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Sorry, didn't mean to imply it was a bad thing. It's only a bad thing when you want to limit others because of your own lack of self control as a means to control yourself.

This is a very important point. There is a reason there is a "cultural victory" in the Civilization games and the UK is definitely ceding cultural influence with this move.

Not if you're just renting a server in a foreign country with different privacy laws and rolling your own VPN.

Also some VPNs allow payment with cryptocurrency.

Mullvad, for instance, accepts Monero, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Bitcoin Lightning.

I don't know man, I've been wildly misinterpreted, and I try to clarify what I meant, because it's my fault for not being more clear. I don't get pissed off about it and choose not to explain it replying to a bunch of people how they've got it wrong.

Like, consider you go into public social a situation with a minority group you support, and you're not part of that minority group. You accidentally say something that sounds off-color and unhelpful to the group in question, the people you ostensibly support. Now everyone is giving you dirty looks and raised eyebrows and wondering if you actually support them or if they should tell you to get lost. Getting mad at them because you are being misunderstood is never, ever going to make them think you actually support them.

On the other hand, it's valid to be upset if you've taken the time to clarify and people are still willfully misinterpreting what you have said. OP didn't even try to explain what they meant more clearly in any responses.

Essentially a return of the rural barbed wire phone network.

Not connected to the larger internet, locally managed and controlled. I can even see pirates rolling out their own streaming services to people on the local mesh network.

I mean, it's not that fascinating, we're a country that was basically founded by a bunch of wealthy landowners who hated being taxed. They hated contributing to a common good. They were like the Zuckebergs and Musks and Bezoses of their time. The country was literally founded on only land-owning white men being allowed to vote.

Maybe if you so-called prudish fucks ever had an ounce of self-control it wouldn't be exploding so much, would it?

It's just like how the places with the most anti-trans sentiment consume the most trans pornography. It's all about removing the temptation because they have zero self control. "I can't be trusted to not spend every waking moment jerking off because deep down I'm a filthy depraved fucking cretin, so I must take away joy from everyone else who might use pornography responsibly!"

Especially now, when Palantir is making a giant database on US citizens from Federal government data, why would anyone feel comfortable identifying themselves to a pornography site? To be on some list someday that will be used by the religious police to jail you for the crime of jerking off to the "wrong" thing? Give me a break.

Hey, pro-tip, when literally everyone is misunderstanding what you said, it might help to clarify instead of doubling down on "I don't understand why people don't understand."

You literally replied to a comment that implied that the establishment losing their minds was chaotic and a good thing. When you say you prefer stability over chaos in response to such a comment, it's easy to see why people might misconstrue what you're saying.

Anyway, bottom line it's not everyone else's job to figure out what the fuck you're talking about. If you want people to understand, use your fucking words to clarify what you meant instead of this pompous fucking "I don't get why you don't get it." Are you really so far up your own ass?

People misunderstand sometimes, and when everyone around you misunderstands, it's on you not them to make clear what you meant. Even if you don't understand how it's misconstrued it obviously was, by a lot of people.

needs to change the sign and logo to be more brutalist as well

Semi-related: I use a music stand as a "monitor" for textbooks that I use for reference while working at my desktop. I have it at the same height as the rest of my monitors so I can just swivel my head to see it. I call it my "book monitor."

Call it fascism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, social darwinism, cyberpunk dystopia, whatever, I think we’re here now.

I think we've been there a long time it's just taken someone as chaotic and despotic as Trump to actually use those reigns of power for this kind of thing. I remember feeling similarly about the kind of shit we let Dubya Bush get away with, and then learning some history and realizing this kind of overreach horseshit went all the way back to Reagan... then all the way back to Nixon.

The system was already this way, it was just waiting for the right twisted freak to fuck it all up from the inside.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

-Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

This is what you sound like right now. Because it got the people in power's knickers in a twist, you'd rather have someone who didn't upset the establishment so much by... *checks notes... promising to really help people?

That’s a pretty huge shit.

fixed that for you

god help us all

I hate to say it but I think the ultimate authoritarian, god, is probably... helping the authoritarians.

We are god's unwanted children.

How many international incidents are we up to now?

This isn't so much what I think will happen but what I hope will happen.

A lot of CPU's are moving to on-die RAM so the RAM is closer physically to the CPU, reducing the time it takes to travel between the two, increasing RAM speed.

The downside to this is you can't upgrade your RAM and there will be less on-die RAM than traditional RAM.

Currently, with traditional RAM, computers use a portion of hard drive space for something called "swap" which is space for when RAM runs out of usable address space to offload some data to until it needs that data again.

I'd like to see the rise of on-die RAM along with traditional RAM where traditional RAM becomes more of a "swap" for the on-die RAM. This allows for upgrade-able RAM to still exist while also leveraging the speed of on-die RAM.

Should have checked the weather before planning a picnic, duh!

Don't blame yourself. Viral spread happens and even condoms aren't 100% effective, depending on the area it is presenting in. Don't let anyone tell you it's something to be ashamed of. The shaming aspect of disease needs to stop, I would have thought we had learned that with HIV. Shame does nothing but harm the communities already affected by these problems, and the treatments get better and better all the time. While some aspects (like potential long-term effects) may be nerve-wracking, they are never a guarantee of that outcome, as there is only correlation and no specific proven causation (that I know of).

The common cold is a virus. Viruses are trickier than bacteria in some ways. The main thing is to remind yourself that while you may have made mistakes, the existence and spread of viruses is not entirely your fault. It is nothing to be ashamed of and anyone pushing shame on you for it is not worth associating with. It would be like someone shaming me for having cancer. It's absurd.

It may take time to come to terms with and work through your depression, and it may help to talk to a therapist who is familiar with the virus and the shame-culture built around it. The first poster in this thread is right on the money that the stigma came from an advertising campaign promoting antivirals for it. Which, if you are insured, the antivirals are often covered. They will prescribe them based on the frequency and severity of outbreaks

Good luck!

Some people have more outbreaks and more painful outbreaks than others. It's helpful to take an antiviral that suppresses the outbreaks. When there are no outbreaks, chances of transfer are low but not zero. It's tends to be higher risk for the penetrated party rather than the one doing the penetrating. Since she never had an outbreak and the penetrated party is less likely to transfer, this may be why.

Frankly, though, like all viruses, long-term effects can be kind of scary, like the evidence of a correlation with higher rates of alzheimers and dementia in patients with HSV-I/HSV-II. Viruses do a lot of things to the body long-term that may not be readily obvious or related directly to the virus itself, much like human papillomavirus is correlated with higher instances of cervical cancer and throat cancer. Long-COVID is another example.

While transfer probability is low, it's still valuable to try to stop transmission by using prophylactics.

Always has been.