I used to pirate a lot more when I couldn’t afford to fill my media desires. Nowadays I’m a bit more principalled, I’m not paying collector prices for old super Nintendo games for instance. That shit gets emulated and if I’ve already bought a game on console, especially if I bought a standard and “complete” edition, I’ll likely piratd a PC copy for modding and the like.

Though sometimes a piece of art is created by a morally bankrupt company and while I typically just ignore the things they produce, sometimes I really want to try it, so I pirate it. 

Of course not, they’d call it crudite

Peak efficiency

Yeah I have a hard time with that already…

Like 2nd shift or morning shift?

Point 4 is more important than some may think, you can dial 911 without an active SIM. For this reason alone I have old phones in all my gloveboxes.

Plus a couple years ago my folks were floating the river and their dry bag somehow stopped being I dry bag, I don’t remember the story cause I wasn’t there. But, when they got home, I was able to set them up with passable phones while the ones they ordered online came in the mail.

You didn’t, we were the value and we’re here with you.

Usenet is still around, not hugely active but there’s a lot out there still