The same people selling the clearnet will be the same people who will never let the existing stuff die, so they can sell the problems, the “solutions”, child-porn, and most stupidly, considering they seem to honestly believe they want to force this on the rest of us, to feel they are “above the law”, and not confined to the bounds of their own machinations.

I’m not convinced more than maybe 5 or 10% of people will ever actually use the clear-net, or even be able to afford to either. The same idiots trying to force it are populating their new “walled-garden for the rest of them” with, basically, AI spoofs of the rest of the population. They are already huffing their own farts the the point they won’t be able to tell the difference, like an artificial resurgence of The Bicameral Mind for “the ruling class”.

I mean, community-sourced is what I would want anyways, so …

IME, rentals had shit quality, unless you were one of the first few people to rent that movie. Still watchable, mind you, but the software for ripping back then would hang on the mildest errors.

My guess was that most of the high quality torrents back then were ripped by people who bought or stole New-in-box discs, or employees at stores that rented or sold them, and don’t forget Screeners.

It’s actually not that hard to figure-out which file in the torrent they give you is the one book you want, by which I mean, I don’t recall exactly how, but my dumb-ass figured it out and did it a few times.

If you didn’t know, you don’t have to download and seed every file in a given torrent. In fact, a lot of torrents seem “broken” because .nfo’s, .txt’s, Extras and/or Samples aren’t being seeded.

When Asahi started, the M1 chips were so good they might as well have been the only ARM-based-that-can-run-x86/x64-code-CPUs in-town. Last I checked, the M-series were still consistetly near the top of the stack of such chips, and look even better when you account for price.

Your argument works even better versus the Snapdragon X, but that’s Microsoft’s current fav, so … ?

Thanks for spelling-out the stupid for me. My brain was hung-up on the correct way to un-fuck logic I would rather not understand, for a moment. “Too stupid for words” came to mind, and the phrase just sorta … hung out, wasting time.

I’m happy with days when reality lets me pretend I’m gonna get to start, let alone complete, the thing. Perfection? What’s that?

Congress and Mexico not helping to kill or deport enough brown people from Central and South America? Kill them while they’re traversing Guatemala, or fishing peacefully in international waters!

I see you, fucking Nazi terrorists.

Shame on Guatemala. You don’t even share a border with Orange man!

Up-skirt photos are the one area where this gets me caught-up; Either a hypocrite or a shitty person. For the sake of consistency, I tend towards shittiness - the only real reason there’s anything like an expectation of privacy in public is so shitty (powerful)people can get-away with shitty things, when really, being in-public is being on-display.

Then there’s my stance on getting “caught” having sex on a park bench in a secluded forest by way of a trail-cam. I’m far from convinced that video evidence should count as evidence of an otherwise truly private, victemless, “crime” that otherwise wouldn’t be. We should only be jailing public officials caught-out in conflicts of interest/corruption like-so, and almost never the camera-man.

Instead, its the opposite. We are surprisingly far into all of this deep-fake and leaked-video shit for the average person to have any qualms about saying “whether that video is real or not is none of your business”, as if significant resources will be spent validating all but the highest-profile of images, but I get there are people who are generally embarassed and not just wrapped-up in their personal “sin” of having been portrayed or caught in a compromising position.

None of it upsets me so much as former strippers or adult film stars losing their jobs over shit that’s years-behind them, while genuine pedos escape notice for decades. I’ll say it again: society and the law are laser-focused on the wrong shit, and from the wrong-end of the turd at that.

Just a thought: politicians should not be allowed to use such apps. This right-to-privacy shit has gone too far, in the wrong direction, protecting ONLY the wrong people.

Just a thought: politicians should not be allowed to use such apps. This right-to-privacy shit has gone too far, in the wrong direction, protecting ONLY the wrong people.

“Encountered”? I was raised on that shit. I was bewildered the first time I encoundered a printed graphic sleeve, and learned that some people spent shelf space on tapes with only one movie each on them…

I mean, given that its based on specific teachers, the opt-out or in is going to have to be allowing the child to stay with the teacher the school assigned the child to, or request a transfer … unless magically trusting the researchers to scrub students faces. The biggest problem I see is the school acting like that last option is something that parents should even seriously consider.

You don’t have to be in the wreck to end-up “involved with” the wreck. Even if you’re not decent enough to stick-around to assist with the fall-out or give a witness-statement, there’s always the physical and time barrier of the wreck itself and the ensuing wait for emergency services, police, or even just a tow-truck.

Crazy to game on anything you trust with important data in general. Same for internet browsing-in-general though. Good Luck.

This is pretty much me. More or less with consoles as-well.

I mean, including Russia and China, its not so much “Western” as Northern, although the southern boundary varies. Then there’s the Nordic countries and Canada, but still, a continuous belt of imperialist states stradling the Northern hemisphere like a crown of semantic fuckery hiding behind “the international rule of law” and militaries with global reach.

… so they’ve started broadcasting reasons to doubt there have been any real attempts? I mean, reasons on the order of “no one asked and they should never tell”. I can smell one of his “genius ideas” they could not convince him not to act on from here.

It’s “parents” stole everyone’s work. The agency of AI-itself is still very much in-question.