MerchantsOfMisery @ MerchantsOfMisery @lemmy.ml

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I feel like cutting them off and pointing out that a qualitative military advantage doesn't give a nation some magical free pass for genocide isn't particularly complex. Beyond that, since when does the US government let legalities stop them from doing what they want?

I feel like sensationalist headlines like this only have a boy who cried wolf effect. Using words like "apocalypse", really?

Spoken like a privileged ass person who knows she's not going to jail and that the punishment will be monetary at worst. Can't stand people like this who act hard about jail like it's no big deal.

You recall very incorrectly and should probably look up what really happened before you so confidently make incorrect statements. Ask yourself why he had zero cleaning equipment and instead only brought a loaded rifle.

Then when he loses he's going to act so shocked.

If she knew he was likely to abuse her or someone else again, I'd say that's self-defense in my books.

People have no clue that a lot of prosecutors are just as corrupt, if not more corrupt than police and they often have easier access to judges in private to sway trials one way or another.

What a great game. I used to play it on PS3 and it really got me into all kinds of old jazz.

I know a lotta MDs and it's depressing how accurate this is, particularly the last part. Also a huge culture of sexism exists among doctors.

Why are you generally pretty anti-piracy?

As someone who has never had much disposable income, piracy has helped me and countless folks enjoy things we otherwise would not have been able to realistically afford. It also helps make educational material far more accessible, particularly when it comes to textbooks, academic papers (i.e. SciHub thanks to Alexandra Elbakyan), even complete semester university-level lectures.

If wages were higher and media was offered in a format that was a) not subscription based and b) reasonably priced, people would be more likely to buy content instead of pirate it.

Beyond that, people are sick and tired of things like their favorite TV show or my music disappearing because the streaming site lost the streaming rights to a competitor. Or an artist's discography missing a huge chunk of their music because of some record label legal nonsense.

The problem is that everything is becoming subscription based these days and it's weird to require that kind of committment if you just want to listen to one artist's album, or a few episodes of a nature documentary.

Personally, I pirate terabytes of content and I try to buy used Blu-Ray 📀 discs and CDs every now and then. I have a nice external disc readers/writer connected to my PC and an elaborate multi-output audio setup, but most people don't have a disc reader these days. So the problem is instead of just giving people the option of purchasing an actual file like an MKV, FLAC + MP3 files, these companies insist on forcing a subscription as the only feasible option since they know 99% of people don't have or want to deal with disc readers and physical media.

I get that your comment was less about anti-piracy and I'm kind of going on a rant here, but I really hope my comment helps you better understand at least some of the reasons why people pirate stuff. Even when I did research science, we'd all use SciHub because it was a million times easier to just go on there and search for one or several papers, instead of having to use our login credentials to get into several different databases for multiple papers in different fields. So so so annoying!

I think with piracy, there are many measurable and immeasurable benefits felt by society because of piracy.

Can't forget Madden

Ya know, you may have just helped me finally make the full switch. Thank you

I've been too critical of them in the early days and will admit that many of the issues that plagued their VPN service years ago have now been fixed.

Bitwarden on Android, particularly if you have biometric unlock enabled, is extremely simple to setup and use.

Outta curiosity, are you a man?

You realize this is just a meme about sexism in science, right? Like why take it so literally?

Add Maher to the list. Good god he's so in love with himself.

Should be given something else

Makes you wonder why journalists don't bring this up.