Libra00 @ libra00 @lemmy.world

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Personally I make a distinction in tax fraud. If it's an individual? Meh, whatever. If it's a company that has a significantly larger impact.

Yeah, I would've done so too, because that dude was bankrupting people just to make himself a bit richer. I hope he rots in hell.

What about taking the direct (early) Breaking Bad example: they're not gunning people down in the street, but their product is definitely getting poeple, including children, addicted. It's non-violent, let's say they don't even hire people to shoot competitors or whatever, but it is inarguably causing people significant, probably life-long harm.

First, Skyler was practically a hostage, and an unwilling participant at best. I would describe her more as an abuse victim who still stays with her partner than a collaborator.

But to answer your question it's always going to be a case-by-case basis because it really depends on the impact of what they're doing and the harm it causes.

• Defrauding the government? Meh, the government has been fucking us for generations, turnabout is fair play.
• Stealing from some oligarch? Shit, need a partner? Eat the rich.
• Embezzling from your small-business employer? That's more likely to have a direct impact on your coworkers so I'd be concerned but still probably not.

But more serious stuff like dealing hard drugs to kids, selling guns and bombs to crazy people, killing people, blowing shit up, etc? Yeah, now we have a problem. Now, what gets done about that problem also depends on the person, the activity, and the circumstances.

• My husband came after me with a knife so I shot him? Cool, gimme a call if you need help hiding the body.
• Help I accidentally murdered someone (and it really was an accident)? Gray area, the law probably needs to get involved but I would encourage them to come forward themselves rather than turn them in. If they had a compelling reason not to I might help them or might stay out of it depending on circumstance.
• My wife wouldn't let me turn our home into the set of a realtiy TV show so I could be a star so I beat her to death (an actual thing that happened)? Hello officer, it was this guy right here.

As much as I dislike Microsoft, the world runs on Excel, so it's got to be near the top of the list.

For myself.. calibre and my ebook collection and all the games I can manage.

I'm renting a room from family so I live with 6 other people and I do the same with my pc because I like my privacy and don't want my nephews' grubby paws on my pc.

Sort of? I don't actually own a TV, but I have my gaming pc not far from my bed with its 40" ultra wide monitor mounted on an arm so I can easily swivel it and see it from the bed, and I have a wireless kbd/mouse on the nightstand.

Honestly I like my non-jailbroken kindle just fine, but I don't buy ebooks through Amazon, I 🏴‍☠️ and use calibre to convert them to Kindle format.

Good call on that one, calibre is one of my favorite pieces of software. I, uh, acquire ebooks through creative means and use calibre as both an ebook catalog and format converter to then load them onto my kindle.

<3 VLC, been using it for decades at this point.

I usually have a plastic grocery bag on the floor near my bed and the cats like to come in at like 2am and mess with it loud enough to wake me up, only to find 2-3 of them just sitting there licking it. Not even eating it, just licking .

Did you, ah, forget something? Like maybe the rest of your post?

In order, not a fan, what?, and what? Never even heard of the last two, but the manga/ anime craze didn't really take off until I was in my early 30s, so I never got the appeal.

Yeah, and while that article was interesting, it wasn't even trying to be humorous as far as I could tell? Definitely not the Cracked I remember.

Fair enough, I haven't looked at it at all since I last used linux a couple decades ago, that's just been my experience with trying to use other linux-native software on windows.

No shit? I've been using Greenshot for screenshots for a while (stupid Foxhole closing tooltips whenever I hit shift for the snip tool hotkey) but had no idea it did anything more than that. I'll take a look, thanks!

No I mean dead-dead, like I remember them firing their writers and then I thought the website actually closed down at one point. I'm not sure when/why/how it came back.

The thing to avoid is to not give your DNA to a company that will sell it the very instant the money is worth more to them than their reputation.

Huh, I thought cracked.com died like 10 years ago.

Huh. I barely used it when I was on linux, so.. shrug