True in the UK too. Cigarette adverts were banned forever ago. Then they stopped displaying them in the store. Now, if I'm not mistaken (I don't smoke), they don't even display branding on the packets - the packets have a very plain, uniform design with no flashy colours or logos.
If she had stepped down before 2016, Obama would have been able to appoint another liberal judge to replace her, and the political balance of the court would have remained unchanged. Instead, she died in 2020 and Trump replaced her with a far more conservative judge, which is indirectly one of the reasons why Roe v Wade was just overturned.
Of course, it must be remembered that almost no-one actually expected Trump to win 2016. So perhaps she didn't feel like there was actually much risk of her being replaced by a conservative, so it was safe to stay on.
I don't think all 40 million women have lost "all" legal access. Eg Florida and Virginia are banning abortion after 15 weeks - which is actually less restrictive than in most of western Europe.
Eg France bans abortion after 14 weeks; Norway bans it after 12 weeks.
For now. Desantis is already saying he will increase restrictions. Do you have any reason to believe this man, running for President in 2024, won’t race to claim he is the king of protecting fetuses? He’s not going to be able to stand on a stage next to anyone who claims they will restrict abortion in any and all cases, and he knows that. Pence was out yesterday calling for a blanket nationwide abortion ban. That’s were the GOP as a party will be in 2 years, and Florida will need to be there before then to shore up Desantis’ political position.
Florida will not be a state where abortions happen soon enough.
PIA before the Kape acquisition was owned by parent company London Trust Media. The owner is Andrew Lee, who was best buddies with Mark Karpeles responsible for the MtGox collapse and defrauding all the users of the exchange. Unfortunately the Japanese government let him out of jail and Andrew Lee decided to make his old friend the CTO of the company. Andrew Lee is also the guy behind the shady "sale" of the nonprofit Freenode that caused everyone to jump ship to LiberaChat.
I feel like it's probably more trustworthy under Kape than a CEO and CTO surrounded by a long history of lies, fraud, and general scumbag behavior.
PIA continues to prove in court over and over again that they do not keep traffic logs. The extreme fear mongering over Kape has never been backed up by any evidence other than "they used to do bad things under their previous management." As I always say in these threads, all the people who shill Mullvad over everything probably just use them for web-browsing or adjacent activities, and not anything that requires a specialty product like p2p or bypassing national firewalls.
>all the people who shill Mullvad over everything probably just use them for web-browsing or adjacent activities, and not anything that requires a specialty product like p2p or bypassing national firewalls.
On the contrary. Mullvad gives you more flexibility than PIA in that regard and doesn't limit you to whatever features are built into the client like PIA does. You can build tunnels to whatever endpoint in whichever country you want. You can associate multiple ports to your tunnel or separate tunnels for inbound connections. It's very convenient if you want a P2P tunnel where you can get a wireguard interface on the client and then configure your P2P application to only use that tunnel so that there's no chance of leaks (Up to you if you want to also configure the P2P service to use DNS over the VPN or just the system resolver if you don't care) and you don't have to tunnel everything over the same VPN. You can have multiple interfaces going to different applications if you wanted. You have the flexibility to configure your client in whatever way you want without having to deal with proprietary endpoints to request a temporary forwarded port for the connection like what PIA makes you use.
I used to use PIA before the owner hired con artist Mark Karpeles as the CTO and jumped ship when that happened. Even though I only picked Mullvad because it was recommended on HN and wasn't PIA, I much prefer it from a technical standpoint. If I knew how much better it was originally I never would have went for the cheaper more popular option of PIA. People shilling Mullvad are probably doing so because it has many technical advantages over traditional VPNs used by more casual customers. Mullvad also supports bridge servers for shadowsocks. I've never had an opportunity to test it but I'd expect Mullvad to be more reliable in China than PIA.
PIA is cheap, and they don't seem to keep traffic logs. That's basically all they have going for them.
Anecdotally PIA performance seemed to drop around then, port forwarding was frequently broken and Wireguard wasn't making much progress (looks like maybe they've finally rolled it out now)
Maybe things were already bad before Kape but it was around the same time
Um... how is this news? We left the EU in January 2020. I'm not sure what it would mean for Britain to leave the EU without Brits losing EU citizenship, and I've never heard anyone suggest that this might be the case.
It's nearly six years since the referendum - who exactly is surprised by this "development"?
I have noticed an unhealthy obsession and inability to move on. I speak from someone who would have voted to remain.
Yes it wasn't perhaps my choice, but trying to relive the result repeatedly with the same vitriol anger isn't healthy. Even more so defining your identity around it e.g. FBPE (Follow back, Pro EU) on Twitter. It also doesn't help the rejoin cause to spew such negativity and hatred at the other 50% of the population.
I think this quite accurate. I too voted remain. The clever thing the EU did was hide it's deeds from wider observation.
Subsequent to light being shed, i find it to be about the most sinister and vile organisation it is possible to imagine.
Even then, ignoring my personal feelings, it is obvious these people over invested themselves with a fairly inconsequential team and are over compensating for it.
Look at the news on veto removal today. Only a hardcore shill would defend this organisation.
Where in the UK do you think is a good place to do this kind of thing? My wife and I have been toying with the idea of doing something like this - it won't be for at least another few years, but it's still really just an idea at this point; neither of us have much experience in this sphere and we're not sure where to start.
What do we need to know? Any resources you recommend we check out?
I am on the same boat as well. Toying with various ideas and want to do something similar here in the UK in few years. Would be great to see some resources on this
