A homeless person is without the mental structure to build something lasting, or else they would not be homeless or would identify differently, e.g. as a traveler.

You're a truly disgusting ghoul

I think the profit motive isn't the best at producing good quality artistic content; and I think people would still produce it without such a motive.

Mind you on paper I wouldn't even be against paying for a good movie, for example. But I want a .mp4 in x265, with subs, that I can store on my NAS and read with whatever open source software I want to use. None of the legal platforms offer that - piracy literally offers a better service, universally

Same goes for video games: I want a native binary that I can install, that does not phone home at all, and does not have DRM or require a launcher. Only a minute minority of games, even on gog, match those

this would result in shit movies being produced that no one likes

I think that has already happened to be honest

Same. Up to and including putting himself prominently between the keyboard and the screen if I ignore him, and lying down on the keyboard

Well, my friend, he's kinda poor he can't afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates.

Good on your friend. Poor or not, you should too.

Do you pirate?

Yes

And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Justify it ? you seem to suggest it's wrong or something

🎵 Meatwad makes the money see

Meatwad defends his trans homies

Drivin' in my car, livin' like a star

Ice on my fingers and I'm shooting all the TERFs 🎵

What "political posts" from "normies" are bothering you exactly ?

Are you talking about perplexity.ai ? because it looks like a shitty LLM answering questions instead of an actual search engine. It looks absolutely atrocious privacy-wise, too.

Crassus invented the fire brigade

Didn't he routinely order his brigade to do nothing until he managed to acquire the burning property (at increasingly decreased cost as the fire raged) from its owner ?

This is not a religious garment (not that it'd matter if it was IMO, it's hardly obnoxious); this is a cultural one, mostly (even that is pushing it, a lot of them look basically indistinguishable from the basic dress).

Let people wear what they want

literally lmao

Like the school year started three days ago here in and there have now been several examples of "abaya" dresses being stopped despite not "being abayas"; and the reverse as well (and of course there would be; they're fucking casual dresses, I'm fairly certain you'd get a different answer on whether one is or isn't even from fucking textile experts or something). Often with the deciding factor being the color of the skin of the person wearing it.

The whole thing is a racist trip; along with a sadly common recurrent theme in french politics to divert the national attention when other shit is going on

The latter - downloading the windows cracked version and yeah, wine or proton. It works beautifully.

That's when there is no native linux version obviously; these days you can also find pirate versions of those when they exist (most notably on rutracker).

I think there is one person putting out repacks especially made for Linux mind you (~~can't remember their name though~~ found it, it's johncena141), including specific wine versions and so on in the repack, though I've never used them

The infinite refund window offered by piracy also works, mind you

Also sometimes due to DRM/launcher shit the pirate version actually works much easier on wine/proton. I've downloaded cracked versions of games I actually bought in the past due to this