lmao the impending recession is going to be fucking biblical.

lol not really. Not a single piracy measure I’ve ever come across was anything more than a 3-5 minute Google fix away.

Pretty weird that you were “blown away by China” then…

You’re clearly under the impression that this is something which has happened recently. And it’s not. Which is really weird because I at no point in time said anything about this being a recent thing. That’s your own bias and you’re making yourself look like a douche because you’re piling up your assumptions with each post…“oh, he must not talk to actual Chinese!” “oh, he must be one of these TikToker’s!” “oh, I bet he’s never even been to China!”

Clearly it’s a wide and diverse country. Your pessimism singularly indicates that you gravitate towards the negative–not that China is in a bad spot, but that you’re only choosing to see the bad…

So you’ve been in the last few months since you learned these great things? Or was it before Covid, when people were physically caged into their apartments?

I married a Chinese national and spend a month or two in China every year since.

Look man. You need to fucking stop. You look like an absolute douchebag.

“I was playing heroines, but in real life I wasn’t earning a living,” said Shibata, now 60. These days, she also works as a home organizer, helping people de-clutter. “Voice acting as a profession just doesn’t pay,” she said.

Disgusting.

While democracy burns, democrats do absolute dick.

Can’t you just vpn to another vpn ?

Won’t even have to. Just use any VPN provider outside of Italy that doesn’t have to comply with Italian law. lol.

I’ve been pirating a long time. Not once have I been inconvenienced by any anti-Piracy measure. There’s always another way around.

Have you uh… actually been to China?

Yes. Almost a dozen times.

Or talked to anyone from China (in real life)?

Yes.

Without fail, anyone with the means is actively trying to leave.

Have you thought about why? Ask them to describe the US. They’ve been told an astonishing amount of propaganda about the US that is all incredibly untrue. I’m telling you. Actually talk to these people that you’re “in contact” with about how they view the US. They believe that every US Citizen is a millionaire. They think we have good healthcare. They think we all live in great houses. They think we all work a few hours a week and get paid a lot for it… It’s never ending. So I mean, yeah. If you get told there are places like that in the world of course you would want to leave your home country.

I’ve come to notice that the rest of the world is already beginning to leave us behind. The realization came with the TikTok ban. Soon as I heard that TikTok could be banned, I started looking for alternatives because I was pretty sure it was going to happen. I stumbled upon XHS by accident and about a month before everyone else. I was absolutely fucking blown away by China. It’s unlike we’ve been told in almost all respects…

I really came to realize that other countries are leaving us in their dust and it’s only a matter of time before we’re not the Apex predator anymore, and frankly I can hardly blame them.

The FBI defines terrorism as the unlawful use of force and violence against people or property to intimidate or coerce a government or civilian population.

Simply using force and violence against people to intimidate with no other purpose or objective is the legal definition of terrorism…

They’re terrorists…

They murder, cheat, steal, traffick, kidnap, extort, and do whatever else they have to do to “just make money.”

lol ok.

we stole this AI model because it’s cheap and works great and we totally “took out all the bad stuff.” Come buy API tokens. lelz.

I quite literally don’t have the mental fortitude to fight with your incompetence. It absolutely amazes me that we live in a day and a time when people like you don’t understand what renaming something is. It makes me want to fucking cry–how we could have fallen so far as a civilization…

See my analogy about the school principal. I pray you’re smart enough to connect the dots, but I’m not holding out hope.

I can’t find reference to this, and Google’s saying that it’s their choice here:

Of course it’s their choice. In the same way that it’s your choice whether or not to pay taxes. That doesn’t mean there’s no consequences if you don’t.

A country can specify use of an official name internally.

Which is not renaming. That’s not what that word means.

But a leader could tell the government that he runs to use it.

Yes, this is exactly what I’ve said. Trump spent tens of millions telling his own Government to change the designation of a location that we don’t own, and people suck his dick like he did something amazing. He quite literally wasted everyone’s time and money for nothing.

Even in the US, private organizations are not legally-required to call it “Gulf of America”.

This is incorrect. Google, a private organization is legally required to call it the Gulf of America because they’re a defense contractor.

It’s not that unusual for names to differ across countries.

This isn’t a difference in language. It’s been called the Gulf of Mexico globally since 1550. So for 475 years every single country in the world has called it by its proper name, and now, for no reason whatsoever, we call it something different. The sheer ignorance and stupidity of it is positively baffling–most of all because people pretend like it’s not a big deal.

This is why I hate you people. Like truly hate you. Because you’re so incredibly fucking stupid. Trump didn’t even rename the damn thing. Not only does he not have that power, but it’s not an asset owned by the US. But even if we did own it, he still couldn’t do it. What he did was change US official policy to reflect that the Gulf of Mexico should now federally be referred to as the Gulf of America.

You don’t even understand what it is that he did. It’s tantamount to getting a phone call by your kids Principal saying “hey, I renamed your kid to Samantha” and you being like “well, that’s not legal… why are you so goddamn stupid?” and people being like “LOL THE PRINCIPAL ALREADY RENAMED HER, YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH REALITY! TEEE HEE!” when in “reality” the only thing the Principal did was update your kids name in the schools computer software because it’s not possible for someone to rename shit that they don’t own…

That’s not even a statement I can respond to

Yeah. I figured you couldn’t.

You just showed proof that Trump provided lower gas prices than other presidents.

I even specifically took the time to tell you how to read the chart, and it’s blatantly obvious that you not only didn’t read me telling you that higher numbers are better for the ratios, but you don’t understand it, either.

Intelligence is trying to catch you, but you’re just too damn fast, aren’t you?

Reminds me of the ‘gulf of America.’ No, it’s not an egomaniac move. Changing the water nationality changes the tax rate on oil aka gas prices. Trump has historically maintained favor with gas prices.

You completely lost me.

1. Trump cannot rename the Gulf of Mexico. It’s not land that the US owns. It’s international waters.
2. The “nationality” didn’t change. So your little tirade about taxes is not only supreme bullshit, but it’s not even in the same universe as correct.
3. Trump has historically had higher gas prices than almost any other President.

The proof is in the pudding;

The price of gasoline means absolute dick at the end of the day. The ratio of median household income to the price of gasoline is what’s important. The closer to 0 = more expensive. These numbers are skewed by 1 year and stop in 2024, unfortunately. So that means that COVID is showing during 2021 of Biden’s Presidency. But if you take Biden out to account for COVID you’ll see that the only other President, during which the price of fuel was extremely expensive, was Bush 2 and that’s because we went to War in Iraq which is reflected in Obama’s term…

There’s absolutely zero validity to your statement whatsoever.

That’s not how that works. Kroger is reasonably responsible now for ensuring that their suppliers aren’t run by cartels. If they don’t do due diligence, they can get into legal trouble now.

Quite literally the only thing Trump has ever done that I’m okay with.

Like, vegan “nothing with a face!” ethically? No. Absolutely not.

Vegetarian “I eat eggs and dairy?” Sure.

I said it renames the part the US controls

Okay, and yet again (and for the last time) this is incorrect. It doesn’t rename anything.