Not really.
As a matter of fact, like I once used to when I was much younger, I realize I rely more and more on old tech (think pen and paper, printed books, physical medium) because they're reliable, I can fully own them, and I know they won't be spying on me and they will respect my privacy. Maybe it's just me getting old, or maybe I'm (finally) becoming cautious?
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:
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:
I use it and their free plan works fine but I've quickly upgraded to a paid tier. They claim zero knowledge E2EE, that's all I know. Free and paid plans offer the same level of privacy, as far as I know. But, if you plan on sharing files (I don't) make sure the free plan still offer that feature as I think I remember it was removed awhile ago (but I may be wrong).
I also think most our governments will sooner than later decide those kind of fully privacy-respecting cloud storage should not be accessed by mere users like ourselves (because 'think of the children' and the usual bullshit). So, I don't rely on it as my sole backup, I have another online backup solution (not cloud) and also keep a copy of all my files on a fully encrypted disk drive (two of them, as a matter of fact).
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Edit: typos.