Funny how that worked out huh? All the benefits of personhood, but none of the downsides, like mortality, having to pay fair taxes, incarceration for crimes, possible death penalty for killing citizens ...
Thank you -- the point I was trying to make is that technically USians can file their own taxes, but that it's overly complicated, and many believe intentionally obfuscated, in order to push citizens to use private corps to do it for them (at a healthy profit for said corps).
Whereas, in Canada (and as I understand it, most other nations) the tax system is not so baroque as to discourage people from doing it themselves.
What? The government will actually collect taxes itself like every other sane country, instead of privatizing it out to middlemen grifters? Oh my, where is mah fainting couch?
For Nebula/CuriosityStream? I only remember I bought a combo membership near Christmas the last two years -- they usually offer a year-long subscription for like $11 USD around the holidays. Look out for those, I really like CuriosityStream and find it's worth it.
It's a music deal that lets the labels take a cut of everything, including revenue streams artists used to have to themselves -- shows, sponsorship deals, merchandising.
It used to be that if you bought, for example, a concert t-shirt or stickers or whatever (unsure if CDs/tapes were ever exempt) at the live performance that the artist got all or most of that. Artists could also control their own merchandising and aspects of their persona outside of the studio... personal appearances etc. but now the record labels 'own' them more completely. A terrible turn in general, and most labels demand a '360 deal or nothing' to new artists.
"Merch" used to be the way artists made a lot of their income while on tour, since they didn't make nearly as much from their album sales from an already unfair record-deal system; now they can't even catch a fair break on tour.
Huge acts can negotiate better deals; the rest are stuck with unfair terms.
Genocide? Far from it, this proposal gives every single resident of the area a new life in a new land. Only far away from their adversary, and they can live their cultures, apart, in peace.
Snowden asserted and still does that he deleted his own copies once Greenwald et al. got their copies, well before he had to flee Hong Kong and ended up trapped in Russia.
Remember, it was the US who trapped him in Russia by revoking his passport -- an international crime in and of itself, rendering him stateless which no country should do to its citizens, no matter what crimes they have allegedly commited -- and he had no intention of ending up there; he was trying to get to Chile I believe, and the EU did the unprecedented step of force-grounding their equivalent of Air Force One, with their president on board, thinking Snowden was a passenger.
Imagine if the POTUS had his plane accompanied by fighter jets to force-land in any other nation. The response would have been explosive, literally. Such hypocrisy that they just wave off other nations' sovereignty and diplomatic norms on the treatment of foreign leaders so easily.
I don't know the technical issues, buy couldn't a fork of Signal revive SMS support? I would switch to such a fork and help everyone I know also do so.
True, every git pull is a 'mirror'. Bad phrasing on my part. I was thinking more of when I set up my local gogs instance to mirror an outside/upstream git (such as from github), which really is just their term for pulling again automatically every time upstream changes.
This monster also enabled Brendan Eich's weekend project that infected the software world -- javascript. May he burn for it.