“Bidenomics” and “Economy is doing great” and anything and everything involving the word “GDP”

Thing is you can actually be radical. In a healthy democracy you need some small fringes to exert pressure, e.g. civil right activist groups and so on so that the government isn’t able to just completely ignore portions of the population.

But to be effective as an activist you have to know when to put on pressure and when to unite. Malcolm X or Fred Hampton didn’t go vote for David Duke just because MLK was a pacifist.

This was the wrong time to pressure because as always activists dramatically misread the levels of actual support for their cause and dramatically underestimate how much support the general populace gives the opposition.

Most people don’t even agree on the very basic facts of reality or that such a thing can even exist, how tf are you gonna expect to convince them of anything? What you gonna write some long post on it? Good luck - they cannot read.

Humanity is just a dogshit species. To even agree that we shouldn’t stab ourselves in our proverbial balls with a proverbial milwaukee power drill - it takes like generations and most people are always for the status quo and the worst possible version of everything is the default we have to work from and with, it’s just a cruel joke and it would be more existentially comforting if progress was outright impossible.

I didn’t really consider that. Having no computer other than a phone is pretty crazy

YIFY also uses “HD”. So does YT. Doesn’t make it good though, unless you’re watching on your phone or something.

Huh? I use ublock origin, sponsorblock, privacy badger, etc etc. but that’s for browsing the web and YT. Not watching movies and TV shows which is what torrenting is for. I’m from a piracy instance and that’s precisely why I know to do that rather than watch some dodgy “illegal online streams” site?

WiFi is local and still connects to your ISPs

Talk about it being hard to decipher comments, what do you even mean by this?

If you use someone else’s WiFi then it will connect to their ISP with their account details and should any trouble occur it will go back to them, not back to you.

when the authorities request your personal data based on your IP.

Obviously don’t hack the planet that way unless you’re being 7 proxies as the cool kids used to say but for piracy or small dnm buys it’s nothing.

you’re just condescending and not saying anything actually useful.

Odd, I literally explained how to overcome all the issues thus far. Maybe you don’t want to hear it idk why even keep replying then.

Just because you see no reason to use it, others do. If they found a reason then it doesn’t matter whether you see a reason or not. As long as they do.

No that’s not really how it works? There is either a reason or there isn’t, I’m trying to find out what it is, idk why you’re being so nasty bro but I don’t need this shit

Thanks! Yeah I’m in the UK, not great, not terrible, and I hope whoever comes after is better but I honestly can’t even begin to speculate how you could actually permanently fix Russia’s jingoism.

Huh? Where did I attack anyone, nevermind spread misinfo?

Okay that makes sense actually, I forgot US has limited data on their main internet connections.

Huh? No I am not agitated or offended.

Yeah, I’m just saying there’s always a reason one might use a site instead of torrenting.

And I haven’t seen one yet is the thing.

I only mentioned a VPN because that’s usually the case (at least in Europe like Germany and The Netherlands) and I assume also US?

Idk tbf, not needed in the UK.

Nah I saw people in my uni back like 2017 streaming to their iPads with ads taking up half the screen. It’s the “listen to music on YouTube on school computer when your phone or MP3 player or PSP is right there” of millennial shit.

Yeah fair but we are on Lemmy. I hope no one is streaming or downloading YIFY or some shit thinking it’s peak. I mean they can if they choose to but shouldn’t need to with such a cool community at their disposal.

always a reason

Yeah, but I’ve never had one so ig I’m trying to learn and maybe help some who are having trouble.

VPN? I don’t think I mentioned a VPN. If your WiFi has ISP busting your balls then use a different WiFi :)

In like 144p with ads. Obviously I kid with that above setup that zoomers (and I) love, you can just torrent with qbittorrent and watch in VLC like long before video streaming. Ez pz.

Who tf uses “pirate streaming sites”??? Why is this even a thing. Just download your BDRemuxes via the *arr stack or paste the rarbg into you qbittorrent-nox on your nas/homelab and Jellyfin works fine.

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Not in Russia. Definitely not OK. Left 10 years ago, don’t want to look back. I wish there was an easy way for people to expatriate but even with no travel shutdowns most people are too poor to really migrate somewhere. Unfortunately same is often true for Ukrainians.

Not really. Mostly online there’s some bloodthirst that can be disappointing, but I know how this works so I get it, it’s not the worst thing happening right now.

I think casual counterproductive xenophobia with e.g. Linux kernel banning russian maintainers supposedly as opposed to people explicitly involved with the war or gov’t is also disappointing.

Back before the war, a lot of my western friends in the UK were either Putin apologists, whenever I’d bring up my persecution as a trans person in Russia, they’d laught if off or say something like “I just like Putin, he’s so funny”. It’s been enjoyable watching them be silent now. It’s been less enjoyable to see them follow Farage and Trump and similar paternalistic populist “charismatic” leaders though. Please don’t make me have to immigrate again.

No quantity of “I told you so” will ever get through to them, a lot of westerners are too close minded and westcentric and they don’t always have the capacity to have discussions about geopolitics that don’t necessarily relate directly to them.

At the outset of the war, literally on day 1 iirc, I was dating somebody from Ukraine, and we had a lot more common ground and ability to discuss geopolitics, probably helps both of us were really engaged leftists at the time.

Need? None of course. MSc I did was a waste of time pretty much. But I needed to stay in the country for the visa so I did it anyway.

Before I got an MSc I got absolutely zero offers for:

Junior Software Engineer/Developer (Full stack, backend & frontend; React, Python, NodeJS, C#, Java) Junior Network Engineer Junior Site Reliability Engineer Junior DevOps Engineer Junior UI/UX Analyst Junior IT Technician Junior IT Support Engineer Junior IT Support Analyst Junior Machine Learning Trainee Junior Data Analytics Engineer Junior Infrastructure Analyst (Cloud and DC) Junior Cybersecurity Analyst Junior Security Engineer

I eventually applied for a Java (Node) Developer and turns out they needed a Junior Security Engineer so I got through the interview and did that. About a year later got promoted to mid-level, fully remote. Never looked back.

In the end in my entire life I’ve applied to hundreds of positions, most with custom written cover letters, I got a grand total of 4 interviews, 1 lead to a technical test I did my best on then failed anyway, 1 led to a technical test that I then succeeded at, 2 others led to offers, one of which was my work placement/internship as an “Junior informatics trainee” during uni as part of their program (cost £5000) and paid minimum wage and it was the worst soul-sucking job I ever had.