or let ignorant people post YOUR image to FB

Yeah … good luck with that.

Sure. Old stock of burnable DVDs are literally a dime a dozen these days. I see whole spindles of them for sale at thrift shops for practically nothing. And each one is 4.7GB.

it’s looking like texas’s gerrymander is already blowing up in their face as trump’s latino gains have been all but lost

Yep. It looks like the GOP forgot: the harder you gerrymander, the thinner your margins get in the ‘winning’ districts. Then, even a slight change in public attitudes or voter turnout compared to what you predicted, and you could suddenly be losing in basically every district.

And the brutality of ICE is definitely enough to swing public attitudes, especially among the Latino population. It’s very possible that this gerrymandering could blow up in their face massively and make them lose nearly every district.

The person you replied to thinks their shopping list is somehow immune to advertising

Yep. They only buy things on their list, okay.

So which brand of that thing are you going to buy? The one you recognize most and are most familiar with, maybe?

For long-term archival purposes, DVDs are much more affordable per GB.

Setting up even a simplified BD release takes tons of money

You’re triggering my Cyberpunk PTSD…

Making your IP available to purchase somewhere, somehow should be a requirement for maintaining copyright and trademark protection. Use it or lose it.

Can’t claim you’re losing money from lost sales if you’re not even attempting to sell it in the first place!

(Needs to be a bit more thought out than my half-baked plan, though. Because, otherwise, every IP owner who wants to park something without offering it for sale will put it up for sale in some obscure place at an extremely high price, just to technically qualify and preserve their copyright.)

This is why you become a data hoarder and save all the original versions on your own local storage.

I have no idea why anyone left the high seas in the first place.

I’ve noticed lately that my GPU fans turn on and my power usage spikes when I turn my monitor off. Only when I turn my monitor off. Weird GPU driver glitch, or have I gotten infected with a very sneaky crypto miner from one of those pirated games…? It’s sus. Very sus.

Time to dust off ye olde DVD burner…

It’s cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.

Great. So now Facebook can become a literal ghost town.

I wonder how advertisers paying for ads on Facebook feel about paying to advertise to dead people?

Obviously, the only real option is for every human on earth to go back to Africa and leave the rest of the world to the animals.

If we turn violent the “nonpolitical folk” will be able to keep their heads in the sand longer

That’s just it, though. It doesn’t have to be us that turns violent. It just has to look like us. And these fascists are very much willing and capable of doing false flag operations to ‘justify’ everything they want to do. They’ll plant some of their people in the crowd, commit violence, and then flood the media with endlessly repeated pictures and video of that violence. (Or they’ll make some bullshit AI video of ‘leftist violence’ and skip the extra steps.) And the “nonpolitical folk” you’re trying to court will eat that shit up, breakfast lunch and dinner, without the slightest hint of critical thought.

You can complain about ‘ceding them the power’ all you want … but they already do have the power to do this. And they’ll do it. Guaranteed.

But that’s okay. The struggle isn’t over when they declare martial law and enact their brutal crackdowns. That’s when the real struggle begins.

If they don’t get the riot they want, they’ll just stage one with paid actors and instigators planted in the crowd. Or they’ll just skip the whole thing and post some AI bullshit as ‘proof’ of the riots.

Remaining peaceful at all costs gains us nothing.

What about people with mixed ancestry?

(And … watch out there. You’re awfully close to some ‘blood and soil’ shit there. It should be a bit of a red flag there that you just agreed with the fascists about deporting people of African descent.)

the objective numbers and actions show that there are more good people out there than bad

However, you can pretty easily get into situations where the ‘good people’ stand by and do nothing, allowing the bad people to do very bad things.

Going back to the OG example, even at the height of the Nazi regime’s power, only about 30% of Germans were actually Nazis. But when the majority of ‘good people’ don’t stop them, that’s more than enough for them to exert absolute control over a country and commit horrible atrocities.

They want you to think that isn’t the case so you give up.

Well, going by historical examples, that fucking works.

Somehow I landed on “Borders are violence”? That wasn’t even on the wheel!

When you want to do GPU processing for AI, crypto, video editing, etc, though, this gets reversed.

Getting Cuda working on Linux with an nvidia card is relatively painless. Just a few well-documented commands, worked on the first try.

I could never get AMD’s equivalent to work on Linux, though, and it led me down a horrible rabbit-hole of trying a dozen different driver versions from a dozen different places, all with their own unique and quirky ways of installing… And it still never did work.

They really do like to penalize people for caring about their privacy, don’t they?