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I do agree. But calling the UK Orwellian is kind of funny, given Orwell's 1984 is largely, if not mostly, based on the UK:

• Like Winston, Orwell worked in the UK as a war propagandist, and lamented that he constantly had to lie and censor facts, but thought it worth it to defeat the Nazis.
• The 'ministries' were entirely based on the UK's, especially e.g. the 'Ministry of Defense' actually being a ministry of war.
• Orwell complained that the UK secret police constantly opened all his letters because he was a commie.
• Room 101 and the Ministry of Truth is basically just satire of the BBC.

As well as cultural changes in the 80s-90s, I think people don't quite realise how much the internet 'escaped' the grasp of governments for the past few decades. By constantly banging the drum of "what about the children D:", governments are finally just catching up to where we used to be.

"you can look it up" provides no specific details.

It is true, the beetle is the Regimbartia attenuata. There's a paper on the idea of active escape post-predator-contact https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220308423

He has his own wikipedia page.

I mean sure, but it'll still likely leave 'em scratching their heads for a while before they go "I guess I just.. replace the semicolon..?"

Sadly, both countries in this war have long been using tons of illegal war munitions of many kinds, including chemical warfare. Utterly fucked. All war but class war is the worst shit ever.

Jesus christ

This behaviour is precisely why I stopped using Gmail. My account got locked one day - phone number and recovery email weren't "enough" to recover, all appeals rejected, that's it. Lost all my emails, all the stuff in my gdrive, just gone forever. There is literally no way to escalate other than doing a lawsuit. I make sure now to never have my data with a company that can just arbitrarily lock you out and completely ignore you.

We have strong evidence to the contrary. Cats only meow to humans, not to other cats. So they know we're fundamentally different.

I literally agreed that it is bad. We do not seem to disagree.

You can setup Windows 11 without a Microsoft account by hacking it so you can open command prompt and sneak past the screen.

I'm a power user and it took me ten minutes of googling, pressing random shortcuts and typing in long-ass scary commands. I'm assuming requiring an account is illegal here in the EU, but oh well.

Of course it's awful, but so long as a bourgeois class exists, they will pressure media, yes.

I'm not saying that the lawsuits aren't bad, just that it doesn't make this show any more 'important' or worthy of attention.

All the years we spent giving Israel billions of dollars of bombs and active military support, they promised they wouldn't do a genocide. We feel very betrayed, if only we'd known