Not just the US government. All government. Literally all of them. Not a single human government has ever existed in the history of humanity that wasn’t the villain of the story.
I am not an anarchist, governments provide useful services and protections for their citizens. But lets not fool ourselves into thinking that any government is better than another, they are all bad equally, just in different ways.
Looks like she is standing in a kitchen, actually.
I see a tiled kitchen backsplash, above head cabinets, and utentils like salt shakers and the white box looks like a microwave or a toaster oven, or maybe its a coffee machine.
This is only true if the legal services actually offer good value and have the content the user is looking for.
Most of the time, pirates are too poor to afford legal routes. Sometimes, pirates are new to a hobby and checking out if they want to spend money, who usually switch to legal routes if they like it. Very rarely you get pirates who do it for the love of the game and were never going to pay to begin with.
And then, there is the rarest of all: an actual, countable lost sale for the business. All the previous methods are not lost sales. A business should not be legally allowed to count them because they werent going to get money from those scenarios. But the rarest instance of all is a person that was going to pay legally, and could definitely afford to, but decided to not pay and pirate instead.
This is also very true. OP may have picked up a few “Hate Followers” too, I know I have picked up a few along my time on the internet. They just can’t be bothered to use the block feature, I guess. Or they think they are getting back at them.for some reason, which is pretty sad if someone thinks fake internet points matter that much.
I remember when I used to have a Reddit account that had Hate Followers, I would make a post or comment that would almost always end in a high positive vote count, but in less than 60 seconds of posting it the vote count would be zero for like an hour before the vote count turned positive lol. Always had one or two comments from the same accounts that werent even related to whatever I was talking about. I used to get a good chuckle out of it.
Wait… You didn’t know off-shore bank accounts are only for the rich and powerful?
Downvotes likely from non-Americans. Europeans specifically. They like to downvote stuff about America and Americans on Lemmy. A common prejudice on Lemmy, unfortunately.
Nintendo didn’t change anything, because JoyCon Drift isn’t real, remember?
Including Nintendo. Especially Nintendo.
Everything was direct download on Myrient. It was also pretty fast for a free site.
The name just makes me think of the “evil X” memes:
Evil Autism be like: “Yes hello, I would love to have a pleasant conversation. Oh, nothing too niche and specific? No worries!”
One of my favorite anime IPs written by one of my favorite creatives?
Waiter, waiter, more of this please!
He might want to think
This the same person that showed their Xbox account was created a month ago? With achievements that are easy to get in just a few hours?
If you are asleep and your house catches fire, the idea is that the smoke detector will wake you up with enough time hopefully to escape the fire. That is really their primary purpose.
Some European countries do require them. Germany and Britain require smoke detectors in all residential buildings, for example.
If your smoke detectors go off when you are cooking, then the smoke detectors are too close to the kitchen. At least where I live, building code mandates one smoke detector in each bedroom, one in each hallway leading to a bedroom, and at least one smoke detector on each floor of the home. Generally, avoid placing smoke detectors near kitchens or exterior windows which, when open, are right next to a grill or other cooking appliance. Otherwise you’re going to be getting a lot of false positives.
It was fine. NieR Reincarnation was a lot better, IMO.
Exciting to see Yoko Taro is leading. He hasn’t let me down yet.
Also interesting to see Okabe as composer.
Finally, a YSK post that actually is a YSK.
while Shueisha may share the operator’s identity with its internal team in Japan to aid U.S.-based enforcement, it is legally barred from using that specific data to file infringement actions in foreign courts.
Yeah, knowing a business (especially being Japanese which continually try to apply Japanese law to non-Japanese citizens living outside Japan), that is going to get outright ignored if that person isn’t living in the US. They will just see the personal data of where that person lives in the world and instantly file a lawsuit in that country “because they were suspicious of that country housing the site owner,” likely dropping the US case in the same moment.
Hope the site owners don’t live in Japan. RIP if they do.
No, the problem is the people. All the people. Even if you take away business and money, which isn’t realistic, you still have to deal with the fact that humans are awful to each other, especially when they have power over each other. Government rulers throughout history have been horrible to their subjects just for the love of the game, sometimes they didn’t even get anything out of it. They just wanted others to suffer.
Look at Reddit, or even here on Lemmy, honestly. Is every moderator and admin some magnanimous and benevolent person? No, of course not. Moderators have a bit of a reputation for being horrendously corrupt power trippers, right? Do they get paid to be that way? Sure, some, but even without that they would likely act the same regardless. And I am a moderator here on Lemmy saying this.
There are not enough “nice” people in the world for a human government to ever work the way you suggest. And even if there were, there is no guarantee that they would always be that way. All it takes is one person criticizing people with authority, one person suggesting something those with authority don’t like, etc. No human government ever started from purely bad intentions. But the bad was baked in from before the start, it is unavoidable.