piracy is not that deep… the OS doesn't really matter in this case as what you're concerned about is the ISP, not anything in your own PC. if you don't have a VPN, your ISP could send letters bugging you for downloading stuff. you'd probably have to get dozens of letters before the ISP would cancel your service.

just get a VPN for $5/month and you don't have to worry about it.

poland sucks but i'll take what i can get when it comes to nazis facing punishment

sure, this might sound good in abstract, but it didn't work out to be useful. almost no one actually uses it as a currency, they hold onto it as a pseudo-asset which fluctuates wildly in "value". you can't do anything with it except buy drugs. you can't use bitcoin to pay for rent or groceries. some stores experimented with taking it as payment several years ago and they all quit because it was a pain in the ass and transactions took too long to clear.

a big reason why people say crypto is bad is because it has an enormous environmental impact and the main thing it's known for is as a vehicle for normal people to be tricked out of their money and left holding the bag as its "value" evaporates. i don't think you can really blame this on opportunists taking advantage of a "neutral technology". i think it would inevitably happen with any so-called "money" or "asset" that has no inherit value and nothing backing it up institutionally.

it becomes a problem when your currency is treated as an asset. if your money will put on gains year-after-year without having to do anything, it's deflationary and that means no one will want to spend it, causing a retraction of money supply. of course no one wants to lose their money's value to inflation, but the deflationary aspect of bitcoin ensures that people will hoard it instead of using it to buy things. if the whole economy was like this, you'd be looking at something akin to the conditions of the Great Depression.

Bought and paid for by the all-powerful Climate Science Industry?

Post your credit card number and DLN while you're at it.

So a mod didn't like a comment you made which was interpreted as encouraging anti-homeless hate. Instead of just moving on you decided to make this about "tankies" despite no one saying anything about Marxist ideology, China, or anything related. I think you're just looking to pick a fight with us because we're dirty pinko commies or something.

it looks like the only comments of yours that were removed were for making inflammatory comments about homeless people on public transport in a place you don't live.

I used to use AntennaPod a few years ago, not sure what it's like now but it looks to still be updated. Nice app as it has built-in search, etc. rather than just taking RSS feeds.

This article really is just paragraph after paragraph defending (literal, swastika-waving) neo-Nazis, with hardly a single critical word said about them. If an "anarchist" or "leftist" is ever this close with card-carrying fascists and feels the need to speak up for them, something has gone very, very wrong.

your meme still sucks. what does this have to do with NATO? do you want NATO to use its military to enforce gay marriage? should it start with its own members? what about ukraine?

i hope to see it legalized in all socialist countries (like it is in Cuba!) but do you think things happen instantly? most western countries have only legalized it in the last 5-10 years and in many countries further from the western core conservative social views can be more of a problem to overcome.

do you think NATO is an alliance for gay marriage? if it's non-negotiable, why do 13 of its members (and ukraine) not allow it? gay marriage is great but has nothing to do with NATO at all

there are definitely real concerns to be had about addictive and manipulative software, i use linux and a dumbphone as well. but "AI" is not some genius, it's a dumb algorithm and i think ascribing these apocalyptic powers to it is ridiculous.

and using the word "consoomer" makes you look like a 4chan nazi whether that's what you are or not.

is this how most people dress now? or is this boomer-tier meme complaining about made-up nonsense