goscots

Donate to creators directly. Ideally, creators would run their own sites and folks would use RSS and other federated aggregators for discovery.

One interesting approach would be to use a regex to detect if the name is written in Hanzi, Kanji or the Korean or Vietnamese alphabets and write the name in whatever format is appropriate for the locality. The Asian people I know would be be unsurprised to see their name rendered western style when written using whatever romanization format their native language uses.

Can somebody explain to why all these social media platforms are suddenly clamping down? It’s not that complex or expensive to deliver text at scale in the cloud. If twitter wants to make more money off it’s users, it should add premium features that users will actually pay for instead of killing their golden goose.

The whole argument for this doesn’t make sense. Cashless payment systems are ubiquitous across socioeconomic lines in China and other countries. The problem is specific to the US and can be solved in a less destructive manner to businesses. Instead of punishing retailers, the city should create an incentive system to help people from less privileged backgrounds obtain access to banking systems and electronic payment systems.

US Federal Tax dollars at work, infringing on our rights with no tangible benefits for the American people.