Oh lol ok good to know, thanks!

Lol well soulseek if anything, but I can’t get them to disable wifi, and you think I can get them to download nic+, configure port forwarding, etc? Fat chance lol.

Does it though?

Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.

splatter film (a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.)

It just narrows it further, claiming it has to be pornographic, or multiple murders, or collections like faces of death at the most generous interpretation.

snuff film

noun

A movie in a purported genre of movies in which an actor is actually murdered or commits suicide

A film that shows, or purports to show, the actual deliberate killing of one of the performers.

Sorry but no, that is the misconception I’m speaking of. Back when this was originally posted months ago it prompted me to look it up, finding the definition, which quite clearly through the use of the words “actor” and “performers” does differentiate it from simple videos of death/murder to mean a scripted work that contains a death/murder. Which makes more sense in the “snuff films are a myth” context, because quite clearly “videos of death” are verifiably real, which would put that entire debate to rest.

I mean the idea “prevent people from 3D printing guns” is good.

I mean nah, it’s legal (in most states/US). Fuck a company deciding what I can and can’t do with a product I own, my phone gonna start detecting pirated MP3s next? My Cannon gonna refuse to print porn pics? It’s not their damn problem what people print and doubly so if it’s legal.

Tbf “mentally ill” means a lot more than “a danger to themselves or others.” We already do block those who have proven themselves a danger (or we can if the cops do their goddamn jobs which is often the point of failure for cases like Cruz from Parkland), it’s one of the rules we “don’t” have that if you have been involuntarily committed or convicted of a particular crime(s) you’re barred from ownership, but should we ban someone from a right simply for having ADHD, autism, bipolar, gender dysphoria, etc? All that’d do is discourage therapy and be discriminatory, and it’s wrong.

Oh lame, I was indeed thinking of magic wormhole. Thanks for the heads up!

Well you should download the GNU Image Manipulation Program instead.

Well,

A) “Let’s dissuade people from participating in radical politics” is only during presidential election season, when’s the last time you saw an ad for midterms? The DNC barely participates themselves. Be real.

B) So? The comment you replied to chose to talk about the presidential election which is no less valid of an interpretation. Maybe they didn’t want to dox themselves more locally than “US,” you are the one who chose to reply to that comment specifically instead of making your own top level comment about midterms.

C) Almost everyone in this thread interpreted it to be directly about Kamala. It doesn’t mention her by name, no, and yes, all the rest in the DNC are just as incompetent of candidates, but people get mad when you remind them of that and if you agree with me, we’re the outliers here, as sad as that is for a supposed anarchist community. That said, it was likely OP’s intent even without naming her (or it’s an old meme about Biden or Hillary because tbh they KEEP doing it for presidential elections especially like they want to lose.)

I mean when talking about presidential candidates running for a presidential election, it does kinda make sense to use “next” even though there is technically another one before then, because the “true next” one doesn’t involve presidential elections. It’s called context. That doesn’t mean that they’re not voting at midterm elections, it just means that they understand that presidents aren’t elected until presidential elections and we can disregard midterms when talking about presidential candidates.

It’s like saying “I’ll see you at the next baseball game” to your friend when leaving the stadium, and him understanding that you mean the next home game not flying to Chicago to see them play at Wrigley on Tuesday.

Also normally in the US for the same reason haha. I don’t have IVPN though so I can’t say for that one. That was on one of the Salt Lake Mullvad servers.

It’s blocked by all of Australia, Comcast and other US companies, and more, apparently.

Yeah.

Imgur, OTOH, hates VPNs. You can get to þe main website, but þeir image server will not serve up images to any Mullvad or ivpn exit node.

Nah

Not that I’d use imgur anyway, I prefer catbox. Imgur is blocked in the UK too though iirc.

Also with a VPN it wouldn’t matter if your ISP did block catbox, you’d still see it with your VPN unless maybe their ISP blocks it.

Shit even years ago that “open source” part was true. I switched to all open source programs (when possible) even though I was still on windows the second I found out how much better VLC is than everything. That was like '07 lmao. And it indeed was a big reason I stopped being scared of switching to linux, someone told me “dude almost everything you use already runs on linux, you won’t even need to find alts.”

That’s a good point about WSL though too because afaik that wasn’t around when I switched and I was indeed still scared of the CLI (until I switched and watched a few “linux CLI basics” and “bash basics” youtube videos.) I’ll have to remember to recommend that for those in my old shoes, thanks!

No problem, I have GIMP installed.

In this case there is no other dentist. The closest you can get is a thinkpad, and they’re still not quite as repairable as a framework from what I hear, and I’m not sure they don’t donate to Trump himself for all I know, searching for lenovo controversies gave me this at a first glance

Lenovo has faced multiple controversies, primarily related to security issues, including pre-installed malware and backdoors in their devices, which have raised concerns about user privacy and data security. Additionally, the company has been criticized for its ties to China and alleged espionage risks, leading to bans from certain government networks in various countries.

So no racists maybe (guess we gotta ask them about Uyghurs and other non-Han Chinese people, but) possible security risks, pick your poison I guess.

