Well for one thing if international debters demand payment.

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i am not surprised by this at all. in fact just today I was wondering what would happen to consumer debt if the USD collapsed.

possibly, depends on my life situation at the time in your hypotehical creation. If I was an 18 year old with no family to care for, probably, but at my current state as a the soul bread winner of a family of six, no.

no one is saying that, just that they shouldn’t be forced/conscripted to do so.

I’m pretty sure that’s against the teachings of Islam.

learning is never over. No matter how hard authoritarians try.

What makes you say that?

40 year old here, I only buy CDs.

I hope you’ll check it out. I have an account on funkwhale.it as it allows up to 5GB of storage free of charge, which is the best I’ve seen for open registration instances (it also happens to be the first I learned of as I use several of the other features of the devol.it who operates that instance, simply because their cryptpad instance was the fisrt thing that showed up when I did a DDG search for Free and Federated Online Documents).

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It’s usually the third closest planet to the Earth. Physics Today: Earth’s closest neighbor

Hmmm, what advantage are they having by you using their modem. does it give mor information to them?

which particular fears are that? Do people post child porn there? I’ve heard that website is like where the trolls go to plan their trolling, but I realy don’t know much.

I would assume the server in the closet is better for this, I mean don’t pirate is that better FBI?

undefined> Cake day: Jun 04, 2023 damn boy, you are really too young to be this salty.

#AmIBeingDetained?

Then again most nations aren’t federated, as such don’t have feds, so you should be able to figure that out but ;-) I’m fairly certain the legal ramifications are the same whether It’s GNU Social or Kbin. Sure platforms like Mastodon & Friendica give you more options for “defederating” “bad actors” than Pleroma or a NOSTR relay, but even that only does so much.

I think this is a different enough topic that it deserves its own post.

but IANAL.

Is that a butt joke?