Innovation is about digging through the mountain of slop for a few useful nuggets. (This is also how academia works. I'm not trying to make some conservative spin on how "woke" academics are useless. It's simply a matter of the fact that around each bright master of their study is a graduating corona of talent.) Embrace change in productivity tools, just as we should embrace change in the meaning of words over time.

Gouging them into being unprofitable is a good start.

A $5 month VPN and a subscription to ThePirateBay+ means I am ahead of the industry curve.

As if DRM every stopped me

Anything and everything I can. DRM is a cat and mouse game, and the DRM providers are the mice.

I have never felt less guilty about pirating everything than I do now.

Purpose is only what we as humans assign to something. Factories have a new purpose now baby!

Look at you. Big, strong alpha male, triggered by liberal diatribe.

Not saying it's not good to have diversity in the marketplace of ideas, I just don't see bluesky achieving an underdog breakthrough.

"These aren't educational. You're only allowed to watch PBS." I HATE YOU MOM AND DAD *assumes fetal position*

Even if fossil fuels are used to produce the electricity, by having all of the appliance itself use electricity rather than natural gas, you simplify infrastructure and make it way easier to transition to non "green"(er) sources of energy.

Blanket copy and paste without vetting the results first is a sign of a bad coder, not a bad tool.

If the internet tells me you don't have a car, money, or a job, then I don't want to smoke with you.

2000 years is enough to time pass on any statute of limitations for historical grievance for stolen land.

Complications of dense urban warfare, caused by a military that deserves criticism for some of its actions, but still not genocide.