage of it so we've been alerting you I hope it helps a little bit but these numbers these algorithmic tradies Stan even mentioned the importance of the standard deviation also all of that is all is that is extremely important stop and think folks do you realize we're down 130 points from the high today in the S&P and 900 points in the Dow Jones that's an outlier event folks so pay a close attention to that coming in Monday if you got positions that you're that you're thinking about getting rid of this is the especially if they're long short and they stay short but if you're in a long position that you're worried about closing badly today you just don't want to come into it that this the market is to these these people know this stuff folks so somebody's out there selling it wasn't the little guy out there I can promise you that he wasn't selling into that strength unless he was looking at you know some of these three eight twos and numbers we were looking at but by golly that's that's all we're watching here you know that's the main thing to pay attention to you remember yesterday we even we were on here because I said that and I'll get this up here because I wanted to show the three eight two because we went through that we hit it yesterday several times if you remember we were right up here to the 41 94 we hit 49 40 205 but we went up to 40 220 we went up exactly to the 50 percent retracement up here folks now they didn't stop there for you know by accident because they all hit the same thing and 50 percent in the S&P 38 percent in the Dow Jones 38 percent in the Nasdaq and 38 percent in the Russell so that's telling this market is relatively weak and being down 700 points in the Dow definitely calculates it's being weak that's that's the whole thing of what we're looking at as we're watching these things here so I hope that makes a lot of sense to you that's the main thing that I'm trying important to tell you to please be very very careful here on the long side remember when we had this bottom down here in June on June 24 we had all those ABCD patterns happening in the whole world thought the S&P was going to 2800 we were trading at 3200 well we got up to 4300 we rallied over 1100 points in the S&P over the next half weeks and now that is coming home to roost and the chickens are not in the pot folks the chickens are not in the pot they can't be found we're going lower lower lower don't be a grower I was a poet and don't know it I make it rhyme every time hold on one second here we'll get up to stuff that you might be interested in and we had a question about something that was very important yesterday and that is this natural gas here that we are going to 1400 in the natural gas so if you see a 382 pullback and you do get them in these markets take a look at it because that's a good place to enter this is the daily you can see here the last 382 we made here just this week and we stayed above it and it looks like we're heading higher we're going to make this large ABCD and that takes you to 14 in natural gas I feel sorry for the people in Germany and they're going to have to be paying for this but I hear stories that they're breaking up furniture getting ready to cook their furniture burn their furniture for heat in Germany and parts of the United Kingdom it's up north it gets very cold up there anyway I hope that gives you some idea of how lucky we are how lucky we are here in the United States to see this stuff coming to fruition here to see how we're going to be acting anyway let's remind ourselves that's what it is folks it's not how much money you make it's how much money you don't lose that's the real key to what we're looking at right here now the another one that looks very interesting like it's getting ready to take off and go quite a bit higher is the corn I wanted to bring 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then we had the week rally and I spell week W-E-E-K very very shallow going right up to just a little above the 3A2 gapping down this week folks this is a Friday so you're seeing a weekly gap down in the Dow Joe in the what do you call it Goldman Sachs the rally today was basically nothing so remind ourselves these things are looking pretty negative in here folks so I think it's important that we pay very very close attention to them because but the Dow down is almost 700 points right now and we're halfway through two hours to go if we close down really bad look out this is nothing what's going to happen next week I don't know what the news is going to be but the news is going to catch up because the news follows a trend so just be really careful folks if we close down more than 600 points not a very good sign so and of course I mean at any time but by golly down 700 you know we're below one standard deviation now and that's not a good sign we already know that so let's keep that in 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use he they pronounce. I'm Nathan, I use he he pronouns. I'm Oscar, I use he he pronouns. Welcome to All Things LGBT Plus Youth Edition. Today is a trans-specific episode and it is Monday, April 30th. Alright, our first topic is coming out. So I think what we're going to do is maybe share individual experiences as well as tips for other trans kids watching this. Alright, Oscar do you want to go first? Sure. So I have been out as trans for I think three and a half years maybe, maybe a little less, I'm not really sure somewhere in that area. And originally I didn't come out as trans, I just came out as gender nonconforming because I just didn't really know. Not to say that being gender nonconforming is just a transitional phase because there are people who come out and they're nonconforming and that's their gender and that's just that's it. But for me personally I just was trying to figure out where I stood and where I was along the gender spectrum. And so at first I didn't really change my name, I just kind of asked for different pronouns to be used for me occasionally. I didn't really specify if I wanted exclusively they them. So at first I just went by she her and they them and so nobody ever really did anything other than she her and my dead name. Okay, so my coming out experience was kind of generic for the trans experience, especially living in a liberal state. My parents are cisgender heterosexual people who come from cisgender heterosexual people. So they didn't super understand what I was going through. I had to educate them about pronouns and about gender because they had a very hard time understanding and because at first when I came out I was using exclusively they them pronouns and they didn't understand just the typical but that's plural. You're not more than one person which isn't technically the