I'm just here to say I appreciate your insight.

I have family members who are doctors and they generally agree that the worst patients are physically/verbally abusive ones. Apart from that, they complain a lot about patients who don't follow their advice and then get angry when they don't get better.

I really liked Bastion.

IMO, yes. Just for the consistency of quality and absence of fuckery. Damn near any TV show/movie/documentary is on there in at least 1080p, usually in 4K for newer stuff. For music I use SoulSeek and for eBooks I use LibGen.

Private tracker I've been using for like 17 years still works.

I find a good quote about the kind of relationship we have (friendship, family, dating) that will make them all misty eyed, then I sign it and say something somewhat personal about our relationship. Cards are like the one social thing I'm apparently good at.

Also it helps to put birthdays in your online calendar and include an email reminder a week before their birthday.

Edit: Throw a small printed photo in for good measure, people LOVE stuff like that. Just make sure the picture is special and bonus points if it's something they completely forgot about.

King Charles should really shut the fuck up and pay what his grifter family owes to POC around the world. Guy cannot die soon enough.

I just got The Art of the Matrix in the mail the other day. I was/still am obsessed with this movie/series.

I'm glad I'm so past the point of even trying to explain the hypocrisy to people that still give assholes like this the benefit of the doubt. Remember when the Hyperloop came out and so many people insisted it was the way of the future? 🙄

Hated this greasy garbage as a kid

Also how is durovs arrest can be justified by saying “telegram aint e2ee”?

No one here has said or implied that.

I think the distinction here is that if your phone provider, WhatsApp, Signal or mail carrier is informed that someone is engaging in illegal activity using their service, these entities would comply and give the information they have on you-- be it a lot like SMS or a little like Signal (phone number, registration date).

In the case of Telegram, they've been informed countless times that specific individuals are engaging in blatantly illegal activity and unlike the previously mentioned entities, Telegram is refusing to comply with any legal requests.

I believe that's the situation but if I'm wrong, by all means correct me because this is a very interesting subject.

I use a VPN 24/7 and I haven't had any issues with Lemmy for posting/commenting. I know reddit fully blocks my VPN with some IP addresses unless I use old.reddit, which is part of why I've just had it and left.

Way more than 50%. I'd say closer to 90%. In countries like Norway they have far more COs per inmate and it generally works out better for everyone, although that's only one small reason why. That place gets it right when it comes to prison in ways inmates in N. America could only dream of.

Please, COs break protocol on a daily basis. They just don't leak shit so much to the public. Instead, they do stuff like take highly inappropriate photos of inmates and share them in their little group chats.

This is just toxic shit.

I guarantee you he was offered little to no transitional support when he left prison, which plays a reason why a lot of people don't finish the degrees they worked on in prison. Trash system and then supporters of it have the nerve to blame incarcerated people for not magically improving their lives like [exception to the rule].

Weirdly enough, this quote is hilariously accurate if you consider COs to be IRL dementors.

From the wiki:

"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them... Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you."

Replace "Dementors" with "Corrections officers" and I bet most people who've been to prison would say that's an accurate statement.

The only thing that sucks about this Michael Scott scene is that very few people remember the reference :( Prison Mike is fucking hilarious

Keep telling yourself that.

Funny how Christian conservatives in the west still insist they share nothing in common with Muslim fundamentalists...