If Democrats said murdering trans folks was necessary to beat Trump that means the overton window is too far gone and I’d be looking to ship as many trans folks out of the country as I could manage with my means. If and when it reaches that point, US democracy would be too far gone to even consider saving it. I don’t believe it is right now, as flawed as it is currently. Which is why engaging in harm reduction is still worth it.

Oh, please tell me which third party candidate not only has a real shot at this election but is also not just a far-right grifter in disguise.

redacting your entire government

And this right here is why I can’t take you seriously. You realize the US government is the most militarily powerful institution on Earth, right? Even disregarding government opposition to your revolution of the status quo, you realize every far-righter is armed to the teeth and fantacizes daily about murdering you and your comrades, right? How are you gonna oppose that? Who will be your allies? Fascist Putin’s Russia, who straight up wants Trump to win so he can enact his expansionist policies unopposed?

While you’re there LARPing as a revolutionary, millions of lives are at stake. Sure, the democrats also put millions of lives at stake, I’m well aware of it, but it’s not about them being perfect, it’s about harm reduction and starting from the best possible position for going forward with your goals, which I guarantee is not with Trump in power.

How dare you be 100% correct

That’s some Evangelion shit

It’s a major reason why I only watch independent sex worker stuff now. And even then you can’t be 100% sure…

What do you mean by this? Are you talking about OP’s argument? I don’t get it.

I have heard that 20.04 will be supported until 2027.

Only if its support period somehow got extended, normal LTS support period is 5 years.

Also in their blog they said they’re planning to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 base OS when that comes out.

Must have missed that then. That’s reassuring, in that case.

Ubuntu Touch is not even that up to date, really. It only recently rebased to 20.04 from 16.04 and 20.04 will go EOL next year, while there’s still no promises on how they plan on transitioning to the next LTS release (I get that they’re a team of volunteers while Google is a massive corporation, but working on what was essentially abandonware to begin with was likely a disservice, as other mobile Linux distros can follow the upstream a lot more closely than Ubports does).

Your arguments are right, indeed, though they are rendered a bit moot when we’re in a thread discussing Ubuntu Touch, which is like, 10 times more insecure than any custom Android ROM, since it uses a desktop Linux security model pretty much.

Out of curiosity, how is it wrt messaging apps? From what I remember, the only good one used to be TELEports (for Telegram), but if you wanted to use Signal or such you were pretty much out of luck. Has the situation changed?

That is true, but GrapheneOS is only available for Pixel phones (for good reasons, but still, a lot of people can’t just switch phones on a whim).

How do you know for sure your brain is not doing exactly the same thing? Hell, being autistic, many social interactions are just me trying to guess what will get me approval without any understanding lol.

Also really fitting that Photon chose this for a placeholder right now:

GPT-4 also often just fails midway through writing an answer, while I haven’t had that happen with Gemini yet (though I need to use it a lot more to be able to provide a fair comparison in that regard).

Just because it’s not human doesn’t mean I can’t show some basic manners. 😅

It seems more expressive than GPT-4 in general and better at itemizing information, but it’s a bit worse at keeping track of context and seems to hallucinate more than GPT-4 (but less than GPT-3). I’m currently on the free trial period so I’ll try it out for these two months and then see if it justifies switching over (the subscription is the same price so that won’t be the deal-breaker). One thing that it’s noticeably better at is researching online, probably because it uses Google as a backend instead of Bing lol.

It’s supposed to integrate with other services, if you use the Android/iOS app, as it can replace Google Assistant entirely and get access to info from other Google services. However, the app is unavailable in the EU and a few other countries as of yet, along with image generation. Classic case of EU favoritism towards Microsoft and not sanctioning it like it does Apple and Google… It’s also rumored that the ChatGPT Android app will get Assistant API integration “soon”, but it’s also not yet available (anywhere, AFAIK). Presumably, even if that is the case, Google can probably add in deeper system-level integrations, given how it’s their OS and their ecossystem.

Gemini Advanced (Ultra) gets it right:

That does make sense. It is a country with a fairly small population, so I begrudgingly have to accept that it has to have some control over this kind of thing, not to overload its public systems.

On the whole I think the concept of countries in general is bullshit but that’s a debate best had in another thread.

The thing with the children of migrants being denied residency is truly heartbreaking. Do they become stateless as a result?

I found out about the autism because I am autistic and I was considering New Zealand as a potential country to migrate to until I found out about that. I also found out about the plethora of other conditions that bar you from immigration but it started with my personal search.

I also wonder whether they measure the “burden on the healthcare system” in a fair or ableist/biased manner. Your link seems to suggest the former, but it also excludes ability to pay for private healthcare/insurance, which would preclude one from putting said burden on the public healthcare system and leaves the decision up to a medical professional, who may hold said biases, so…