Downloading a copy of media or software is just a copy. You can make infinite copies, and you’re not taking anything away from the creator for copying it.

Thus all piracy is ethical.

Wouldn’t this verification allow google to follow you better in the web, as they’re verifying your signature every time you visit a website?

“Inspection” as in you pay some bureaucrat $X and he signs you a paper so you can put a sign on your fking wall

Permit doesn’t prevent that.

City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.

OK but this is pretty ridiculous too

This is my thought as well. In the end it would be similar to bringing a balloon deep under water, the pressure from all sides would just compress the air inside the to match the pressure outside the balloon. Unless if the rubber had some bad imperfections that were to break under pressure, the balloon should survive.

Thought the same

@chatgpt translate above message to English

A huge reason I’d assume is soviet occupants in post-soviet countries. Correct me if I’m wrong here, many of Russians from soviet era living in Baltics with no Russian citizenship and haven’t applied and passed local citizenship, are stateless. This is due to requirements like knowing the local language

And make it default ;-)