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This week we're talkin' midterms and one very short term. England has been especially interesting these last few months, and we're always happy to have Toby Young with us. He has much to say about the lightning-fast deterioration of Liz Truss, and the Conservative Party that may go down with her. Then Jim Geraghty returns to breakdown this peculiar midterm cycle. He gets into Fetterman, Oz, Walker, Abrams, O'Rourke and a few local races.

Steve Hayward fills in for a jet-lagged Peter. He, James and Rob chat about the big semiconductor restrictions the Biden administration and they have a great time laughing at the greenies who can't even get VW to submit to their demands.

Hosts:
James LileksRob LongSteve Hayward
Guests:
JGJim GeraghtyTYToby Young

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  • kedavis@kedavis
    ReplyingtoDotorimuk

    Dotorimuk (View Comment):

    I tried to use Express VPN to watch US Netflix, and got detected and blocked immediately.

    Yeah the "pretend to be in another country" doesn't really work for Netflix etc, unless they want it to. Even if your IP says you're in another country, you have to login to your account and then they know who you are, and where you really are.

    Also, the VPN servers will be using the same IP for multiple people, so if Netflix etc see a bunch of US customers trying to access programs from an IP in Australia or something, it becomes easy to just block that IP.

  • Dotorimuk@Dotorimuk
    Replyingtokedavis

    Dotorimuk (View Comment):

    I tried to use Express VPN to watch US Netflix, and got detected and blocked immediately.

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Yeah the “pretend to be in another country” doesn’t really work for Netflix etc, unless they want it to. Even if your IP says you’re in another country, you have to login to your account and then they know who you are, and where you really are.

    Also, the VPN servers will be using the same IP for multiple people, so if Netflix etc see a bunch of US customers trying to access programs from an IP in Australia or something, it becomes easy to just block that IP.

    So, I think the ad copy needs to change, because it doesn’t work.

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