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Thanks for the https://communities.win/c/NoNewNormal/ link @Karloff!

I've added it to my daily reading bookmarks.

I'm always happy when Twitter or Reddit bans their own users and they discover that they don't need to be subject to the tech tyrants after all.

Damn, I can't sign up without Google spying on it.

So many people are so ignorant of Google's recapcha spyware. Sad.

Who is that? I don't get it.

Aaron Schwartz, who started Y Combinator/Reddit, and committed suicide after being overcharged by DA Ortiz, an Obama Appointee looking at decades in prison.

His crime? He liberated non-Defense Related Publicly Funded Research from behind a Paywall at MIT. Research that taxpayers largely/wholly funded but was given to a Public-Private Corporation to sell access to for outrageous fees, which may have once made sense when it had to be custom printed and shipped in 1980, but had long since been scanned digitally and delivery costs should have been token or free as a PDF.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

Aaron Schwartz, who started Y Combinator/Reddit, and committed suicide after being overcharged by DA Ortiz, an Obama Appointee looking at decades in prison.

If it makes any difference to you, he began a revolution. I know, for a fact, that over 30 TB of research papers are available by torrent. People just serve them up as a fuck you to the establishment after this. So he didn't die in vain, and it's quite possible, he didn't commit suicide. They obviously wanted to make an example out of him, but they didn't intimidate others.

https://academictorrents.com/browse.php

There's ONE site.

The moderators of r/Coronaviruscirclejerk have set this community as private. Only approved members can view and take part in its discussions.

Coronaviruscirckejerk is back!

Joining it will get you banned elsewhere.

Independent thoughts and views will not be tolerated! YOU MUST CONFORM! There will be punishments until you do.

Do people not realize you can totally read and almost always participate in subreddits without clicking "join" thus willfully self-flagging that account as associated with the subreddit?

TIFU = Today I Fucked UP.

In a Reddit thread about Covid, saying you're an essential worker is heroic and gets you tons of upvotes. Saying you're an essential worker who never closed, never got vaccinated or sick, and invoking the hygiene hypothesis regarding obsessive hand washing and hand/area sanitizing when Covid isn't transmitted by touch contact, gets you called stupid, selfish, and downvoted in the same thread.

"You could date a tranny and totally not know it"

That guy looks like a metalhead D&D Dungeon Master. He's about as feminine as Erkel.