(note that link points to page 17 of a 4mb PDF file)
Michael Garcia was hit by a #3strikes law. His third offense was stealing meat.
Some #vegans would likely argue that stealing meat is actually an ethical act since the meat industry is harming both animals and the planet.
As far as convenience goes, I had the same position in the early days of the web. HTML loads faster and was more convenient to interact with. But today’s web is so totally enshitified with blocks, CAPTCHAs, cookie popups, paywalls, broken javascript, dark patterns, etc, that there’s now an inversion whereby PDFs are actually less likely to create a shitty experience. The load time wait is worth it vs. the time spent picking through cookie dialogs and whatever popups and garbage that’s rampant now. Though it would be nice if people would optimize their PDFs with the 1st page at the beginning of the file so it could render the first page quickly while fetching the whole PDF.
I’m surprised lemm.ee doesn’t harass you about using a VPN. Perhaps Cloudflare is unaware of whatever VPN you’re using.
Fuck, you’re not wrong about PDFs cutting through a lot of the online bullshit. I don’t run a linux system as my daily, perhaps I’d be less reticent about PDFs if I wasn’t so concerned about malware.
Sidenote, sorry for kicking off this conversation in such a hostile way. Thanks for not escalating.
No worries. I didn’t downvote it either. It’s borderline threadcrap but I went along with it because I don’t think it really deters chatter about Michael Garcia.