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People balk at app subscriptions which can in some cases aid in development costs etc, but they’ll happily pay for Netflix, favourite coffee shop or whatever.
I’m not starting beef with anyone, but I’m just here to ask a simple question. Why?
If someone works hard on something and updates multiple times a year, is an app subscription so terrible?
Your electricity doesn’t change month on month, it doesn’t exactly get better unless you live in one of these places that gets powercuts every 15 seconds, but otherwise, you still have to pay it to stay on the grid.
Is an app subscription such a terrible thing? Genuinely curious.

—@FreakyFwoof

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In reply to @christineburns.

@christineburns You have a point, but it's not like the lawmakers pulling this shit haven't been broadcasting for several years now that this was exactly what they were going to do and were put in office anyway because people voted for them. So I'm not sure this can just be chalked up to woopsie doodle and even if it can, how many woopsie doodles does it take before we stop providing the courtesy of the benefit of the doubt for their voters?

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My fellow cis Americans, I want you to look at this map. Really look at it. And I want you to imagine what it would feel like if those red states were threatening you and your family. Because, ultimately, they are.

This is what creeping fascism looks like. It will harm ALL OF US. And it will take all of us, together, to fight it.

We don’t sacrifice people. We stand with our trans siblings. When their rights are threatened, all our rights are threatened.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/may-anti-trans-legislative-risk-map

🏳️‍⚧️

—@fraying

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In reply to @ppatel.

@ppatel @objectinspace Pet pieve: People who will go to the wall for one particular translation over all the others annoy me, especially because they pick their fave but never do things like read its preface which is where the translators come out and tell you their overall reasons for specific choices and their translation goals and translation type and why they went with that type, dynamic equivalence V. literal equivalence, or a mix where possible.