The weasel humping a ball logo (IceWeasel).

I'm guessing he got his bribes.

I think the laws are just meant as a soft-ban. There may be legal complications with outright banning strip clubs. The no physical contact takes away what I think make up stripper's largest income source, and no nipples and alcohol makes it a less attractive place to go. I had a few hours to waste in a city once, waiting on a flight, and walked into one of these strip clubs. There was only one stripper there, one bartender, and I was the only customer; so I'm guessing it really did hurt the market.

I'm not sure I'm following. The owners of the code can re-license anytime they want, and even dual-license or license on a case-by-case basis. Would require a contributor license agreement to be practical though, and it looks like ffmpeg may not have one.

I think that's changed a bit. Hooters went bankrupt, and many local governments have heavy restrictions on strip clubs, such as no nipples can be shown, no physical contact, no license to serve liquor, etc.

PC gaming is an expensive hobby. I've bought vehicles for less than a lot of people's gaming PCs cost.

My grandparent's neighbor and friend was a murderer. Really nice guy. Us kids used to call him Santa because of his long grey beard. I mean, he likely wasn't nice when he committed murder, but I'm guessing he aged-out of his violent tendencies.

I think Rust applications requires lower developer effort than C. C is a simpler language, but that means more work for developers to build their applications on it. The "rewrite everything in Rust" thing does seem weird though. I personally like the more elegant languages like Haskell, but I guess those aren't really systems programming languages.

Yeah, I found zst recently as well. Quite a bit faster than xz/7z which is what I previously used (or gz when I just needed something fast).

Yeah, I think they have ways to block payments. Could use crypto though. Would make them much less profitable, since less people would want to go through those hoops. I guess countries like China does pretty intense DPI, and starts throttling and blocking connections that just exhibit suspicious-looking patterns, not to mention blocking every known VPN, Tor bridge, etc.

They could pass laws that made VPNs nearly useless (mandatory logging and law enforcement access), or could pass laws that made it nearly impossible to make money from running a VPN service (make VPNs liable for any "damages" they "facilitated").

The Alt-Right Playboook: Always A Bigger Fish explains that conservatives have a strong preference of hierarchy and order. They have this preference even if they are low on the hierarchy. They reason that maybe they themselves didn't work hard enough, weren't smart enough, or whatever, so don't deserve to be higher up. They gain a sort of comfort from "knowing their place." Those lower than them on the hierarchy deserve even less.

I think this explanation is spot-on, and is more or less true for every "conservative" I've known. I suppose fascism also has this love of hierarchy, which is what the Republican party really is now (or, at least, very similar to it).