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I love wearing a dress shirt and tie and just getting very drunk.

I love dealing with it.

Okay, so the first one is positive for context. I'm a trans woman. And one of the booths that was pretty interesting, it was this group. Were they French? Gary, do you remember?

Anyways, this is a at-home hormone tester. So it is saliva-based. It's like a little disposable package. Currently, they only advertise cortisol and progesterone, but they have plans for estradiol and other hormones. Testosterone as well. Testosterone as well. Sorry. Okay. And yeah, so you swab your mouth in the morning or evening and then you wait, what was it, like 15 minutes? 20 minutes.

20 minutes. And then you scan this little QR thing on the device and your phone calculates what your levels are. And this has very interesting implications for the DIY hormone market or use case. I started DIY and did my own blood test, but a lot of trans kids don't have access to that. So this is a... it's a good idea if it's actually effective. Like we don't have hands on yet.

We haven't tested it yet, but I would love to do a comparison of like testing my own levels and then trying this very interesting, very intriguing.

There's no insurance involved.

The potential is great. And then probably my least favorite booth, I have to call out some other white women. My SoCal Boho white woman is Evject. How's that spelled? E-V-J-E-C-T. Okay. And what this is... Oh God, yes.

This is a special plug for your charging port of your EV. So the idea is a nefarious party sees you in your fancy EV and approaches you and you need a quick getaway. Their words. Their words. Their words, by the way. Like, they see your fancy car and you're a target. So this device will, like... ejects. You can just drive away from the charging port.

It ejects the power cord, by the way.

Non-reusable, by the way. Like, this is not reusable. It's single use.

Yes. So, yeah, all those people targeting SoCal white women in their AVs.

So I've worked in this industry for three years now. And this is my first big convention ever. And I would say this has just affirmed pretty much all of my disillusions with the tech world. And most of it's just nonsense. And maybe the post-civ people are on to some stuff.