I learned all I know on pirated software, and all the jobs that I've ever held are entirely attributable to it.
Did I shaft the software vendors I pirated the software of? Absolutely. But! I'm also very well paid and I pay a lot of taxes thanks to my ill-gotten skills. So overall, I contributed to society as a whole orders of magnitude more than I stole from the individual software vendors.
Of course, I recognize that this sort of logic is self-serving and leaves the software vendors I shafted without any money. But... just sayin'. There's more than one face to this coin.
As for media - music, movies and such, I've almost never purchased any. I bought a few LPs as a kid before my parents bought me a cassette player (and more importantly, recorder). After that, I never ever paid a single dime for any media I've ever consumed. Never. And I still don't.
I make no apology for this: it's theft pure and simple. The only weak justification I can offer is that if I tried to purchase music or movies, it would be inconvenient to procure, DRM'ed, force shit I don't want to watch down my throat, like those stupid unskippable FBI warnings on DVDs, and the pirated versions of mp3s and movies are much more user-friendly and resistant to time and deprecation. But at the end of the day, I fully admit that I'm a shameless freeloader.
The only thing I pay for religiously is books. No particular reason why I respect writers more than musicians or film directors... It's just like that. I want writers to get paid.
I would do it, but I now refuse to post anything political or historical in any tankie instance / community that contradicts the tankies’ alternative reality. If you so much as hint that you’re not fully onboard with their mad theories, you’re very quickly banned, and I’d rather retain the ability to post in non-controversial communities I’m interested in that are unfortunately hosted on tankie instances.
Whatever it is, as a SDF member, I curse the day I decided to support them. I paid SDF because I believe in paying for what I use, and it turns out to be the worst service I use by a long shot. Why I didn't open my first Lemmy account on a more reliable instance for free, I'll never know...
Nah. It's gonna get ugly when they're all interned in concentration camps with no due process of law for indefinite amounts of time and brought there by trainloads.
I don't think soldiers and war-related events qualify for a nomination for a Darwin Award.
War is just sad and terrible. There's no good lesson, chuckle or schadenfreude to be derived from videos like this.