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the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... š„“
[Getting so angry it makes my brain disease worse] people sre supposed to be nice..

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send me a character and iāll list:
favorite thing about them
least favorite thing about them
favorite line
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unpopular opinion
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The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.
"Democrats and Republicans in Congress have struck a deal on a bill they say will help keep children and teens safe online. The KIDS Act could pass on the House floor as soon as next week; if enacted, it would fundamentally change the way everyone ā not just kids ā accesses the internet.
At stake is your ability to use many social media platforms without revealing your identity.Ā
Thatās because the KIDS Act at least strongly incentivizes ā and, for some services, outright requires ā age verification. Many platforms will turn to age verification to avoid potential liability under the law. Companies like X, video-sharing services like Vimeo, and others with a history of usersā populating social feeds with edgy content may be required to verify usersā ages because they host a certain amount of content deemed āsexual material harmful to minors,ā a term that the KIDS Act defines broadly.Ā
Thatās a big problem for people who need to be able to use the internet anonymously, since, as Taylor Lorenz has previously written about in The Intercept, āthereās no way to reliably verify someoneās age without verifying who they are.āĀ
Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them. Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry out its vendetta against the press by creating new avenues to identify journalistsā confidential sources.Ā [...]
Mandating age verification effectively hands Big Tech and the government a skeleton key to the identities of every whistleblower, dissident, and investigative reporter who uses online platforms, not to mention everyone else, including children. This kind of surveillance on steroids that surrenders our right to speak, report, and read the news anonymously wonāt make anyone safer."
UK and the US now just basically snowballing each other with shitty authoritarian laws.
Youād think that once you finally get long term access to a cat and your yearning to have cat access is fulfilled that youād become slightly less obsessed with seeing peopleās cats but no if anything it gets worse
Now that there are two whole cats in my life I have become even more obsessed with cats. Tell your cats I said hi.
I am reminded every day why I love cats because theyāre right there, doing cat things, being absolutely adorable and committing cat crimes. They are friends with me and are so soft and also sharp.
The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, investigators claim.
Alfred died in 899, and his bones were repeatedly moved. He was buried in Winchester CathedralĀ until 1110, when his remains were moved to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar between the bodies of his wife and son. The abbey was demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the place was left in ruins. In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, the English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, found what he thought were Alfred's bones and had them reburied at nearby St. Bartholemewās Church. But in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon-dated the bones from St. Bartholomewās churchyard, they proved to date from over 200 years after Alfredās death - sparking Graham's interest and search. He said: "Whoeverās bones they were, they werenāt Alfredās. So, I decided to discover what happened to them. "The quest has taken me 13 years.ā
shut up they did not find another goddamn king under another goddamn car park
@qqueenofhades look, another
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"app" is without a doubt one of the deepest evils of the human race. "hello. would you like to be expected to have a bespoke piece of software for every single Brand you might theoretically interact with in a day" <- statement dreamed up by someone who should be drawn and quartered
"It's better in the app!"
That's embarrassing. Make your website better
āTwas brillig, and the slithy toves A stately pleasure-dome decreed. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
they fuck you up your mum and dad two vast and trunkless legs of stone i do not like it, sam i am as small as a world and as large as alone
God moves in a mysterious way:
He gives his harness bells a shake.
What will survive of him is love
If he should die before he wake.
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. See in her cell sad Eloisa spread, Lookād up in perfect silence at the stars. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
If I should die, think only this of me, Between what I see and what I say, In this short Life that only lasts an hour Shall I compare thee to a summerās day?
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Westron wynde, when wilt thou blow? Tie up the knocker, say Iām sick, Iām dead. I learn by going where I have to go.
But I am done with apple-picking now, I thank whatever gods may be; I never saw a purple cow, I think that I shall never see.
I have a rendezvous with Death, She walks in beauty like the night ā Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, So on we worked, and waited for the light.
Thank you @mugwomps this is the brain equivalent of one of those massages where they hit you
explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like āmaleā, āfemaleā, ānonbinaryā, āmasculineā, āfeminineā orĀ āandrogynousā.
go!
I need to stop replying to āhow do you make friends in your 30s?ā threads because all my answers boil down to āyou have to want to know people instead of have friendsā and I donāt think people wanna hear that
Itās like. People can tell if you donāt really like or connect with them. If you arenāt truly enamored with someone you will have a hard time coming up with activities to do together to deepen the friendship. Because you donāt really like that person that much.
No nuance: do you like kids?
Yes
No
No nuance: do you like kids?
yes
no

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So, Crusader Kings 3 is on sale right now. Like, violently on sale. It's one of my very favorite perennial gaming love affairs that I want to get more people I know into, but even certain people who I generally consider my superiors in 4x-ish games don't vibe with it, so I really don't want to guess at whom to inflict it upon. ("Inflict" is a very specifically-chosen verb here; its learning curve is a fucking cliff. A very rewarding cliff, but I can't even watch most youtubers who play it for more than a few minutes because they're ALL kinda bad at it. They miss SO much low-hanging political fruit because they think people don't matter. They do matter, in Crusader Kings.)
However.
If you harbor any Paradox Interactive (and/or and especially CK-specific, because it's a lot more RPG-gamer-friendly than other Paradox titles) curiosity, I may wish to indulge it. The first two (if any) people who comment on this post in the next ~12 hours while the sale is active with their steam name, I will gift a copy of the game to (you might have to accept a friend request from me first? I'm not actually sure. But I will try.)
Come join me in alt-historical absurdity.
(ETA: oh dear, no, this sale is going to expire while I'm at work tomorrow and I'm afraid I can't do anything then. I'll try to check this post in the morning (so like... 6 hours from now) so I can make good on the second offer if anyone wants to take it, but I'm sorry in advance if I can't. I love everyone who's bothered to read this far in some way, but not in a $50 gift to someone I don't SUPER personally know way.)
For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.
"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.
Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:
Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."
Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....
....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.
(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )
"Delete all the nudes and sexts after a breakup or you're a piece of shit" has been the standard expectation since EIGHT. TEEN. EIGHTY. FIVE.
"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."
Anyway I was wrong the publishing date is actually 1882 so like.
"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."
So like @ the modern Republican party, are the "traditional family values" in the fucking room with us right now--