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- Comment on Torrenting is not allowed on Windscribe 3 days ago:
Can also vouch for AirVPN. Going on 7 years now with no issues.
They do excellent discounts aound black Friday so you can pay for the year(s) ahead if you do decide to use them long term.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 week ago:
A bullet never went through his ear. The FBI amended their statement to say he was ‘grazed’ by a bullet or a bullet fragment, after initially questioning if he had been hit at all (because his medical team withheld all information from them during the investigation - which was unusual and suspicious). I mean you could see plain as day just a few weeks later when he removed the bandage his ear was almost completely undamaged.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 week ago:
They like this one though - he’s very easy to manipulate. Why get rid of him when they can just get everything they want from him.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
For Shure maybe, but what about for other audio products companies?
P. S. I unironically believe 2025 may be looked back on as the year of the Linux desktop. May have finally got through the trough, we’ll see though.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Upgraded to Linux or Windows 11?
Because nobody is claiming you’ll lose functionality with Windows 11, so your post seems to imply Linux but I’m unsure.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Carl Sagan released his book The Demon Haunted World in 1995, where he championed the scientific method and critical thought and lamented the dumbing down of (particularly US) society, so no… It’s not new.
I will add that your premise is wrong on the 60s. The leftism in the 60s was counter-culture, it was small and it was mostly confined to the youth… It was certainly not the prevailing attitude of the country. It was not unlike the leftist groups you see in the US today - small, loud, and a reaction to the heavily conservative country they find themselves in.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Lol @ thinking Elon Musk was ever ‘left’ he was never even left of center.
- Comment on How effective would sanctions on US by the international community be? 3 weeks ago:
I think aiming to sanction the US is the wrong plan, treat it like it is what it is - a country run by an autocrat, and go after the oligarchs. Same approach as taken with Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc.
In terms of effectiveness. Frankly we’re (globally) only getting rid of Trump and his cronies if the American public rise up against him and oust him through whatever means that may take. Protests and extended strikes for starters - and the people will be more likely to band together with Trump than against him if the whole world starts Tariffing and sanctioning the USA like a rogue state.
On the other hand, sanction and freeze Trump & Co. assetts all over the (western) world and when he retaliates to protect his own interests its a lot harder to sell to his constituents.
How you would even legally go about that is another question though, he would have to be breaking financial international laws and the countries involved in the personal sanctions would have to be ready and willing for blowback.
Its all fantasy at this stage until he starts blatantly breaking international laws that allow his assets to be seized. Likewise with the idea of sanctions - look at how much Israel has done and they’re not sanctioned, and it took a great deal of blatant acts of war before Russia and North Korea were sanctioned also.
- Comment on Technology isn't fun anymore 5 weeks ago:
Thanks saved me a click on a video that didn’t really have much to say. OP on this thread was right.
- Comment on Technology isn't fun anymore 5 weeks ago:
Consisting your friend is a huge movie buff I’m surprised it didn’t bother the heck out of him, film fans usually turn that crap off as soon as they turn on the TV. Supposedly it’s because sports, soap operas and a lot of low budget TV are shot & broadcast at higher frame rate than film - so when you watch a film with the frame rate artificially increased your brain goes ‘I am watching low budget soap trash’ subconsciously. I think people are just used to film looking a certain way and anything that makes it appear quite different is too distracting for them to relax into the fantasy.
- Comment on GO FORTH AND SEIZE YOUR DESTINY 1 month ago:
66cm x 42.4cm x 26.67cm and 152kg converted from old fogey to metric.
So yeah big and heavy I’d say.
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sending the dick pic works on other guys though 1 month ago:
Ain’t what happened.
Somebody: *uses redundant “nobody:” meme format. *
Someone else: that was redundant, why do people do this?
Flame-baiters: quotes meme back at them
- Comment on Freedumb 1 month ago:
Shingles is apparently one of the worst chronic pains a person can endure. Adult chicken pox can be deadly.
Worth looking into if you’ve never been vaccinated against chicken pox. There are options for adult vaccination.
Or don’t. Just don’t say nobody ever warned you.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 1 month ago:
You can drink a zero sugar saccharine drink every day for the rest of your life and experience no problems from it whatsoever. It’s the most tested artificial sweetener in history and has been used commercially since the 1890s.
People switching to the low and zero sugar products is a good thing. It is much healthier than people drinking sugary beverages - which is the alternative that that they replace. They do not replace water.
Switching from smoking to vaping is an improvement, but not a fair comparison as vaping has been shown to have significant negative health impacts.
- Comment on I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu. 2 months ago:
I chuckled when i got to the picture of Obama. I’m borderline on whether this is a genuine rw meme or a parody it’s that over the top
