Broke the racist Strom Thurmond’s record that had been an embarrassment for the Senate that dated back decades.

Set a marker to show how strongly Democrats reject what’s going on despite their current lack of options for pushing back.

Anyway, IMO this post flagrantly breaks rule #6 and should really be deleted. Put this discussion elsewhere.

Around 82. Most of them by train, bus and boat.

But the country count is irrelevant. Travel should be a personal experience, not a form of conspicuous consumption. Mass airplane travel in particular is completely unsustainable, which is why I hardly ever do it. I’ve been to a ton of very remote and interesting places but I don’t blog about my adventures or post anything on social media. Only a handful of people ever hear anything about it, which is the way things were for everyone until approximately yesterday. Traveling slowly is not particularly expensive, it just requires time and a patient mindset.

Sure, it’s fine. But if I’m only publishing text and photos, and I don’t need tons of specialized plugins, and I’m dealing with things myself - then personally I will go with a static-site generator every time. It’s at least as fast, and more secure by design.

Did not know that. Useful.

Full DB-driven monster for a few bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.

Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?

There are vanishingly few tourists in Xinjiang. Indeed they won’t even give you a visa if you say you’re going there.

I like it. The reasoning’s good.

I hate the term “instance”. It’s hopelessly geeky (it derives from object-oriented programming). It brings to mind nerds and gamers in basements.

This seems to be missing Mali, the home of .ml. It’s in West Africa and since the French soldiers left it’s been an authoritarian client state of Russia. Very appropriate.

Not really, and the reason is very simple. Ordinary folks don’t buy computers any more. A mobile device is all they need. So might as well get one with as big a screen as possible.

There are a handful of niche brands that make small models for weird people like us, including Cubot and Unihertz. I have one of the former, it’s tiny and works fine.

Clarification. I have a Cubot King Kong Mini. 3.5in screen or thereabouts, standard 2 cameras (i.e. as many as you need), NFC, unskinned stock Android latest version. People assume its a dumbphone although really it’s not. But I don’t use it for much, intentionally.

Indeed, and I get the feeling that the point of your comment is not to ask any question but rather to propagate that smear even though you probably haven’t even looked into whether or not it was justified.

Or perhaps you have, and you can tell me (us) why it was?

Sounds great! As a moderate I would fit right in! Oh - except I’m not allowed to.

PS: to be clear, I mean I can’t do it with this account because it’s not federated AFAICT.

Just had a look around. On the recent article about immigration, the second highest comment is a progressive questioning the education level of conservatives. So the block is not completely effective.

Personally I think it’s a terrible idea for people to be siloing themselves into bubbles where everyone agrees with them. In a democratic political system this cannot end well.