grammatically correct definition of that pronoun but I had to acknowledge that they needed to learn that and so I had to talk to them about that and they came around eventually but they had a hard time with me wanting to change my name because I'm named after a lot now but I was named after people, a person in my family and so my mother kind of took it personally that I was changing my name even though it wasn't personal but she sort of took it personally at first and so we had to talk through it before she let me change my name and then it took a bit longer for her to let me change my name legally because she just I guess had to mourn that name which sucked for me but that's how cis people are and so I mean for the most part my parents were pretty accepting they wanted to they wanted to learn but because they were cis and come from cis who also came from cis people they didn't really have any exposure because my dad's parents are very conservative and so they never would have let him be exposed to that and my mom grew up in upstate New York so she wouldn't have been exposed to that whether her parents would have allowed it or not so they didn't really know where I was coming from and they came around eventually and we no longer talked to my dad's parents because I'm trans they we came out to them and there was a whole problem and my because they quote don't agree with that lifestyle and it's not a lifestyle and it also is it something you can agree or disagree with it with it's like hello I am trans on I am a human being I don't agree with that lifestyle that's that's not really a thing that you can say well I guess you can but it doesn't make any sense and so my immediate family was pretty accepting but my extended family was and is still struggling at least my my mom's parents make an effort they call me Oscar they use he can pronounce they mess up sometimes because they've known me for they knew me for 13 years before I came out and changed my name as my dad name and I don't and I only ever see them like twice a year so for what they're getting they're doing a good job but my dad's parents are not doing great they make no effort whatsoever actively speak out against like organizations that would support me and my identity and actively support people who harm trans people and my grandfather has never called me Oscar ever and my grandmother has called me Oscar maybe twice and has never used my preferred pronouns for me so we don't really talk to that side of the family anymore which was hard because we grew up with them obviously but it was ultimately beneficial to me and my mental health to not talk to them anymore yeah that's that's about all I got I don't want to be too long-winded so that was that was it is it my turn yeah I think so all right cool um I have been out as trans for two years I think two years in February um and I was not one of those kids who like knew from the start that I was trans I was always very much like I was really uncomfortable for like the majority of my childhood and I didn't have a reason for it and I couldn't put a name to it until like I was older and I was like maybe it's because I'm not being feminine enough and then I was like when I get my period I'll finally feel comfortable in my body which was not true and then like when I go up a cup size I'll feel comfortable in my body or when I like cut my hair this way or get these certain clothes I'll feel comfortable in my body and it all just like culminated into being really really uncomfortable for the majority of my life and also like not being able to because my brain doesn't like that like I don't have a lot of memories of my childhood which sucks but I in eighth grade shadowed someone at Montpelier High School because I wanted to go there and they had two trans friends and it was the first time I had met trans people my age and I'm still very close with both of them and I was like oh this is an option for me that I can have like people like me like people my age like this exists and immediately my brain was like oh this is an issue that we have to think about and panic about for some time and so I like unconsciously panicked about that for three months and then I started high school and I remember having a conversation with my friends like very early in the school year we were talking about gender and I was like yeah I'm I'm definitely a girl and I had like a physical disgust reaction to that and then like a week later I was like hey can you guys like use they them pronouns for me just for like a little bit to try it out and they're like okay sure and I ended up coming out first as like genderqueer and I would oscillate back and forth between like having girl days and boy days and both days and eventually the girl days just stopped happening and like I got increasingly like unhappy with the definition of being genderqueer and I got really really depressed and I like dropped out of school and I was out of school for probably three or four months because I was depressed and suicidal and then I got really suicidal and then I went to this hospital diversion program for at-risk teens in Burlington and it decided I was going to use a different name and I used a different name for the first time ever and I was like oh this is right and correct and so I only had to spend three days there for me to like automatically be super improved and it was probably just because I changed my name and so I came back and I was like hey mom I think I'm just a boy and she was like cool keep me updated and then I got increasingly better and I changed my name and I was like hey guys I'm a boy and then I like went back to school and I was like I'm a boy now and everyone was like okay and my family was my parents were fine about it and my mother is the best person in the entire world and has always been like super supportive and like my biggest advocate and like is probably the best person I know in the world and my dad had like weird struggles with it where he was like like for a while after I transitioned he was like if you're not trying to be the most masculine version of yourself why are you angry when people misgender you and I was like that's not fair and also mean and other weird things like that but like in the past like three months actually he's like gone through this really like I think it's hit him like how much like how nuanced like this situation is and I am proud of him because he's awesome too and then like all it took my I think I was really lucky because my dad's out of the family my cousin came out or was outed as gay before I ever came out as anything and I think that like softened the blow of me being trans and it definitely like wasn't easy and there was a lot of like because my cousin is super