“Democracy dies in broad daylight” ? No; Fascism is born in silence.

Hehehe, “90’s educational game”. I really laughed from that one. So on point.

For me it’s the reverse. Windows 2000, for me, was the best looking windows to date. Windows vista, XP, and indeed aero felt child like, non-serious, unprofessional.

They will claim: “He is always sleepy and slow, and SUDDENLY he is fast and upbeat? He must on some stimulants! We cannot have a President on stimulants!!”

I guess only in the sense that both parties are right wing? One is just extreme in that direction?

Yeah I made a mistake… Thanks!

Him or me?

hehe, woops… So sorry, I do not know why that was in my head/fingers while typing. And yes I mean Florida indeed

I have a gay son and a trans nephew. I can tell you right now: This family will not be visiting California Florida anytime soon.

The fun part is, while looking for vacations abroad, California Florida and a lot of the USA is now in the same corner as Iran, China, a lot of Africa, etc, etc. places that are not open minded about such things.

When will California Florida show it’s true colors again? Or is this it?

Too many times to admit. I even had a order in but cancelled. I just can’t excuse myself that kind of money.

And I’m a freelance IT dude!

Because of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPVf0sqAKI and also: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/ and also: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/09/11/is-your-car-spying-on-you--almost-certainly--new-report-says

I can go on and on. I love the tech, I hate the companies. Plus: the build quality just does not seem to be existent in this space.

I agree, west Taiwan will eventually fall back into the hands of the people in Taiwan. And the country will be whole again.

They where using words like “purchasing”, and asking just as much for the digital files as for the DVD’s. If they where even available.

So it makes sense people where seeing it as “owning”. And then looking puzzled when Sony decided to break into their own devices and delete files…

I have family that FINALLY see that DRM is a thing in their lives, and they DO NOT like it.

I used to have Netflix, HBO Max, Youtube Premium, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime and “Videoland”. But since I used Linux, I could not stream with a higher bitrate. I could not download for offline playback, I had to jump through hoops to get things to play every now and then.

They also did not always have everything I wanted to see, or I had to pay extra for “premium early access” (Disney).

So I was fed up, learned about using multiple usenet backbones, how to send sabnzbd through VPN’s, Radarr, Sonarr and Overseerr. Now I only have Netflix and Youtube Premium for my wife. And Plex for myself. And access to much more content.

And I do not consider it stealing, i consider it to be the natural result of them trying to gouge me while still not providing me.

Please keep your faith to yourself, we have too many as it is.

Ok, listen can we at least agree that PVV is not “clean” when it comes to Putin? And that they are very much anti “helping Ukraine” ?

It IS! But for some people it’s too much to allow that into their minds. So I try a different tactic: a little slower, so you can also get onboard with this.

Sure, but ties with Russia is not BS and not a “broke discourse”, there definitely is something there. And we need more discourse about it.

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de-banden-tussen-pvv-en-rusland-zijn-sterker-dan-gedacht?share=jXg8i%2B9UNApM%2BP1flD9ygNqq8TmbUqQcf6JZ59RWUb1I7VCcyj%2FRUA3KAzQBbWM%3D%26utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebuttonleden&utm_source=linkbutton

Not making anything up, it’s true: https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de-banden-tussen-pvv-en-rusland-zijn-sterker-dan-gedacht?share=jXg8i%2B9UNApM%2BP1flD9ygNqq8TmbUqQcf6JZ59RWUb1I7VCcyj%2FRUA3KAzQBbWM%3D%26utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebuttonleden&utm_source=linkbutton