From what I know you'll have to compose with a mix of Krita GIMP and Inkscape because those are the three most reliable and feature rich FOSS image editors at this time. In the current capitalist mode of production, free software will hardly be on the level of paid software, however enshittified, because of how many devs get to work full time on it.
Keep in mind that I say this while operating fully on a FOSS environment, because the relative increase in features and reliability doesn't justify going from free to an absurdly high subscription
Beyond the question of transphobia, I'm uncomfortable with the idea of forcing painful, costly and time consuming aesthetic practices on a partner. In a relationship we should take people as they are, nobody is forcing anybody to be in a relationship with someone who doesn't shave, so trying to impose it on somebody who doesn't want to... that's bad
I can't begin to explain how difficult translating a text actually is. When I was at uni, language majors had two dedicated classes, one for translating from your first language and the other for translating to you first language. Both were the hardest classes to pass. I had bilingual friends there who had shit grades solely because their methodology was lacking. In the philosophy department, teachers were constantly discussing who translated what text and how it might impact our understanding. Teachers would compare different translations and ask us to always tell who the translator was in our research exercises.
Language is a fucking mess, translation is horrible, that's why we only do it when it's a potential best-seller
Somehow I can't help but feel this is simply because of Trump
I think that's literally the case. EU libs have no problems with genocide when it's done by polite white people, the second they become rude it's game over
I feel sympathy because they're fighting for a good cause despite how the establishment demonizes them but I must admit I don't understand hunger strikes.
You don't get any compassion from your enemies, and your allies are already allies. The people in power are participating in the deaths of people at home and around the world, including death by starvation, they don't give a damn if people starve that's why they're here. Do strikers think they are special and will force the starvers to change their genocidal agenda because a student is now doing it to themselves?
I wouldn't be so harsh if going hungry wasn't so dangerous. Hunger can inflict lifetime damage on your brain, you can lose critical abilities like speech, sight, reasoning. Losing a limb to kill a fascist id heroic, but hunger strikes don't kill anyone but the strikers, and they don't save anyone either. I mean, do they? Maybe they did in some less fascistic regime, but the current US of A? No chance that's doing anything.
Second option all the way. If they thought cat-calling could earn them a date they'd have realised empirically that it doesn't