flamboyant there was this experience where he came home with nail polish on and his dad was like take that off and they got into a big argument about it and like his dad's final thing like argument was I don't want you to end up like Nathan and which is really bad and something I still think about I don't even know if he remembers it but like the majority of my family is super great now and like super awesome and it's really a testament to like how far people can come and my mom's parents are really good about it my in the beginning I like went out to brunch with my grandma because she was like I want to understand this which is like a really noble thing to do and like for a while they like were using my name and my pronouns but it wasn't like they weren't like trying enough and so like I actually sat down and had a conversation with them where I'm like you need to try harder and I think my grandpa like really got that he really understood that and my grandma like is getting a lot better but she does this thing where like she'll misgender me and my grandpa will call her out and then she'll be like I feel like you should give me like a grandma pass on this or like a discount or something and I'm like no absolutely not no definitely not and I think it's something like where she doesn't like want to feel guilty and I think it's really hard for people to feel guilty but it's also something you probably should feel guilty about so yep I'm done now yeah I've been on this transfer like five months not very long I definitely didn't know for like like up until like literally a few days before it came out but I never had any sort of like like you talked about like being uncomfortable I like I never had any of that and I was like 100% sure I even said a few times when people asked me like like what do you think about transgender people I'd be like oh yeah they're great but I'm definitely 100% cis and yeah so that was I guess unexpected to me and I I was never like I was okay with me being trans but it was weird for me to like think about that and like a whole new way relating to me because suddenly I was like part of a group that I didn't necessarily know a lot about and it happened in like a very short amount of time and then they came out in a hurry because I was starting a program at the state house in like a few days and I didn't want to start as a girl and then transition like halfway through that because it just would have been easier to start out the right way so had a very hurried coming out experience and I think my parents took it okay and they've just been learning more stuff and asking me more questions and like figuring things out and realizing what they need to be doing I guess to support me so yeah they're doing really really well at this point I've had some interesting reactions from friends mostly supportive had one very uneducated friend who is still pretty uneducated but that's someone I'm trying to like work with to so that she can like understand more what I'm going through and what she needs to know to support me and all of that so yeah I don't have a lot more to say besides that on that subject what like tips do you guys have for trans kids in terms of coming out and like how you can do that and make it go as smoothly as possible what would you think I think it's hard for me to like conceptualize that right now because I to me it feels like I've been out for a long time and which it really hasn't it's I haven't but I the like activist in me wants to be like you're who you are and you don't like have to give people time and you don't have to like try to be understanding of people or like tolerate like the running curve that cis people learn at which is very slow and like you don't have to be like palatable and acceptable for cis people and you are who you are and that should be outright accepted but that's also like not how it works which is tiring and I think so much of what people tell you is like be understanding of people taking time but also like you don't have to be understanding like you can demand respect from people like you have that right and you like deserve that and if people don't understand that's not their fault that's on them that's like that's not your fault it's on them and the best thing you can do is like as long as it's not like a impacting your own physical or mental safety like be the most authentic version of yourself yeah I don't know if I really have like the the experience to say how to make it go smoothly because mine was kind of messy because I didn't really come out to my parents it was just kind of like gradual build-up of them finding out information about me there was never a moment where I said I'm trans to them it was just kind of gradually me dropping hints and just kind of like the build-up of them being like oh so this is what we should be doing and so that it kind of became common knowledge that I was trans and it never really was a big moment where I just said I'm trans it and like Trumpets play in the background it was like a moment like that where you see in the movies the three movies about trans people but I would definitely say that you in this situation you are the most important prioritize yourself and your comfort over the comfort of cis people who you're coming out to because cis people and people in general don't like their worldview challenged and that's part of being a human being and so by especially if the person you're coming out to doesn't have any experience with trans people they're going to be confused at first they're going to have a lot of questions but you don't but you are not obligated to to answer anything that you're not comfortable with Google is free if cost zero dollars zero dollars and zero cents and it is takes no time to open Google but so a click yeah even if if somebody asks you a question and you're comfortable with answering it by all means but if it's if you're starting to feel like it's becoming exhausting if engaging with people's questions is exhausting and it's tiring and it's hurting you mentally or physically prioritize yourself you're more important than cis people who are uneducated your job as a trans person isn't to be a walking talking it's like encyclopedia you do not have to take on the role of educating everyone around you Google is free there are resources out there and you shouldn't be bombarded with questions that you're not comfortable with and I think initially it's gonna feel like you want to answer everyone's questions because you're so excited to like share this like authentic you with people and then and it creeps up on you how exhausting it gets like cuz like weeks after you've come out and you're still answering these questions from people and like people are