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Good to know! Thanks for the recommendation 👍

I mean she's fully bought out by AIPAC and her messaging is weak at best from everything I've seen. I don't love Talarico with all my heart but I cannot imagine any world in which he's a worse choice than Crockett.

I had no idea about it being abandoned until you said something. I just looked at the play store reviews and lots of people are saying the developer is mia. Guess I'll keep an eye out for another app with a ui I like in case Sync ever stops working for me. Luckily I haven't had any problems so far.

Sync for Lemmy

Okay this is entirely separate yeah. Almost two years old so I wonder if things have changed since then, especially with the rebrand into Stoat. I definitely care more about this than the internet drama blog posts I found before.

This does work, yeah. The parentheses weren't getting percent encoded so they interfered with the markdown. This should work now:

https://res.kate.pet/upload/202409-lightspeed/lightspeed.tv%20-%20Everyone%20-%20general%20%5B985735035061674006%5D%20%282024-05-21%20to%202024-05-24%29.html

Tldr at bottom

Your link is not working for me. That domain has a blog where the author talks about their Revolt account being terminated (this was over two years ago), but the drama seems to be about one lead contributor banning the author across several servers they moderate. The author gives no explanation for what they actually got banned for and only includes a few dm screenshots that don't really explain anything. The author links (incorrectly formatted) to this callout post where the author of that complains that the hobby programmers who maintain Revolt in their free time are hobby programmers who maintain Revolt in their free time (as opposed to unpaid developers who dedicate their life to the project). The author literally complains about who they describe as a teenager "playing video games such as Beat Saber VR, Minecraft, Fortnite, Among Us, and Valorant instead of focusing on the product". Brother it's not a product you're not paying for anything. Skimming through the rest of the takedown post, this is your generic right winger "I'm being cancelled for my beliefs, so much for the tolerant left" nonsense that losers do when people stop giving them the time of day they feel they're owed by others. kate.pet referencing that callout post does not lend credibility to their own claims, I must say.

Tldr there was internet drama two or three years ago that affected like two people, both of whom include screenshots so closely cropped that I feel like one extra message above or below the each screenshot would change the context of what's being said. I would hardly call this a controversy. If you want to avoid it that's your prerogative, but to me this hardly seems worth writing off the whole project over.

I personally disliked the first episode of Starfleet Academy, but I'm glad I watched past it. So far in this show, the point (and it's very explicitly stated) is that Starfleet and the Federation are NOT supposed to be like that, and that change starts with the youth.

Bazzite, Linux Mint, CachyOS

Try each of them out, see what you mesh best with, join their respective discord/matrix for further help and details 👍

I use micro editor in the terminal

You're welcome to present data to that end. Everything I've seen indicates that criminalization worsens working conditions for sex workers and raises the risk of violence. The only negative outcome I know of from legalization is that it apparently leads to increased trafficking, but I don't see that as an impossible challenge to solve that negates all of the positives of legalization.

The Justice Ministry is moving toward revising Japan's anti-prostitution law to punish the sex buyers, addressing a legal imbalance that has only targeted the sellers for 70 years, according to government sources.

I hope it's obvious why only punishing the sellers puts them in a very very vulnerable position, so evening the playing field in that regard is probably good. That said, prostitution should be decriminalized, or better yet legally protected.

"I want to sell sex." "I want to buy sex." "Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" The state shouldn't be preventing people from having sex in exchange for money; it should be protecting them to minimize exploitation and generally bad outcomes.