Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.
I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.
Pros:
This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.
Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.
It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".
I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.
We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.
Cons:
Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.
While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.
We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.
@ken_fallon
I had no idea how minimalistic my idea was. I wrote down everything I wanted to say, did a quickie recording of it, and it's under 4 minutes. Are you still interested?
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre
@russellmcormond@actuallyautistic
I can't thank you enough for spelling out what ABA is. I've seen it referred to in so many posts by fellow autists but this is the first time I have seen anyone actually spell out what the initials mean so I could go look it up and find out why it is so bad.
I have been building browsers for 30 years now. First Opera and now Vivaldi. My estimate is that more than 1 billion have used one of my browsers or both. Have you?
@jon
I should probably go a little deeper than just a simple yes. I have tried Vivaldi on a number of occasions, and it's just got too big of a learning curve for me. I also don't much care for using anything with a Google engine on it, regardless of how much privacy is supposed to be included.
@etherdiver
All my better recordings are "live" on mordewis.bandcamp.com. the only professionally produced stuff is the oldest album there, "All the Love".
The people that vote for the Oscars, don't look like the people that watch the films. The Academy is much older, whiter, and dude-ier*. Oscar winners, are the inevitable outcome of Oscar voters.
The question isn't "Has the Academy changed enough to where filmmakers from marginalized backgrounds have the same chance to win an Oscar yet?"
The question is "Will the Oscars have the same relevance to society 10 years from now, that they do today?"
@mekkaokereke
I only take a minor objection to this, in that I am an old white man and I love watching movies that show different types and genders of individuals. I was probably influenced by Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mrs Doubtfire at a younger age, but it likely went back much further. I do support further diversity among the Oscar voters.
“Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill that can be purchased without a prescription, will be available later this month online and in pharmacies for $19.99 a month, $49.99 for a three-month supply or $89.99 for a six-month supply”
@darwinwoodka@Lizette603_23
We donate to the non-profit formerly known as NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League). I don't remember what the new name is.
I remember c|net as a standard-bearer of tech journalism back in the 1990s. Theirs was one of the few bookmarks I opened regularly to read about tech news.
Red Ventures has destroyed its reputation, along with all their other properties’ like ZDNet (the other fantastic tech news site). RV’s decisive pivot to AI is likely fatal; they will accelerate the descent of all their outlets into a content swill mill fit only for your blocklist.