The bill, well-intentioned as it might have been, would disrupt centuries of church dogma
Because the sunk cost of centuries of wrong thinking is more important than protecting children.
In other news, the Catholic Church was unavailable for comment.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains.
The stains become a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
Not sure if it counts, but obsidian for notes and my daily journal, and latte-dock to replace the stock KDE app bar.
Oh, and emacs with doom for general text editing and most coding tasks.
I just hopped both my laptop and desktop from Manjaro to Endeavour - so far, so good. I'm still restoring files from backup and installing stuff, so it's still early days, but already things are feeling better.
There was a story once that said if you put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters, they would eventually produce the works of William Shakespeare.
So far, the Internet has not shown that to be true. Example: Twitter.
Now we have an artificial monkey remixing all of that, at our request, and we're trying to find something resembling Hamlet's Soliloquy in what it tells us. What it gives you is meaningless unless you interpret it in a way that works for you -- how do you know the answer is correct if you don't test it? In other words, you have to ensure the answers it gives are what you are looking for.
In that scenario, it's just a big expensive rubber duck you are using to debug your work.
Not just parents -- my wife has an unhealthy mobile game addiction. We've talked about it and talked about it, but it's still a heavy draw for her.
If you want to use gimp as an ALTERNATIVE and go in without the bias, you’ll likely learn your way around a LOT faster.
I think this is the key phrase -- do you want an alternative (where you might have to learn new ways of doing things), or do you want a clone? GIMP is not a clone, but an alternative.
I also think this gets to something I was told loooooooooong ago, when I was a young lad asking what was the best computer to buy. Someone told me, "Find all the software you want/need to run, and get the computer that will run it all."
In other words, if you need to use Photoshop, then maybe you don't use Linux -- maybe stick with Mac or (shudder) Windows.
If you're amenable to using other methods, Sevin dust will kill them as well. If you want to go organic, try BT or neem oil -- FWIW, neem oil is also useful against other things, like fungal infections.
Auto upvote for anything from Doctorow. Now off to RTFA.
Update: Spot on as usual. +1 for mentioning enshittification.
I had this same experience when I moved from Seattle to rural Iliinois a few years ago. Two of my neighbors invited me to their church, and another neighbor is a church. Luckily, my MIL who lived here (and is the reason we moved here) was a member of a different church, so I could beg off by mentioning that and avoid the whole atheism discussion completely.
To this day, I've never mentioned it to any of my neighbors.
This is what Cory Doctorow calls "enshittification", and it's part of the reason I'm on Mastodon and Lemmy now.
I like Antenna Pod for this - my BT connections let me use the Forward 30 Seconds feature when m driving or running. Since most ads are 30 seconds long, I can cruise through them easily.