whoah… please leave your relevant facts outside the sinophobia festival.

countries which are doing well,

lol phony metrics. the entire planet is burning.

Authoritarians controlling your sex life for the sake of a fascist breeding program? Upvote!!!

smh.

Where is the third thing? Open source software is left wing ffs. Proprietary software is extremely capitalist/fascist.

TBH for me the only proprietary software worth pirating is Apple’s GarageBand. There’s currently no pirated version. I’m hoping that open source alternative continue to improve.

Otherwise there’s nothing proprietary that’s worth pirating for me. I can’t imagine pirating chess. It’s among the most basic apps possible. Have you checked out lichess? The android app is decent, the website looks good, and there’s at least one desktop app too.

I use a VPN currently in Spain… And I just search like “watch sports live” and then find a website. I usually use like an aggregator that lists various sites. The video quality isn’t always great but it’s free and easy.

Nah, the actual problem is all the wind mills and solar panels. They’re screwing up the weather!!!

(I seriously had a chud tell me this.)

I don’t use providers. I have my own playlist of sketchy channels. It’s not very fancy, but I can usually pirate whatever sports, movies, tv, etc.

Or is there some way I could auto-remove channels that don’t load?

If you search “m3u cleaner”, there are a few options. I tried some but they seemed slow and unreliable. I manually maintain my playlist.

As far as software goes, I use Kodi btw.

if you wanted to support the creators you could do it separetely with merch, other proyects they have or direct donations if any of those are aviable.

Yeah, I’ve been getting more into Bandcamp so I can more directly support the bands that I like. I’ve given my wishlist to family, etc. for gifts.

I use Kodi btw.

Years ago I didn’t understand the point of Kodi, but over time I think it’s been become much more apparent/vindicated compared to the alternatives.

I think they’re saying that capitalists will use piracy as a justification for surveilling people.

Piracy still gives them a platform to justify their surveillance.

It’s a bullshit justification and they would be surveilling anyway. People shouldn’t base their actions on how dishonest, exploitative capitalists will portray it.

The only correct take is a full boycott

False. There is no such thing as a “correct take” much less a single correct viewpoint. There are many valid means to resist capitalism. Piracy is generally better than boycotting because it’s easier and requires no sacrifice. Thus it is far more likely to be widely adopted, as we’ve already seen. Many many people are already pirating compared to some imaginary boycott.

Plex

There’s your problem. Here’s the solution: Kodi.

I compiled my m3u playlist by searching through various lists, especially iptv-org linked on another comment.

As far as sports, I’ve found a variety of random sports channels but nothing targeted to my area/teams.

I think it could be difficult to find reliable and relevant sports channels that are more legal/stable. Like someone else said, you might want an antenna for local sports if you don’t already have.

This is me still accidentally downloading cam versions of movies.

Yes, there are many problematic states, probably all of them. That’s why people thought it was sus when you singled out india.

My advice: Download a geo-IP database and firewall yourself in.

Is this winston churchhill?

Isn‘t autism and many other psychological conditions under and over diagnosed at the same time?

Yeah, that’s what happens when there’s no objective, scientific criteria and the “diagnoses” are based on the subjective observation of behavior.

“Science” under capitalism is not just political. It’s literally fascist.

Rent.