explain it to him

That’s not usually how he operates.

If I were prone to conspiracy thinking I’d wonder if 25th’ing Trump wasn’t the plan the whole time. We have unelected VP Musk and Co-VP Thiel sitting at the helm of our nation.

I get you but it’s just the nature of the beast. Short term losses for long term gains maybe?

You need users to make pirating work, more users = better. But with more users (eventually) comes attention from Big Business and LE.

FWIW, I can just load up pretty much any movie from about 100 different websites and stream any movie I can think of, I don’t even need to find seeders or trackers or peers these days unless I want my own archival, higher quality copy.

Seriously? The same way we did before trackers existed.

Usenet is an option, I’ll go back to IRC idgaf. They’ve tried to stop the scene since it’s inception with extremely limited success. When they cut one head off, two more (smarter ones) sprout in its place.

Now that we’re here, it’d be a worthwhile project to resurrect Gopher but route it all over Tor/i2p/Freenet/whatever as a gigantic fuck you to the powers that be. It’s light so it could potentially run mobile, r-pis, cloud, whatever.

Good luck blocking p2p connections.

.ml users have hilarious takes until you realize they actually think that way.

Oh fuck my sides are in orbit right now.

I’m fuckin dying over here champ I’ve been jerking you around all morning go do some work or something.

Which one did I say? It’s that one.

If you’re having trouble understanding I guess I can make it into an image for you. I know words are hard and some people need pictures, I get it and am willing to make reasonable accommodations for “special” cases.

This is great, you’re over here flailing about braying like a donkey, thinking this is an image board, not even aware who you’re talking to, hilarious.

“you know what I think? I think you’re just upset because you’re underpaid and over valued at your job. your boss probably relies on you too much so you have an inflated sense of worth that has ballooned your ego disproportionately to your skills. I bet you bitch about not getting paid enough but that’s ok because, “that place wouldn’t last a month without me.” deep down you know both are lies. you’re easily replaced and that’s why they pay you shit.”

Oh look it’s projecting! Lol piss off nerd don’t you have a huddle to attend or something.

I’m sure your senior devs just love working with someone as patient and understanding as you.

Inb4 “I’m the senior” because that would explain a lot

So a lot of times those C-levels will be pretty average people eh?

Just doing my part to keep the fediverse moving along.

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I’m not even gonna lie up until a few months ago I was somehow under the impression that Valve and GabeN weren’t that evil. Learning about his 6th yacht and how they intentionally made loot crates as addictive as possible and target young people kind of put things in perspective. There’s still no such thing as an ethical billionaire.

I think I got your point we just disagree about the culpability and responsibility of (willful) ignorance bruh.

I’m sure the people scammed out of their money feel really bad she was so ignorant she couldn’t do a tiny bit of research on the thing she was promoting.

Pretty gross you’re treating a grown woman as a naive child tbh. She’s an adult with agency and ignorance isn’t an excuse.

I don’t really disagree with what you’re saying but it’s important not to dismiss peoples experience at the grocery store and when it’s time to pay their bills as “how they feel about the economy.”

The NASDAQ doesn’t put gas in a car or milk in a fridge, that shit is still expensive.