still unloading how they feel about your transition on to you it's like we're not your therapists like we don't care how you feel in this situation because it's not about you it's about us and so you'll be aware of like how you're feeling because that exhaustion can creep up on you really really like slowly and quietly and it's like really hard to get out of that like educator situation once you've gotten to it yeah I think it's definitely important to know that like other people's emotions in this situation really don't matter at all and that when you come out to someone it's like you shouldn't feel like oh my gosh I've like ruined this person's life and caused them a bunch of stress because like that's their fault and like I've had experiences where I come out to someone and then they ask me a bunch of like very offensive questions or say a bunch of transphobic things whether they realize it or not and then when I get mad at them and try to educate them go on like a rant of all their excuses about like oh I've been really like stressed out for the past month about all these things like I don't care and I don't need to know so I think it's important that yeah you don't need to listen to people when they talk about that and it's okay to just like be very frank with them and just tell them like I don't need to know and to make sure they know what they need to be doing just for you so people get so scared of the stereotype about trans people that they're gonna get so mad when you make a mistake and like trans people feel like they have to like be overly accepting and overly apologetic to people because of that stereotype you're allowed to fulfill that stereotype you're allowed to be like that's messed up please stop you're allowed to be the aggressive trans person yeah everyone seems to think we are yeah yeah don't feel sorry for the cis people who are scared of asking questions like you can yell at them if they're being stupid that's fine once again Google is free yeah it takes nothing to Google a question you have because I promise there are resources out there that aren't the 13 year old trans kid that lives in your house who probably might who might not even know right yep being trans doesn't make your authority on like trans activism or yeah yeah just stuff like that yeah so definitely individual experiences are very different as trans and then immediately the fairy blesses you all the knowledge of trans history that has ever happened you wake up one day and you're like Sylvia Rivera and you just know everything that's not how it works so don't don't take don't take stuff from cis people who are trying to be invasive and ask questions that you aren't comfortable with and who are unloading their feelings and thoughts and emotions on you like they misgender you and you correct them and oh it's so hard for me to I'm going through this is really affecting me here's all the reasons that I misgendered you like other than the fact that I just messed up and I'm not gonna apologize for that I'm just gonna apologize for all these other reasons that I didn't actually misgender you I just like these are all the other reasons yeah people need to learn that misgendering is something that's like it's not like it's it's very simple if you misgender someone you apologize quickly without unloading all your emotions or giving any sort of excuse not even apologizing just like yeah I don't even have to say anything just like say the right thing and then continue mm-hmm yeah all right next thing we're gonna talk about is sort of two things like medical transition and also dysphoria and before we start talking about this I do want to note that like this is a special like occasion for talking about this subject so you can't just like walk up to a trans person be like hey what's your medical history so yeah this is like a yeah this is an occasion where we are talking about this but that doesn't make it okay for you to like bring it up in conversation with you shouldn't ask about someone's medical history yes they bring it up yeah to you so I definitely just don't want to like note that to people don't take this the wrong way mm-hmm and also our experiences with being trans and well wanting to medically transition or medically transitioning aren't believe it or not the authority on what all trans people want or in need so just because yeah one of us or all of us want something or need something doesn't mean that every trans person does mm-hmm there are trans people who don't want to like transition at all and want to like present like still as the gender they were signed at birth there are trans people who don't want to medically transition there are trans people who want to fully medically transition it's there are there is no universal trans experience so on that note do you guys both want to share whatever you're comfortable sharing about like medical transition in general or your personal experience or me then why don't you start because you are the most I'm the most complicated yeah the most highly evolved I have had top surgery which is technically called a double incision mastectomy which it's not really a mastectomy because in regular mastectomy is they like don't pay as much attention to like aesthetic and also they don't take like fat as well as like actual mammary glands and so I have two big scars that go like this and that was almost six months ago and I have also been on testosterone for a year and a month and a half and that is why my voice sounds normal and causes a bunch of other things to happen and that's really like all I want for my medical transition like I like after I got top surgery like my dysphoria was virtually gone and like is to this day and like not really exist in anymore I also have a theory that like is a controversial theory that dysphoria is pretty much solely based in like societal expectations of what it means to be physically or like mentally a man or a woman or neither but I'm I'm pretty content in my own medical transition at this point like I have gotten all that I have needed from it I'm not really super medically transitioned I've been on estrogen blockers for it was a year on like the 10th I think of this month it was a year and I am less than a month away from starting testosterone my appointment to get a prescription is in mid-May so I think I think it's on May 15th and so then it's just gonna depend on a bunch of other stuff when I'm actually gonna start being able to shoot out yep as far as things that I would like for my medical transition I kind of I don't really want anything other than just testosterone and top surgery I don't have a lot of bottom dysphoria I'm if if it really comes down to it I might get a hysterectomy because being a testosterone