you should really get rid of the assumption that the 1% have to deal with any of the problems they force on everyone else. rich people have their own separate existence. they live in rich-people-only neighborhoods. they park in rich-people-only parking lots. they go on vacation in rich-people-only parts of the world. their kids go to rich-people-only schools.

in effect, no, they do not live on the same planet. they live on rich-people-only planet, and one of their core purposes in life is to keep themselves there, while keeping everyone else out.

when due process is completely ignored, then you can be pretty sure that “legal” has no meaning anymore. especially seeing as how the people who are supposed to be enforcing these “laws” are the ones who are ignoring them

i had assumed that PDs already had all this. either way, they’ve got your DL photo on file, so it’s not like you weren’t already in there

edit: nevermind, i misunderstood and thought the AI co was giving images to the PD. this is fascist nazi bullshit

you might as well assume that any traffic you send to an american vpn is routed directly to the NSA, FBI, etc. get something that physically resides in a GDPR country. as for price, it’s either that or just drop the P out of VPN

switched to tidal months ago and haven’t looked back. spotify offers absolutely nothing that can’t be gotten from another music streamer and without all the shitty bullshit of spotify. unless you just simply can’t live without podcasts

don’t let bad attituded children wreck your flow just because they want the world to be as mad as they are

i just started with linux, and have noticed right off the bat that a lot of linux users are either just plain angry or take themselves very seriously lol

the only help i can offer is some advice: don’t travel to countries that rampantly detain their own citizens

it’ll happen again, since no one has or will do a goddamn thing to stop them from continuing to cross every line that exists

and the general public will swallow

just like the bullshit american ISP’s “we don’t implement gigabit speeds across the board because americans don’t waaaaaant it” unspoken: for $200/mo, which some people have to have

next on the chopping block will be VPNs

as usual the party of “muh small gubmint” wants to snoop every bit of data to and from all your devices

of course no one gave a fuck when snowden laid out in detail all the surveilling they’ve already been doing. so here we are

and, in over a year of being here, i’ve yet to see anyone whining about reposts!

plato knew that the majority of people are too fucking stupid to govern themselves thousands of years ago

seems mostly accurate, except there was no bittorrent in 2002

edit: apparently the protocol was released in 2001- TIL

LOL “if it was opt-in, no one would do it!”

no fucking shit. there is nothing worth watching that i would buy a smart tv for

funny way to say “entirely expected comeback”

i’d put my money on there being another “aniwave” soon, rather than streaming anime is gone forever

the fact that these morons think that piracy depends on some singular centralized “mothership” that controls everything just demonstrates how clueless they are

and from the sound of it, i never will be