The only thing that’s being “damaged” is some executive’s plan to lobby or to buy their 5th home. Not to mention their fragile ego.

That’s 67 billion in USD for those curious.

I would say fake goods have more of an impact than piracy does. Come on now, how much more “research” do we need to disprove the “piracy causes lost sales!” claim?

No. I just got tired of dealing with virtual machines. I would’ve hoped that Wine by now would’ve allowed and accepted more 16-bit applications than just stopping at 32-bit.

Would you know if this works for 16-bit games? Like, I’d love to play the Hasbro cereal box games again. Yahtzee, Wheel of Fortune and all them. If so, that alone may just get me to join Linux Mint.

It should never even be questioned. Pedophilia will never be okay. Children cannot reasonably consent and if anyone thinks they do, don’t care to know what ‘grooming’ is or probably is a groomer to make a child believe that.

You’re a bit out of date on that one.

Because you’re thinking when he said that in 2006. It took until 2019 that he changed his perspective. Now granted that’s quite a time gap between 2006 and 2019 in believing pedophilia is okay. But he seems to have changed his tune on that. And people did make it known to him.

This was how you lost 2016. This was how you lost 2024.

This is how you’re going to lose 2026 and probably 2028.

You fucking morons.

Oh fuck you, Joe. You’ll say anything to keep heads tuned into your shitty program.

1,500 Spotify employees are out of work because of YOU. And you call yourself “self-made”.

I’ve been feeling this with Wal-Mart.

They will cut hours and lay off people around particular periods. And then I’ll go and read on the front page of my work portal that goes “ANOTHER STRONG QUARTER OF EARNINGS!” to put it bluntly.

So, that’s the method now. Maximize profits. Executives get top dollar. At a worker’s expensive.

You are just a statistic.

Because they know he’s a joke and that’s all he’ll ever be.

Hey asshole, you wanted to be president because you thought it would get you world respect? Everyone knows what you really are. Your “money” and infantile understandings in how the world works, much less, this country works does not get you respect, you pedophile.

If Dems don’t vote on this, then their mid-term impressions could suffer.

I’d include .zip .blahj.zone or whatever it is. Also .ca

Seems like a fair number of unreasonable assholes come from those instances.

Europe, you’re supposed to be better than America, not replicate what makes America trash. This is backwards.

No.

Come back when you’re 50 or 55.

So? Are they going to do anything about it or no?

“social permission”?

Society didn’t even permit you and others to spread AI onto everyone to begin with.

That’s honestly how piracy in general should be. But as we’ve learned, have learned and seemingly continue to learn. That, the reason a number of great piracy sources go down the way they did was because, someone had a very big mouth and drew attention that ended up costing us great sources that had lasted a good long while.

These days, it’s get your pirating in as much as you can, take your loot and provide only to those who know how and when to shut up.

The people running Anna’s Archive should’ve really known better. At one hand, I’m appreciative for what they attempted to do. But on the other hand, they’ve really painted a big target on their backs by scraping on Spotify. Now they have the RIAA legion sickened on them and they’re probably now going to get nuked by lawsuits and appeals. So, in a sense, Anna’s Archive kinda went and blew themselves up, screwing people out of a good source.

I sometimes think back to my last relationship, that I was with someone who I could’ve totally seen going all the way to the end with.

And I vividly recall a moment where for some stupid reason, during an argument we had, where I stressed about not wanting kids. Yet she was simply trying to re-iterate to me that she doesn’t want any either, because she actually can’t anyways. There were also some overlooked details that should’ve been obvious to me that this woman was as good as I was going to get, although not perfect, but because of those kinds of miscommunications, it wasn’t going to happen.

It was 4 years since.