That’s to be free of discrimination by the state, which usually will treat your obligations independently of your rights.

While private discrimination is always something in the grey area. By private discrimination I mean both a banner saying “<any grouping at all> are not welcome here” and having face control (something quite normal for night clubs, and you’ll also pick your tenants if you rent out).

The whole idea of some things being protected and some not is very wrong. Rights should be a wildcard. That’s the right of private discrimination as ancaps see it.

Not even necessarily a cross. Arevakhach and borjgali are also technically swastikas (one is literally called a cross, though, but it’s not).

Living in Russia, I have mixed feelings about this slow controlled collapse TBF.

For Russia itself, maybe things being over after a couple of months (or years) of civil war starting in 1999 would be better.

But for everybody else, of course, there are bigger risks associated with that. Not really something nuclear even, just economically less pleasant.

I mean, collapse of Russia is something very much expected in Russia by many people since 1993.

What makes it less expected is that it hasn’t happened in 30 years, though.

Why would it be funny?

Having a plan for an unlikely event is not funny if having such a plan is your job. There are plenty of people who should do exactly that.

Because not having a plan for an unlikely event that bloody happens is, eh, negatively funny.

As others have said, lack of privacy is what makes BitTorrent not the best tool.

Other things may be inconvenient (like good old XDCC or using Google Disk for piracy), or “invisible Joe” (like ed2k, gnutella and Usenet, due to all of these just not being sufficiently monitored by law enforcement or neighbors interested in your porn taste) cases.

And Freenet, I2P (with iMule and what else there is, there was some sharing thing similar to ed2k in experience), RetroShare are not sufficiently popular.

In general good things are not popular.

My point is, let’s wait for Locutus and whether it succeeds in transforming the Web.

That’s why they should make becoming an ISP something much more achievable legally, and not try to pay existing ISPs for something “universal”. Then the problem is going to be solved really quick, almost as quick as laying cables.

Supply and demand are real, because they provide motivation for both sides, the consumer and the provider. Not the case with such bills.

I know this feels like mockery from a person with GPON to the door, but people like you still existing may be the reason the Web hasn’t gone completely apeshit in bandwidth usage.

Just a different walled garden.

My Russian friends are all in VK, my Russian relatives are all in Telegram, my Armenian relatives are all in Facebook Messenger, and my American relatives are all in WhatsApp and Skype.

I’m so tired of this shit TBF. Is it so hard to just install Conversations once for Android and whatever for iOS?

I mean, that’s the way trademark laws in theory should work. Who got there first gets the logo. And the other side gets Jobs’ mummified dick with some salt.

Humans need some meat in their ration, and lab grown replacements etc are now too expensive for most of the planet.

However, “some” doesn’t mean a burger or two every day, so yes, there’s space for improvement. Meat is really expensive in terms of carbon emissions.

Frankly I’m not sure how one would notably reduce emissions of anything without actual control (like by force) over most of the world, where green stuff is less relevant than hunger and illiteracy.

But maybe it’s best that USA and EU and similar developed countries don’t have that control. I mean, green energy etc sometimes seem more important than actual lives being saved for many.