They had their servers seized, but were later returned and the service came back as mega.nz, legit and all.

I can’t wait to see the site formerly known as Twitter to go out of business.

“Fuck you” is an insult, and email spam is illegal.

So if someone with a tiny ego and tinier penis really wants to sue over this, they just might have a case.

Discord is great for casual chatting. Was it ever intended to be a forum though? For that use case, it’s completely impractical.

Sure, I’d take that over ads anytime.

Just catch everything in the background, play the full ad on mute, and when the ad segment is coming up in the stream you are actually watching, switch to the cached copy. Shouldn’t be too hard to program.

That would work for ads before the content, but not if they are spliced into the running video.

You can just switch it off.

Oh true, my dad’s house that I used to compare the ones in China to is in Germany.

Indeed. I happen to live in China, and everybody calls it authoritarian, especially the locals.

I 100% agree, and just wanted to say I love the word Tankjes. Dutch, by any chance?

I wouldn’t say FOSS is inherently leftist, but it’s certainly not a capitalist approach.

And Lemmy has been developed by two outspoken Marxists, so the earliest adopters before the larger waves of reddit exilees had a similar mindset.

Add to the fact that most of the oldest and therefore largest communities are hosted on lemmy.ml, which is run by the original devs, and features moderators who by and large also share a similar mindset (and suppress critical comments quite a bit), and you’ve got a lefty echo chamber going, that’s spilling into the newer communities on neutral instances, giving the whole platform a left touch.

I live in China. Trust me, you don’t want to have those homes in the US. The house I live in has been completed in 2016 and I’m the first tenant, moved in in 2018, and it’s got more issues than my dad’s house from 1965. Houses here are built as cheaply as possible, skimping on building materials, safety, plumbing, insulation, wiring, etc.

The pricing bubble is just a joke on top. The actual value of the real estate here should be about 20-25% of what it is in reality - for example if I were to buy the house I’m renting right now, I’d break even after 114 years. Not taking any repairs or interest into account.

Macau never had the same autonomy as HK. They saw themselves as a part of China colonized by Portugal, whereas Hong Kong was proudly independent and part of the British Empire.

So the situation there is just the same as it is in HK right now, it just didn’t bother the people a whole lot. Their entire business model as a country was catering to the Chinese society anyway, and on that end, nothing changed.

Three including this one, but the other two were just created on other instances before I settled for one I actually liked. So they are more like dormant accounts I log into every other month or so, I don’t actively use them.

You can get a prescription for paid sex in the Netherlands if certain conditions apply, and other EU countries are exploring the option.

I don’t know how hot she’d be though.

That’s correct, but most of those calculations were based on theoretical figures used by artificial aging methods and computed failure rates. Now we have real world data from panels that actually aged that long.

They just plaster the brand name all over the web to score high in number of results. Not intended to rank high on google, just to fake visibility in general.

Kernel level anti-cheat won’t work, thank heavens the Linux developers won’t allow that abomination.

No process deserves that kind of elevated permissions.

Thin crust Italian style pizza, topped with tomato sauce, walnuts, thinly sliced Italian ham, and a mix of gorgonzola and mozzarella chunks. Heaven.