I agree fully. I basically never download music anymore, because I can get all the music I can think of on Spotify for a few bucks a month. And when everything was on Steam I just got everything from there. Now that all the games companies are bringing out their own stores and launchers, that’s starting to change again.

This is a lesson that the movie & TV industry seems hell-bent on not learning.

You can use sponsorblock with yt-dlp, if that helps at all.

Doesn’t QBittorrent already have its own setting for that? Like you can set the network interface to wg-mullvad or whatever and then it won’t work outside of that? Or is the docker thing just for an extra layer of protection on top of that?

Reddit has started getting a bit fucky with VPNs lately so maybe that’s the cause? I mean you could obviously go there without the VPN on, but also fuck them lol.

As much as I don’t like recommending people go to reddit, tbh r/panelshow and r/tv_bunny tend to cover most of it pretty well, and quickly too. TV Bunny has been a good source for old British sitcoms like Bottom and Blackadder as well.

I assume like every other country’s big climate plans they’ll announce it, do nothing and then back pedal on it 2 years from now.

Credit for goals hit, not just stated.

I’d assume that as single-family homes rise in value other properties would too, so maybe the limit would just need to be adjusted fairly often? IDK I’m not a tax person.

OR, maybe it could just apply to additional properties? Like you get one free so a family home is safe, but every additional property you own gets a tax slapped on it or something like that?

There have been studies which tried that too, there was one in the city I’m in where they gave free housing to homeless people but it didn’t go super well. IIRC the issue was that a fair few of them also had underlying addiction/mental health issues which kind of derailed things (one person set up a tent and started a camp fire in the living room, as an example.)

Not that I’m against giving money or homes to the homeless of course, but I think it also needs to go along with an investment in infrastructure and support for addiction, mental health and that sort of thing as well.

Also just to head off any pedantic replies: I’m also not saying that all homeless people are mentally ill or drug addicts, just that money and houses won’t solve everything, and we’d get a lot further with proper infrastructure underlying it in my opinion.

Under capitalism we don’t produce food for the purpose of feeding people, we produce it to make a profit. If a person can’t afford to buy food, we let the person starve and the food rot on the shelf.