To paraphrase Tacitus, because I'm feeling fancy:
They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name freedom, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.
It's interesting how even the Romans thought they were the good guys, while literally enslaving millions and condemning millions more to starvation.
Humans haven't changed. Great powers haven't changed. Cunts are still running the world.
America isn't particularly special. It's just more of the same.
From the looks of it, because he's about to do a poo.
Which often results these same people to think that polite or nice people are weak or don't pose a threat. Which can be a very stupid mistake to make.
If it's free, you're the product.
I'm running into the same issue as I move away from American companies. It's not a coincidence that better privacy laws, often mean less free stuff.
I should point out that the cinema experience used to be better. People have become more selfish.
Also, it heavily depends on the kind of movies you're watching. Trash attracts trash.
The interesting thing is that IRC plenty of economists think negative externalities (costs imposed on third parties) should be factored into price. That way the market would actually be fairer, more free, and more efficient.
For example, often the price of a product doesn't include the environmental cost. So for example product A is cheaper to make than product B when you include the environmental cost. But manufacturer B is able to pass the environmental cost on to the tax payer, so the sale price of product B is cheaper in shops, and manufacturer A can't compete. It's effectively a subsidy of inefficient and unethical companies. The product which in total costs less to make has a higher sale price than the more expensive product, because we as tax payers and a society are effectively subsidizing the less efficient and more polluting manufacturer. That's the opposite of a free market.
This happens all the time, even if you ignore direct subsidies. Whether it's meat, oil products, stuff made in countries with lax regulation (and even more negative externalities), stuff made by underpaying workers and forcing them to rely on the government(and tax payer) aid, etc. etc.
Obviously, this is the kind of wealth distribution and inequality society and the media rarely see as problematic, because it is so deeply ingrained. But never let the right tell you wealth distribution is a taboo. They're quite happy with wealth distribution when it suits them or their masters.
What accusation? I posted a picture.
Perhaps instead of labeling politically inconvenient pictures propaganda, you could try simply not defending questionable people.
Am I wrong to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're actually left wing? Or are you yet another boring and immature cosplay communist tankie, stuck in his teenaged contrarian phase, who ultimately doesn't actually believe half of the nonsense they spout, and ends up being a useful idiot for fascist regimes because they've never heard of a false binary.
Please could you provide a source that you don't stick your thumb in your butt then lick it.
I can wait.
Soviet hammer and sickle. It's utterly absurd, but yeah.
I think some people get off on being contrarian and not being part of the mainstream. Lie to themselves that it means they're special.
We're all a bit like that, vanity is the Devil's favourite sin, but most of us largely outgrow it in adulthood. I hope I have anyway.
What's the performance hit for sandboxie?
I know it's not ideal, but I mainly use an old airgapped/no internet pc to running older/less demanding games. Obviously there's a risk that the system becomes corrupted and infects the usb stick I use for file transfer, but that's the gamble I'm taking right now.
If anyone reading this thinks it's super risky, don't hesitate to let me know. I'm kinda assuming that most malware/harvesters/miners/viruses will want to connect to the internet, and not go the usb route. Seems like it'd be too much of a hassle, unless you want to take down a nuclear program.
I used to use steam for some stuff, but everything's so expensive and I'm tired of all the forced updates and always on requirements, so I honestly can't be bothered and torrent as much as possible. Only buying from GOG now, so I can at least share games with the household. Fuck 1 person licenses.