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I wanted to look up how Snow White is doing in ratings, and I accidentally typed: "Snow Shite".... lol

So Vivaldi partnered up with Proton, and integrated their VPN in the browser. Not really something I normally feel the need to use, but I decided to give their free VPN a try since it's right there.

I'm not seeing an immediate speed impact, which is surprising considering I'm not paying anything, and a VPN inherently adds overhead. There's probably just a small amount of latency that isn't that noticeable while browsing.

I tried out Google Maps, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMap to see where they think I am now. Neither of them can get an exact location, but some pick a vague default location. Google thinks I'm somewhere in India for some reason. Bing thinks I'm in the Netherlands, which makes sense, cause that's the free server ProtonVPN assigned me to. OSM has simply no clue, and just opens up the map wherever I was last looking.

Found a small forum that apparently just hates VPNs. Otherwise... yeah, it does what it says.

I still don't get how the creators of Aang though Korra would be likable in any way.

But when the world needed him most, he turned into an annoying woman.

I'm gone for a day or two and notifications are full with crap. That should teach me a lesson. Not sure what, but...

We've seen that remakes of incredible classic movies turn up complete shit.
So what would happen if Hollywood were to remake old movies that were complete shit to begin with? What would happen if Adam Driver remakes The Room?

@alyx@gameliberty.club I don't know what discussion you've been through, but I feel the sentiment. As someone who lived my first 20 years under a soviet-inspired national socialism dictatorship, where kids at school wore military uniforms, and secret police can make you and your family disappear at night if you say one wrong thing, I find the discourse in the US absolutely ridiculous. All sides are escalating endlessly out of /fear/; they attribute the maximum emotional response to the smallest acts of their opposition, and use that to justify even bigger responses from their side, in a vicious, ridiculous, cycle.

It keeps going no matter what side has the power, and no matter what "$current_crisis" is. It feels like the entire society collectively has a severe case of "calibration out of wack" to what evil really looks like, so they think every resistance they face in getting what they want is "real evil". The entire country is having a continuous panic attack, and no one at the leadership level has the incentive to stop it, because if they try to stop the panic first, their opponents would "win". Heck, even the good old trick, of having your entire people focus on an external dangerous unifying enemy monster, doesn't seem to work anymore in the US. Maybe it was used one too many times and people grew a tolerance.

I have my suspicion, and fear, that democracy, anywhere and everywhere, will eventually implode unless making people intentionally anxious and afraid, for views or votes or power of any kind, fraudulently, becomes an outdated strategy that doesn't work from a game theory perspective. How that can be achieved, I don't know. Fear after all is one of the oldest and most powerful motivators of humans, to act together, since time immemorial.

There's one thing you NEVER get to lecture me on, and that's what a dictator looks like. If your country never experienced any of the authoritarian nightmares that branched from Marxism, yes including fascism, you don't have a right to debate me.

Raid Shadow Legends is Israeli?! Never heard about that. Now I regret not playing it.

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