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New comment by idxoutofbounds in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

idxoutofbounds — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:11:15 +0000

> Ephedrine meth was like a party drug. […] You could normally kind of more or less hang onto your life. You had a house, you had a job. […] P2P meth was nothing like that. It was a very sinister drug. It brought you inside. You didn’t want to be around other people. You wanted to just kind of be alone with whatever bizarre thoughts your mind was now cooking up, and conspiracies. That sounds a lot like the progression of many stimulant addictions.

New comment by idxoutofbounds in "Steam has been banned in China"

idxoutofbounds — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 13:34:42 +0000

When I lived in China I rented a server in Hong Kong and ran OpenVPN, that pretty much worked fine. Back then VPNs weren't technically illegal I believe but that's changed in recent years. Major VPN providers would stop working for periods of time because China would keep blocking IPs.

New comment by idxoutofbounds in "Steam has been banned in China"

idxoutofbounds — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 12:22:31 +0000

There's a small minority of college educated youth that speak english and are able to use VPNs to bypass GFW.