and having a uterus can it that can bad do bad stuff to your body you don't need to have a hysterectomy but I have a bad family history as far as body chemistry and so I'm not gonna take the chance but yeah I don't really feel like I need bottom surgery I like the idea of it but it frankly it scares me too much to actually go through with it and it seems like the the consequences would far away the benefits for me because it's so much healing time and it's so much and it's so different from what you you know that I feel like it wouldn't be something that would be incredibly helpful for me so I feel very much the opposite and feel like it's worth and feel like it's like oh yeah for sure good enough that it like is something that they want and that they need yeah like there are just people who need bottom surgery to feel okay in their body yeah and that is completely a valid way to TRAN TM because as we mentioned earlier there is no right way or universal way to be trans like everyone has different experiences definitely and there's also like different people have different dysphoria levels or no dysphoria at all and you can get like whatever you can transition however you want regardless of dysphoria as well and yeah I think some people like are not like I'm not interested really in passing as male partly because I'm not male like I'm non-binary so that definitely has something to do with it because I don't I don't want to I'm I don't want to pass as female because I'm not female but I'm also not male so I think part of my like medical journey is probably just gonna be finding out like what I can do to sort of be somewhere in the middle and like I've heard of non-binary people who take like a small amount of testosterone and then that sort of like it doesn't have as big an effect so you're so like I wouldn't completely pass as male or like be completely like with all the effects of tea normally but I would still like sound different and feel different so that's something that I'm kind of interested in in the future I'm not allowed to take hormone blockers for some reasons but yeah so pretty much for me I'm just like waiting two and a half years until I can actually do anything yeah and we also can't speak to the experiences of like trans women either like definitely and this is a very like a panel of small small representation of the trans community yeah three white trans mask yeah we're probably the most privileged kind of transperson that you can get for sure like not probably we are we are the the most privileged like it's just like with anything there's levels of privilege that you get at when you're trans but just like when you're anything being a person like a black trans woman that is probably the least privileged type of trans person the life expectancy for trans women of color is like 32 yeah which is and the the murder rate of trans women specifically far outweighs the murder rate of trans people in general yeah especially trans women of color yeah which is a huge issue and it wouldn't be right for any of us to assume or talk about the experiences of assigned male birth people who identify as trans yeah yeah that's definitely a good thing to mention because that's a whole different topic really that we can't address and it would be cool in the future for us to maybe like get someone on here who can talk about that but so that's something maybe we can do I'm not sure but yeah so the thing I want to talk about is a question I get asked a lot is does your sexuality change when you transition which is yeah I think we just want to clarify that that's complicated because the answer is no because sexuality is also like biological and genetic the way that like gender is but at the same time the way that I view sexuality is like my own sexuality is like really really fluid and it actually like dramatically changed when I started T which is like not definitely not like a universal experience that's interesting yeah but and probably just has to do with like the way my sexuality is set up in general just like being really fluid all the time but it's definitely not a universal experience and most likely you know your sexuality doesn't change when you yeah I mean your your label can definitely change if you're like if you're a trans guy and so you're assigned female at birth and like while you identify as female or while you're like labeled as female you're straight or you consider yourself straight and when you transition then you're gay so your label does change sometimes but the actual sexuality like that part doesn't change who you're attracted to doesn't change even though your label might so that's confusing to some people but definitely something that's yeah and also as you mentioned it's very fluid so you can like use different labels at different times and it can change and go back and forth or it can stay the same for some people yes it just like always is exactly the same but it's flexible I had a very confusing experience and relationship with sexuality because when I was before I came out as trans identified as a lesbian and I'm not sure if that was me rejecting the part of myself that was trans or if that was me saying I can't be trans but I if I identify as a lesbian I can be masculine which isn't which obviously isn't the truth and is it and you could be masculine or feminine no matter what I had a very similar experience but my but I don't and I don't know if that was like a way for me to express my masculinity without admitting to myself that I was trans or if that was completely trying to suppress the male part of myself and just be like I don't want anything to do with men in general I don't know I don't know what that is but now and now that I've transitioned I identify as I don't know my sexuality super fluid I'm currently in a relationship with a person who defies as male so at this point I would I just say that I'm gay because explaining my sexuality to straight people is a nightmare straight people are a nightmare that's very true and so I just say that I'm gay because it's a lot easier but that really isn't the case is if you want to be super specific I guess the word that I like for myself is andro-sexual which is you just like masculinity so they kind of just regardless of the person's gender identity I in I am more attracted to people that are masculine that's all right is there anything else you guys want to cover or any additional comments advice anything did you didn't you say you wanted to talk about dysphoria oh yeah that's something we didn't talk about really but yeah should we define dysphoria yeah that's definitely something that for the sis for the sis yeah that's something that I find a lot of people actually have like I've never even heard