In my experience being daunted ans not knowing where to start is a large part of the difficulty in doing difficult things.

I’m often very critical of EU regulation so I sympathise with the first bit (less so the appalling “no refugees” racism shit). For example, Sweden used to have a public housing system where subsidised public housing wasn’t just for poor people. Then the private landlords took the state to EU court crying about unfair competition etc etc and won, and now public housing has to be run like a company which contributes to higher rents. The same process was repeated for most public services. Some of that was the trend at the time and would probably have happened anyway, but it sucks that it’s enforced from Brussels.

EU does mandate a particular model of economy of its member states, one which relies heavily on market solutions to most problems. Using annoyance with the ongoing crumbles of every public service as an excuse to do more of the same is a stroke of evil genius.

As a woman who’s had bad experiences with men before, this kind of “no you owe me your time” behaviour usually triggers a “get away from this guy; fast” kind of response.

This doesn’t mean Kagi is necessarily bad or that this was what Vlad intended, but it does for sure reduce my faith in the project. Not enough to stop paying for Kagi, but I’ve definitely gone to the “raise shields, power phasers” stage.

You can get it changed, but only after getting a dysphoria diagnosis and a recommendation letter from a doctor and then applying to a specific committee, a process that currently takes more than five years (I don’t know how much more because I’m still waiting).

And then of course it’s an administrative nightmare to get in touch with everyone and tell them you’ve done something that usually is seen as impossible since personnummer are meant to be primary keys in society’s database.