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I don't think Reddit would have that. They likely just use your browser fingerprint. Check this out: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

It's a small step out of many. And there's enough steps now that an average person is pretty much never going to have it, unfortunately. But there is more and less exposed. There's untraceable, and there's traceable with more effort than anyone will likely bother. Considering countries like russia have tried and failed to block VPNs, they're certainly worth something.

To be clear, a VPN provider effectively works the same way as an ISP. If you use a Dutch VPN, it will follow the exact same rules as a Dutch ISP. Given, you should verify that it actually is based out of that location and not just incorporated there with no office and a PO box. In a DMCA situation, the DMCA agents generally are never told the identities of anyone by an ISP or VPN provider. But the ISP or VPN provider forwards the notice to the user with the associated account as they're legally required to do. If the worst case scenario happens and you get your VPN service cut, you've still got your ISP and can just move to a different VPN provider. Having your ISP service cut, on the other hand, may leave you with no service options at all. You don't get privacy with a VPN, but you do get a stopgap like that.

Edit: Also signing up for VPNs that don't record your personal information is probably a good practice as well.

Most likely, the logs consist of what IPs are leased to what users, when the connections start and end, and what IPs those users are connecting from. A VPN company may keep the logs for something like 2 days.

Let's say you torrent something while connected to a VPN and one of the peers in the torrent pool is actually a DMCA agent associated with IP-Echelon. The DMCA agent will record the IP address you have at the time and generate a DMCA notice. It will then look up who owns the IP address to determine where to send the DMCA notice. When the VPN company receives the DMCA notice, it will use the logs to determine who was leasing the IP address at the time in question. If the logs no longer exist, the notice effectively gets tossed because the VPN company has no way of knowing what account was downloading the torrent. But if the notice was sent quickly enough for the logs to still exist, the VPN company will forward the DMCA notice to the user that was using the IP at the time. In that case, it will work the same way as a normal ISP. You'll probably get a warning with something like a 3 strike policy. In such a case, the VPN will cut your VPN service on the third strike.

Presumably, it could work the same way for anything. I used to work for a VPN company a decade ago, and this was pretty much the industry standard. It, like all VPN companies, advertised itself as having no logging.

I worked for a VPN company a decade ago that advertised no logging. It was all BS. They absolutely logged. Maybe they only kept the logs for something like 48 hours, but I'm pretty sure all VPNs have some kind of logging going on. Anyway, a VPN by itself does not give you any privacy. Websites have a billion ways to fingerprint you, and they don't even need cookies to do it.

Superman was created in Cleveland.

That explains everything. That's literally one place on the planet that would have been so boring, finding a bird in the sky would be the highlight of the week. Thankfully, I've heard it's gotten better over the past few decades. But the reputation still lingers.

Even if you look at the pure definition, it can be fuzzy. Who should control the means of production is the great debate among leftists. The problem is "social ownership" can take many forms, and how well they represent society widely varies. If a government is corrupt, government ownership certainly will not represent the people. I've come to the conclusion that a variety of approaches is probably necessary as each has its own weaknesses. Natural resources need to be protected from exploitation by even local communities. But people are also right to not trust governments to continuously maintain their best interests. Generally speaking, keeping stuff as close to the people as possible is ideal. Workers, and not investors or government officials, should control the means of production in a business. At the same time, there should be a low barrier of entry for people to come together and form competing businesses. Investment may be necessary, but at the very least, investment should be a one time thing with a limited return on that investment. It should exist to lower barriers of entry, not raise them. And people certainly shouldn't be able to make a living off of loaning money. While the answers aren't always clear, there are some fundamental things all leftists should be able to agree on, though.

You should get one of those jet turbine 72x drives. I bet that could finish the job and shatter the disc all the way.

What feelgood story? $35k isn't even enough for one month of treatment.

To be fair, eating Doritos and leaving crumbs on a bed is an act of terrorism, though. So who knows, maybe they're in a Doritos death cult and just happen to be trans.

Are you suggesting that being put into a jail or concentration camp with abyssal living conditions and then getting forced to do slave labor might not be the best thing for mental health?

Every single country on the planet has the same shitty people that vote shitty. There are lots of really stupid people. At the end of the day, people can be seriously disappointing. This is the same all over the planet. American voters aren't any worse than the voters of any other country. So then, if 40% of the voters in any country would be willing to put someone like Trump into power over a more sane candidate, what does that mean?

Well, first off, it means no place is truly safe from the most batshit crazy people getting into power. Italy has Giorgia Meloni, France almost had Marine Le Pen, the AfD is getting a lot of support in Germany, etc.

But it also means that the system itself has problems. That's what ultimately allowed Trump to get into power. We have a government by the billionaires, for the billionaires. The wealth of billionaires in itself has grown out of control. It is impossible to successfully run for a major office without being insanely wealthy. Bribery is a central part of US politics. Corporations can make unlimited donations to political candidates. All of the safeguards against crazy have been dismantled. Party leadership silences anyone that tries to make a positive change. The media is filled with propaganda. AI has figured out how to manipulate people on a personal level. The list keeps going on. People will vote for the worst candidates all over the world. But in the US, at this point, the system is broken in a way that has enabled the worst candidate to not only be moderately bad, but some of the worst people on the planet.

Edit: I shouldn't say 40% of the country - when the system fails to the extent it has in the US, it makes it difficult for people to vote. The number of Trump supporters is nowhere near 40% of the country. But there's enough people anywhere for it to happen under the right circumstances.