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What can a poor boy do except pirate, pirate, pirate?

The 2024 eBook experience (with a pocketbook e-reader)

No Piracy:

  1. Go to bookstore in webbrowser on reader.

  2. Pay for book

  3. Download book (you can only do this 5 times)

  4. Open book (not really the book, its a link to ad*be to download the book.

  5. Get network error when opening my fucking ebook I paid for.

  6. Troubleshooting for 5 minutes

  7. Proceed to piracy section step 3

Piracy

  1. Go to bookstore Website and pay for book (cause personal ethics but you do you)
  2. Ignore download link
  3. Go to website of preference
  4. Download ebook
  5. Enjoy without ad*be enshittification

*edits cause formatting

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Thats great and all, but for the 12-14 year old who never smoked tobacco and only started vaping because of the color and flavour assortment, the fact that theese even exist in that category, clearly targeted at children, is a massive problem. If the vape companies really wanted to help adults quit, they would be selling like 2 tobacco-like flavors in unattractive packaging, then I think a lot less kids would vape. Imo (though no personal expirience) Adults wanting to quit don't need the pink cookie dough cotton candy emoji-fied vape...

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Free WiFi.

Here's a secret those free wifi providers don't want you to know: usually, they don't check your email or ask you to verify it, so you can just enter [email protected] If they do show a second screen asking for an email, just create a tempmail adress on cellular and switch back to verify. It works 99.99% of the time.

Edit: you also don't have to enter any real personal information, how would they know?

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What futuristic work of fiction is humanity closest to becoming?

100% no doubt The parable of the sower and subsequent book. I read that book - started reading it - in June this year and read it over about a month. It was very creepy to be reading a sci fy book set in the future that is now my present and while it is not as bad right now as Octavia Butler makes it out to be, we are definitely heading there if drastic action is not taken immediately.

Edit: the books in order: (Only two, sadly she died while writing the third but still both worth reading, there isn't a clif hanger at the end) https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries