Looks like the good old “Didn’t took a right at the crossroads and continued forward instead and then kept on insisting ‘I know the way’” driving problem.

Lebensraum

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I think we have some competition against Kissinger for the top of “Dead Evil Americans” rankings.

Not the previous poster, but personally I prefer that the application I use to organize my games collection and launch games is store independent, so something like Lutris or Heroic Launcher.

The independent launchers actually integrate with multiple stores, don’t constantly shove adverts under your nose, aren’t designed to try and make you buy more stuff or be tied as much as possible to a store and, at least in my experience of using Lutris and Steam side by side, tend to be way more flexible in terms of configuration around and use of your games (for example, I can launch my games in Lutris sandboxed with networking disabled using with something like Firejail, which I can’t with Steam).

Frankly, even only the first of those things - integrating with multiple stores, thus supporting my entire games collection - would be enough for me to favor independent games launchers.

So libraries have turned in to dens of Hookers & Blow?!

It’s a great way of doing something that was already done a thousand times and which will never need to be supported or improved on.

The very opposite of the kind of software that’s either need in a company large enough to need in-house development or whose business model is software products or services.

I’ve lived in a couple of countries in Europe, including The Netherlands.

The Netherlands is extremely Neoliberal and has been for decades now - politicians there would NEVER have the government own more stuff, no matter how much good that could do for the population in general.

The entire system is setup to amplify the power of Money and the single biggest form of Discrimination out there as measured by the Hurt and Harm it causes is Wealth Discrimination.

This shit is not an unexpected flaw of this system, it’s a desired feature by those who have been shaping it over the years.

Yeah, I used almost exactly the last method you described.

It’s the same kind of advice that used to float in the Tech Startup world before it became dominated by money men and frauds: the best project is one that scratches an itch you have.

If you’re to the left of Kissinger, you’re a “leftist” to the kind of people who think secret shadowban lists which are dynamically fetched from an external server are a good thing.

Name fits!

Judging by their push for things like Civil Society Surveillance and making Money and those who have most of it be a higher Power than a state controlled by democratically elected representatives (i.e. to turn Democracy into Oligarchy), I would say it’s actually Fascism-adjacent.

It’s not paranoia when somebody was, in fact, watching you.

It’s a way much bigger PITA to do it in Windows than in Linux.

I had to fetch the damn original list from their server, then (on my frigging Windows work PC) BASE64 decode it and gunzip it (something stupidly simple on Linux, less so on Windows).

On the upside I did get the warm feeling of finding my nick on the list.

Thank you.

Also thanks for mentioning NymVPN - it looks an interesting replacement for Mullvad.

Two points:

• Danegeld refers to paying the Vikings not to raid your lands, something that has nothing to do with Colonization
• Groups of have been invading other groups of people’s land and taking their shit long before Europe had enough technological dominance for it’s nations to do it to other people outside Europe.

Tribalism and all the shit that comes with it (including the whole “steal from and kill the other tribe for the good of your own tribe”) is way older than “Europe” as a collection of nations and seems to be and inherent human trait.

American style “liberalism” (aka Neoliberalism) is exactly the opposite of that:

• Everything must be behind a money-gate (everything must be private, nothing public) and only if you have enough money can you pass such a gate
• Unless you’re born on the right side of the gate or from parents with enough money, you can only get the money to pass most money-gates (even just the ones for food and for shelter) by working for the people with enough money to pass ownership-of-means-of-production & land-ownership money-gates.

It’s a structure to heavilly reduce freedom in the most important aspects of one’s life including things necessary for survival (like food and shelter), not to increase it, so it’s the very opposite of increasing Liberty or Freedom.

I reckon that’s the kind of “Liberalism” (which is the only one with political power anywhere in the World at the moment as far as I can tell, since there sure aren’t any politicians in power anywhere which both claim to be Liberal and are against core liberty-reducing legislation such as Private Land Ownership) that the previous poster is talking about.

Mainstream politicians out there who call themselves “Liberal” are 100% liars and frauds.