LeninOnAPrayer @ LeninOnAPrayer @lemm.ee

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No I won't. I'll mean to. But I won't.

Yep. And I don't have to use 10 different video player UIs. I can just use Plex. That lifetime pass from years ago has been worth it. Even if I know people are critical of Plex.

Same but photopea usually replaces Gimp for me now. Works in the browser and is basically Photoshop but without all the automated tools.

I mean that would be a win. You can show why due process is important and that justice is served with it.

How is it a loss to use the justice system as it was written to convict someone of a crime?

If Democrats are so worried about messaging that they'll let innocent people rot in prison and only attempt to save one guy for a "win" that just means they actually don't care about any of them.

That's likely safe. But...

Most malware isn't trying to make your computer unusable anymore. That was the old days when people just wanted their "hacking" acknowledged.

You can definitely still be running a crypto miner if you sudo'd something stupid you downloaded on Linux.

He'd probably just upgrade your drivers to the latest stable version for your distro and fix all those W: prints you see whenever a guide tells you to "sudo apt update".

You know who you are and you're me.

I hadn't really thought about it until reading this comment but I am definitely the same. I use to pirate so much software back in the day. But, I really just find myself looking for projects on GitHub that fit my needs.

I pirated a video upscaling program just to test it out. Topaz I think it was. But it was mostly just curiosity because it was very niche in it's performance improvement over it's open source alternative video2x.

That's literally the only software I can remember pirating in the last 10 years.

If it's good and requires a one time purchase. I buy it. Unraid is obviously going to be an example of that for a lot of people here.

I think I've spent more money donating "coffee" to good open source projects though. And going windows free for over 3 years now has been a big part of that. I can't stand when I have to use Windows now. Work still forces it on me. But I literally only use it to SSH into my redhat VM.

All my piracy is media these days. And that's only because the streaming services have basically reached the point that cable did back in the late 2000s.

Piracy has always been based on convenience rather than cost for me. "Piracy is a service issue" is the famous quote. Additionally it's about services not giving you ownership over the thing you purchased. Which is what a lot of software has become.

Trans people are just people. It's like saying "there are still laws about black people" in the Jim Crow South.

Laws should be written to be inclusive, not exclusive. When laws are written in these fragmented ways it is the exact purpose of right wingers to exploit them. It is written to SERVE THE POWER OF OPPRESSION.

This is the same as "gay people can have civil partnerships". While ignoring that it is literally just a method used to exclude gay partners of the same rights married partners have.

It's the same "separate but equal" bull shit that has existed over and over. I don't know how "well intentioned liberals" keep falling for this same trick over and over again throughout our history.

The rules on "sex" are entirely based on social definitions of gender norms. Or tell me you would be confused by seeing this guy walk through TSA with F as his sex.

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/transgender-boxer-pat-manuel-makes-history-with-first-professional-win

Edit: I really should not have to use "passing" trans people to make my point. But I feel like people live in a different reality where every ID check is followed up with a genital inspection.

This is the precise reason why that clip everyone lost their mind over was using the wording "birthing person" when discussing rights related to abortion.

You can get your "anti-woke" panties in a bunch for terms like this. But there is a reason they are used when deciding laws. It is meant to very very specific and at the same time being very very inclusive to the rights the law is meant to protect.

It's so no asshole tries to take away your rights on a technicality they made up in their mind.

No one is calling women, nb's, or trans men "birthing persons" except in this specific context and for very good reason.

I mean world governments are run by and for billionaires. People gotta pitchfork if they want something done about it.

I love how they say that "Hamas rejects a ceasefire" when a requirement was that they completely disarm.

Like, can we do that for Israel? Can Hamas just demand BiBi fuck a pig and then say Israel rejected the ceasefire?

Given Israel's track record if Hamas disarmed it would mean death for everyone in Gaza.

I hate capitalism. This guy is a symbol of wholesome good hearted teaching and entertainment. But somehow after you die people can suck the profits out of that until every time I see his face somewhere I have to be reminded that we live in a world that didn't deserve him.

Do we have to let every fucking part of our culture be reduced to a damn dollar sign?

Are they trying to get boomers to become Maoist Third Worldist? Because if more of these boomers start going to town halls and calling Republicans threatening to kill them for fucking with Medicare (and now NPR) I think we might be heading there.

I'd say it's been oligarchy to a degree since the inception of the US. The state has always served the interest of the rich capital owners.

I think people are using "Oligarchy" to describe fascism.

Fascism is simply capitalism in decline looking for a scapegoat for its failures and contradictions.

Pretty sure we're there already. Dude went to get his citizenship after a decade of being a green card holder and got black bagged.

Both are just silencing criticism of the fascist state.

At least in Russia you know what prison you'll end up in?

We are somehow all of the weapons with none of the class consciousness.

Yeah and much better than having Cuban intelligence report on all your crimes against humanity in GITMO.

We can hang him upside down with those string of lights.

You're on a piracy sub mate. I had assumed the point would be to share with others.

Yeah but advertising and profits. Duh.

If we had state restrictions on media and it's incentives that would obviously be worse. /s