That makes sense for your use case. My use case is that I don’t want my YT watching habits being scooped up if I can help it. At one point I might not have cared too much about things like YT, but under the current administration I have a lot more reservations about that.
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2·6 months agoAre there any alternatives?
Good to know. I was using FreeTube on a Linux machine I have set up to do most of my Youtube watching, but I had to disable VPN. I got tired of trying different countries and just turned off VPN. I’ll try Swedish servers…
Is that an option on Mac or Linux?
Thanks. It seems maybe Italy works for the moment anyway.
Do you know of a working exit country/location? I’ve tried a few different locations with no dice, but if I know there is one that works for someone else, I’ll certainly try that.
I’m using Private Internet Access. It’s weird, because as soon as I turn it on, FreeTube fails to play anything.
I’m not understanding why it doesn’t work when I turn on my VPN, though. Is there a way to watch Youtube and have the VPN on?
21·10 months agoWhat’s bizarre is that I see both the right AND the left doing this kind of thing when it comes to blaming Democrats…
Sigh.
The history of the War on Some Drugs has been terrible. People like Leary who had a 10 year sentence for…possession of two roaches. And that was a relatively wealthy white guy…
Has “doge” eliminated FEMA yet?
I seem to recall how much the radical right thought that offering “helicopter rides” to people they deemed their enemies was the very height of comedy. They even wore t-shirts. I wonder if they think it’s just as hilarious in the case of actual enemies of the state.
The assholes in charge are going to work as hard and as fast as possible to re-write that history. They keep saying that have a small window to “fix” the national debt and that is their excuse for much of this bullshit.
What they really want to do is to radically remake America. Very, very extremist. The “fiscal responsibility”/“debt” thing is nonsense and used as cover. They are acting fast and reckless, but it is not to balance the budget.
Remember how they kept hyperventilating about how Obama said he was going to go about “fundamentally transforming” the country? Yeah, every single accusation is a confession with these people.
Only have to go back a few decades on measles:
The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lost his daughter to measles just before it was available as a vaccine…
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.
He wrote this back in 1988 to address those that were hesitant to get vaccinated back then…I doubt he could have thought that Wakefield would come along later and help to completely fuck up everything.
Oh, that was just perfect. Thank you.
Even the first 5 commandments seem to be coming from a place of narcissism for an omnipotent being - you worship me and only me, don’t worship anything else, including idols and graven images, and don’t use my name the wrong way. Oh, and make sure you keep my special day…this has what to do with any kind of morality?
The rest are reasonable things that could be derived w/o any appeal to mythology - don’t kill, steal, lie, cheat on your spouse and covet another’s possessions.
I will never understand when someone from one of the Abrahamic religions tells me that without religion, people have no foundation in morality [1]. The very core set they most reference are about 50% irrelevant to morality, the other 50% are something every society puts in place and they don’t need Jehovah to derive these rules; they are rather obviously necessary to a functioning society - although that last one our entire system is set up to almost force people to covet things and other people all the time, so that’s rather ironic.
As for all the other stuff - the various rules and rituals - that people tend to build up around the three main Abrahamic religions…a lot of it truly does make me scratch my head.
[1] I just saw one of those magamaniacs arguing for that with Sam Seder. That video was excruciating by the way, but I did power through most of it.
Haha, never heard that one, and I grew up in an area that had a lot of both. 🤣
I was always amused by some of the stuff that Amish would do - like buying a freezer for an “English” neighbor, as an example. Or sometimes borrowing/renting someone else’s tractor and then running them at night? Are you hiding these behaviors from your god, or just from other people?
Lots of crazy beliefs out there. Look into eruvs for Orthodox Jews or how they pay “gentiles” to do things for them on holy days, or the timers that are set up…I think Religulous showed this last one. Seems like if you are going to go to these lengths to supposedly stay within compliance on some arbitrarily-determined rules from centuries ago, you might consider just, uh, discarding and revising some of these things? Because an omniscient being is going to see right through these clever legalisms…
In a logical world, but in a country that gives religious woo a lot of privilege, I somehow doubt it.
What VPN?