of or don't understand and then we should address the question do you need dysphoria to be trans um dysphoria is defined as the like physical or mental pain that more often mental pain that some trans people feel because of the disconnect between like the gender that they are in their body and there are a lot of trans people who don't experience dysphoria and that's cool and awesome and I count as one of them now what I really would say like the definition of being trans isn't you have dysphoria it's gender euphoria it's you don't be like for instance someone who is trans mask you don't feel terrible when you're called with female pronouns but you feel a hell of a lot better sorry I'm okay when you're addressed as male so like that's gender use euphoria and your trans that's that's how it is if you feel if you feel better being addressed by pronouns other than the ones that were assigned to you your trans well I mean there's also like yeah people who like use different pronouns that feel like really good for them but also like still there's a lot of like people like who identify as women who use he him pronouns but still like identify as women but feel more comfortable with those pronouns because pronouns well unfortunately in our society are so associated with gender don't have to yeah and language is fake so you can identify as whatever gender you want because we made up gender we made up the concept of that we made up the concept of sexuality and we made up the concept of language so you can everything's fake and do whatever you want because at the end of the day we're all gonna die everything makes you happy while you're alive if you feel good transition if using pronouns other than what's what society says you should use them because you can life is short yeah pronouns are fun yeah I think it's it's there's also trans people like a lot of trans people who like don't care about pronouns at all or who are pronoun indifferent or non binary people who use their assigned pronouns just because it's convenient everything's fake dude just yeah yeah like just just be like hey hey what pronouns do you want me to use what name do you want me to use and then just do it it's not hard it is difficult if you can memorize your multiplication tables you can you can remember somebody's pronouns it's it's yeah not hard you're just being difficult for no reason yeah my mom has this saying that you don't have to understand you just have to not be a dick and I I try to live by that yep yeah I think um you also like you don't I think a lot of cis people take it very like personally or emotionally when you tell them like your new pronouns or whatever but it really doesn't have to be a big deal at all and but also if you wanted to be a big deal yeah like like kill it and yeah make it a huge thing you can but if you just want to like mention hey I'm using these pronouns now and people should just like go with it and not ask you stuff unless you bring up topics to talk about which is just a general rule but yeah like you deserve to have your name spoken like as you want it to be because names are just sounds that you like and so if you like a sound better than another one you deserve to have that sound used for you just like the sounds of pronouns if you like the sound of one pronoun better than the other one you're you deserve to have that you deserve to be respected as a human being and someone claiming that they're gonna use your the wrong pronouns for you just because they don't like you is not just because being called the right name isn't a privilege for for good trans people for trans basically for trans people who are palatable the cis people that isn't just a basic human right yeah it's like if I was in a fight with a cis person I wouldn't start calling them she if they were a cis male I wouldn't do that but like I really don't like Caitlyn Jenner but I would never miss gender her yeah she's a woman so like like and cis people when you say that I'm just like what like no I think Caitlyn Jenner is a terrible representation of the trans community and I really don't like her but I would never call her her dead name or call her with male pronouns because she is a woman and it's basic human decency to to respect that and it isn't like a right that you have to earn to be called the right name and pronouns it isn't something that should be expected and that if people mess up don't feel bad about correcting them yeah obviously obviously if it's safe for you to do that don't feel bad about correcting people yeah and they you shouldn't feel like indebted to a person because they're using the right pronouns you know they're mad at you like if you're in a fight with someone or it's someone who you really hate and they're being awful to you like just because they use the right pronouns doesn't mean they're being any less of a jerk like you could still yell back at them you don't have to pretend that oh well they didn't miss gender me so like it's fine happen yeah so that too like it's not something that and also cis people shouldn't ever like use that as like guilt trip a trans person by being like well I've never misgendered you so because that's just I haven't misgendered you this week so like I deserve an award yeah it's cool you want like a sticker or something like the dream trans person for cis people is like you have like a bag of like hard candies and every time they get like it's like a dog shake it for like a shake for a dog and every time they use they use the right pronoun you just give them a hard candy and like you're readily available to answer any question about trans history that they have or any question about your own medical history because obviously you're entitled to that to just know a random person's medical history and know what a random person's genitals look like so obviously that's your right as a cis person yeah that was sarcasm people struggle with it that was sarcasm um I think it can be really hard like dangerous to like start talking about pronouns and like gender as like a want yeah because some people like it's not like it's not like I identify as something it's like I am this yeah and they're like I choose to like I didn't like identify as a trans man and not just a man because I I like trans as a political identity and like a way to like like feel powerful in the world because I think being trans is like beautiful and complicated but all there are a lot of trans people who just identify as like men or women and like don't need that to like be a part of their identity yeah it's fine to want to pass a cis or like you don't have to feel like you would ever want to be cis though and that's another thing not all trans people want to be cis yeah apparently that's a mis