There’s no problem with piracy if you never ever ever intend to subscribe to a streaming service though. Give me the option to pay for DRM-free .mkv files with differing qualities and bit rates and I’d consider not pirating, provided the prices are reasonable.

And an archive would be doing exactly that: Distributing copyrighted materials.

Moving to Europe is not necessarily a great idea depending on the country they choose. US copyright law is comparatively lenient to some European countries, who can be said to be (much more) controlled by publishers when it comes to copyright.

Depebding on the country, Europe has significantly worse copyright law than the US, to the extent that archiving a web page is illegal.

Fun fact:

In Germany you have to pay a special tax for anything that could be used to violate copyright. It ranges from 0.10€ for USB sticks to 90€ for faster printers to 14,000,000€ for opening up a public library - all going to a bunch of publisher organizations.

And so claimed my German ancestors.

Yet none of them fled the country, none of them joined the small, albeit existing resistance, none of those conscripted deserted the military and none of them claimed to have responsibility. Curious, isn’t it? Everybody seemed to have clean hands because only a few thousand people directly orchestrated the Holocaust. The fact that it could only happen due to both mass support and mass toleration is ignored.

Considering my instance is registered on “.de,” you have 3 guesses as to what my nationality is and who I voted for in the US election.

And I did not claim you are a Nazi. I claimed that you cannot absolve yourself from responsibility if your country commits or aids a genocide.

Everyone’s hands are clean. The workers at Raytheon producing weapons that kills Palestinians, the people who finance that through taxes, whoever flies the plane or steers the ship delivering the weapons to Israel and even the American soldiers training Israeli forces with the new weapons.

Everyone of you can give plenty of reasons why they’re not at fault. My German ancestors did the same in 1945. They “didn’t know” or they couldn’t have done anything against it or they voted for the social democrats in the last election or or or…

Maybe inflicting violence on the mics and giving blowjobs to the techs would work?

I don’t recommend doing your laundry with a fucking machine, but you do you.

You’re right in some regard though I still believe taking note of trends is important, don’t you? If most pre-record civilizations we find have behaved and lived in a certain way it could tell us something notable about our past.

Hey baby… wanna watch Jellyfin and dismantle the patriarchy?

For me 10 people are usually in line :(

Although it still doesn’t take longer than like 15 minutes

But that would be worse?

The solution to women being treated unfairly is not to start treating men unfairly too. It’s to treat women fairly.

What if we alter the scenario slightly?

The homeless man ran “aggressively” through the checkouts (without paying for the water bottle of course) and the police “believed” he had a knife to force his way through. Water bottles sure look like knifes sometimes after all.

I’m fairly certain the homeless man would be charged with felony murder if the police shot bystanders (and the homeless man survived).

No, because it isn’t proportional.

A homeless man stealing a bottle of water with a security guard shooting up half the store due to bad aim as a result should not be charged for murder.

Besides, murder should always require intent to kill. Robbery - including armed robbery - does not usually imply this.

I disagree, it was a common German first name until he ruined it.

Though you should keep insulting him, the methhead “war strategist” deserves it.

My university’s websites are actually OK.

The worst part is by far the fragmentation, where it’s sometimes easier to use a search engine if you’re looking for something specific.

To be fair, although Zangendeutsch is commonly used for shits and giggles the reaction to English words hasn’t been this way since some time after Reddit.

It evolved into an ironic !askouija@lemmy.world style complete-the-sentence thingy where everything goes.

Example

The people tied on the track-thing is somewhat new, the original was with a runaway trolley and workers on either track.

I will never vote for Harris for I am not allowed to do so.

By paying taxes in the US you are far more complicit in enabling genocide by the way. How many shells have you personally financed - including through your productivity when working - may I ask? Obviously you can choose to stop paying taxes and go to prison to become a financial burden. They can’t arrest everyone, can they? Clearly that’s the answer.

Every single US citizen is enabling genocide. The question is how you will stop it. And it most certainly won’t be through making a cross on a piece of paper every 4 years.

the solution is to find a way to stop the fucking train

And the solution to the electoral college is to just fucking abolish it? I didn’t know it was this easy! Surely any second the system decides to abolish itself! Any second now…

Unless you abolish the system before the November election, either Trump or Harris will become US president. It is mathematical certainty in the same way that neither Harris nor Trump will be teleported to Mars through spontaneous quantum tunneling.