Honestly explains a lot of my younger self. I always prided myself as the snitch...

In school, regularly was hated because I was the one to destroy academic cheating groups.

One of my closer female friends cheated on her idiot boyfriend that I barely could stand... I ratted her out.

Later on that same idiot boyfriend was at least trying to cheat on his newer girlfriend... also ratted him out.

Later on idiot friends girlfriend was my girlfriend for 14 years... However my blind sense of justice also causes me to think that the world works when I'm not in the right position.. I wound up paying through the nose for her to visit a female friend across the country... who, didn't actually exist. Afterwards she broke up with me, and almost imidiately had a new boyfriend... coincidentally from the location she had just flown to... and they were married within a few months.

Got an awesome son out of the deal though... Honestly the part that eats at me, is just the realization that, there's almost certainly people that knew what was happening... that just, ignored it.

True, I suppose maybe there's an alternate route... like allowing WW1 to happen, but perhaps, finding a way to change the Treaty of Versailles to be less punative and leave more room for economic growth.

Of course there's so many variables still. Without nukes being used in ww2, would the cold war have stayed so cold.

Also worth noting with that definition of time travel, logically it would seem, time travel would be self eliminating.

IE, I go back in time, stop whatever I would consider the worse event in history... thus putting the world on a trajectory where myself or whoever invented the time machine no longer happens, leading to someone else inventing it, going back for a different reason, also changing the trajectory of history also eliminating the events leading to his time machine's creation. Effectively the dice keep re-rolling until we get a world where the time machine is either not invented or not used, most probably early human extinction.

At first I thought you meant that killing hitler would effectively kill everyone born after hitler since the conditions of their birth didn’t exist anymore.

Well I would say, actually a really good point there, though I wouldn't say "everyone born after hitler", I guess really depends on one if WW2 happens. IE you kill hitler, but Heinrich Himmler lead the nazi party and history played very similarly. then you could expect possibly generations to unfold almost identically to the original timeline.

But yeah it's the variation of the art career concept, except that I find the premise that hitlers actions were the cause... Fascism and Hitler were, a symptom of a broken country. Prevent the collapse, and the germans don't vote for Hitler.

Honestly I oppose the idea of going back in time and killing hitler. To me butterfly effect and everything. Just break into the hospital and swap hitler and another babies places, and poof you won't get the same combination of nature and nurture that created hitler.

Or even more important, wouldn't stopping WW1 be the key there. No historian here but there's a lot of complicated economic stuff that happened after WW1 that leads to the rise of facism. Would seem to me killing hitler (or preventing his rise in other ways), would just wind up with a new guy in the same roll.

2 fronts I'd say.

1. Yeah it makes it clear someone breaking in, was doing the effort to conciously get into something that he wasn't permitted to rather than just, opened the wrong door.

Also would point out, low knowledge low effort crooks, really 9/10 situations there's an easier way to get in than the lock. Your house is far more likely to be broken in by someone smashing a window rather than picking a lock.

The OG GOAT (se)

Well first off, torrenting doesn't "require" a VPN, you may want to look up your area etc... in most of the united states, basically if you torrent without a VPN, there's a chance that your ISP will detect it and typically they will send you a letter saying "we know you downloaded _____ illegally, if we catch you again, we will cancel your service".

which depending on what you are going for (like say new releases and big name targets are what they will be watching for the most)... that could take years to even happen.

Now as far as safe, and lower risk... you could always look up pirating on the IRC... it's not the most user friendly route out there, but that's kind of the point, it's ancient technology and for the most part no one bothers to monitor it.

and then of course there's just tons of bootleg streaming sites. bottom line anything that's not peer 2 peer, is pretty much impossible for ISPs to identify what you are doing on... and thus are pretty safe.

Well TVs... think about that again, Price of TVs has gone down, size has gone up. pick up a nice 50" or 70" TV for $200 or less.

Big, hard to move, fragile... Very bulky, very non descrete... and pawn shops are kind of over loaded with them so... big cut in price.

Games consoles are probably it, but obviously only a hand full per house, and thanks to the modern era having more digital games, accounts etc... New risks in ways you can get caught and you can't steal the games with it.

and what isn't... pretty sure in a Ross Ulbricht situation... there was more than enough stuff he needed to remain private currently open, and in the main files. Ulbright could have been on a live CD on a computer with no physical hard drive, and it wouldn't have helped him since they nailed him after he had logged into the silk road.

and security on pages is useless if you are logged in.

We're already talking the least of security problems (IE the device being physically confiscated).

In ross's case which hurt him more do you think, the fact that his system probably had logs of what he installed... or the fact that it was taken while he was logged in as administrator to the silk road? and it supposedly contained a journal... not system logs, but activities that he specifically wrote out detailing his daily activities.

The point again is someone gaining physical access to the computer itself, while you are literally in the process of doing things that you don't want known about, what you are currently working on is 100x more valuable to the thief, feds or whatever, than any of the low level stuff that the logs are likely to be recording.

As Mitch Hedberg would say

They used to use it

they still do.

But they used to, too!