that's something that cis people think is ridiculous yeah like as soon as someone comes out they want to be cis that isn't that isn't true and like obviously some people some trans people who are stealth they're just I just want to be perceived as a man and that's it that's my life but there are trans people myself included who are like I'm not cis I don't want to be cis please don't ever think that I'm cis I don't want to be perceived as cis and I have privilege in that I have privilege that I don't have to be stealth that I can live in my community and say I am a trans man and just be proud of that fact and not everybody has that but because I do I am gonna do my best to use that to the advantage of the other people in the trans community yeah who don't have that yeah those of us who have the ability to say things that make people uncomfortable like at least I feel a responsibility to keep on doing that yeah yeah definitely yeah I think it's also like if you're a trans person and you like wish you were cis or your goal is to pass a cis that's fine too yeah and if you like if you're if you think of being trans is like an irrelevant detail in your life that's fine as long as you understand that like other people are proud of the fact they're trans and that that's something that's like important and an empowering label for a lot of people and also that maybe that feeling like acknowledging that maybe that feeling comes from a place of like internalized transphobia definitely and like like the need to be cis is like something that comes from internalized just phobia yeah that's that's probably everything yeah unless you have any more yeah all right thanks for watching everybody this has been all things LGBTQ and we'll see you next time bye bye


I want to add to a previous video I've done, this is a while ago, and to be perfectly honest I didn't think at the time there would be anything more to add to it, but oh there is. See I'm obviously quite interested in programming. I've got some benchmarks of things, and some people that had vouched that I'm even really good at programming, but I don't consider myself a programmer. And in fact I don't think I would ever, but I'm very unlikely to wind up being a professional programmer at any point, and that should be surprising to most people. If you're good at something, why wouldn't you want to make a career out of it? It's a fair question to ask. Remember we work with other people, and it's important that your interactions with those other people would be positive interactions. Now it's sort of been creeping into some other videos, some interactions on Twitter or other places. I have a psych background, and if I didn't make that clear in a video that's actually what I went to school for, I went to school for psychology and I'm very interested in human behavior. I read a lot of psych research. More than anything else, believe it or not, while a lot of people are quick to say things like oh that person's behavior is toxic, it is more appropriate looking at it through social psychology to say that person's experiences are different in a way that causes them to communicate differently, that they are more suitable to a different group of people who have similar experiences, that they don't fit with that group. It's not that that person is toxic, it's that the interaction is toxic. I'm not saying there's no toxic part of it, but the interaction, the two conflicting groups, that is toxic. Not either party. My interactions with other cooks tends to largely be fantastic. My interactions with other medical professionals tends to largely be fantastic. In fact, I still, despite only popping in there occasionally for over four months, I'm still getting poaching attempts from one of the hospitals I was helping out downstate. I'm good and well respected in that area. But since I don't interact much with medical people on Twitter, my interactions seem quite toxic. Because they are. The interactions are toxic. That hostile nature doesn't happen outside of tech really for me. You can find some isolated groups. Definitely. They're very isolated groups. See even just in the general workplace I find, I get along well with most people. Not close relationships, it's the workplace. I don't think it's appropriate to even form friendships in the workplace. Form your friendships outside, you need time away from work. That's important. It's something I struggle with personally, but I don't unwind very well. I don't relax. I need to take more time outside of work. But the clear separation of work and home life is a good important thing. If you're making friends with people at work, sure it's an easy place to make friends, but where do you get that time away? Same reason why you don't date at work.  Don't do that. My experiences are just too different. I don't know if that's... I assume to some extent it's a regional thing. Different regions, different cultures, subcultures, different personality types that develop because of that. It does seem like to some extent I have an easier time with East Coast programmers than I do West Coast programmers, but obviously the majority of the tech in the United States is West Coast Silicon Valley. There's another problem, specifically why I finally made this connection, what I'm adding to the video, and why I'm not really a programmer. Just a guy who programs subtle distinction, important distinction, though. You can not be a professional carpenter, but make birdhouses on your spare time as a hobby. I'm very, very evidence motivated. I fully recognize the point of tests as proof that your code works. I appreciate benchmarks as evidence on your code's performance. Gather that with multiple inputs as proof of your algorithm's performance curve. It's actually quite the well-observed thing that medical professionals tend to have a higher evaluation of evidence than many other fields, actually. That medicine and the core sciences both are very heavy as far as evidence goes. This drops down in other fields, not to say that other technical fields don't value evidence, but something I've noticed for quite a while, and I'm not the only person to have noticed this, is tech, specifically. It seems to not really care. In fact, there's almost an antagonism between tech in practice and computer science. And it's bizarre, and I don't understand it, and baffles me, but it's a clear difference in how the field operates from what I'm used to. In fact, even the culinary arts tends to have more respect for the sciences than tech does for its sciences. In culinary, there's food scientists who research specific ways to improve things, or even just how the food was made in the first place. What is it that gives Nougat its light, airy structure? We know that's protein now, and we can substitute around that. Some of those are fantastic, because I don't know if you've ever tried to make cake the old-fashioned way, and I'm talking old-fashioned way, with, say, beef gelatin.  