This is the sort of article I don’t want us to get in the habit of posting here.

“Having more charges filed against Trump would add to Trump’s charges.”

Wow, thanks APnews.

We do indeed.

Counterpoint.

The article was clearly referring to American police, and pretending it was referring to the entire history of law enforcement is pedantic to the extreme.

Also, defund the police.

So, I just read the article.

Which line of it “pretends” policing didn’t exist before the American South?

Because I’m not seeing what you’re claiming.

Wait, did you write this non sequiter in defense of rebul’s garbage take?

Bingo.

“Just switch to Bluesky or Mastadon” doesn’t work for artists who have spent years building up their customer base on Twitter.

Translation.

Fuck, we can’t pay our server costs.

This isn’t legalization.

There is no government regulation of sex work being done here, this is partial decriminalization, which in the context of sex work means eliminating the crime.

So far, the research suggests that decriminalization is the best model for sex workers and for communities. New Zealand’s model is better than what you see in Amsterdam. Making it legal and regulated just drives sex work “into more covert forms where working routines are negatively impacted” (Vanwesenbeeck, 2017, p. 1634). It’s why when France implemented a Nordic Model, they found that “not only had it failed to reduce demand for sex work, it also failed to impact the incidence of trafficking into prostitution, and it put sex workers at greater risk by increasing the stigma against them” (Östergren, Dodillet, 2011).

Except, as demonstrated by the Epic Hack, those platforms are generally run by idiots and/or grifters with terrible security practices. Pushing them there makes them extremely vulnerable to other forms of disruption.

I have no interest in Google being the arbiters of truth, but I’m not going to bat an eye if they are using it to suppress vaccine misinformation.

Here is to hoping kbin isn’t run by idiots with terrible security practices.