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I mean, words aren't just used by yourself. Many people collectively assigned a meaning to specific words. How is this solipcism?

Words are ways to encode ideas like 0 and 1s in a computer or flashed of light as in a morse code.

Words are a way to express ideas from your brain to another brain.

Flowchart:

Your Brain -> Idea -> Word -> Spoken -> Vibration in air -> Interpreted by another person's ear -> Word -> Idea -> The other person's Brain

Does that make sense?

Its not solipcism... idk what you mean lol

Thats just saying "Hey Netanyahu, please don't come here, I don't wanna make this awkward."

Remember that before democracies, people in power really faced no consequences

Remember that legality and ethics/morality is not always the same thing.

Lets not talk government for a bit .

Say, you have an anarchist community. People just minding their own bussiness. You see someone has a thing you want but you don't have. What happens if you take that thing? The person is not gonna be happy. Imagine if someone took a thing you owned, you'd feels the same, right. That's why you dont steal.

And if anyone finds out, you get your entire community not liking the fact that someone has been stealing, since they also would not like that happening to them. So there will be consequences whatever the community decides to do.

Same thing with killings, you don't want that happening to you or people (or pets) you care about. So you should not be doing it. And again, if the community finds out, you're in big trouble.

Now even when you have a higher authority like a government, there can still be vigilantism.

Even in modern society, if you kill someone and get identified and somehow get away with the charges. You still aren't consequence-free. You might esacpe the law, but you might face a vengeful relative of the person you killed. Imagine living with the fear that at any moment, someone could come by and kill you in revenge.

So there is still possibility of consequences.

Even politicians can face assassination attempt. I mean I do not advocate that stuff, but like if politicians piss of enough people, there can be a revolution that gets them killed.

TlDR: You should still refrain from doing bad things because (1) A society that tells people its okay to do that would lead to people also doing that bad deed to you, and (2) You can face vigilantism / mob justice (however unlikely it maybe, there is still a chance and you don't wanna take that chance).

Edit: Spelling mistakes

Not OP, but the point still stands, the next apointee is also not gonna be a upstanding human being.

Did you know, chimps don't have remote killing drones, armored vehicles, or nuclear weapons.

Well human do, and its usually not the average person that have posession of those things.

Nah, people always think thing "peaked" during their era. Its probably nostalgia. Tech back then is, in my opinion, terrible.

I was born around 2000-2003 (not giving exact year for privacy reasons)

Examples:

When I got my first phone (like around 2015 or so), it was an android phone that didn't have great encryption. You had to manually enable encryption and its not File-Based encryption like in today's android phones, its Full Disk Encryption which mean alarms dont work if you reboot your phone. And it takes like an hour or 2 to first set up the encryption.

Phones have so much vulnerabilities. Stagefright, Blueborne, etc. Luckily, I never got hacked (or at least not that I'm aware of) but it was just unsettling to know your phone is vulnerable, and you're even already on the latest update. Also there was a lot of screenlock bypasses. Updates typically is only 1 year OS update and 2 year security updates, if even that. Updates were also very slow to get rolled out.

Security was so bad, I can root my android phone with a random app I downloaded by searching "Android Root", don't even need to connect to a pc. Like can you imagine a random app being able to just take root privilages on your phone.

Nowadays, phones are much more secure, even the cheapest samsung phone has 4 years of OS updates, 5 years of security updates. With better encryption.

Phone plans were expensive AF, well I was a kid, but the normal plans had those "Unlimited Data" but with a huge asterisk, data slows after like a certain amount like 5 GB or something, I was unlucky, my parents were a bit cheap so the family plan that I was on only had 30MB of 4g internet, then throttled to 128kbps. Unusable unless you are at home and have wifi.

Nowadays, unlimited plans have become the norm, the plan that I was on even got a free upgrade to unlimited high speed data.

Oh and HTTPS wasn't default in most sites, some didn't even have it. And no HSTS as far as I remember.

Back then, there were no such thing as Airtags or Samsung Smarttags that are so cheap and allows tracking misplace items or even your pets. (I mean there are privacy concerns... still, very useful if not misused)

There were no smart watches that can detect a heart attack. (They're not exactly accurate, but still...)

There were no phones that detect a car crash or even use satelites to make a sos call. (I'm talking about the iPhone 14)

I mean yes we have so much enshittification today, but that's not really a tech problem, its a corporate greed problem not doesn't just affect technology.

Technology isn't bad, its just the way we use it.

Like nuclear technology can be use to build bombs to destroy, or used in power plants to create energy.

Convicted felons and lies? There seems to be a correlation... hmm... 🤔

I don't think there's really a free vpn. Because unlike movies/tv or games that can be infinitely copied with basically zero cost, VPN is a service that requires constant electricity, internet connection, and eventually the hardware that the VPN runs on needs to be replaced. There's ProtonVPN that have a free version has limited servers to choose from and intended for people living in authoritarian countries to bypass censorship, therefore it blocks all P2P connections.

Well there CalyxVPN, provided by the Calyx Institute, a non-profit. P2P doesn't appear to be blocked, but the download speeds are slow as a snail. It'd take a day just to download a movie with 2GB file size. This VPN is supposed to be for educational purposes so like torrenting seems to be not in the spirit of what its supposed to be for, but like nothing is stopping you from using it.

There's also many cheap vpns that cost only like 2-3 US dollars a month but it seem like those require you to pay upfront for an entire year which would average out to be 2-3 US dollars a month.

And there are also many direct download options when it comes to piracy, those will usually not get you in trouble, since your IP wouldn't be a part of a swarm so theres nothing for copyright trolls to report on.

Well fuck, I adopted her at around like 9 months old. Too late 🤷‍♂️

Oprah to the executive branch:

"You get a felon, and you get a brain worm, and you get a pedophile, you get a fraudster, and everyone gets a ~~cyber~~dumpstertruck"

Nah, that more like kyle "pretending to be crying in court" rittenhouse