It's, uh, uh, Jell-O doesn't have a meat flavor. Similarly, thickening for sauces, cheese sauce, I'm going to use the big example, roe, a mixture of butter and flour is often used to thicken many things. And for gravy, that's how I would recommend thickening it, still. That's probably the best way to thicken gravy, and I don't think we're going to come up with anything better than that for a good while, if at all. Because roe fits the flavors of that really well, fits the consistency of that really well. But cheese sauces, historically, and sometimes still, people will use roe to thicken cheese sauces. And it's, see, the extra butter, this guy ought to relate this, the extra butter tends to cause this film to develop in your mouth. It feels weird. If you've ever had mac and cheese, especially, but sometimes cheddar soups, and that you get this lingering feeling in your mouth, that's from there being too much butter. Similarly, the flour component in that almost gives it a chalky-like taste. It's clearly identifiable as flour, not like mineral powder, but if you've had roe-thicken cheese sauce, you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's not pleasant. What food scientists have worked out, and what is the established norm in the field, is sodium citrate. Now, not everybody is directly aware that they're using this. In fact, a common thing I do, just because it's more convenient than having a big thing of sodium citrate available and keeping it dehydrated all the time, because Lord knows in a busy kitchen you're going to leave the thing open at some point, and some moisture is going to get in there and clump the whole fricking thing up, is American cheese slices. Just a few of them to provide that sodium citrate. You don't need very much, and then overwhelmingly the cheese that you actually want to use. It's like we're doing something like a ham, apple, cheddar, soup, throw in, God, even for a gallon, eight slices of American cheese is usually enough to get you going, and then the two wedges of, say, like a nice smoked gouda, and the whole thing just blends delightfully. Not in tech, though. Like I'd said, tech has an observable antagonism towards computer scientists, and is vocally proud about that, and I don't understand it at all. It's very disagreeable to me. See, when I go about problem solving, one of the things I look for is not just my own solutions and can I work something out, but what's the literature on this? As somebody worked out an effective solution, how effective was their solution? Sometimes I feel like I have a better approach, and I will implement my approach and test it as well and see how they stack up. More often than not, what you find is that they're each suitable for different situations, and that's totally understandable. But tech seems almost proud to be anti-science, and that's just weird. See, my interaction largely devolved into, do you have proof of that claim, and then the person mocking me over it. But the final thing said as a sub-tweet, because of course you're not going to say it directly to the person, was about how medical people are always so evidence-based and it's problematic. Now, I don't know about you, but if I was experiencing medical issues and you needed to go into the ER and needed treatment for it, something to potentially save my life, I don't want to make sure that the treatment that the doctor gives is actually something that would fix the problem that I'm having, that they have correctly identified and tested, the thing that I'm experiencing, and that the treatment protocol that they are using has been shown effective for treating the problem that they had identified and tested. If you've got a viral infection and you're given antibiotics, it's not going to work. And we know that's not going to work. Tech seems largely fine on giving antibiotics to treat viral infections because of conventions and cargo cults, and not because of evidence. But there's another factor. Remember I said experiences affect how we communicate, affect what we prioritize, affect our whole personality, really. I'd mentioned in a previous video that I had experienced a lot of trauma that I was rather recently diagnosed with and we're still narrowing down exactly what it would be. We're not too concerned about a specific name. It's more understanding what's going on with me specifically. But some form of complex trauma, specifically the result of just an overwhelming majority of gaslighting. Now it becomes very unsurprising that somebody who's been experiencing a lot of gaslighting, a lot of people causing them to doubt their own lived experiences, is going to strongly favor proof and evidence. See I've had situations even very recently, today in fact, where a situation had to be resolved because somebody was making an accusation about something that they did and me not following through, trying to get me in trouble and I shouldn't say trying to get me in trouble, it was probably just them trying to keep themselves out of trouble, but making an accusation about them having done something and they never did it. I never had information that I was supposed to have and that was provable because the entire conversation happened through email. So I could prove that. You never tell me that I didn't have that information. I didn't know that that was something I was supposed to do. So it's not just field conventions and what I'm used to and even ways of trying to explain why evidence is a good thing to have. Even if, you know, techness is not a life-threatening thing. There's evidence, there's cases where, you know, evidence in better cooking, that's not a life-threatening thing, yields better products. There's also very personal reasons for me favoring always having evidence. See, I don't think I could ever be a professional programmer working in a company with numerous other programmers, just because of how differently we view that. I take evidence very seriously and it's not the norm in the field to take evidence very seriously. In fact, evidence even gets mocked. The people who gather evidence get antagonized. There are fields that greatly appreciate my dedication to evidence and it makes sense for me to work in those fields. I'm appreciated in those fields. But it does not make sense for me to be employed in tech. So the funny thing is, too, the programming I'm doing is largely fixing things that had they had that dedication to evidence, I wouldn't need to fix in the first place. But hey, I'm the one who's wrong, right?