I like me some tech discussion and freedom.
Thank the sky above for the 1st and 2nd amendments.
Reality is best seen as absurd.
Alright, Czech guy, are you gonna put your constituents' money where your mouth is and help build up Europe's defense force? Or are you not gonna change a thing because you know the US will continue to act as the world police?
I think you know which one you'll choose.
Anyone here who comments about how they deserved this fate or how they got what was coming to them needs to grow the fuck up.
There are very, very few people in this world who have done something bad enough to have this kind of condition even be remotely justified. They're gonna either be on the streets or in basic Medicaid nursing homes for the rest of their lives. Many will get beaten and robbed. Many will probably just commit suicide to avoid the nightmarish conditions. And people here are celebrating this?!
Newsflash, the baby boomer generation are also people who also deserve to have someone give a shit about them. You people are sick.
Do I pirate? Yes.
My philosophy? I don't wanna pay for it.
Honestly, with the exception of abandonware that can't legally be bought anywhere, piracy can't be legitimately excused. If you do it, you do it because you want something that you should pay for, but don't wanna. Which is a choice you can make, I won't hate you for it, but own that instead of pretending that you have a logical moral argument to getting it.
This is encouraging, sure, but these kind of questions are one step above "Do you want free money?" in terms of usefulness to actually change things.
Making them pay could force things like:
And on and on. Climate change is a problem we can't tax the fat cats to get ourselves out of. Of course, they'll sell you that because it's nice to blame the mythical, supposedly souless "corporation" and "1%" for every single ill in the world, but this is something that everyone perpetuates.
Will people actually support limiting measures once they realize they have to sacrifice too?
And they wonder why people start losing confidence in their nation's disease bureau...
This "everything is worse" feeling is not something that has any link to any political party.
If life is percieved to get worse under any party's reign, whether to Tories as is the case now, Labour if they were elected, or SNP or whatever, they will blame whoever is in charge at the moment.
It's happening now, it's happening with the Democrats in the US, with Liberals in Canada, and to a lesser extent, the ruling coalition in Germany with AfD getting a surge thanks to people just generally discontent with life.
How much of that is their fault is something up for debate. It's not 100% their fault, and it also isn't 100% not their fault either. The same reactionary thoughts that are coming now from this here are giving the Conservative party in Canada a resurgence. I have a feeling most of you don't like that, but it's the truth.
When people are thinking life is getting worse, they will vote in whoever is not part of the current leadership.
It is bad for the consumer... but the alternative is instant cracks, as seen with a lot of games on r/Crackwatch that don't have the DRM.
Denuvo is the first software in a long time that has been able to successfully stop the supposedly inevitable march to cracking. It's a miracle that more AAA devs don't use it, since it works so well. (EMPRESS aside)
You can hate me all you want for saying this, but the war against piracy, for the most part, has been won.
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