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Cake day: March 22nd, 2026

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  • Downsides:

    • websites will entirely reject your connection in 80% of cases, the rest will throw a captcha at you at every single step
    • some websites that require a login will ban your account on creation with a Tor IP
    • regardless of whether or not you use bridges or obfuscated nodes your government does absolutely know you are using Tor, lol, you are connecting to Tor bridges, oppressive governments especially are monitoring them 24/7 and blocking new ones as they pop up
    • there’s a risk that the node you connected to is literally ran by your government (or someone else malicious)

    I appreciate you running a node yourself and potentially helping some people at least get some connection when no other alternative works, but don’t downplay the severity of proper state surveillance.


  • Mandatory military service breeds corruption and violence, there’s a reason many countries abolished it. You are putting hundreds of dumbass teenage boys, whose parents weren’t rich enough to afford a waiver, all together governed by people who intentionally went into service (often not the brightest kind to say the least) and expect good things to happen. Countries that have immediate concern for invasions from neighbours should invest in an actual paid standing army, if they can’t - too fucking bad.