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Cake day: January 19th, 2025

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  • So there’s Flare which works (GTK implementation) but it’s far from feature parity; but it definitely works pretty nicely, for what it is.

    The device also has really good Android emulation; certain Google Play services still don’t quite work, even though it comes with MicroG preinstalled (e.g. the Integrity API so, unfortunately, all my banking app.s crash themselves), but I can’t imagine Signal uses any that’d cause it not to run.

    I have it (the Android version) installed and it opens just fine but I haven’t had the chance to try transferring the account (and all messages) over, yet. So I’d expect it’d fully work but that’s all I can tell you, yet.

    I can come back and let you know how it goes and how well it works – once I get there –, if you’d like.







  • Entirely unrelated to your point (with which I fully agree) but wouldn’t it make more sense to replace the first period in “et.c.” with just a space (if you’re not going to forego the period)? et isn’t short for anything so the period doesn’t quite make sense (and you wouldn’t be using any more letters than you already are).

    No worries, either way (obviously); I was just thinking.


  • Since 6 whole paragraphs were too daunting to read, I’d be happy to summarize the sources I’d linked to for you in just one manageable paragraph.

    The primary cause, in over 50% of cases was an individual undergoing an acute stressor. Trauma could also contribute but, as I mentioned previously, mental illness is rarely a primary cause, even in cases of trauma. But, primarily, it’s an acute stressor.

    This also isn’t anything I’m saying; I’m just citing the conclusions drawn by studies on the matter.


  • Most people

    An appeal to general consensus and definition by crowdsourcing is inherently anti-scientific.

    kill a bunch of random people and then themselves for no good reason is mentally ill

    I mean, clearly the scientists and doctors who study these things didn’t draw that conclusion.

    Being in a bad mental state is not, by any definition, an equivalent to being mentally ill. Mental illnesses are particular things, not a general blanket attribute for that person being “different from us” and non-standard.

    And in this specific case, she was not a particularity stable individual.

    Alright? I already said that some cases certainly involve mental illness. Your anecdotal pointing out won’t change the statistics and studies, though: those are a minority of cases and generally incidental.

    But you have demonstrated for all of us scapegoating in action: your entire comment disregards science and evidence-based assessment for an anecdotal definition based on a sense of normalcy that allows us to say, “Fundamentally, those people are just different from us. Normal people wouldn’t do that.”

    It isn’t helpful, though.