You will be unable to download most things without DHT these days. If you use transmission, you can explicitly bind it to the local IP within your VPN, so it literally cannot leak info onto another network.

Not being super familiar with Chomsky because I never cared for him, but IS he even a leftist? Afaik his thing is about non-materialist individualism, which seems suspiciously neolib. In the modern post-neoliberal context, I think we can mostly all agree that individualism and socialism are in direct conflict, despite the economic liberation of socialism being required for individual economic freedom. In the feudal stage of capitalism we have returned to since the 90’s I would argue Chomsky, based on my limited knowledge, is actually a center-right neoliberal figure in the mold of a Habermas.

I hate the Linux Frankenstein audio stack sooooo much

People think as an actor you want to be the chiseled, handsome lead as a man, but dudes who look 50 for 50 years have it MADE.

There aren’t a ton of white 52yo grandmothers with current Western birth rates, so probably still just a hot mom, statistically.

What a dum dum

I’m starting to think the CEO going all “We OWN you, what are gonna do, LEAVE?” was a bad sign?

I mean, to be fair, the EU is pretty morally consistent about supporting a rainbow coalition of racists from Crimea and their lebensraum, whether they are Azovites in Ukraine or Ashkenazis in Israel.

I think Chomsky turning out to be part of the pedophile conspiracy Israel uses to control the West has called into question if Anarchism is simply libertarianism, but edgy, and part of the intelligence community’s efforts to control a “compatible left” ala Foucault and all the phenomenological academia the CIA is publicly known to be behind the success of.

The Germans love a good genocide. They’re just fans of the art and happy to help.

I would posit that it is actually important to have VPN exit nodes in Israel. The Israelis often try to hide their open evil by posting in Hebrew, adding a hoop to find out they’re as monstrous as they are. It’s quite possible in the future Hebrew sources will have two versions of everything – a real internal version talking about being the master race and exterminating all other races, and a sanitized version for foreign IPs. Access to Israeli IPs are the best way to out that when it happens.

Because I love the intelligent Trek that came before Kurtzman. The existence of Kurtzman Trek precludes better Trek from being produced. Millions of fans are being deprived to enrich this no talent asshat.

It’s not a reflection of if it’s great art, I doubt too many people have Do The Right Thing action figures (although that would be awesome) but a collapse in merch sales from real Trek to Kurtzman Trek is a direct reflection of a loss of audience and the failure to replace that audience with an adequately large new one to replace those sales numbers.

It doesn’t need to be high art, but Kurtzman Trek isn’t even Gossip Girl-level writing, it’s disastrous Gossip Girl reboot that got cancelled-level writing.

I believe I initially also chose merch sales, which have cratered via zero interest, because nobody likes this, but it terms of net views, a pre-Kurtzman series is going to beat any movie into the ground. I would wager most Kurtzman series have net underperformed Into Darkness (which was a SHIT movie and SHIT adaptation of Wrath of Khan, the best Star Trek movie)

I maintain that it is factually correct that the majority of prior Star Trek fans and overall humans don’t like Kurtzman Trek (as shown by the numbers) because it is poorly written, dumb, frantic, etc…

Not with inflation and I would argue Trek was never a movie brand. Trek movies range from passable to awful, and they only made the first Trek movie because Star Wars made all the idiot executives chase that as the “real money.” There was supposed to be a 70’s Trek series, but the movie led to it being picked apart and divided up between the movie and eventually TNG (fun fact, the bald lady from the first movie and Troy are based on the same character from the 70’s series that the movie killed). Nobody who is a trekkie is a trekkie because they just LOVED The Undiscovered Country, they’re in it for the series, even Kurtztrekkies.

The majority of pre-Kurtzman fans hate Kurtzman Trek and the new fans are a tiiiiny fraction of the fans lost. The final season of Enterprise that got it cancelled had higher ratings than ANYTHING Kurtzman Trek has produced, and merch sales are nonexistent. I have not decided alone. We are legion. We are the majority of Trek fans.

OS/2 Warp was a joy to use

Satire because Michael Burnham is such a universally beloved character? Discovery is a poorly written show with major tone problems and that mushroom engine crap was just SO stupid it burns. Kurtzman Trek is universally just BAD because the man has no talent.