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> "Or you need to use super bulky, non-sensical, plugs."

Did anyone say Schuko?

A place being better by some metrics doesn't mean it's better by all. It depends on which parameters matter most to you. Imagine the overall desperation someone must feel when even a lack of health coverage won't stop them from flocking here.

Didn't know about this. Thanks! Although, as paradoxically expected, in order to use it you need an active IG account. Which is... the main problem. I was also advised to write to the California AG.

This is useful info and POV. Thanks so much for the pointers. Everything is exhausting right now, including using basic tools that became de facto behemoths of communications.

I have been trying a combination of those—though the app doesn't like GrapheneOS either, I suspect. I transitioned most of my overseas family to Signal and other channels, though some of them just won't—and I understand that.

P.S. Happy to see another Kagi user help here. :)

I understand the sentiment. In principle, I agree with conscious use of these tools.

In this specific case, however, it wasn't for general browsing. After living overseas for more than a decade, you realize that, for some people, these platforms function as essential infrastructure. I can't force my old aunt on Signal or Matrix or whatever. It had become the only channel to call my 76yo uncle. Family I'd just reconnected with. This is especially true during a divorce with far away aging family members.

My post is less about my need for Instagram and more about the systemic problem: what recourse does a person have when a company's automated moderation fails and the original reason for the ban is proven invalid? That's the technical/procedural question I'm hoping to find an answer for.

While Americans can mean "from the US", the term "statunitensi" is how people from the US are commonly called in Italy. And in other countries. The two things are not mutually exclusive, and calling Americans for people from the US is just a figure of speech called synecdoche.

Many Italian newspapers (example: IlPost) and, I suspect, many non-US media, report this as “the second American Pope, the first from the USA.”

Which, I think, is fair, as South and Latin are also America. And so is Canada. And so was Francis.

But I usually find it a hard concept to convey to my fellow local USsians.

George Carlin on the ridiculousness of euphemistic language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY

Right. Paraphrasing, any sufficiently popular art piece is indistinguishable from marketing.

It depends on where you are originally from. Some, in good conscience, drew a line after 20 years of Berlusconi in Italy, Orbán in Hungary, or conservative regimes in various countries that embraced xenophobic policies, only to come here and find similar challenges.

External conditions will certainly influence your life, economically and with social rights. And going back to face Giorgia Meloni or her equivalents would be even more disheartening. After much moving around, you realize the work is mostly in your immediate community and within yourself, no matter where you are in the world.

I like optimists.

The reality is that only he can help himself. He's just facing the search he delayed up to now. It's good he's facing it. Most never will.

Opposite problem. I am tied to a corporate job, and I'd absolutely know how to use every second. No, really. Every second.

Julian.com (Julian Shapiro) is a great, hyper-focused example of regularly refined pages.