Yes, it is legal. There are many christians in Saudi Arabia, for example. What is usually illegal is public religious practices of religions other than Islam.

It works very well for me. My evidence that it is private is that I download plenty (more than 1 TB per month) and I never get a copyright notice from my ISP. When I torrent non-privately I get plenty of copyright notices, sometimes several times for the same torrent.

It does have, however, some major performance issues. It can be very slow, and it can use up a lot of RAM and a lot of CPU. Its internal database, which saves state of downloads, frequently gets corrupted at which point it has to be re-generated, meaning the list of torrents (not the downloads) is lost. It can be quite a bit slower than other torrent downloaders, and sometimes torrents stall for a while as it waits to prepare the network, especially at start-up.

It’s been getting a lot better though with every update, which is quite frequent.

Not making sure the result even makes sense. There was a real example, where a ~2010 news article said that the number of crimes in their city has been doubling every year since ~1980.

That is not possible. Assume that there was one crime in 1980. In 2010, there must be at least 2^20 crimes.

Hypocrisy! Someone is committing hypocrisy at the church on 325289 ave!

That’s it exactly. JBP, JD Vance, etc., play word games of rhetoric to get what they want. It’s like they are defence lawyers and morality is a legal system they are trying to game - they argue whatever just to win.

Yeah they do that. It is really sneaky to call illegal immigrants criminals because of their illegal immigration. It’s like someone being called a criminal just for resisting arrest.

I think FPTP keeps fringe or unpopular ideas out. Assuming its a 2-party dominated system, it will keep extremists out only if the extremists are fringe.

This is a shallow analysis.

What do you dislike about the AI act?

I dont think so, but I would love one

Oh. Actually that clarifies alot.

Facilitate is the key word. The SC judge left it to the fedral judge to define what it means, taking into account impact on foreign policy.

So, it is not necessarily just an empty word.

I would love that here

No, we don’t use machines in Canada, nor is there a plan to introduce them.

I had to double check myself, but seems the statement was correct. Elections Canada says that (see Voting Technology section in the link):

Elections Canada does not use automatic ballot-counting machines to count ballots or tabulate results in Canadian federal elections.

There are no plans to introduce Internet voting or ballot-counting technology for federal elections.

My background in is in Islam, not Christianity. This doesn’t answer your question but I hope it is helpful.

Most opinions in Islam are that: it is not a sin to read pagan texts or texts from other religions, but it is highly discouraged for non-experts in Islam, as, for example, it may weaken their belief in Islam. Many Muslim prostelyzers, for example, extensively read non-Islamic texts to help them convert other people to Islam.

However, I think a distinction is usually made between mythical texts and religious texts. Many believe that it is no sin to read Greek mythology because they see them as just fixtional stories, but that it is a sin or it is discourged to read the Torah or the Bible.

Omg youre the expert I am looking for! I would like to DIY an internet router that can communicate with whales.

Interesting idea to run a low-bandwidth link. It would keep us connected, but posts from disconnected instances would arrive late, depending on how much the traffic (posts between disconnected instances) exceeds available bandwidth.

It’s interesting to explore this more. We could, for example, prioritize specific types of posts, users, or instances to make those faster.

Not gravy. Op was talkng about gravy tea.

And apparently a mural… which was vandalized in February

Yeah it got me the first time too.

I hate you for this