I’d say ethics aside, it’s inherently dangerous to pirate executable files… so there’s an argument to just not do it to avoid viruses.

I personally would never pirate an executable file for that reason alone. A lot of games have demos these days thankfully, so that’s a way to get a taste and see if it’s worth buying. And in my experience, I got bored of several demos and saved money! And some I realized I would probably really enjoy it.

Ethically though? I mean, if they offer a demo and they’re an indie studio, I think it’s much more ethical to try the demo.

“Claude, I fired all my journalists because you said I was a brilliant leader and could automate this myself. Now go send several agents across the Internet to find news to report.”

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Okay for their own sanity, I hope they knew they were protecting pedo assets from the start. It’d be a lot easier to shrug and says, “sure, I’ll exfiltrate the politician who may or may not be a pedo but that’s for American courts to decide” than it would be to think you’re being a hero and find out you werent told the truth

Imagine being told you’re on some dangerous mission in ally territory, some crazy black ops mission to defend a “US politician in danger”, and you’re not being told what the danger is, just that the UK might turn on them somehow.

So you and your little black ops squad are all riled up, being told you’re the best of the best, sent out to do some crazy black ops shit and defend Americans overseas.

You and your squad have some crazy tactical mission with the best gear, fly out of some helicopter off a carrier, grab the target, use non lethal as much as possible, swoop in bring him to safety, high fives all around and the American is saved, no lives lost.

Then later you hear he was just some pedo who almost got in trouble for being a fucking pedo

Imagine how those dudes would feel… You went from telling your family you do the crazy secret stuff to defend America that you can’t talk about, then your kids are growing up like “wait dad did you save that pedo? Weren’t you in UK at that time?”

Doctor, I have a clinical case of boredom and I need to be dusted

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That’s between me and your dad’s penis

All I’m hearing is that Kash Patel probably fucked an animal

For fucks sake they look the type so much

Isn’t that the crack head? He’s still in politics?

That’s how a lot of the government works though. It’s legal enough to change the way things work.

It’s one branch of government declaring a new way to enforce things from the very top. It always depends on people below actually following through.

Shit, even decriminalization is like that. A city can say, “we no longer want to prosecute people for marijuana” and they literally just tell cops to stop arresting people for it, whether it’s a federal crime or not. And the cops will stop arresting people for it… Usually… And if someone does get arrested for it, the district attorney will probably say “well we aren’t prosecuting for that so let him go”, and that’s that.

It’s similarly “legal”. Someone in power declares a way of doing things and people do it, to a certain extent.

There’s a supposed balance of powers that way. Legislators don’t get to decide 100% how things work. Other branches can make choices. Judges, mayors, governors, presidents.

And obviously, it can get abused, and nothing is stopping Trump from declaring that wearing green on Sunday is illegal, and if he did judges would probably just tell people to ignore that stupid shit.

Legal is a spectrum. It always depends on how it’s going to be enforced in practice, and how severe the penalties are, and how badly people want to do it.

Even then, they will like it as long as it makes tons of money and the owners keep buying off politicians.

End money in politics first.

Do younger generations really ingest as much YouTube/tiktok/ig influencer data as it sounds like? I feel like I just missed that phenomenon, with YouTube being a thing when I was leaving high school… I never got in the habit of watching YouTube like TV, but it sounds like so many others are addicted to that and short form content.

That’s a very political statement to make

Lol natural gas? What, do you like, hate America? We need diesel trucks transporting coal to burn on site

tell her to search google for her secret, then when she gets home, ask her friends

It’s always been that way. Prohibition is linked to organized crime and corruption. These substances don’t disappear. They just become a fuck load more expensive… And therefore lucrative.

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