Recently added n° 3 to the list as well. Gotta say, anxiety and despair hit different when possible homelessness enters the mix.

I don’t know whether to fear or admire people who manage to thrive under these circumstances.

I expect this scenario to repeat several times in the coming months/years. Willing to bet the “clean” ones are all infected with mossad spyware as well. Using a VPN makes you a target rather than helping you stay anonymous nowadays.

Definition of shortstack lol.

The common people? Hardly. To them it really didn’t matter all that much as long as they were protected from war and famine.

But eventually that happened and they couldn’t ignore it anymore.

The elites of society will have been much more aware of the situation (and acted accordingly).

Yeah I think the Romans around 400 AD felt very much the same.

Holy shit, that’s Caligula levels of conceit. Next he’ll make his dog a fucking senator.

Not accurate. In reality the piss splashes down on the unwashed masses beneath.

UTP: “have a nice trip. DGAF if you actually arrive tho”.

Lots of sites also block access from known exit nodes. I think almost everything under cloudflare blocks it.

TLDR; notorious pedophile murderer Marc Dutroux claimed he actually worked for “certain people in the government” when procuring victims. It was never proven in court, but I’ll believe it.

They know what they’re doing. Their constituents may be stupid enough to believe it, but all those people at the top are completely aware of the grift they’re running.

I got a samsung phone last year with a 200 bucks rebate. You better believe I cashed that in right quick (“while supplies last”).

You know they’re just going to drown you in “civil matter” shit as soon as you try.

For every person like you that won’t take the shit, there are many more that will just give up. Just like unemployment and insurance claims - denial is the first step in protecting the bottom line.

This is the crucial part. Same reason many brands have shifted from giving discounts to “rebates”. You have to jump through a few hoops yourself to get it, it’s not automatic. And that immediately results in a decent % of customers simply not even bothering, which is exactly what manufacturers are banking on.

Not afaik. You either allow it or not. Doing so selectively would require a lot more knowledge than I have.

As a workaround however, running a VM and using your browser from within that would seem like a decent-ish way to obtain similar results with minimal effort. You can use the hypervisor to set whatever limits you require.

Lol I don’t even remember most of my previous handles. If amnesia isn’t a valid defense I’m never getting into the USA. Then again, I have no reason to visit shithole countries in the first place.

Distros, bistros, tomatoh, tomahto.