No, they still exist.

“that boner” or “that ‘boner’”?

Do you exit it with escape colon q bang?

Balls right now. Just balls.

I mean, this all sounds like shit, yes. But sometimes things are only a little bit shit and yet the answer is still “redesign the approach” (ie: start over).

Hexbear is… I’m just old I guess, I don’t understand. My instance is not defederated from them. Whenever I’m reading a post that originates from hexbear, I can always tell. Like it will just hit me and I will look at the source and yep, it’s hexbear.

But I don’t exactly understand why. I can’t see that they have any particular worldview, they just have a unique (and contrarian) way of expressing… all worldviews, seemingly. It feels like an inside joke that I don’t have enough information about to understand.

Doesn’t seem like bots, Russian or otherwise. Too vague. Not enough of a directed agenda. Is it just trolls? They seem to earnest to be trolls.

There also is a Wikipedia article which I think is not written that well. And a lot of education material by churches or religious organizations which I did not cite for obvious reasons.

That’s because Christian apologists constantly brigade those articles.

Tin-foil hat time but I’d be willing to bet they have mechanisms to do something resembling naked shorting with crypto. I have no idea what that voodoo might be, but they conjure shares out of thin air for shorting stocks, and they’ve managed to package crypto into ETFs some-fucking-how so why not. I feel like I’m increasingly noticing that nothing really seems to crash anymore.

Nobody:

Russia: Imma turn every government in the world fascist!

What could go wrong?

Don’t care what anybody says about how much they loved XP that shit was always ugly.

Good for them. The people deliberately killing Facebook, I mean.

one baseline belief: Elections in the US are rigged unless Donald Trump wins them, and citizens need to do something about it.

FTFY

I miss how civil everyone was towards each other.

HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS

This was a thing like 10 years ago too, iirc. Ads had threads and you could post in them and up/down vote them. That… didn’t go well. For advertisers, that is.

Scotch and soda.

I have one of each. I guess I’m Chaotic Evil.

which I explained in the part of my comment you left out.

Pardon me. Here is the part you left out:

It cheapens the endeavor

You’ll forgive me if I can’t seem to scrape enough detail about your argument out of that.

Piracy fully supports the endeavor of archiving. The motivations of pirates has nothing at all to do with it. Archiving springs from piracy, it is a consequence of piracy. And the corporations you are de-facto acting as defense counsel for here have proven over and over again it means less than nothing to them.

But I’m making assumptions about your argument, because apparently you think “cheapens the endeavor” is a real mic drop.

If you’re downloading stuff because you want to play for free - which can be because of a lack of access (financial or otherwise) or a myriad of other reasons (perhaps it’s a milestone work but you don’t want to support a piece of shit dev) - then just be honest.

Why?

No health impact is surely an overstatement, but I have to wonder how long it’s been going on. They say that aerosolized rubber from car tires is a contributor, and we’ve been driving for a hundred years. Plastic packaging has been in wide use since the 50s. Surely there is a health impact but it’s also been going on long enough that we must know our bodies tolerate it at least somewhat.

I’ve taken to using silicone instead of plastic bags in my house to minimize my exposure, but I live next to a busy street so I feel kinda hosed.

Can you put tobacco in it? Then you will be lying!