Olives @olives@qoto.org

Someone said the bot instance (not the sort of bot which goes bothering other people) was shutting down but it doesn't look like it has.

Also, past these points (which actually come from others), they really should have been planning a different candidate a couple of years prior.

That was even what they said they would do, that he would be a one term transitory president. In the end, they left it to the last minute to shove in a candidate who no one really liked.

How is the state of journalism? How about local journalism? How are parties marketing themselves? How is activism at the grassroots?

Also, like when I suggested RCV (ranked choice voting), some problems are more in the electoral system. FPTP sucks. How easy is it for someone to cast a ballot?

As a recommendation, I'd suggest not focusing on comedians like a few did on Chapelle and the like in 2022. All that does is allow someone to say that "political correctness is out of control, you can't even make a joke". He wasn't really relevant.

Also, "anti-woke" comedy gets boring quickly.

Instead, consider more networking at a more local level. People like to imagine there is some short-cut they might be able to take. Maybe, portray a brighter world in bits of media, maybe because they work in showbiz. I don't think it is that simple and focusing too much on that makes it easier for someone to shout political correctness.

Sometimes, I hit like, get a 500, click like again, and it finally goes through.

https://theintercept.com/2024/11/01/tv-big-brother-censor-watermelon-palestine/
"ITV, the broadcaster of the British version of the reality series “Big Brother,” edited an episode of the show to remove all shots of a shirt worn by one of the contestants which featured a watermelon — a symbol of Palestinian solidarity."

It might make this instance somewhat more usable for me, although I hope the instance doesn't go down for too long to do the update.

Apparently, the DOJ has an ongoing anti-trust lawsuit against Visa.

Apparently, some of the bugs on this instance (from the previous update) might be fixed soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology) This is what countering authoritarianism feels like to me.

I've already looked at a dozen or so potential hosts (for self-hosting).

I put a maybe down about what kind it might be but I'm also not ruling anything out per se (unless it's somewhere like the U.K... even if it might work for this purpose, I don't think I want to buy services from businesses in a country* which hates the Internet).

* The government has historically been troublesome.

Maybe, not in a high profile way, but if you've been following things for a year or so, you might have seen them try.

This is response to speculation about what the U.S. will do.

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