Unlike communists, who believe in socialism with capitalist Band-Aids.

Youtube is blocked for me.

She’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, no?

PTB

I run four of the five top communities on the instance

How many users per day for those 5 communities?

IRC the Netherlands and Belgium it’s also not a crime, you won’t be pursued by the authorities.

However, that doesn’t stop rights-holders from suing you for damages.

In any case, if you’re using a VPN and privacy conscious you should be fine.

This being said, I really should switch to linux.

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I suspect most bi people simply call themselves straight, because their homosexual attractiveness requirement is too high, or they’re in denial. Bi-erasure probably doesn’t help either.

I think the true number of bisexuals is much higher.

I mean, people still insist on thinking Freddy Mercury was gay, when he was openly bi-sexual.

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Nah, I’m retraining myself.

TBF to China, they’re selling to both sides.

The whole thing is a Helleresque farce.

For example:

…Alexander Yakovenko, founder of one of the largest drone manufacturers in Ukraine, …noticed [during his visits to factories in China] that their managers were increasingly planning his arrival and departure down to the minute and second. Sometimes they asked him to wait nearby for a while, led him through side doors, along service corridors or into empty conference rooms… It took [him]some time to understand why his whizzes demanded such opaque rituals of schedule manipulation and extreme punctuality. Everything was done to ensure he didn’t cross paths with the Russians who were also visiting the plant. “Our suppliers make an effort to manage Ukrainian and Russian clients. They try to ensure that we don’t end up at the same plant at the same time. They invite us at one time and the Russians at another. So, as soon as the Russians leave, the Ukrainians arrive.”

A comedy for those who can think, a tragedy for those who can feel.

Obviously, there’s a war on, so take everything you read with a pinch of salt.

2036: “Davon haben wir nichts gewusst” - “We knew nothing about that.”

The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

rutracker dot org

So you’re saying I should steal content by downloading it illegally from rutracker.org?Thanks for the tip. I’ll be sure to download loads of content illegally, then seed it in perpetuity, so that others can also steal it and infringe copyright on a mass scale.

Just kidding, I will be sure to only download public domain content and open source software.

In all seriousness, is rutracker something I should visit with my browser in a sandbox, or is ublock and privacy badger enough?

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I mean, I take the bus and occasional taxi, fundamentally not that different. Especially now that that’s increasingly difficult if not impossible to do with cash.

Also, unlike the US most modern cars in Europe already have tracking and monitoring included with eCall, that automatically sends your GPS location to emergency services. Ie. the police can track you at all times anyway. And obviously they’re tracking your phone 24/7.

no flock surveillance needed👍🏻

Are you American? The UK doesn’t have flock AFAIK. There’s already a much larger network of CCTV, facial recognition vans, license plate scanners, and the like which are being supplemented by palantir contracts as we speak. This has been a thing for decades now. Millions of cameras across the UK.

You’re shit out of luck already in the UK, unless you cycle everywhere and dress appropriately.

Agreed. I’m actually quite glad.

You can’t read reddit without logging in, but IME you can’t actually register an account without it getting instantly silent-banned either, unless you’re using a non-anonymous mail or connection.

The only problem is that I still have the muscle memory of quickly typing reddit when opening a browser, but given that’s now entirely pointless, that should fade sooner rather than later.

Shame about the smaller communities, like /r/panelshow which despite all its flaws was still useful for pirating those shows. Guess I’ll have to go find it elsewhere.

Can I be an optimist for a moment?

I think the right and right-wing media have made a mistake in being so open with their sexism and racism. I think they’ve gone too far and that there’s going to be a backlash.

Quick maths suggests roughly a third of the UK population is straight, white and male. So the right keep pissing off the overwhelming majority of voters. And it’s not as if straight white men are all racist homophobic misogynists. This isn’t the tv version of the '70s.

Unfortunately a lot of morons keep falling for divisive propaganda, like all the TERF stuff, but I think things will get better sooner, rather than later.

A lot of journalists are still on Twitter too, I assume they’re being brain washed by all the fascist propaganda or simply emboldend. The coverage of that academic who killed himself, shows that a lot of journalists are becoming quite blatant in their racism.

Trump has also emboldened the racists internationally, and Trump aligned actors (including Musk), are pushing far right propaganda globally but also in the UK.

And as you say, there’s the whole Russia thing.

Safe from people scraping it and proving how damn robotic a lot of their content is these days no less.

Fixed your comment.

AI is asking the question too, most likely.