• Lawsuit wins
• Lawyers get paid millions
• Customers affected get maybe $9, for lower than their data was sold for
• PayPal walks away with it as the price of doing business, no one involved is jailed.

"Biden's debate was due to a cold."

"Okay he needs more sleep, it was jet lag. It'll go away in a few days."

"So several democratic members of congress, nationwide democrats, and public agreement say Biden is unfit, but just wait until the news conference, they'll see. Biden himself wants to stay in, so we should believe him."

President Putin and Vice President Trump.

"...So all the media is bought out and on the side of Trump, don't believe anything you see by credited publications. It's fake news, boycott them. Boycott anyone who disagrees with us."

Seeing as he got free press from liberal and conservative media for saying the most stupid, racist, sexist, evil things, and even liberal late night host Jimmy Fallon let him talk his entire shit platform for free, because the "commentary" was trying to match his hands.

Meanwhile CNN intentionally left off Bernie from it's polling and voter counts, like how Fox News didn't talk about events that made Republicans look bad.

Why not be a fucking weirdo who says the dumbest things possible? You get free press, there's no such thing as bad publicity. When a child rapist can run for Senate from Alabama and have a good shot at winning, but saying "I don't think we should be bombing people, we should open dialogues and send food." is a moral outrage that means you hate America as a whole, why not be the worst possible person?

That is genuinely amazing, losing 60 ships to a country without an actually big navy. Invading Ukraine to have warm waters for your navy, and you still lose.

This is Russia's "don't invade Russia in winter". Don't launch a naval assault on Ukraine, apparently.

"Fine, if you're not going to vote Biden, at least vote down ballot. Primaries and local offices are the next wave of politicians."

[Funds into primaries to remove progressives from office, backs conservatives because of "electability".]

"Oh uh, sorry. By the way this is you, the pleb's fault, not the rich we gladly accept. Maybe next year we won't pull the football out of the way when someone pays us to?"

Discord communities, youtube for content I enjoy, lemmy, checking tumblr and mastodon.

I used to say that "Once I leave Reddit I'll have more time for my hobbies instead of looking at a screen about my hobbies" but I realized that:

• One website's existence doesn't solve or prevent a problem of my brain chemistry
• I already have a lot of hobbies and reddit introduced me to some, and most of those are offline.

I think the fact that Reddit imploded is good, it gave me an excuse to leave a site that I hated more than I enjoyed being part of it, for lots of reasons.

Cool! Now are we gonna get any laws to prohibit this national security threat? Maybe ban shady donations from billionaires both American and abroad? Because if we just ban Putin from donating directly, they can just make a shell company in New York and fund him.

We're going to get the laws put into place to stop this, right? Anything to stop Trump from getting into the office again?

Hope she finally fucking loses.

Literally 1984

If I have to edit in a terminal: micro

If I need to edit something larger, and want a GUI: Kate

Anything else I flirt with and then drop promptly once I can't find the time to really learn it.

god thats fresh comedy, you should go do stand up and put that in your tight five, well meme'd!

All that matters is if you trust your VPN. You can torrent on Windows with a good VPN, and you won't get caught. You don't need linux to torrent safely.

If you're worried about copyright notices, VPNs can help with that. If you're worried about viruses, most viruses aim for Windows systems, but you can avoid them by keeping an eye out. There's viruses for macOS and Linux, but due to the smaller scale of users, most people don't bother hosting them online.

If you're afraid your law enforcement is going to bust down your door, that isn't going to happen even if you torrent hundreds of movies and shows a month. They mainly crack down on the people who host the content, your ISP would probably end your service before you went to court.

That said, if you want a more "secure" operating system, Linux can help beyond tormenting. Fedora, Linux Mint, Debian, are all solid choices for your first time use. Just know there's going to be a learning curve, and if it gives you an error, read it carefully and search online, as others have had the issue before and are willing to help.