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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • Its not that messy and its not that complex. Modern Israel was created as a place where antisemetics could send jews post WWII. That involved relocating the current residents who took the land by force previously. Israel forces Palestinians into districts with lower form of citizenship. Then Israel took more of the land. And more. And when people refuse to leave or have nowhere else to go then Israel creates a reason for the conflict and kills them.

    Netanyahu helped install Hamas as leadership in Palestine and keep them funded. Its all pretty straightforward. Israel is a genocidal apartheid state.





  • More specifically there is no US Federal Law about obtaining pirated works, only the Redistribution

    17 U.S. Code § 506 - Criminal offenses
    
    (a)Criminal Infringement.—
    (1)In general.—Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed—
    (A)for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
    (B)by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180–day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000; or
    (C)by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution.
    (2)Evidence.—
    For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement of a copyright.
    (3)Definition.—In this subsection, the term “work being prepared for commercial distribution” means—
    (A)a computer program, a musical work, a motion picture or other audiovisual work, or a sound recording, if, at the time of unauthorized distribution—
    (i)the copyright owner has a reasonable expectation of commercial distribution; and
    (ii)the copies or phonorecords of the work have not been commercially distributed; or
    (B)a motion picture, if, at the time of unauthorized distribution, the motion picture—
    (i)has been made available for viewing in a motion picture exhibition facility; and
    (ii)has not been made available in copies for sale to the general public in the United States in a format intended to permit viewing outside a motion picture exhibition facility.
    

    So, basically, downloading cracked adobe products is always right. It’s always morally acceptable. But your provider is risking their ass.

    The big industry names want to make you believe that you’ll be punished for downloading a car. It’s all fearmongering.



  • I can see how a lack of context could be confusing, but Irish leadership have condemned Israel’s genocide in Palestine and compared it to The Troubles and other past conflicts between Ireland and the larger Great Britain. Basically, Ireland and Israel have poor international relationships because Ireland doesn’t like the way Israel slaughters tens of thousands of people while starving out millions based solely on ethnicity.

    This bad relationship has affected how the two sports teams interact with each other, and the Israeli pre-emptively insulted the Irish basketball association officials and team leadership before the match even began, so of course they won’t be given bare minimum mutual respect when they show up to the matches in the future.