Ah ok, you know it's hard catching sarcasm when the internet is full of crazy people. That's why /s exists. Specially hard when this is an actual card played by pro-israel jews.
Ah yeha, agreed. If they get physical, fuck that. I'm sure that's just like 1% or less of vegans. We can't judge a whole group for the actions of a few.
I do think they are annoying but a necessary type of annoying that will help humanity progress. The same type of annoying as people who claimed women had rights and African Americans were not inferior.
Humans treat this planet like shit, we have zero respect for living beings and the ecosystems. Anyone who gets angry if someone calls them out for supporting animal abuse is just immature and selfish. Like they'll just deny they are doing something wrong.
I'll probably never stop eating meat until stuff like Beyond Meat becomes mainstream. But I won't pretend I'm not a straight up asshole to these animals for supporting their torture and murder. The times I've been called out I've embraced it instead of denying the obvious.
In 150 years humans will look back in shame at what we did to those animals.
I think there are plenty legit reasons to pirate, but I do agree that it isn't ethical. The thing is, I'm not a 100% ethical individual and I'm OK with that, it's not like I'm supporting a drug cartel by buying illegal drugs or killing someone, I have a threshold I consider acceptable for myself. At least I'm not the type of pirate who thinks they are saving the world by pirating content.
Some people think their acceptable threshold is drink and driving. My personal threshold is downloading a movie that the 3 streaming services I'm already paying for don't offer. Pretty vanilla if you ask me.
If I won't pay, pirating isn't going to take money away from them. Yeha, I know it is stealing, I won't pretend it isn't like many do, but hey, if they are giving me a shit service, they left me no choice.
I pay for most of what I consume but when I have no choice, I pirate. I do pay for Spotify premium, I don't even mind the free tier, I just wanted to give them the money because their app is great.
Fun fact, in Spanish "prime numbers" is "números primos". Primos can also mean cousins. So yeha, today I found that there are sexy cousin numbers. And apparently there are also the cousin cousin numbers.
Right, I used their free tier for so long that I even started enjoying the lack of control I had. Like, music would just play for me. I bought the subscription because I really wanted to give them the money. I recall their ads even being only about Spotify premium, so I wouldn't get random shit like YouTube ads.
Yeha, but they can make their free tier as shitty as they want, it is their product...
If you don't want to pay, just use one of the thousands tools to pirate music. If you don't want to pay but still think you deserve a product with all the features you like, then you're delusional.
Still remember my father's face when he realized I was sharing all his personal documents with Limewire.
My internet was so slow that I was tweaking all the settings and doing pattern analysis on bandwidth traffic with nonsense tweaks. So I probably tweaked that setting and felt the internet was 10kbps faster.
I also recall placing the modem under a blanket because I thought the internet was faster when the modem was warmer. My father's face when he saw the modem had melted... and the flabbergasted repair technicians theorizing that our house was probably hit by a thunder and it caught fire somehow. Little did they know.
I was just a desperate kid willing to try anything to be able to download 1 song per day.
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