Yep - I also really like Apocalyptica.

If you're willing to never do business with Amazon again, you can probably either chargeback the payment or threaten legal action; otherwise you're not getting that money back.

The bit about wanting to join the pararescuemen is interesting, at least, but in all honesty, I can think of only one reason why joining a western military might be "acceptable" as a necessary evil - it is the easiest way to get the training and combat experience that an armed revolution is going to require. Even then, I'd only consider it acceptable if going somewhere like Rojava weren't an option.

I mostly lurk, to be honest. Recently set up a tails stick, and I'm looking to see if I can get a vps set up for btc/xmr, just because it allows for greater anonymity for the doing of internet crimes.

Yeah; I suspected as much. No such thing as free money, after all. I recall the bitcoin vulnerability site was at least a little convincing, but I kept an eye on the "live chat", and saw a bunch of messages keep repeating, and reckoned that if they needed bitcoin for a transaction, they'd surely be able to take it out of the bitcoins they were planning to give me...

Ah well. I don't suppose there's anywhere on tor that isn't 90% scams and/or LEO bait?

It's almost like people are willing to pay for convenience, and platforms like Disney+ have made torrenting the more convenient option again...

At a guess, it's the lack of people who just download what they want and don't bother seeding.

I don't know how it works in the US, but here in the UK it's ridiculously easy to get an anonymous pay as you go sim card - there are so many cellular carriers that they will literally give sim cards away on the street. You can then get credit for that sim card with cash.

Again, I don't know how it works in the US; nor do I know if a US sim will necessarily work while you're in Canada without treating all your calls as international; but if it works similarly in the US to how it works here in the UK, it might be worth finding an excuse to cross the border.

If you get a pay as you go sim from someone else, and if you can buy top-up vouchers with cash, then the main thing I can see going wrong would be if (for whatever reason) the phone company actually decided to check on whoever got the sim for you, discovered that you'd got the sim illegally, and used the phone's signal to track you down (they can work out your distance from multiple cell towers based on signal strength, giving them a highly accurate location for you - even non-smart phones will do this, so where possible communicate with text messages and keep the phone turned off the rest of the time).

Shame it's been cancelled; Him proving himself wrong would be so fucking funny. Pity most other flatearthers wouldn't have believed him...

Personally, I'm of the opinion that anybody who can demonstrate to the rest of the community that they can be trusted with the responsibility that possessing weaponry brings should be allowed to possess whatever weaponry they consider appropriate. What that demonstration entails would be down to any given community, but ultimately I believe it should include basic principles of responsible firearm ownership (e.g. the safe storage of firearms and ammunition, if that's the kind of weaponry they intend to possess), target identification in a timed and stressful environment, and general proficiency with the weapon in question.

Before we get to that point, however, there's one thing that needs to be understood: we don't need to attempt to overthrow the state for the revolution to become violent. We can be entirely peaceful in our action, but eventually, if we're successful, we'll be seen as a threat and the state will use violence against us. We need to be able to defend ourselves against that.

Mostly, I tend to listen to albums, so I'll just go into a folder in shell and mplayer -loop 0 *. Still, this is pretty sweet - all the (useful) functionality of itunes with none of the apple guff.

Improved physical fitness also creates an imbalance of power, as does one person being physical disabled and the other not being, or one person having had boxing lessons and the other hasn't. In such situations, firearms can themselves be an equaliser. Firearms only create an imbalance of power when one side has them and the other does not.

The other thing to remember is that an anarchist society can only remain so for as long as it can defend itself from outside influences attempting to assert control over them, and that potential exists so long as any given society chooses not to disarm. Given that there is no way that you'd be able to get literally everybody on the planet to disarm without the use of force (which would necessarily require access to firearms), this would obviously be the case.

I use Linux - the tor browser used to update as a package, which made it a problem. I started using keepass before the self update was the default.

Still, my bookmarks are easily transferable in an encrypted keyfile, so if I need to change OS for whatever reason, I won't lose them all...

That would be my experience. Speaking a language when you're new to it is far easier with a pint or two of Dutch courage...

The GM section of Dungeon World. While I don't run every game the way it recommends, there are certain parts of it that I do use regularly (for example, having the players come up with certain aspects of the game world).

Personally, I use keepass. That way, I have a number of different, complex passwords that I don't need to remember, a single complex password that I do remember, and a list of bookmarks that doesn't disappear every time I update the tor browser.

However, not only do they have no intention of debating in good faith, attempting to do so legitimises them by implying that it is a perfectly valid standpoint to have. Frankly, as much as I detest violence, I do not believe there is an entirely non-violent solution to this problem. They cannot be allowed to organise - and make no mistake; that's what they're doing with their demonstrations and their presentations. They're recruiting.

I generally agree. That said, race does play a big role here - the bartender's colour doesn't matter in terms of how they're treated by their employers, but you bet your ass a white bartender will get better tips than a black one, and the way black kids are treated in some schools leads them to worse academic results, making them more likely to be working in low paid jobs in the first place...

I think we will, one way or another. Either we'll see it replaced, or we'll see it render our planet uninhabitable.

Not that I can see, unfortunately. Closest I can find is Panopticon, written in Rust. It doesn't create a pseudocode file for ease of reading, but it does create flow charts to make it easier to visualise flow control. Might make for a good basis to create something similar though.

Used pirated versions of Windows on pretty much all the computers I've owned until such time as I either got a free copy from university, or used Linux instead. Without that, I'd have never had the opportunity to learn programming.

Looks semi-decent. I'd probably never use it, since if I want to use a command-line utility it's probably quicker for me to just type it all out, but I can see how it'd be useful for making such utilities more useful for people more comfortable with GUI programs...