If it makes you feel better, once they’ve sorted ps5 emulation which seems inevitable at this point, you can burn your cracked version of gta6 to a dvd or blu-ray.

soundcloud, mute the ads because I refuse to pay for that shit.

But the newer stuff is mainly german techno, industrial/synthwave and mixes, so I don’t really feel the need to relisten that much anyway.

Torrent search ‘discography’ + ‘flac’

In ye olden days before the internet, when I worked for a small newspaper our circulation number was just a lie we told to advertisers. Pulped a lot of unsold copies. Incredibly common.

Publishers/authors buying their own books to pump the numbers and perhaps get on a best seller list, agents/studios buying up tickets to key screenings to make a movie seem more popular than it was and pump up the opening weekend box-office, purchased awards, … even down to the club/bar/theatre pretending to be sold out/full so that people think it’s more popular.

A lot of the world is bullshit. Always has been. Certainly pre-dates the internet, just became a bit easier.

The current commonwealth is a voluntary association, and includes countries which were never colonised by Britain. Sure, the monarch is the head, but AFAIK that’s purely symbolic.

I mean, if former British colonies and non-british colonies want to become and stay members, who are we to lecture them on colonialism?

I don’t think someone in Rwanda needs white westerners to lecture them on imperialism.

And it’s not as if the UK can get away with bossing around India any more.

I know fascism is unsustainable and will collapse itself

Historically speaking, authoritarian governments and absolute monarchy are absolutely sustainable. If anything, democracy and the protection of minority rights is a temporary blip.

For all we know, Trump could be the founder of a dynasty that lasts hundreds of years.

At the moment, China also seems to be out-competing democracies. Arguably technologies like AI, facial recognition, and the like will also help keep to authoritarian leaders in power.

there are fancam vids of every concert uploaded to youtube immediately after the concert, or even livestreams during it. IDK what changed but I doubt it’s damaging the concert industry

Can I just say that an audience full of wankers filming the concert on their phone, bright screens invariably blocking your view, so they can upload their shitty video almost no one will ever watch on youtube, does absolutely ruin the concert going experience.

Sorry. I was just making a joke about Trump having (an) STI, ie. Sexually Transmitted Infection.

As I had to explain the joke, it’s clearly shit.

Super Intelligence, as opposed to Super Trump Intelligence.

Bigotry.

PTB

IRC one of the mods of /r/canada was outed as a white nationalist several years ago. This kind of thing is incredibly common on reddit in plenty of the bigger subreddits.

The mods are pushing a narrative, the place is flooded with bot posts and comments, and invariably it’s pushing a narrative.

Question: would running stuff like this in sandboxie, with internet disabled, prevent these issues?

Accurate title: Dutch broadcaster which is boycotting Eurovision replaced by Dutch broadcaster which isn’t.

The problem is that social media algorithms thrive on engagement, and the fastest way to further that engagement is hate. Spending all day on the internet banging on about various fashionable causes, may make give a temporary endorphin boost, but does it actually change much except social media corps’ profit margins?

OP has posted a reminder to not watch Harry Potter in a small internet forum for internet piracy. Will this affect JKR’s support of anti-trans groups in any discernible way?

If you want to change the world, it’s arguably better to get off the internet, and spend time in your community making real tangible changes. If you spend too much time on the internet, it’s likely you’ll forsake the former. There are only so many hours in the day.

It’s fundamentally not that different to replacing real social interaction, with ersatz social interaction on social media.

e: To be clear, this comment won’t actually change anything either. I am just filling time.

Sometimes I confuse this grifter with the other one, the brother of the tradwife influencer with big breasts.

I know they tried to make this guy into a Horst Wessel, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most people don’t even remember who this guy was five years from now.

Sorry to be a downer, but tolerance of homosexuality under school-aged Dutch boys has halved in recent years, girls are also increasingly bigoted. LGBTQ+ people feel increasingly unsafe and homophobic violence is on the rise, with more people reporting incidents. Dutch source.

In any case, the idea that the Netherlands is an especially accepting country was always a fundamental misunderstanding of traditional Dutch tolerance. Tolerating something is not the same as accepting or celebrating it.

Hence, Wilders and all the other right-wing and openly homophobic and/or transphobic parties in Dutch parliament.

You almost certainly have heard his music. It’s played almost everywhere. Billions of listens.

A shopping mall, buying groceries, a waiting room, a lift, as hold music when you’re calling your insurance, at an office, …

You probably didn’t even notice it playing in the background because it was so bland.

I think that’s unfair. I don’t think it’s interesting enough to suck. It’s background music. At least, I think it is, I’m having trouble remembering any of it.

I know people like to hate AI, but it does have its uses.

Rear ports? Why bother?

Simply pop it on their desk and let them plug it in themselves when they’re bored/curious.