Wtf??? This guy was one of the few gun YouTubers that IIRC was never a rabid right wing weirdo. Very useful channel. RIP

Phone calls used to be such a quick, convenient way to talk or get info and uselessly governments have paved the way for scam companies to completely ruin the modern day phone call.

I use SoulSeek and have for decades. I have no clue what scene you’re talking about.

IMO, yes. Just for the consistency of quality and absence of fuckery. Damn near any TV show/movie/documentary is on there in at least 1080p, usually in 4K for newer stuff. For music I use SoulSeek and for eBooks I use LibGen.

Private tracker I’ve been using for like 17 years still works.

I find a good quote about the kind of relationship we have (friendship, family, dating) that will make them all misty eyed, then I sign it and say something somewhat personal about our relationship. Cards are like the one social thing I’m apparently good at.

Also it helps to put birthdays in your online calendar and include an email reminder a week before their birthday.

Edit: Throw a small printed photo in for good measure, people LOVE stuff like that. Just make sure the picture is special and bonus points if it’s something they completely forgot about.

Nah I wouldn’t wish a cop interaction on someone over something so small

Women are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people are so many people

Because these people actively develop a parasocial relationship with their audiences.

You realize loads of working class folks live in areas where public transit is massively underfunded, so they have no choice but to get a car to commute, right? And moving to an area where there’s better public transit isn’t example a simple process, especially if you’ve got kids in school.

Champagne socialist, IMO. Comes from wealth and privilege and makes a stupid amount of Patreon subs, most of which probably have no clue what Natalie’s net worth is. Has good opinions sometimes but I don’t know, personally I just find it weird as hell when literal millionaires act like they’re for the people while simultaneously living that bougee lifestyle because they can’t fathom living like regular folks and perhaps using their wealth to help regular folks out.

It weirds me out that a millionaire leftist sees fit to ask her working class supporters for money while hiding her net worth and how much she pulls in from Patreon each month.

I’ve gotten tons of hate for this opinion in the past and I fully expect it now, because Contrapoints has reached Breadtube royalty status.

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.

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

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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.

I’d be so annoyed at people casually labelling my photography of being AI generated and then casually being all "oopsie I guess it’s not".

My experience with Win10 for what I use my computer for has been far less janky than any Linux distro I’ve tried, and I’m past the stage of my life where I could spend hours and hours troubleshooting and enjoying it.

As for Win11… I may very well made the dreaded switch to Linux when Win10 officially loses updates. I just wish Linux had viable alternatives to a lot of Windows software that wouldn’t result in my workflow being significantly altered in a way that will require watching countless god awful tutorial videos and going through forum nonsense.

Like for sure Windows has its problems but we shouldn’t pretend Linux and the community don’t do a lot of things that massively turn off new users.

Want regular ass people to switch from Windows to something new? Check out how/why Mac OS is so popular among those who’ve switched from Windows, and perhaps there’s some things of value there that the Linux community can learn from.

The Linux community is packed with toxicity and a stubborn insistence that it’s nothing but helpful and if a user has a problem, it’s always their fault and never the distro’s fault.

Laptop shows your unlocked screen briefly when you open it before unlocking? Never had that issue with Windows, Macs, but on Linux this happens with Ubuntu when installed on several Thinkpad models.

And nearly every response to this problem on Linux forums is "you must be doing something wrong" or casually telling a new user 'just switch to DingOS 3.14 bro, it’s what I use and I’ve never had an issue" like that’s NOT a major pain in the ass for the average user.

I’m not sure, but I can say with certainty that increasing temps to 80C with 85% RH isn’t any kind of demonstrable way of accurately predicting longevity under realistic conditions.

If I wanted to safety test a car, it would make sense to run a series of conventional car crashes. It wouldn’t make sense to drive the car off a cliff and then claim that during testing, the car was proven to be unsafe.

I agree with a lot of other points. Personally, I just find it works better in my brain to have all media (TV shows, eBooks, movies, and music) organized on discs. Same goes with personal photos and videos. For certain things, I keep copies on my PC like photos and music, but for other things that I don’t access frequently, I prefer to have them on discs. That said, I do have a HDD backup of everything. I’d love to get another large HDD but just can’t justify the $$$.

This is just Reddit falling for misinformation. That thread has been debunked so many times. There’s a bunch of good YouTube videos covering it but long story short, redditors noticed something odd and immediately assumed it was some huge conspiracy when it wasn’t.

And again, that 2018 paper… I encourage people to read it and see just how silly the methodology was.