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Cake day: January 19th, 2025

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  • The conservatives generally argue that not allowing things like this is a prohibition of the free exercice of religion.

    Think of it in the same sort of reasoning that restricting a business organization (such as a corporation) from controlling who frequents their establishments or whether they spend their earning on political donations is a restraint of their freedom of speech.

    You might argue that allowing for that leads to clear and swift problems but they argue that the text doesn’t actually say those rights shouldn’t belong to those groups (and the originalists argue that’s actually, even, what the original authors have in mind; I’d argue the opposite is true but when has something like evidence stopped them…).

    You would think not respecting an establishment of religion would be interpreted as a separation of church and state but I think they argue that it means (somewhat) that gov. can’t regulate any religious establishment (I think; I’m not as familiar with that part).

    Basically, they think the First Amendment protects only the exercise of religion, even if that practice manages to restrict the exercise of other religions; the government can’t step in to do anything about that: because that would restrict the religious rights and exercise of the first religious group (unless, of course, the second group were Christian; suddenly, then, I suspect they’d understand).









  • 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.