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I think i agree for the most part.

These energies would be better spent ensuring that porn stars aren't being exploited and have access to appropriate support.

What? I'm here telling you that if you want to save lives, don't capitulate to the country killing everyone.

As any child knows, if you let a bully take your lunch money they're just going to come back tomorrow.

Syncthing. You don't need nextcloud.

You don't have to be at fault to be ashamed.

That's fair.

There's also a handful of users on other instances that love bashing the dems for not being left enough or something. These are just a few nutters, not really moderators pushing agendas.

Capitulating to an aggressor isn't going to save lives.

We have MAGA mods suppressing voter turnout?

Yeah volunteer mods almost always act like fief lords on any platform.

The type of person that would volunteer is precisely the type of person who shouldn't be a mod, usually.

I think there's a variety of complex legal, political, and technical reasons why torrent sites can avoid having their domain "seized", but I think the summary is: there be dragons here and it's not worth playing around with.

Politically, some jurisdictions define piracy differently and hosts won't comply with legal threats from the US.

Legally, hosting a torrent is not the same as hosting a ROM. In the former case the actual copyright works are hosted by users, the torrent site just hosts the torrent file which is a list of users from whom you can download the content. ROM sites tend to provide the actual file for download, which contravenes relevant copyright laws.

Technically, you don't need a commercial host platform to operate a website. It's entirely possible to host a site in your mum's basement on your laptop. Obviously for a large site you'll want more appropriate hardware but the point is larger torrent sites are likely to run on hardware maintained directly by the admins.

The most compelling reason not to get involved in a public facing grey area site like ROM or abandonware hosting, is that it doesn't really matter where you stand with the law - you won't have the resources to defend yourself. Suppose Nintendo decides they don't like you doing what you're doing. They have an army of sophisticated lawyers who have spent a lifetime learning how to weaponise the law. It doesn't really matter who's "right", all that matters is how much money you have with which to engage lawyers to defend yourself.

Yeah but... as an 80s kid my dream job was going to be one of those guys that ride around on the back of the truck. I remember my mum trying to talk me out of it because it would be hard work having to run to pick up the bins.

I also remember the day when the robotic arm truck showed up... I was genuinely disappointed.

It's a bit of a shit show in Australia.

Each city is responsible for it's own waste management. Mine has 3x channels: green waste for biodegradable anything, recyclables, and everything else.

The recyclables are a furphy though because, you can put anything plastic or paper in them, but ofc it's really only the PET plastic and the cardboard that actually gets recycled - the rest just goes to land fill.

We have a separate system for specific PET bottles vendors charge $0.10 per bottle, and you can return the bottles to a collection place to get that back.

We did have a separate system for soft plastics like plastic bags or whatever but that pretty much just wasn't viable.

Rant triggered: we've aparently stopped single use plastics like takeaway boxes, plastic bags, and plastic cuttlery, but IMO that's really just a fig leaf for companies that ship products in plastic packaging. It really shits me.

Additional rant: producers of plastic products like garbage bags have started this bullshit "ocean plastics" thing. They claim 50% or whatever of their bullshit bags are made from "ocean plastic" which they define as recycled plastic obtained from any community within 50km of the ocean (the vaaaast majority of Australians) which has no other plastic collection program. So basically... they charge city councils to disappear their plastic waste and then charge idiots to buy their "ocean plastic" garbage bags.

Actually I think they want to publish numbers about Australian Migrant Crime to stoke the same kind of divisive politics here in Australia.