I've been wondering about this, too. Why aren't there any trans men?

(Don't get me wrong, it's amazing that ballot boxes are repudiating bigotry. Just seems like something is still missing.)

My understanding (which may be wrong) is that in the last few years we've increasingly seen fires outside of the expected fire season. For example, our awful 2019-2020 fire season began in August, iirc; and the fire that gutted parts of LA was at the beginning of January. With this happening, you can't really afford to have critical resources on the other side of the planet if you want to be protected at home. It's going to get harder even to send a team to help the other hemisphere, some years; though I'm sure both countries will still try to do that much.

I'm not really knowledgeable enough to ever feel confident about analysing whether apps are truly privacy respecting. So, I'd suggest look into these for yourself and see what you think.

I'm using Mooneva for a period tracker that helps analyse signs and symptoms at different points in your cycle. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mooneva.app

Someone else mentioned MediLog. It can be used for lots of stuff. I'm just using it to monitor my weight because I don't need the other pieces at this point. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.zell_mbc.medilog.fdroid

And when my body is being weird and I want to look for correlation with my symptoms and my diet, I use Life Notes. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sebferrer.life_notes

I missed this change to legislation and its implications.

And the dilemma presented in the article is mine, too. My parents are in USA. I'm in Australia. My sister is in Europe. Where do our parents set themselves up for their old age? They'd prefer to be close to one of us, but there's no easy option. And options are becoming less while they are indecisive about which route to go.

Basically I need to go back in time to when I became a citizen and make them apply for residency. It was much more possible then.

The house we moved to last year had been blurred by the previous owners. It's permanent, so we don't get a choice about it.

Tbh this is the only house I've ever looked up that was blurred.

I get why, but it's also inconvenient. So many of us (in my area, anyway) look up the house on Streetview when going to an unfamiliar address, to help orient ourselves.

It's not something I lose sleep over. But given the option, in a neighbourhood with no other blurred houses, in a low-crime, lost surveillance area, I don't think I would have chosen to blur the house.

Hubby and I have been increasingly using our Up accounts. Up is a subsidiary of Bendigo Bank, and the app is the only way to do things.

Their setup is: Each of us was given our own account when we signed up. We've got physical debit cards for these accounts. You have the option to create a joint account with another user. By default this account only has a digital "debit card" but I think there's an option to request a physical card. From your two accounts (solo and joint), you can subdivide into "savers" which look and feel like separate savings accounts but on your statement they're rolled into the main account. You can have lots of savers if you want to. These can't have cards attached but earn interest. We use them to hold money for different purposes. I've never tried closing a saver so I don't know how that goes. I'm honestly not sure what the use would be in regularly opening and closing them. Just change the labels as you need to. Leave one empty while it's not needed; repurpose it next time you need a new one.

Everything is done through the app, and everything I've needed to do has been straightforward.

Tbh, it doesn't cost anything to open a bank account. If a bank you're considering doesn't have any monthly fees (Up doesn't, UBank didn't when I tried them a few years ago; maybe your other options don't either) then you can just make an account and try them out. A bank that is online like you want will let you sign up online. See if you can do the things you need to do online/in the app. If yes, you have a winner. If no, keep looking.

Tbh, you're very early in the game and there is no time limit! Don't feel like you have to have your entire farm organised in year 1. While you explore the rest of the game and work on the community centre, you'll chip away at clearing your farm (and that will get easier as you upgrade your tools).

As others have noted, you can move buildings later. So for now, just put them where there is room. Once the farm is clear, take an in-game day or three to rearrange the layout — and if you do that and decide it's still not quite right, you can change it again.

I like to do big rearrangements in winter because there aren't crops or animals to negotiate. Some of my farms get rearranged every winter for the first few years, as my farm develops and needs change. It's all part of the process.

Saw this in another post yesterday, and it prompted hubby and me to dig out the joint game we haven't looked at in months. Win!

How long until there's a data breach?

I need this!

cries in Australian

I reset my phone earlier this year and lost my WhatsApp messages because I didn't have backups turned on. So if they are doing this, it's new in the last few months.

Have you double checked the settings on the account in question?