This thread is from back when Genesect was reporting news via RSS integrations. For the latest on the subject, this Wikipedia article on 2020 election disputes and outcomes goes into much more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election

There are some pretty obvious bad actions in there. No matter where you land politically, we need to be able to trust our elections and peacefully transfer power. These election interference charges were dropped after the 2024 election, as the plurality of US citizens re-elected President Trump.

From an NPR article on from November 11, 2024, on dismissing the charges:

Monday's filing is in line with longstanding Justice Department policy that says a sitting president cannot be indicted or tried on criminal charges because it would violate the Constitution and interfere with the working of the executive branch.

A sitting President can only be held liable if they are impeached and removed from office first, which involves a simple majority (>50%) in the house (218 votes out of 435) and 2/3 of the senate (67 votes out of 100). This is unlikely to happen, even with a large voter turnout.

These kinds of election questions are ones that will be relevant again soon, with the midterms coming up. If you're a US citizen and are going to be 18 or older by November 3, 2026, learn how to register to vote here: https://vote.gov/guide-to-voting/preparing-age-18-and-under

We do have an apps in the works! Actually push notifications is the difficult part, but we should be able to get there eventually. It's important to make the site easier to use for mobile users.

On the users that have left though, I generally agree with Raven's take that it's natural / their decision to make. People will come and go over time. Obviously, we don't want to make this feel like an isolating place either.

Added webp/avif, and doubled uploaded file size restrictions. There is going to be a tradeoff here though-- we don't want it get too high for any user to upload large files. Maybe large file uploads can be put behind rep requirements / a group in the future.

I said this in the other thread, but the point of that chat is to have a place for AI generated images to go. Removing the channel would likely mean people just put them in other channels instead.

But there's also the separate problem of neither of these chat rooms are really used. And users are able to leave any room to free up sidebar space / stop receiving messages. Site slowness is unlikely to be affected either way.

It is possible in theory to have AI models that are trained only on licensed / open source images. In that regard, there would be no "stealing" concern.

Of course, the theory is different than the practice however, and in practice big tech companies are just training on whatever image data they can get their hands on.

I'll take a look at this with my Switch to see if it can be improved, I have also heard other users are having similar issues recently.

I'm looking into workarounds to get Google working on the home page again. We'll also add links for Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines. As @Raven suggested, for now using DuckDuckGo is the best alternative.

I can confirm that the notice reads:

Update your browser.
Your browser isn't supported anymore. To continue your search, upgrade to a recent version. Learn more.

It does not appear to be specifically targeting the Switch, as here are two recent reddit threads showing it also is happening for users on PS3:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/1nelx3r/update_your_browser/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ps3homebrew/comments/1nrtqzk/browser_unsupported/

It's possible that a future Switch OS update might address this issue, if Google is blocking it in response to the browser genuinely being outdated.

I wanted to chime in here with a pro-Christianity view of LGBT acceptance. Most of it focuses on the New Testament. You can find Christian scholars on both sides of this argument.

Regarding acceptance or support, this page contains many direct bible quotes of LGBTQ-affirming scripture: https://www.sthugh.net/lgbtq-affirming-scripture (top Google search result for "pro lgbt bible quotes")

Most relevant to this discussion is:

God welcomes people of all genders and sexual identities. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28) Also “…God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.” (Acts 10:28) Jesus gladly socialized with people that the religious establishment disapproved of. (Matthew 9:11)

And then this follow-up one:

Jesus acknowledged that gender variance exists, and he did not condemn it. “For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 19:12)

That page links this site, for finding local churches that share those kinds of sentiments: https://www.gaychurch.org

I will also say anecdotally, where I live (a progressive area, granted) there are usually many Christian churches that have the rainbow LGBT flag out front. What "support" means to each person in this context, I suppose will differ on which sect of the faith you practice.

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Thank you!

You can definitely do this! I went to school for Computer Science, and I can recommend that in terms of a future career.

But also, it'd be immensely helpful to start experimenting on your own making small games either with Python, Godot, random javascript websites, "helper" apps like Game Maker, or even something like TI-BASIC programs if you have a TI-84 calculator. By the time I got to higher education, I already had a good amount of experience from playing around, and that really helped learn more complicated concepts later.

For Godot specifically, I can recommend looking at some of the starter templates, and challenging yourself to change some things like, the character jump height, or firing speed, etc.

@poyo facts! Yeah the site timer is "wall time", aka it remembers the time you started and shows how long since them. But can't track sleep states which on the switch do pause it.

It's possible that the builtin timer isn't actually a timer, but stops after 400 internet checks (that occur every 3 seconds) or 20 minutely checks, it gives up. More info on those requests is here: https://browsedns.net/topic/25/browser-timeout-this-screen-will-be-closed/34

I have tried faking these responses with different combinations of pretending that the connection works, and adding networking delays to the responses, but everything just still eventually dismisses the browser after 20 min of non-standby time.

Nacho Hippeas and I pretend they're healthy

@logen-churchel IT MAKES ME FEEL OLD, come back to me when you've been on YouTube for 16 years

@eepy-kirbo I've covered those kind of power strips lights with tape/stickers before, and that works pretty well. Used to have a similar problem.

could be something like carbon monoxide poisoning too, definitely contact a doctor

it's better! let me know if anything is broken or needs to be fixed