Same here, I am connecting from Turkey and we are also banned.
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> Another reason for increasing gas demand might be related to global drought. [...] Maybe other countries have similar problem
AFAIK, that's also the case right now here in Brazil. The rain in most hydro power basins has been much lower than the long-term average, and to prevent the reservoirs from becoming empty (which would be a disaster, not only because of other water uses like drinking and irrigation, not to mention the damage to the ecosystem from the rivers becoming dry, but also because there is not nearly enough non-hydro power generation capacity to power the whole country), there has been an increase in the use of thermal power generators, many of them powered by natural gas.
He litteraly got a TATTOO to say he wouldn't never do this. And do you really think he would kill himself without posting a last tweet? He is either still alive and escaped out of jail, or murdered.
The guys been in prison before and seemed to enjoy it, posted pictures from prison in the dominican republic which is way worse than spanish prison. The guy talked about being content a week ago, "I'm old and content with food and a bed", he felt bad for the young people who were afraid of prison. He was still able to tweet and enjoyed interacting with people.
If you think he killed himself, you don't understand how humans work, plain and simple.
If there's anything I've learned in my life, it's that I don't understand how humans work. Which is why I'm pretty skeptical of your implicit claim that you do know how humans work.
> If you think he killed himself, you don't understand how humans work, plain and simple.
Suicide doesn't involve humans working as they should, and anyone who pretends to understand suicide, or understand what motivates people to kill themselves, or believes anyone to be incapable of killing themself, is mistaken. I hope you never find out how mistaken you are.
Unless they’ve attempted it, which many people alive today have. I suspect even more have seriously considered it. But I agree that it is an acutely foreign place relative to the average human experience.
You bought a cable for your phone yesterday. Why don't you buy another one? Don't you wanna buy? You sure? Here are the best single cables in your area ready to be hooked.
To spell it out: it takes an increasing amount of effort to avoid any of your interests being tracked, logged, and almost immediately used in ways that you already know will be destructive. This is also an IT professional and a programmer saying this, so they do not want your advice. The fact that they can use many, many countermeasures which require many, many rabbitholes of research, that as a programmer they are able to understand (although they will have to be continually updated) is not a way to fix that fear it's the manifestation of that fear.
After 9/11 and the Patriot Act, librarians fought the government to keep the reading habits of patrons private as a core duty like doctors pledge to do no harm. Now it's difficult to get people to understand why clicking through to an attractive hammock while browsing Amazon registering in 900 databases and manifesting in ads and cold calls selling tropical vacations and being flagged on some government system as 2% more likely to be a flight risk if let out on bond (who am I kidding, AI doesn't give percentages, it just gives conclusions, looking at a hammock might be that stray pixel that can turn an OCR "O" into a "Q") - difficult to get some people to understand why that would make you nervous.
The answer to that isn't "use TOR to get to a VPN to browse amazon, and pay for that with a burner debit card loaded with bitcoin" or whatever works this week. There isn't really a hammock.
edit: also Amazon has that figured out, some researcher there figured out that they can identify you based on your click patterns and timing. Right now you can choose between 1) an app that will just click on everything silently, or 2) another app by a professor at some midwestern university that will jerk around the timing and positioning of your clicks in a way that throws your fingerprint off. The first app has been banned by every store, and triggers 80 warnings and a waiver that has to be signed with two-factor even if you manage to root your phone and sideload it. You have to compile the second app yourself, with a weird toolchain, and it draws in 640Mb of npm libraries. It's already been updated three times in response to Amazon's countermeasures, and the professor just wrote a paper about the entire method probably being ultimately doomed.
> figured out that they can identify you based on your click patterns and timing.
This isn't restricted to just Amazon either; as I understand it, this is the core of the current reCaptcha version (and even more so, its evil twin, reCaptcha V3, which is seemingly so effective it can rely on those mouse events exclusively in most cases)
Women just love it when random internet dudes pull the "if I were a woman you couldn't point out how trite and pointless my complaint is, so let's just assume I am a woman and you shut up now" card. It's so cool for them to be the exemplars of the trite and the pointless.
