I’ll be impressed if it’s done in 60 years honestly. This technology is still yet to reach infancy or have any theoretical basis on which to work.

nyaa (eg https://nyaa.si) has the big quality for animes. Honestly I still just use pirate bay, but for quality it ain’t the best.

qBittorrent/Ktorrent are great softwares. Both allow you to go into settings and ensure you only allow encrypted connections, do this to prevent most ISP snooping on IP violations.

If you’re downloading stuff you must watch NOW. Qbittorrent lets you download your files sequentially so it can be streamed as you go.

Mostly, but those technologies are all very useful in niche circumstances where very specific, singular, well understood mechanics are at play - usually a few nerves are bridged over a very small gap, indirect causes are fixed, eye implants do little more than amplify light within the eye, most artificial limbs/interfaces just convert definite movements into mechanical movement, or otherwise read overwhelmingly crude brainwave patterns. Overcoming a single, understood obstacle - and they are amazing. But sticking a chip in a brain, interfacing with ocular nerves that we absolutely do not understand, to restore vision is as far away from current technology as current technology is from peg legs.

Absolutely true, hence the ‘most’. Bots pretending to be a user are… iffy… legally and technically, in most places, though, so it’s not the typical way to catch people.

Though to also claim there’s a “real solution” is itself misleading, legally both of those can easily be traced back to you as well, and as those solutions are paid for and properly authorised, you won’t be able claim the defence of “someone else must have been on my wifi”.

Yeppers, very much agreed. These are all steps before we can even be sure meaningful chip-brain interaction is even a possible thing. Super interesting though.

I mean, >90% of left-wingism shouldn’t be branded as left-wingism, just common sense. But welcome to the real world I guess?

Being very careful is good. Having a single meetup once within a few months, with tests, is fine. The rapid LFTs are actually pretty good at detecting specifically if somebody is infectious, so this is good.

It’s impossible to never ever meet people, just be sensible, and stay on the good side of the balance of risks, like you clearly are doing.

Sometimes this is just how it goes if you don’t play a huge country, your options are limited and chance screws you. It’s first and foremost a country simulator, not a campaign for the player, can’t faithfully be both. This is why I don’t feel bad about having cheats to enable me to like, keep being able to play the game.

Having said that, Vic 3 is still janky obvs.

I have 100% done this, but it was like the tenth game I ever played, so I didn’t understand the sheer chance.

AI is very cool, but AI will only ever replace humans when it is effectively indistinguishable from humans - this includes our flawed perceptions, our motivations, our hidden desires, insticts, limitations, etc.