I've posted this before here I think but I really like this article: Poor in Tech
An interesting angle giving an idea (and believe me, it's worse than you can imagine) of the disconnect of many techbros from the conditions of much of the working class
There have been times where I've genuinely considered stopping working in tech altogether only due to conversations with worm-brained work colleagues
No matter what happens, we can take comfort in the fact that tens of thousands of years from now, the crab people populating the Earth after humanity died will do archeological digs and will find one thing near the center of Antarctica, perfectly preserved beneath the ice like a stargate
You know that very unpleasant feeling you sometimes get like there's a pill stuck in your throat, but it doesn't go away and there's no pill ?
Apparently there's a cool name for it: the globus sensation
I globused at least three times in my life, it's not cool
Assuming that you do want to fully self host, my go-to is a postfix+mariadb+postfixadmin+spamassassin+opendkim stack. With rainloop as a webmail if required.
Avoid exim like the plague
The moment you first enter the new province in Blood and Wine is incredible
Tens of hours spent in gloomy war-torned settings then bam
The way she's holding that lighter, she's about to burn her thumb
Antic Iranian engineering was insane. They managed to produce and conserve ice year-round in fucking deserts. Look at this; built millenia ago, some of them still standing. Also look at the qanats - some of them 70km in length and 200 meters deep, and many of them still in use.
Lemmy.world
I've just taken a look at the state of the discourse over there and jesus christ
It's like distilled 
I had no idea SneerClub lived on somewhere, thank you !
For decades there have been a wide variety of shady filehosts that will happily host content with no regard for IP and offer downloading for the same (good for them). They manage to make money by offering "premium" subscriptions that allow to download without having to wait / bandwidth limitation (these days you even have services that try to mutualize such premium accounts between users for a smaller fee, using their proxy to serve their own users). For just as long there have been websites that index those direct filehost links, and make money through either ads or members donations. It's an alternative to torrenting. Gog-games is an example of such an indexing website (there are many, many others). 1fichier is an example of the filehosters I mentioned above (same remark).
To answer your question, the reason they don't go down is they routinely operate in jurisdictions that are hard to act on by LE in the imperial core; they also often pay lip service to DMCA requests by actually removing content after reports, though they'll almost universally make the process complicated, long, and pretty useless (not removing identical files reachable from other links, for example).
I don't know if this is the name of a show or something or if you have ascended and are exploring your past lives from reincarnation but I'm choosing to believe the latter and I'm low-key jealous