Well if I can find it I’ll look into it, but then again if the study says it doesn’t disproportionately affect POC then it agrees with me on that part.

I still however don’t know one single white adult without an ID either, you already need it for more than voting, and I can’t see how showing the thing you literally carry in your pocket or purse 24/7 out of necessity already suppresses all votes either. I’m one of the paranoid assholes that hates identifying myself on every website and at every store just so I can get a big mac or an online service, I obscure my identity as much as humanly possible, I hate AI, facial recognition, ALPRs, Flock, 2fa through text, I don’t even fly I take trains instead despite the inconvenience just because of all the invasive TSA horse shit (and maybe a little of “flying scary,” I’ll admit lol), and I STILL wouldn’t even give a second thought about having to show ID to vote. Hell, when I do vote and they just ask my name and check me off the list, I’m tempted to drive to my non-voting friend’s neighborhood and vote as/for him every time (I never have, but there’s literally nothing but my own morality stopping me from acquiescing to temptation), but that also gives me the thought of “I cannot be the first person to think of that, hope nobody does it to me one day lol.” Bro my polling place doesn’t even have cameras, it’d literally be impossible to catch me, I couldn’t do it on a mass scale of course but I could 100% do it and someone could 100% do it to me, all they need is my name and publically listed address.

Unfortunately I’m not in the business of paying Jstor for papers, but the abstract has a lot of "may limit"s and "However, past studies have reported conflicting results"s before coming to the conclusion that it indeed suppresses votes (though not telling me how for free, of course, and doesn’t offer any information about those conflicting studies. Were they done wrong or was this one? Only someone willing to pay can know).

And yet still I’ve never met anyone who didn’t have an ID, and I don’t even live in a voter ID state btw just one with people who need to live a normal life and to do so they must have an ID post- (and in many cases pre-) 18. Not only that but the POC I know so far (asked two now) all tell me it’s racist to assume POC can’t get IDs and everyone they know (who can legally get one) has one too. I’m also not in the business of developing racist thought processes because it makes some white guy feel good to help the noble savages, so I’m still gonna listen to the experiences of the POC I know when they tell me they indeed are just as capable of going to the DMV as any white person.

https://catbox.moe/faq.php

Under connectivity issues:

I mean I’m not donating but

based in Lake Forest, serving all of Orange County

That’s like saying it’s in Italy. Not really narrowing it down…

Well it actually is more narrow than “country.” Unless we’re admitting “Italy and California” are closer than “Italy and The US,” which actually I agree with but people get mad when you remind them that EU countries are as big as individual states.

But that aside: It’d be more like saying it’s in Florence, serving all of Tuscany. Actually it’s even less than that since Tuscany is 8,900 square miles and OC is 948 sq mi, but I don’t know Italy that well so it’s the closest I could get. Wiki seems to suggest it may be analogous to the province of Pisa at 945 sq mi.

“Lake Forest, CA” itself (which is a part of OC) is only 16.79 sq mi, that seems fairly narrow to me. To narrow it down further, the Lake Forest resident responsible for this is “Natalia Boiko,” seems she is a Ukrainian who went to college in Kharkiv, she has a DV case against someone named Oleksii Boiko. It’s not exactly some anonymous thing here I found all this through wiki, linkedin, the 5013c’s website, duck duck go, and unicourt.

My point is partially that voter ID is only controversial in the US, in the entire rest of the world it is “of course you use ID for voting, how else would you prevent fraud?”

Also “I still doubt the premise.” I carpool with a friend of mine to work daily, good dude. I asked him if he has ever known anyone at all (hadn’t even gotten to “black” yet, I asked “anyone”) without an ID and he immediately launched into “See man I hate that bullshit, yes we can get IDs and we all have one, that is some racist bullshit but from the other side that pretends they care. Actually I didn’t get mine until I was 18, and my friends made fun of me when we were 16-17. It’s fucked up that they see me and assume I can’t get one.” (He didn’t think I thought that myself, I was clear that I was arguing with some white savior types and wasn’t sure if I was off base or if you were, so we’re good him and I). So, unless you’re blacker than my friend here I’m gonna trust whoever can say the N-word on this one.

You can cite papers as if they’re all automatically sound (meanwhile many papers are done a specific way to engineer results, like the “weed kills brain cells” study for example), but until I meet ONE, count 'em ONE, person who is a legal citizen able to get an ID who does not have one, I’m not gonna believe it’s common at all. I know another literal homeless dude outside of the aforementioned camp of 3, and that dude also has an ID, and he’s also black (like one of the aforementioned 3). Literally not ONE person I know regardless of skin color or economic situation has no ID. I’m not opposed to making them free yadda yadda all your ideas earlier (though tbf Germany charges more than the US does and their Voter ID laws aren’t controversial), but I still don’t think black people and legal “latinx” (sorry Latin people I didn’t say it he did I know y’all hate that) residents can’t get an ID as is commonly touted, and I still hold that assuming POC can’t get ID is racist (which turns out my black co-worker friend there agrees, so I’m on the right track). POC are just as capable as white people dude, it’s 2026, they can drive now it isn’t 1850.