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I pirated Paddington 2 the other day then deleted it. If that wasn't available I would have watched something else. I get what you're saying, but I also don't take it that seriously. I mean, I watched Paddington 2. I'm not exactly a movie buff.

To offer another perspective. I personally don't care. If everyone cared about owning the media they consume then movie theaters and libraries wouldn't exist. I grew up in the era of VHS and DVDs but I never had a collection because I rented them from Blockbuster. I also rented video games. I chose to pay for temporary access. Even today, when I pirate a movie and have a DRM free file I permanently own, I will delete the file after watching it. I don't want it.

I get that the streaming/licensing trend sucks for people like yourself who like having a collection of physical media they own, but it honestly doesn't bother me at all.

I was a funeral director. I talked to a lot of people about death and I can't recall a single old person who wasn't alright with dying.

The way some have explained it to me was basically the novelty of life was gone. When you're young, everything you do is new. You experience things for the first time daily. As you get older, new experiences are far and few in between. Every day becomes a copy of the day before. Weeks pass where it seems nothing has happened, but its only that nothing new has happened. Old people eventually just get bored. Combine that with chronic pain, being unable to do basic things on your own anymore, and all your friends dying before you, and the idea of not waking up tomorrow doesn't seem that bad.

I wish I was a demon so Doom Frieren could fucking kill me.

Searching for "couple fetish quiz" I found https://sexionnaire.com/ and https://carnalcalibration.com/en

There are sites you can use that show a list of fetishes to two people and matches up the ones they're both into. They're meant for couples but I've always wanted to try it with friends.

I once had a boss like this and when he finally said something it was always "it depends". I often wanted him to give a simple, quick, direct answer but I eventually realized things were more complicated than that. It reminded me of the Tolkien quote: "Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes."

They'll say they have more freedom than other countries while their president is banning pronouns in emails and the police are going door to door checking papers.

Ah, the classic. Occuse your opponent of doing the thing you do so it looks like both sides are the same.

It's arguable, sure, but unnecessary. They have to prove beyond a doubt that his intentions were to threaten the government into making political changes. They could have just charged him with murder where they'd only need to prove he wanted to kill the guy. Both crimes would lead to life in prison, so why go for the one more difficult to prove? Ironically, I think it's because the government wants to threaten the public.

I give my height in cms because I want to be the change! One day we will free ourselves from these imperial shackles!

That's Richard Stallman. He made FreeBSD which is a distro of Linux.