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I remember during the AIDS crisis health workers starteed to use the phrase "Men who have Sex with Men" in their education outreach partly because a significant number of these men did not self-identify as gay or bi.

It's in the past tense though; we don't have to assume it was now-ish.

(I want to believe!)

Oh I get you now, I've met email addresses like that too. Some people though you google them and a blank page with one or two sentences appears, those are the ones that frustrate me.

It would be cool to have a zombo like entity but might attract the attackers?

constant CCTV monitored by AI, posting clips of the ridiculous escapades to social media

Thanks I hate it. Mainly because you're probably right - it will be like those "border control" and "disaster" reality shows only automated. Something to look forward to!😅

seeing all the hits to wordpress URIs from bots trying to exploit known vulnerabilities

Yeah it's really yucky, it feels like an arms race with endless bots, updates, stuff breaking, but when I decided to use a CMS it just seemed way easier than Joomla or Drupal which were the other main options back then. That said, I used to see malicious visits back when it was just an html website.

Do you get many bad actors hosting in the fediverse?

I understand your point of view but fwiw, this isn't an excuse and I do care about disabled people.

I myself am disabled with mobility challenges. My wheelchair is very rickety and fragile because I can't afford a decent one or a power assist (most people don't know this but in New Zealand, people disabled by serious illness are generally not eligible for disability funding - so if you are not mobile, you don't get mobility aids, you are just... left to rot, which is what I was talking about in the last comment).

I also have to lie down a lot if I do go anywhere, and I can suddenly collapse or need medication or warm clothing, so my wish list for public spaces is going to be a bit different to the needs of a healthy disabled person with independent propulsion, which is who most people think of when they list the kind of things you listed.

I don't expect society to cater to my kind of disability. But I'm only human, and you possibly have no idea what a huge boost it is to me, being semi house bound, if I get to go to a shop or an event. My town took away most of the disability parking around its main street when it made it pedestrian friendly, which is why I said it matters how it is done.

Before I got sick I was never a "car person", I didn't even own one - just used public transport and walked to work every day. From an environmental perspective it's quite mortifying that I am all "but muh car park" and need a car. My only consolation is that being this disabled, my carbon footprint is pretty small by western standards.😔

Aaah you have one of those websites! I arrive at them and then spend ages trying to work out if there is anywhere to go. Like a less empowering version of zombo!

Have to say we are fortunate to get our teenage years in pre-phone cameras. My drunk and disorderly fashion crimes live on only in the minds of people who witnessed them.

This conversation is reminding me I should fix my old site. I hate the constant updates involved in wordpress.

That's a good point! I actually got mine so I could "win" google. Kind of want to know what your escapades are now!

Just checked with duckduckgo and I seem to have lost SEO to an inactive profile on blogspot of all places, which is super weird!

When I was a child it was a trend to bite the bottom off first. Only works if you can eat the rest really fast!

I think they will too, unless the other entity trademarks it and goes after them for domain squatting.

On the other hand one of the perks of being this old is I have always owned my lastname .com so I feel like a bit of a spoilt brat being indignant I can't have this other thing as well! 😅

Amazing! I looked this up. Rue de Meaux (Meaux St) in Paris is not in the CBD. It's way out in the 19th Arrondisement - sort of like, Mt Eden in Auckland or Hataitai in Wellington only with a really cool canal in it) and it was already designated a rue appaisée which is a low traffic area. That said Paris does have traffic limitations in the central areas.

I like the idea of fewer cars but so often it's done in a way that makes public spaces (and some shops etc) way less accessible for some disabled people. This is especially important to consider in New Zealand, because here, mobility aids are not funded for all of the disabled people who can't walk.

.nz is really cute. I have a .co.nz already though but I wanted the .com because that way if someone goes there by accident it still works.

That makes sense I guess. From the old layout it looked like it had been there at least that long. As far as I can tell from googling, there's only one other entity apart from me that is likely to ever want it, though.

Me too, there should be a rule against it.

The numbers might stack up even more in their favour. The .com I wanted, it's $1000 per month or $30k to own. It used to be owned by an old man who used it for his personal page and there are almost no commercial entity named that. So weird.

Manawatia a Matariki everyone!

I think it probably does transfer through. If you look at his overseas press coverage it's so different from the Winston we get here, and he seems well-respected. I've never seen him trolling foriegn press. It tends to look more like this.

It's like he's two different people.

They were just examples. My point is that novellas can be just as good as full length books!

No, it's not. It involves a lot of meetings with counterparts and diplomats. I shouldn't imagine it's much different than other ministerial positions i.e they all have speechwriters for public events (and civil servants to advise them), and while they are in charge of overseeing policy and action, I hope that no minister unilaterally drives New Zealand's entire policy around their portfolio.

You are very very fast!

I encourage you to read more novellas! Some really great writing is in them. For example One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Metamorphosis, Animal Farm, I Am Legend, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Ah Q, Heart of Darkness, A Clockwork Orange, The Third Man, and many many non-famous ones, like ZOMBIE by Joyce Carol Oates.

I find this attitude chilling.

I am by no means a speed reader, but even I think 238 words a minute is painfully slow!