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Access to the content we create not being controlled by any corporation or any person. That’s about it for me, even though there were other things I did not like about reddit.

videos takes a lot of storage, so this will probably quickly cost if you have to pay for hosting.

Don’t be, probably means I will need to learn to do better (thx for the feedback ;)

Worst is a bit vague. Do you means worst in the sense of the girl, or me, being a real nightmare to deal with, or do you mean ‘worst’ as in ‘some random/stupid shit happening’?

As for some random shit happening (that would have been happening in my 20s, many decades ago), would being puked on in a pub, by my completely drunk best friend while he would have been trying to curl into my arms shooting into my ear, and for everyone around to hear, how much he loved me right when the girl I would have been waiting for would have been entering the pub… Would that count as a possible worst date? The girl would have been the classy kind of girl, the kind that would have made her parents proud and make a few classy boys chase after her. Exactly not the kind of girl I would have imagined ever willing to date a thing like me. But there she would have be, standing still, while would have been trying to get rid of my collapsing best friend.

Just asking because, quite obviously, nothing like that ever happened. And the girl, quite surprisingly, also never offered me to accompany her to her (absent) parent’s house to help me clean up the mess. Never.

To be honest, I did not have that many bad dates. I had a lot more failed attempts at dating, as I was already very clumsy, shy, and not handsome… And I had a few odd dates too, on occasions. But those would be a story for another thread ;)

Am I a bad person?

No idea, how could I know.

But what I do know is that you seem a little keen on over-generalizing:

So when I hear about these Bible Belt US states, I think the people in them are absolutely disgusting folks. I have no respect for them. None. If a disaster hits them, I will not feel sad.

Are you US citizen (I’m not, if that matters)? If so, and even though you probably live in some other state than the ones you listed, be aware you still live in the same country as them and are sharing the very same citizznship. But you, you’re different than them? Sure, and I’m even I’m willing to believe that but then why couldn’t other individuals, in those other states you seem to hate so much, be different too?

It’s too easy to reduce all individuals from some place (or some origin, or some culture, or some religion, and so on) to an abstract ‘bad’ group of persons that deserve what will happen to them.

Also: account blocked. Creating an account just to post that kind of thing is a pretty demonstration of what happens when someone is letting anger/hate overgrow them.

What a wonderful world we’re entering in.

If you want to protect the privacy of your readers to be respected you won’t have much choice but to create your own website, and store it on a privacy respecting webhost whil using non privacy-invasive techs to manage your blog.

For example, I use Hugo (a static website generator, but there are other similar tools), without any script running on the website itself. So, there is zero tracking going on on my blog (I don’t even know if anyone is reading it unless they decide to send me an email, as there is no web contact form either). It’s hosted on a small host that I’ve been using (& trusting) for well over a decade. Hugo itself is 100% free, but the webhost rarely is. So, unless you know how to self-host you will have to pay a little something (you don’t need much to host a simple blog, unless you want to post video?).

Like suggested in another comment, if you just want to limit access to the content, any simple ready made solution allowing for password-controlled access should do the trick.

Not only do I like to see that a lot but it also reminds me I really need a new pair of those too… Or maybe I just need to stop buying more (used) books? Scratching my head, not even trying to hide my sorry smile while I glance at the 3 books I just found at the thrift store that I wanted to read for so long…

All answers are about am*rican or british X.

Maybe you have not read my answer?

I don’t have ‘best female author of all time’ but I do have favorite writers some of which happen to be female. I don’t usually split them by their sex (nor by their height, distaste for bananas, or whatever) as for me they’re all in the same ‘people who have a great time staining paper with ink making me a happy reader’ league but here it is, in absolutely no order beside the first two, as there is them and then there is all the others:

• Virginia Woolf (the only reason I would love to be able to travel in time is to meet her),
• Jane Austen,
• Edit: (how could I forget) Emily Dickinson!
• Sylvia Plath,
• Shirley Jackson (if you have not already, go read The Haunting of Hill House, it’s considered a classic for reasons),
• la marquise de Sévigné (she wrote letters and they make for a great read, no idea if it’s available in English),
• Margaret Atwood (imho she deserves a Nobel Prize, next to Woolf and Austen),
• Mary Shelley (like mentioned by others already, she well deserves to be read and would still have a lot to teach to some contemporary authors too, imho).
• I love reading Lizza Tuttle. Her horror short stories are different.
• In the same vein, I also quite like Mélanie Fazzi (who is also a translator of some of Tuttle’s stories, btw). But I can’t find that much more female writers in that specific genre (a lot more males do come to my mind).

Being French, I realize I have not listed that many French female writers I would consider a favorite. But they are a few I would consider excellent read nonetheless:

• La comtesse de Ségur (one of my childhood companion next to, say, Verne and Doyle),
• Simone de Beauvoir,
• (very) few pages of Marguerite Duras,
• Fred Vargas.
• To which I would also add Pauline Réage, because I think her ‘Histoire d’O’ is well worth reading for anyone into erotica.
• At one time, I also quite liked Joëlle Wintrebert (scifi) but I have not felt like reading her for a very long time so I could not tell.

So, not uBlock or whatever as everyone’s aware of that.

Alas, not that many people know about it. If they were, they would not be using Chrome-based browsers as the new (& neutered) version of uBO for chrome is rather limited.

Beside uBO, I barely use any extension as it can do (well) so many things already beside blocking ads: fingerprinting, removing cookies popup and consent notifications, removing all the shit I don’t want to see from most websites (looking at you, YT Shorts):

• Dark Reader, because dark mode doesn’t blind me ;)
• The Qwant extension (my search engine, next to Kagi)
• and three extensions just for YT: ‘Improve YouTube!’, ‘Enhancer for YouTube’ (to remove a lot of the crap YT insists on pushing to us) and ‘SponsorBlock’ (to remove video embedded ads).

Save the Qwant one, they all are in the ‘recommended extensions’ section on the Mozilla website. (edit: I think so, I have not checked)

On the browser I use for more personal/private stuff I don’t have any extension beside uBo… I would not go on the Web, or barely on a few selected websites, without using uBO to be honest: every time I’m faced with a non uBO-protected browser I feel like dying. Too much tur… ads, I mean. It’s just not tolerable.