Not that it necessarily justifies it, for as usual, the video starts by omitting the "before" context. But 4 seconds into the video, person in the white car is trying to climb out holding what appears to be a beer bottle.
Drunk driving is definitely "punch in the head" worthy, so if that's the case here...
If it's not the case, what happened prior to the start of the video?
I find that most VPNs are so heavily shilled that by that very nature, makes them suspect. Since the days of Napster, WinMX, Bearshare and the like, I've gotten exactly 2 "Hey, knock it off" letters from my ISP. And they were both from new-release, mouse-affiliated movie releases from a public tracker.
Get in with some of the private trackers and 99.9% of the worry disappears. Try not to upload terabytes of data, and the majority of ISPs (I mean, two of the 3 that seem to have the monopolies at least) wont even bother sending the notices.
Hopefully it's a fight to the death. Loser's assets get donated to a good cause. Winner faces whatever other egomaniac wants to use their wealth to shit on the rest of humanity.
The battle ends when the last man standing has a net worth of less than $10 million.
As unfortunate as it is, migrant boats wrecking is common enough that it's not really "newsworthy" in terms of what grabs people's attention. Especially on a global scale. Similar to how a murder in somewhere like Maine would make the news, but in NYC it's just another day.
Even then, there's the theory/circumstantial "evidence" that Google's indexing is a big farce. Forgot where I saw the video, but someone pointed out that the average person only relies on the 1st page or two of search results. To try to go beyond that, most searches very quickly drop from "millions of results" down to a few hundred/thousand at best. Going beyond the first couple of search result pages, the page count seemingly drops off a cliff.
However, there are independent engines out there. The first one that pops to mind is Gigablast, which does it's own indexing/crawling.
If you've got some time to kill, check out some stuff related to the "Dead Internet Theory". While I cant say how accurate the information presented may be, it certainly opens up the idea that there's something funky about the internet and how we perceive it.
"That’s about to change in three states — Colorado, Connecticut and Maine — that recently passed laws to prohibit this practice. "
Saved everyone a click.
All these "-nauts" and "-ers/ors" are ridiculous. Herp derp I use a website, Im special!
Bin chickens, the lot of you.
It's not really all that difficult to spin up your own "server". Sure, desktop hardware isn't exactly targeted towards running a web server, but for a purpose like your own Lemmy/federation, I'd imagine just about any old hardware from the last 5 years or so oughta be fine.
Meh, I'm not too keen on the change from simple checkboxes for options to the toggle switch style. Even though they're functionally the same, the toggle switch just seems less intuitive.
Those are some pretty beefy recommended specs. It'll be interesting to see how quickly mods outpace them.
This whole "rich people's problem" newscycle is about as newsworthy as the fact that I had eggplant parmesean for dinner.