end-users are rarely prosecuted or sued over piracy so idk why corporations wouldn’t get the same deal.

this is a big nothingburger if you wanna be honest.

piracy is much like drugs, where the occasional dealer gets nabbed if they’re too ostentatious but otherwise things just go on and on and on and on.

where does that come from though?

everyone in American movies and TV is a savant or aspiring to be one; they’re not just a hacker or a tailor–they’re the best at what they do!!! they have skills unseen even by the oldest gods. they can create a perfect dress in 20 minutes flat that’ll wow the most critical Vogue editorialists; They can hack into the most secure system in a matter of minutes!

lol @ pushing ethical consumerism in 2026. let me just shop at the place that isn’t actively trying to kill everyone!!!

that’ll make a real difference!!!

gen-z and alpha don’t know anything about computers.

frankly, i have no idea how anything is even maintained. it’s probably on the backs of millions of first and second-gen immigrants.

some of these dumbasses i work with can’t even navigate basic windows features–and these are college bound young adults.

you can do whatever you want–you just have to be willing to pay the price. even someone living check-to-check could go back to school if they were willing to work 20 hours a day and possibly live in their car.

…just at the hope of having a house in the suburbs lol.

here’s my perspective as an old man: unless you have enough money to NOT WORK for the rest of your life or are on the track to retire much earlier than 65, you don’t really have shit. at least nothing worth feeling superior about.

you do however have dreams and passions that could possibly be fulfilled despite your financial situation.

the person in the OPs story is just driven by justice and possibly revenge. but it’s not as big a deal if you frame it like that.

the windows operating system moves me at warp speed along the information superhighway. shouting out a belated ‘hi’ to any other travelers zooming past me in this vast frontier.

nobody ever says it like that.

we say talk about it in relation to culture and trends, which is more meaningful.

when i was born, in 1981, the civil rights movement wasn’t old enough to drink alcohol. yet when i grew up i had no awareness of this when i interacted with anyone who wasn’t white.

just like someone born in 2001 doesn’t understand life without smartphones.

nobody believed they were poor when that word had more meaning. back in the day poor meant shopping at the salvation army, and it meant driving a 20 year old datsun that wouldn’t start without spraying carburator fluid, and it meant flashing food stamps at the local grocery when a carton of eggs was 39 cents. poor people had to go up on the telephone pole to install cable TV back then, nowadays they can pirate entertainment.

nowadays a poor can still have 5k in credit and drive a BMW that came off the assembly line in the last 10 years. back then, a poor wouldn’t even have a color TV unless they inherited it from their uncle johnny.

the life of the poor hasn’t gotten better in real terms but their lifestyle is much better at projecting class inward and outward.

the difference is the level of freely available instruction. you can go on youtube nowadays and probably a find a guide to augmenting or hacking your preferred mmorpg in whatever language you prefer. you can find a tutorial on anything and everything.

back then if you wanted to learn how to code, you’d have to go to college or buy some dry $50 text called the C++ bible and try and make sense of it. online tutorials existed but mostly to teach the basics.

it’s wild to me that zoomers are so stupid when you can learn ANYTHING YOU WANT for free.

those aren’t encouraging numbers tbh.

half of the population hating you is a big deal. half of a state hating you, even montana, is a big deal.

a lot of that approval may have to do with cancel culture as well. people may be hesitant to share their real viewpoints even in supposedly safe environments.

if you’re a man, go out in public wearing pink sneakers and tell me you don’t feel the gaze of other humans.

this is why psychiatrists are useless most of the time–they’ve never experienced what you’re going through.

‘just have fun’ lol.

the entire reason you have anxiety is that you’re incapable of achieving that mindset. it takes A LOT of work to undo all those crossed wires.

this advice is like dumb shit in a hollywood movie, like when good will hunting is cured because he gets a hug and someone tells him that ‘it’s not your fault.’

tommy tuberville is making me laugh the most.

we’re really just living in a bad parody movie at this point.

the fact you have to declare this obvious truth tells you that america hasn’t changed much at all. we’re just shitty in different contexts.

hey, scientist here. i did an extensive study on ram prices that tracked the cost of ram between 2007 and 2026. this may not sound impressive, because all i had to do was look at the average price every year, but trust me, bro, it was difficult.

if you think your average american can read or use microsoft excel you got another thing coming.

that’s awesome. it only take 500,000 years to get there. i have hope we can achieve this by 2050 since there are so many geniuses heading major corporations. i have it on good authority that elon musk himself is currently working on cracking the mysteries of wormholes when he’s not posting on twitter.