@janusfox oh it’s fantastic you’re able to have access to it like that! 💜 yeah, my understanding is that heart rhythm abnormalities are even a rare side effect at that. it’s genuinely such a good drug. i have frequent nausea which can keep me from doing much for anywhere from a day to a week.

i’m going to try again to get a long term prescription today but in the past, they usually only prescribe it for a week or two at a time until “the symptoms pass”

The more i ruminate on it, the more i’m against anything i make being used by militaries and suppressive regimes.

I don’t want to contribute to other people’s suffering.

One way to make a stand, is to explicitly disallow those entities in something like a software license.

A few examples from years ago :
U.S. Navy turns to Linux to run its drone fleet
U.S. military UAVs migrate to Linux

The Linux transition in the US military has existed and is still ongoing.

Imagine contributing to a FOSS project and then having your work contribute to deaths in your own country by a foreign adversary, like the United States and its Department of War.

@tempest @pho4cexa it still struggles with screen sharing (at least for me), but it’s been getting better. would recommend

im always bothered when someone suggests a book/movie/form of media to me with one of the reasons for recommendation being “it has a trans character with a good reason for being trans.” i find the negative form to be more honest, “this trans character has no reason to be trans” (suggesting that this is a bad thing).

to be generous, i think in many cases this should be translated as “this trans character is poorly handled/written” and to that, yeah, i feel you. a lot of popular media mishandles trans stories. and if you say the former and mean the latter, i implore you to change your wording.

fictional characters don’t exist in a vacuum and have a push/pull with reality. we look to fictional representations for understanding, for inspiration, and as role models. stories codify/reinforce cultural understanding and ethics. i don’t like the implication that minorities need a reason to exist. instead of asking, “why?” when faced with a minority character, i believe the default reaction should be “why not?”

for anyone who thinks that this character is not sexualized, and that I’m the one sexualizing her, here’s the dev’s description of their own game:

Expect some revealing outfits, occasional mildly erotic animations, and some infrequent innuendo in conversation, with implicit undercurrents of sadism and masochism.

Fennel is absolutely meant to be thirsted after

this is peak character design. we will never have a better character than this

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