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  • It’s source available, not open source.

    It severely limits what can legally be done by restricting modifications and prohibiting “commercial” distribution:

    You may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.

    You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.

    Non-commercial purposes is extremely vague by the way. Depending on the country - or even the court in a country - nearly everything distributed on the internet is for commercial purposes.

    For example, in Germany, only commercial websites have to put up a legal disclosure consisting of address, full name, phone number and email. Yet courts have ruled that every single website that is available to the public is “commercial” - only private webpages available to a handful of people are non-commercial. If anyone redistributed the software in Germany this license would be grounds for a successful lawsuit.



  • Honestly? I’m just continuing to survive for the most part. While not everything you wrote applies to me, a lot does. For me life is approximately a 3/10 - a passing grade for a difficult exam (Analysis 1 & 2, my behated. I got a 43% though 😎).

    Plus I’ve got a lot of plausible deniability left since I haven’t actually started seeking help which provides a lot of hope actually. I’d actually prefer keeping it over trying and failing to find help which isn’t really a great incentive for reaching out.

    I also realize that there’s not a lot that can be worse than it is right now. Maybe drug addiction? Still, the only real paths I see ahead are further stagnation or improvement. And while the though of remaining alone forever hurts (badly), I’ve got plenty of time left alive and therefore an incomprehensible amount of chances as well.

    Finally, as stupid as it sounds, what gets me through my day is a comfortable bed. I genuinely know no pleasure greater than snuggling up under a warm blanket on a cold night. Bonus points if you’ve got plushies to keep you company. Hell, I’m even typing this on my phone while buried under a layer (or two) of plushies an hour after waking up. It does make getting up more of a challenge though.

    Tl;dr Plushies and hope. At least the first one is reasonably easy to obtain.









  • Sure, but I’d argue the largest aspect is cultural.

    There’s a reason France’s protests are significantly more disruptive than those of other European nations, despite similar social resources and significantly worse police brutality.

    I mean, the US has denser cities than most of Europe. It’s not impossible to have large-scale demonstrations with hundreds of thousands of protestors in them.

    I suspect it’s just that most Americans aren’t all that interested in changing the status quo for the better. The amount of apathy is perhaps only topped by Russia.




  • not having enough therapists or having too many people who seek them

    Neither actually. The health insurances are allowed to decide amongst themselves how many therapists are covered. And this number hasn’t been adjusted (much) since 1999 even though demand has skyrocketed since then.

    Approximately 50% of therapists in Germany cannot accept public health insurance. Yet there is enough demand from the 10% of Germans with private health insurance ( + those who pay for therapy thenselves) to keep those therapists afloat.

    In other words:

    12.5% of Germans have been diagnosed with depression => 9.5 million people officially diagnosed which is certainly an underreported figure.

    There are ~24,000 therapists in Germany.

    As a result, there are 396 people with depression per therapist - meaning if every therapist worked 40 hours per week with 1 hour per client you’d have to wait 10 weeks between sessions.

    Now add all other mental illnesses which would require therapy and you’d get an even larger number.

    Sure, not everyone diagnosed with depression requires therapy. But this doesn’t excuse the obvious lack of paid therapists - which is openly acknowledged by the public health insurances but they are not legally required to change anything.






  • I can’t believe you out of all people would write this comment. Not only should you have known better, you didn’t even bother to think twice before posting something this abhorrent. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself for daring to post such a disgusting comment commentating on the action of someone’s cybercriminal behavior. I hope you will learn from this but not only do I not believe you will change, you will likely even double down on your wrongdoing. Still, I urge you to just read what you wrote, just once, before posting in order to mitigate this grave injustice.

    Which is to say:

    THE MEME GOES “WAOW,” NOT “WHOW”!!!