Nuclear weapons are much much worse, I'm not trying to argue that.
But something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer would be devastating, if I read it right - Tonga might have been related too (there was a "mystery eruption" somewhere in the pacific).
There's lots of of places around the world where paying for some streaming is not viable (even less so for multiple services). Same goes for stuff like video games.
I myself grew up in the post-soviet baltics and around the time when when I got more into gaming - my monthly income was around 400 and new games were around 60.
When Steam (and it's sales), Humble Bundle, GOG became more of a thing and my income increased - I just sort of stopped pirating games. It was definitely more convenient to get something on e.g. Steam than pirate it and jump through hoops to get the cracks working.
When Netflix first became available - I started using that. It seemed worth paying even for limited library. But there were lots of things that was impossible to get any other way than pirating.
As I stopped watching movies/tv shows - I stopped paying for Netflix. I don't thing I'd be willing to pay for multiple streaming services.
My current (largely overpriced) media of choice is audiobooks.
Everybody needs to calm down a bit. Poland has reasonable labour laws afaik. Overtime is paid and there are limits on the max hours of overtime.
And I don't know if its the same in Poland, but here in neighbouring Lithuania - employer can't really "force" you to do overtime, one has to agree to it.
I get that overtime sucks, but it's not unpaid US-like overtime in this case.
I've just given up trying to make it work with Radeon RX 580 under linux (and I'm unlikely to waste any more electricity by running it on my windows box).
I tried amdgpu-pro - opencl was there but folding@home refused to even detect it.
I tried rocm - same nonsense.
Would one simply stop if one were to encounter a intersection that has flesh-and-bones policeman directing traffic (like 'hey there's a meatbag on the road better stop')?
I looked over their Kickstarter and link to CAT engine itself, but only got confused. How are they going to change direction of the craft itself (I'm not sure what's the proper "space" terminilogy for "turning left or right is")? Or that is not needed?
I think it's just easier to paint yourself as good guys when you can leverage "us" vs "them" mentality. During cold war that was USA vs USSR, now its USA vs terrorists. Real beuty of that is that it works from boths sides - USA hated commies from USSR, USSR hated evil capitalists from USA. Now same thinking can be applied to both USA and terrorists (when you think about it - USA has invaded couple countries and is actively bulying rest of the world into shape).
During cold war there was USSR to keep USA in check so to say. Now there's USA and some people without any real resources behind them fighting out of idea.
Even sadder thing - both sides have people who believe all that "we" are good guys are absolutely true. I was born in USSR couple of years before collapse (I don't remember anything solid myself), but to this day my parents say that "then" things were better, everybody had jobs, everybody was happy (partly because vodka was water cheap, partly because nobody told anybody what really happened in places where happened things like biological or nuclear weapons manufacture). I can guarrantee you same exact things happened over in the USA.
When I say "happened" i really mean "happens".. I can't currently decide who next will stomp over my country..
I'm from former soviet country and even I personaly am a bit too young to have experienced full force of soviet surveilance - all this current NSA crap hits quite close to home.
And I do feel that i have more privacy. My governmet is rather to busy trying to shoot itself in the legs repeatedly to implement surveilance of any significant scale.
My online presence probably end's up in NSA hands though. Since it is rather insignificant (i don't use facebook or any other "social" crap) I don't think much of it. It DOES annoy me, don't get me wrong.
There are groups of people who e.g. 3D print drone parts, along with all the "posturing".
From my own experience - it is quite easy to go through more than $500 of money in filament alone.