Olives @olives@qoto.org

The U.S. was already pushing the E.U. to stop bothering U.S. tech companies.

Generally speaking, there isn't really a good reason to put age in a bio. There are reasons not to.

A power the government gets is a power a future government might abuse.

"An E.U. led NATO"
"It is time for a stronger, more capable, and fully independent Europe."
Meanwhile, Germany is so scared of the AfD Party that they're backing away from that idea.

Also, while I already ruled out Wordpress entirely, I remember that the hosted service openly bragged on the site about how you get poor customer service (I think it was something like "you can use our forum and another random user like you might answer your questions" and one with a slow response time) unless you pay for a much more premium tier.

By the way, "sub-standard" is still giving them far too much credit. You might send off a query, or request, and no one will ever bother to get back to you (not even an automated message).

I always had doubts about using a hosted service for a blog, and it was more to give it a try, and see whether that worked well.

I was initially going to get a blog going faster, then I decided that it wasn't worth too much of a rush, particularly with the politics going on. I can spend a bit more time figuring out what works and what doesn't.

Further, hosted services don't seem to work that well with VPNs (or going by what I've seen so far), and I don't want anyone to encounter difficulties in accessing the blog.

In addition, when looking into it, there were a lot of questions to be had about whether the customer service on such services are any good.

Typically, hosted services tend to take customers for granted, and both charge customers excessively, and provide sub-standard customer service.

Something which my blog experiment turned up is how hosted services seem to *hate* it if you have lots of links.

Frankly, if I was going to write something relatively shorter, I could just do it with social media. Anyway, I'll continue looking into it.

Self-hosted is winning out so far.

"crazy person"
Someone might not like me using that term in a derogatory fashion but it gets the point across on a social network like this (I avoid using it a lot of the time, the point of it is for emphasis). I don't use it to address a *specific person*, I use it mainly to emphasize some phenomenon.

I followed the internal politics there a bit, because I like the idea of third parties, and it led the other third parties in one election (although, still like one or two percent of the vote).

Mises is a faction which was only founded in 2017.

I'm seeing quite a few problems with the U.S. electoral system, frankly.

For instance, a lottery directed towards registered voters in particular states should be stopped.

Also, ranked choice voting would make sense.

Also, in terms of American third parties, the LP was having troubles with an internal faction called Mises not so long ago.

Someone keeps bringing up the idea of voting for a third party but that is probably not a viable option in the U.S.

One of the problems with QAnon like conspiracies is that someone can stumble on a random term like this, use it casually, and some crazy person might think it's part of some conspiracy or that it matters.

Because, I mentioned the forbidden term.

This is only one among six thousand of my posts but I am sure someone will take offense to it.

Well, there isn't a lot I can say about that.