I don’t think that anybody should have nuclear weapons. Do you support assassinating scientists?

Definitely recommend Soulseek. You’ll get higher-quality files, too.

Attacking civilians doesn’t automatically make it a genocide. If that were true, then pretty much every war ever was a genocide.

Why did the authoritarian regime wait until now to turn off the Internet?

Or it was just a weird network issue. A week is a long time, though.

Same on FireDragon with Garuda.

There are speech police in the real world. Workplaces don’t allow you to use slurs or to harass your co-workers. That’s just one example. In fact, any social group that I can think of will punish you for saying something. Some are more lenient than others, but every one has a line that you cannot cross.

No newsgroups? No IRC?

Tbf, having a central authority dictate the truth to you ain’t so great.

I don’t think the phrase “third-party fact checkers” (plural) implies a central authority.

Neither is having classes of people who you aren’t allowed to offend.

Facebook can’t stop you from offending people. What they can do is make it slightly more difficult by disallowing slurs, etc.

“I don’t care if I get dirt in my mouth, but I better not get it in my hair.”

I love Arch, but it is not for beginners. WiFi and Bluetooth are both sketchy. Or, at least, they used to be.

If they aren’t worried about dirt, I doubt that they’re gonna be worried about spit or piss.

Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.

Because they’re two completely different things.

Damn, the whole world really is going authoritarian.

This was the first thing I thought of, too. “Glad to see the guy from that Daft Punk video is having a pretty great life these days!”

Thanks to your comment, I found out that PCSX2 uses CHDs. I thought that was a format that only MAME used.

In the case of archive.org, why not just download directly from the website? I’ve never seen a need to use their torrents.

Donald Trump does not have “all the power”. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be acquiescing to the courts at all. It’s wild to me that you think that the US government would do a worse job of running SpaceX and Starlink than Elon Musk.

You’re treating it like simply replacing one CEO with another, but that isn’t what it would be. I know that Trump wants to be king, but he still isn’t.

I’ve got the feeling none of y’all read past the headline.

Yeah, let’s leave all that power in the hands of one narcissistic egomaniac who’s frequently going on ketamine benders. What could possibly go wrong?