You pirate content to save money and protest the excesses of capitalism.
I pirate content because I enjoy singing sea shanties with the mates while seeding torrents.
We are not the same.
You pirate content to save money and protest the excesses of capitalism.
I pirate content because I enjoy singing sea shanties with the mates while seeding torrents.
We are not the same.
“So, you said you’re auditing the class. Why are you so interested in learning German?”
“Uhh… memes. You can tell they’re fire, but I can’t read them.”
“You see, Ivan, you leave behind technical documents so hit enemy while distracted studying drones.”
The constraints of not committing theater-wide war crimes do slow you down, but it’s also nice to have souls and not be orcs.
And hit 3 Gorges at the same time. Peak NCD.
Fortify the gas pipeline in Sudzha, turn it off, and make the Russians send meat wave after meat wave to get it back. No artillery, no glide bombs. They can’t risk it.
The events of the last year have made it crystal clear to me that the lives of people from certain parts of the globe—not only from Sudan, but also from Gaza, Congo and so many other conflict zones of the Global South—are deemed entirely disposable. That the world will look back to Rwanda and say, ‘how could we let it happen?’ and yet stand by as it happens again, and again, and again.
It’s not that people in the West don’t care, necessarily; it’s that those with wealth and influence keep stories from the region out of the news, or at least sufficiently under-covered, that popular anger and a demand for action never materialize.
We are glad to welcome to the family our new bundle of joy, Fsixteen Fuckputin.
Yes, this will likely be the primary value of the Kursk offensive. Ukraine has been fighting with one hand tied behind its back because of Putin’s numerous red lines. Invading and holding Russian territory with impunity demonstrated that those red lines don’t exist. Putin either lacks the will or the internal support to back up his continuous threats of escalation with the West.