VPN ban risks pushback from their billionaire masters. Multinational corporations don’t want to deal with anything that could hurt profits.

Those child cages were real. They would attach to a window similar to AC units today.

Work VPN doesn’t look any different a porn VPN to the people tapping the line.

That’s because Europe sent us all their religious crazies right at the start.

Yeah, catholic school are generally better about teaching science than other denominations; especially the evangelicals.

I guess we know where ICP got their science education now.

They all end up costing roughly the same in the end. Enterprise is just more honest about it.

A government isn’t going to care about your files outside of using them as evidence against you.

If you want to back up anything important on someone else’s server (cloud), put it all into an encrypted blob. It’s not a bad idea to use them to put a copy of your files in a different physical location, but also don’t trust them any further than necessary.

It was probably just the first result on the image search of “beaver dam aerial shot.”

I believe that the only reason she didn’t share Epstein’s fate is that she gave over access to his stash of insurance blackmail.

Bitcoin may not be a scam per se, but its main usage is to facilitate scams. The biggest of which is being a market that speculators can manipulate to make the currency they actually want.

Iran has been next on the list for a while. John McCain even had a cute little song about it while campaigning. Though, I think Dick Cheney wanted to do Syria first.

If they leaned any further right, they’d have to start wearing orange makeup.

That’s a bit hyperbolic. Certainly a lot of big players in the financial industry would not exist anymore and a lot of rich people would have gone bankrupt, but for the majority of people, it would not have looked much different than doing nothing.

What should have happened is, instead of giving free money to the banks, the bad loans should have been paid off through a forgiveness program. That would have saved both the banks and regular people and wouldn’t have given the banks cover to make up fraudulent liens to steal people’s homes.

That’s only because they considered marriage implied consent. Statutory rape doesn’t consider consent since the victims cannot legally give it. So it only would apply to general rape laws.

Also, that hasn’t been true for more than 50 years. Every state has marital rape laws.

Yeah, the only reason we still have tracks most places is for freight.

Certainly there should be better search tools and personal curation on Steam. If you don’t want to see it you should be able to easily filter it.

Marriage doesn’t change age of consent.

I may have been a little kid in the '80s, but I don’t remember Jr High being an acceptable part of the general dating pool. I also don’t remember any major changes in the '90s to how acceptable relationships between adults and teenagers were.