A good definition of witch hunting would be “to publicly label one or more individuals as belonging to an undesired group, with little to no regard to accuracy”. It fits really well what the article claims those users to be doing.

Repeated the test now (Friday, 18:30); same lang settings as above. Couldn’t find a single post in Portuguese after rolling across ~30 of them.

x.com and twitter.com are still inaccessible here.

Yup! Frankly it isn’t a really great visual novel, but the soundtrack is fire.

[Replying to myself to avoid editing the above.] I typically don’t give a damn to downvotes but I’m wondering why they popped up in this case. So, just to be clear:

OP is asking specifically about single women and my answer talks about it, focusing on the fact that child raising is a bit too much for a single person. I am not talking about lesbian couples because they fall outside the scope of the question, my views on the later in this regard are the same as heterosexual couples.

(If the issue that people saw with my comment is something else, say it because I don’t have a crystal ball.)

Every time that people talk about Chrono Cross’s soundtrack (it’s great by the way, I agree with you), this reminds me a little SNES game called Radical Dreamers. The soundtrack - largely shared with Chrono Cross - is perhaps its biggest selling point.

My take varies by case, but I don’t think that children should be raised by a single person. Otherwise it could turn really nasty, like the child being alone most of the time, unsupported by any able-bodied adult (as their mum goes to work), effectively becoming the housemate for their breadwinning parent.

The situation is different however if the single woman is well supported by her family, living with them, and at least one of them is able to take responsibility for either bringing money in or taking care of the child as the mum is gone.

Ah, das Östraußreich.

It’s a screenshot:

What’s the bomb for? Is he paying rent for the shell?

If you speak Portuguese maybe.

I did some tests here, setting up my browser config to show content preferably in Italian, then German, then Portuguese, then English. It showed something like 5~10 posts in English for each post in Portuguese. (No content was shown in either Italian or German, so odds are that Bluesky doesn’t even take the browser config into account.)

Granted, for most Portuguese speakers it should be 7:00 now, so it might be worth repeating the test for the later afternoon, dunno, 18:00 or so. Or in the weekend.

I can’t believe I’m considering moving away from Ubuntu after 20 years…

The good news is that all distros are pretty much similar to each other, so you can transpose most of those two decades of experience to any other distro that you might want to use. Typically the key differences are

• defaults - including the desktop environment
• package manager and format - YaST vs. APT vs. RPM etc.
• stability vs. newer software continuum - different distros aim for one, another, or a balance between both

The problem is that Ubuntu overuses snaps, even when there are completely acceptable .deb alternatives, that will perform consistently better; typically distros using appimage and flatpak don’t do the same.

That said if this isn’t a big deal for you Ubuntu might be still an option. As the saying goes, better the devil that we know.

Since your main priority is stability, I’d suggest either Debian Stable or Mint. Debian Stable is rock solid, but the software is ancient; Mint is a good compromise. They both have a nice package selection.

The reason why I don’t recommend Ubuntu itself is snaps. Huge downloads with lots of wasted disk space, wasted memory, less user control, mismatching themes, larger loading times… urgh.

Desktop environment is such a personal matter that it’s hard to say which one would be the best for you. I’m a big fan of MATE - it’s small, it’s nice, you can reasonably customise it without new extensions or applets. Xfce would be also a good performance-focused choice.

I think that making blocks visible only for admins could work. At least the admins of the instances of both users.

I’m not even really sure how big of an issue blocking abuse really is in reality

I’d say it’s concerning, specially due to hit-and-run tactics - replying to someone and blocking them before they have the chance to counter-reply. I used this a fair bit for shitposting and taunting circlejerks*, but it could be easily used also to make the other side look like lacking arguments (i.e. for public manipulation of views) or also for individual harassment.

One of the counter-strategies that I’ve seen was people editing their comments and highlighting that they were blocked. That only works when the person knows that they were blocked.

*my last years in Reddit weren’t exactly “contributing” with that place.

Family (including my cats), curiosity, caffeine, food, my living instinct.

I think that it would be possible to implement true/two-way blocking while minimising the amount of abuse, if the blocklist is public. As in, if Alice simply mutes Bob, nobody knows it; but if Alice blocks Bob, you can see in Alice’s profile “blocking: Bob”.

I also think that the mute / block user option needs to have a confirmation window. From this thread it’s obvious that a lot of people are muting bad faith users, instead of reporting them. That’s bad because the problems never reach the ears of those who can act on them.

(I’m just throwing ideas around, mind you. Take them with a grain of salt, there might be some catch that I didn’t realise.)

Mozart and Bach, mostly.

The rotation axis of the Milky Way. It seems more reliable for me than to pick two astronomical objects, as their direction might change over time. Plus it makes intuitive sense considering how we did it for Earth.

Peel, slice, eat with a fork. I know that the skin is edible, I just don’t like the texture.

Perhaps I’m overthinking it, but the English verb seems to have different meanings when it’s used transitive and intransitively. For example, let’s say that you ask someone to prepare you a salad, and the person answers:

• “I can’t cook.” (sounds OK?)
• “I can’t cook a salad.” (sounds weird)