Olives @olives@qoto.org

From what I remember, Sandstorm is a content management system which relies on installing little "apps" which run in it (which are typically pre-existing programs made by other people, but really stripped down, so worse), and these are hardly ever updated.

There, you have it, Sandstorm. A novelty project.

When the developer describes it, he makes it sound like some futuristic thing, but it is really just bad.

Surprising that someone would actually use it.

https://capnproto.org Whenever I see someone using Sandstorm, I remember this (developed by the same guy, lol). Don't use Sandstorm though, it's bad, lol.

https://reason.com/2024/02/02/houston-faces-first-amendment-lawsuit-for-cracking-down-on-feeding-the-homeless/

"For months, Houston police have been citing and arresting local volunteers for the radical act of feeding the needy. Now the city is facing a lawsuit alleging that its crackdown on charitable giving violates the First Amendment."

"Randy Hiroshige, a Texas Civil Rights Project attorney, says the issue isn't just about handing out sandwiches; it's about the government trying to suppress political speech.

"They're a protest group," Hiroshige says of Food Not Bombs. "They want to be visible, and the reason they conduct their food sharing is to show the public what it looks like when a community looks out for each other's needs and really provides mutual aid to one another.""

"Similar cases have popped up elsewhere. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled in 2018 that distributing food was "expressive conduct" protected under the #FirstAmendment. That decision was a response to a lawsuit by the Food Not Bombs chapter in Fort Lauderdale."

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/pune-news/father-kills-teen-son-in-solapur-over-porn-addiction-101706884082672.html

Another way in which people with "conservative values" (i.e. "we hate porn") end up running apologetics for abusers (maybe not deliberately). Chances are he lives in a dysfunctional household (the parent certainly seems problematic enough). Also, even a framing of "he probably had a mental disability", and "the parent didn't really want to deal with that", would honestly be more likely than taking his arguments here at face value.

Also, slowly plotting and poisoning someone to death? I'm not really buying "heat of the moment".

Those are my thoughts though, if you have others, then I'd be interested to know.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/what-proposition-e-and-why-should-san-francisco-voters-oppose-it

"Proposition E is a “kitchen sink" approach to public safety that capitalizes on residents’ fear of crime in an attempt to gut common-sense democratic oversight of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). In addition to removing certain police oversight authority from the Police Commission and expanding the circumstances under which police may conduct high-speed vehicle chases, Proposition E would also amend existing laws passed in 2019 to protect San Franciscans from invasive, untested, or biased police technologies.

Currently, if police want to acquire a new technology, they have to go through a procedure known as CCOPS—Community Control Over Police Surveillance. This means that police need to explain why they need a new piece of technology and provide a detailed use policy to the democratically-elected Board of Supervisors, who then vote on it. The process also allows for public comment so people can voice their support for, concerns about, or opposition to the new technology. This process is in no way designed to universally deny police new technologies. Instead, it ensures that when police want new technology that may have significant impacts on communities, those voices have an opportunity to be heard and considered. San Francisco police have used this procedure to get new technological capabilities as recently as Fall 2022 in a way that stimulated discussion, garnered community involvement and opposition (including from EFF), and still passed."

#privacy

If someone's "solution" to someone putting something in their body (War on Drugs) which they reckon is potentially harmful is just having a cop bust down their door, shoot their dog, beat them up, and haul them into a cell where there is a good chance they'll be beaten, raped, or commit suicide (whether in the cell, even after they leave, there may be an increased chance), then maybe there is a very big problem with that "solution" indeed.

Also, tearing apart families (for however long someone is locked up for), which isn't good for their children's mental health or life prospects.

Locking people up is not a magic solution to social issues. #CriminalJustice

Interesting to see an old school style witch anime.