Also, this section (and only this section) of the course was being taught by a an openly trans instructor. It’s a conduit for conservatives to fuel more anti-trans and “war on religion” propaganda.

“Look, the radical trans agenda is trying to erase the bible! War on Christians! They’re coming for your religion! You’ll be in a prison camp for your beliefs soon!”

If there is one thing Christians enjoy, it’s pretending to be persecuted while persecuting others.

Yup. It’s crowdfunding the prosecution, by allowing anyone to bring civil lawsuits.

It also keeps it out of the criminal courts, because Texas specifically doesn’t want one state’s shield laws to try protecting someone from another state’s criminal prosecution. If that happens, the case would go straight to the SCOTUS because they have original jurisdiction in state-vs-state cases. And conservatives specifically don’t want a ruling like this to go in their favor, because it would open the floodgates for liberal states to criminally prosecute conservatives whenever they do something.

For instance, imagine California being able to prosecute an oil company for causing asthma because emissions blow across state lines. Being able to prosecute a gun manufacturer whenever a school shooting happens with weapons that were purchased legally in other states. Being able to prosecute a car manufacturer whenever a crash happens with an out-of-state driver. Texas specifically doesn’t want liberal states to be able to do this, so they want to avoid setting any kind of precedent with the SCOTUS.

Should rename it to system64 if you’re running a 64 bit operating system. Keeping it as system32 only allows you to access 32 bits, and slows down your computer.

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The problem is that these kinds of laws are becoming widespread. When they become the norm, simply VPN’ing to a different country won’t save you, because there won’t be any “safe” countries.

Shit like this is why I unironically considered spinning up a NSFW Jellyfin instance. At least if I save the degen content like a data hoarder, they can’t legislate away my access.

Like I wouldn’t mind even paying another 50 bucks a month extra for “private internet” just so the government can have their free and regulated “public internet”.

That’s basically how cable TV started. Over-the-air TV stations were ad-supported and public broadcast was largely supported by public funds. Cable TV got off the ground by marketing itself as a commercial-free way to watch.

And then once everyone had switched to cable, they went “hey, why don’t we introduce commercials anyways? I bet people will keep paying for our service if we just gatekeep the media that people have gotten hooked on…” And that’s exactly what happened. They pivoted away from the “commercial free TV” sales pitch, and moved towards “gatekeep media and force people to pay for it” model instead.

Sony is really anti consumer.

Throwback to when Sony intentionally packaged literal rootkits on their music CDs, so anyone who used the CD to play music had the rootkit automatically installed. And then when they were forced to make a rootkit remover, they simply installed more malware to hide any file names that matched the rootkit’s name. Which introduced an easy way for hackers to hide their own malware, by simply naming it the same as the rootkit.

Yup, glad someone else mentioned this. First world was allied with the USA. Second world was allied with the USSR. Third world wasn’t allied with either.

The reason “third world” became synonymous with “undeveloped” is because of why countries tended to be third world. Countries were largely third world because they weren’t developed enough to be notable allies to the USA or USSR. They didn’t have enough development to be able to contribute things like military tech or manpower outside of their own borders, or corruption was so rampant that the first and second worlds didn’t feel like they would be reliable.

As far as the USA and USSR were concerned, third world countries were only “useful” as land for staging proxy wars. But that meant “third world” quickly became associated with “undeveloped, corrupt, and war-torn.”

It’s more so privilege and/or status/wealth.

And position. Cops are called class traitors for a reason. Being a cop is one of the few ways that a common peasant can effectively be unbound by the law. They’re the rich’s enforcers in class warfare, so they’re protected from being bound by the rich’s laws.