Go to uBO’s dashboard, disable scripts, reload. Or just set browser to Reader Mode. Somehow, works over 75% of the time.

Implying? Nah, nah. Just describing History.

Like, come on. I’m a citizen of a country that the US literally coup’d.

I like them as well, in particular the former because it clears ambiguity better when used in a list; I just would like more if there was a oneword.

Oh, varied local interpretations, a pretty fair point. I wish most of them were more consistent tho.

I’m willing to excuse their faults. They mostly do it out of the consequences of colonialism and cultural appropriation. That’s just as much as saying they do it because of the barrel of a gun.

That said most proposals I’ve seen on the subject are… silly or unwirldy. I’m not gonna call people from the US “estadounidense” (looooong) or “USAmerican” (uppercases) unless they tell me they’re OK with it. I’d be fine with otherwise distinguising eg.: something like “American” vs “Américan”, since English has been fine with diacritics for a good while of centuries already (née, naïve, blasé, etc).

Do you have a good source on that? Every school book and college book I’ve ever checked, plus Encarta and Wikipedia, explicitly state that it is one continent.

America is the whole continent. You guys just fenced the worst part of it.

Everyone has already given their response so there’s nothing really to add other than, well, there’s lots of reasons to justify piracy. Most of them are even provided by the publishers / distributors themselves!

Also it’s weird to browse the top 10 responses or even below, and NOT see this xkcd posted or even linked. What is going on, Lemmy?

¿por qué no los dos?

It also somewhat says they know the new games are nowhere near as good as the good ol’ ones, which is one of the big reasons to pirate older stuff.

Wait, serving a legal notice can be made transitive to people not part of the legal system?

Like, I could just sue someone the other end of the country and then arrange things so that the notice is delegated to my landlord if (small if) they’re being a jerk?

Poor grandma, receiving a visit from the Yakuza for Xmas…

Shame on Nintendo. As per usual.

Well, on my phone that back in stock could only do up to Android 10, Lineage gives me Android 11 (maybe 12, haven’t checked) so it’s still a serious win.

Now, if you insist that I shall have an up-to-date device from the official manufacturer with all the bloatware, same planned obsolescence and zero control, or even worse a 4× overpriced Pixel, maybe you are so assured of this superiority that you’d be willing to fund it?

Security-wise you’re better off using whatever OS comes with your device

So, Android 9 / 10?

I’m sure not as heck going to spend zillions on a new phone (or a hard-to-find used one) when the one I have still works perfectly.

(IIRC) it’s even worse than stock because you can’t lock the bootloader after installation.

That’s a problem with the phone manufacturer, not with Lineage.

An used Pixel, assuming I can find one in my country, still costs four (4) times what I need to shell out for a in-market Lineage compatible phone.

Theoretical security is cute, but it has to be adjusted to practical feasibility. The most secure computer in the world is useless to you if you can’t boot it up.

Nothing too hypothetical nor an “insane” level of work. Didn’t Israel do just that with some beepers to blow up children?

that is not required to access the internet

Tell that to the 12345678x captchas and “unblock challenge” notices I get whenever I try to browse common sites on the internet!

I wouldn’t say it’d be “in their favor”. To be honest, I don’t think even the ruling class has a way to make this smply “go away” in the “make sure polices and judges do not pursue this case” sense, and even if they did that’d just spark more animosity towards them that they have this power (i mean, we know they do, it’s just now it’d be visible) and they’re using it.

Theoretically: no.

In practice, in the world we’re living in? Hell no.

Any attempt to prosecute the killer would simply add to the advantage the ruling class already have, and be basically an injustice by definition no matter how “by the book” could it have been approached in the otherwise wondrful and illusory world of theory.