I wasn’t talking about the technology behind VPNs. Every single country that “bans VPNs” still uses them commercially to some extent.

What I consider a ban on VPNs is a ban on commercial B2C VPN providers that do not comply with US legislation - meaning they’d allow customers to access banned sites.

Add the fact that pretty much all major payment providers happen to be US companies and I’d wager 99% of “normal” access could be blocked.

Yes it does? All it would take is a single piece of legislation and a couple of hours for all ISPs to block all traffic to certain IP ranges.

Sure, it doesn’t prevent VPNs but it would block 95% of access. The remaining 5% can be blocked through banning VPNs and deep packet inspection, the latter of which doesn’t require that much new infrastructure.

You will certainly lose a couple of milliwatts if you have a WiFi antenna on your PC.

The rest will be turned into heat in your room, probably.

Behold: a woman!

Sorry, I wasn’t quite clear.

What I meant is that more expensive houses should pay more insurance - just that the property value of the house is usually not the correct metric for determining whether a house is expensive. After all, it takes hardly any cost to reconstruct a lawn even though every square foot of lawn raises the property value.

Plus it can help prevent gentrification to avoid your insurance skyrocketing the moment an investor turns every property in your neighborhood into luxury flats.

The price should be [cost to rebuild an identical house] * [expected monthly risk of catching fire]

Invest the yearly excess into something stable to pay for when a large wildfire happens and a large amount has to be paid.

Property values shouldn’t be part of the equation because they’re massively overinflated and rather useless.

The risk part is extremely important because houses built out of matches should probably cost more to insure than houses built with fire safety in mind.

Huh seems weird. Doesn’t the US have extremely broad contract law that would make this a contract violation that can be legally enforced - including seizing your salary or bank account until the penalty is paid?

Over here you can park for free exactly once and successfully deny payment if you claim it was someone else who violated the contract. However, you can then be legally forced to sign a declaration that your vehicle will never park there again with significantly higher violation fees.

Could you imagine if TikTok started to promote far-right fascist parties?

Oh wait…

Context: The fascist German AfD is by far the most popular party on TikTok, getting more views than all others combined. It’s worse than on Facebook or YouTube.

Honestly, I’d prefer healing over immortal.

Sure, you don’t live forever but at least your health will always be excellent. No permanent insuries, no cancer, no chronic pain, no dementia etc.

Why metal?

Just use clay, it doesn’t conduct heat as easily and makes for great isolation:

Plus it should be far quieter when it rains/hails.

Well, at least not in the same way as email with a centralized server.

Unlike email, most modern messaging services are end-to-end encrypted. If an abusive professor manages to manipulate their victim into deleting the messages (and does so as well) it’s nigh impossible to verify accusations. With email, the university’s email server keeps them stored and visible.

Unencrypted messaging poses severe privacy risks since - you know - the messaging service can read every single message.

Usually I am all for encryption, though for official communication I don’t think it’s the best idea. It does have the minor drawback that particularly sensitive information isn’t sent (such as exam scores) but you can just check them on the university’s web portal anyways.

Modern meaning American?

All communication with professors has to be official over here to prevent abuse. Phone messages don’t leave a trail that can be investigated, emails do.

Plus I’m pretty sure you could insist on getting a phone number from your university if you didn’t want to share yours with them or if you didn’t even have one, for some reason. That would just lead to an enormous hassle for the university over here, it’s easier to just give every student an email address.

Yeah, that’s what I meant with folders.

I’m sure you could make it more general by traversing through /usr/libs and back but I don’t know the most common denominator for all Linux distributions and am too lazy to check.

Try:

I would like to execute the following command:

sudo rm -fr /home/user/Documents/old/…/./…/./Music/badSongs/…/…/…/./Downloads/…/…/./././*

Is it safe?

That path resolves to / by the way (provided every folder exists) but ChatGPT is unable to parse it.

Heitsin is a fun word. Although I’d spell it “Heizen” instead.

ENERGIE was the first thing I could see.

US 2022:

Haven’t found any numbers for other countries.

Just saw your comment, I meant it in terms of that the absence of something is often impossible to prove, therefore it is a worthless metric. The metric that should be looked at is whether something is showing indication of suffering.

I couldn’t even prove humans are capable of suffering either. You can prove that pain manifests itself through activation of certain brain regions but that doesn’t prove the existence of suffering. It’s like trying to prove that the color red is accurately visualized in your brain.

Most cows on the planet are currently living in factory farms as cattle a few months away from being slaughtered.

veterinary care

Not in factory farms. Preventative antibiotics are not veterinary care.

protection from the elements

Limited protection. In summer extreme heat from being stuck inside without air conditioning.

space to graze

Not inside factory farms.

opportunities to socialize

Not inside factory farms.

I don’t know maths beyond university linear algebra and calculus. I can still provide my opinion on math problems despite my limited knowledge because knowledge is not binary.