For me it’s also a price issue, after my streaming more expensive year on year at some point I just stopped and paid for VPN and Usenet.

Canadians: How aboot no!

When Trump got elected I sold some of my stocks. My investments are also my retirement funds, so I don’t need them for a while. I’m waiting until the next crash starts, or something else that’s pretty bad (war, rogue AI, whatever). If the market crashes I can immediately step in.

I once had stocks in Shell, mainly because it’s a Dutch company (I’m Dutch) and its a pretty stable investment. But it felt very wrong to invest in oil. So after a few months I sold them (thankfully with a little profit).

Personally I just don’t want to invest in anything I think fucks up the world. It’s also why I don’t want to invest in meta and some other tech companies.

It is also the equivalent of letting a LED light bulb run for an entire day (depending on bright it is, some LED bulbs use under 2 watts of power).

I’m probably the minority here, but I don’t really want mainstream folk as Linux user. You people already ruined the internet!

That’s pretty bad, I feel at the same time the UK is very open at making fun of politicians. Based on (comedy)TV shows about the news etc.

That’s true, can’t have something infinite (population growth) on a finite planet. It could possibly work with expansion to space and other planets.

The thing that people ( not you of course) just do not understand, is that for a lot of western countries the birth rate is under 2. So every year the population has a larger part of old people.

Our systems for retirement, government, social programs, etc only really work when more young healthy people are added.

So we actually really need young immigrants to basically keep the boat floating.

It’s like your new boss saying you never have to worry about your job again. Right before he fires you.

Yeah I used iseekpasswords my older cousin told me about it

That a porn ban does not work and people will find a way around it.

When I was a kid there weren’t all this free porn sites and most of them were paid.

So you would go to some shady site where people shared passwords. This might make a comeback

It is assistive technology, but that is not how tesla has been marketing it. They even sell a product called full self driving, while it’s not that at all.

This comic goes from 2020 to 1984, was this comic originally about idiots that compared wearing a face mask to wearing a jew star?

My 5 year old uses it, because he doesn’t speak English yet, but thats about it.

I used to hate JS but barley had used it. Now I use it on a daily base and hate it even more.

When I go to a hospital I really hope the doctor is fully focused on getting me better, not my gender, looks, or whether or not I’d like to suck dick.

Yeah that gun is going to do so much when the state bombs you or sends a drone.

Was Ukraine actually added to NATO? No

Do Ukrainians want to be Russians? No

In fact after the NATO summit of 2008 where Bush said Ukraine should be a NATO member, Putin who was at that NATO summit said he didn’t want that (same for Georgia).

After that NATO didn’t push membership further and Putin attacked and claimed parts of Georgia anyway.

About a month after Putin said he had no plan to attack Ukraine he took Crimea.

I know people from both Ukraine and Georgia and they always tell me that Russia has been an agressive neighbor forever and they really don’t want to be Russians.

I’m not saying the west it perfect and we definitely did things wrong. But the invasion of Ukraine is 100% Putin, he did this, there was no war, nobody was threatening Russia. In fact the EU was slowly getting a better economic relationship with Russia.

But in the end all of this doesn’t matter, it’s not about NATO, or the west. If you listen to what Putin is actually saying, he thinks Ukraine and Georgia both are not counties. In his view they have always been part of Russia, so he would have invaded them at some point anyway.

This is like saying Germany losing WW2 is what allowed Israel to attack Iran.