So depressing that this feels like an absurdly out of date joke of something from decades ago… but it’s not quite a whole year old, we’ve just had 30 years worth of scandals in this year alone.

I miss the days when 24 hour news networks were so desperate for scandals that they had to freak out over what kind of mustard the president asked for.

I think we should attempt the futurama strategy… what we need to do is put a whole lot of ICE in a big net, and drop them into the middle of the pacific ocean.

For me it’s kind of an honesty thing. The biggest thing is if they are lying to their customers there… also apparently lying about where it’s based (They are in Lithuania, which has manditory data retention laws), only using panama as a tax haven.

Bottom line is, it’s about trust… They have a history of lying about a lot of small things, which then makes me think twice before trusting them with bigger things.

I mean to me one of their huge red flags is their advertising. IE my big never using nord, was one of their commercials where basically it was voicing a guys vacuume, smart TV and Alexa, and vacume etc… talking about him behind his back. Which then the narrator is “Your devices are all talking about you behind your back, get nordvpn to protect yourself”.

That and many more were just blatent misrepresentation of what a VPN can and can’t do. (point being, in the real world… everythings running https or some level of encryption. If your devices are compiling information, it’s via their connection to their services. Of which a vpn isn’t going to do jack to protect you from.

Also a lot of shady things still within there, 2019 they had a major data breach, Many complaints on their service auto renewing.

you can get a summary of a lot of parts of it with https://windscribe.com/vpnmap

(site catalogs data breaches, complaints etc… with VPN services).

Yeah sorry I phrased that bad, I meant to be listing smaller browsers that are also chromium. Point I was going at was most all the niche browsers are also chromium based.

Big mystery to me, where the hell is opera getting so much money to shove in front of every youtube channel out there. It seems to be one of those things that every creator starts recomending at the same time… which automatically makes me cringe because, well obviously almost everything that has a huge influencer push, is complete garbage (air up, honey. nordvpn etc…)

I feel like googles just used it’s monopoly so strongly to make everything be chromium.

Looking at stats counter.

Chrome - 75.45, edge 9.55, safari 5.37, firefox 4.32, opera 2.13, brave 1.17.

so… in short of their listings, 88.9% are chrome based… safari being the largest non chrome based browser. Firefox being the only other one with enough userbase to even get on the list.

My only guess is that google’s made their services a big enough pain or enough favoratism that even microsoft decided they didn’t want to try and work around it.

To which I also have to note, how few browsers aren’t chromium… IE Brave, Vivaldi etc…

I’ve started using zen browser myself, but I find it kind of odd that there’s so few firefox based browsers… which is something that I’ve found kind of baffling… considering I haven’t really found any negatives in using zen for about a year… Google’s always been, a huge threat to preventing adblockers etc… for years, is it just a lack of ideas of what to add to firefox.

I don’t disagree on that… Especially the leaders. Schumer and Jeffries have proven again and again that they find progressives a bigger threat than republicans. However we have seen it is possible to get progressives past them and into power. Aside from violent revolution I don’t see anything else that represents a way forward.

Well we can fully agree, democrats are republican light. The bottom line is most democrats are opposed to rational policies like, removing ICE, DHS, Regulating AI etc… All politicians who are for any of those things, are democrats, no politicians who are for those things are republicans, and the system does not allow 3rd parties. Point is the only strategy within voting… is.

Primary all centrist/moderate democrats with someone that actually stands with the majority of people. Support those primary candidates as best as possible, and then vote for whoever the democratic nominee is, as I still would hold that the worse democrat is still currently better than the best republican.

I mean there’s 2 sides. Analog fails in more gradual forms. Digital obviously has the advantage of… replicating massively over large distances very quickly… IE your document could be backed up to a remote server as often as you save it. Versioning can exist so, you can have every change every update… differences between the file at 3:33 and 3:34 pm.

True on the gist that, a single corruption can’t hit a whole typed document usually, IE your 20th keystroke on a typewriter can’t randomly damage the first 19 characters.

I would say though digital excels in being able to be replicated, and versioned.

My thoughts exactly, what’s next “cigarettes are bad for your health, fossil fuels may have something to do with climate change”

I’ve been somewhat interested, I’ve heard very similar descriptions of it. Honestly the second game is one I’d really like to play, but I have no desire at all to play the completely unrelated game that you have to finish to get to it.

But all homophobes are secretly Lindsay Graham

Based on the looks of it… a forbes article rewritten in AI to be an affiliate link to be reused as an ad link for proton mail.

Or after… or in-between trump 1 and 2.

I mean to me honestly… I hate stories in MMOs. Because to me they seem to greatly hurt… well the MMO portion of the games.

IE the point of an MMO is, about meeting real people playing together etc…

Stories tend to lead to things that IMO harm them… first and foremost, quest chains, In the old days of ragnarok online, Everquest etc… You find people, you group together and kill things to level up. Generally speaking they usually had huge ranges that you could work together on… Often in the points of like 50-60 hours… you could take 5 days off, and when you come back join up with the same friends you ran with before you left.

Quest chains on the other hand… oh sorry I played for 30 minutes while you were having lunch, I’m on quest 6 of the chain… you’re only on 2 now… you’ll need to solo I guess.

In addition I don’t find quests immersive, under the raw concept that, MMOs can’t be immersive. The defining requirement of an MMO is… the world can’t change because thousands more people need to do exactly what you just did. I remember WoW used to drive me crazy because the NPC would be thanking you for killing all the werewolves in his garden, while you can see the werewolves respawned right behind him as he’s thanking you, and of course as you are walking out from killing the big bad of the region… you’re getting begged by people to come help them kill the same big bad.

I love MMOs… but I can’t help but feel like the desire for story… is drastically harmful to the whole concept of them. Because there’s 2 key problems… Most people can’t be the stand out legendary best guy… with thousands of players, and the world can’t change.

But yeah that being said I kind of looked at new world as a potential game to fit the itch that I’ve had for years… of an MMORPG that actually was group based, working together as a team like the old days… but amazon owning it basically made me say nope… and looks like that part alone was a good reason not to.

I mean… I have to say, civil war wise this is possibly worse.

Trumps initial claim of her was that she was weak and she didn’t have the support of her people. Obviously it’s BS… but look at it now.

Imagine being one of the Venezuelan people. Someone just kissed the ass of the guy who just kidnapped your former leader. Regardless of her capabilities… Everyone will know she took power, by overtly sucking up to the guy that’s been bombing their fishing boats, killed 80 people in the process of kidnapping their leader. No matter how you look at it I can’t imagine the people of Venezuela are going to see her as anything but having sold out their country.

Really currious what the overlap in really shitty politics and really shitty behaviors is. I mean obviously we’ve got the blatent shit at both ends like Gingrich, Trump, Sinema etc…

Clinton, kind of iffy on both ends there, I mean honestly he accomplished a lot of things republicans wanted but couldn’t have done… ripping up Glass-Steagall etc… His affairs could be looked at as far less, but I do have to point out the power dynamics are what should have been the bigger deal than they were. I haven’t heard much on how Weiner’s policies were, I don’t think I’ve heard much on his policies, only his too hard to stop laughing at misconduct.

Now now… political discourse, it’s not like one nation can just call out a bounty on another nations leader and assasinate or kidnap them without severe political consiquences… any nation dumb enough to set that precident would have no leg to stand on when another nation tries to do it to them right?

at one point there was talk of moving the pirate bay to The Principality of Sealand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand