Even to the (insufficient, overblown) extent that it happens, lifting “the poor” Han Chinese out of poverty by putting other populations (Uighurs) under slave labour instead, is not the moral win you’re implying.

If an ethnic cleansing is part of the requirements, to stop committing humanitarian atrocities towards “the poor”, that’s still an atrocity.

Disclaimer, the USA, just like every authoritarian state, is also disgusting and criminal.

I’m getting the sense that you didn’t actually watch the whole video, because your only two points in this comment,

In the absence of IP laws, creatives would be able to create their works, but they’d also be competing against companies that have the resources to monetize, influence the general public, and kill the franchise through poor choices.

And

It’s really important to know that the vast majority of people aren’t going to have the goodwill to tip or otherwise support free works, and it’s even less likely if a large company does enough marketing to overshadow an artist.

, are answered during the video, and I don’t see you arguing the points made by him, you’re just straight up stating the opposite.

And your first point,

Right now, a majority of creatives don’t own their IP in the legal sense, and they can’t stop large companies from milking their works dry as a result.

, is about how the current system doesn’t work to protect actual artists, yet does work to protect large IP-pimping companies.

“Reasonable control” is only possible in the legal sense, not the real sense, so I doubt artists care about it, outside of monetisation, which is what we’re attempting to replace.

Right now as we are speaking, the art of thousands upon thousands of those creators is being stolen constantly by legally gray AI scraping by huge companies, or illegally by smaller merch leeches.

The internet makes data protection impossible.

The law, only prevents the most egregious kinds of ‘monetisation with someone else’s art’, and is unable to stop the rest, for practical reasons.

If artists didn’t have to worry about being compensated enough… Would they still want to have “reasonable control”? Would we still “risk” them being “demotivated”, from being unable to forbid others specifically from making money with their ideas?

I think the human drive to create isn’t that neurotic. I think this kind of “demotivation” only happens for the kind of human who has been abused for years by the rules of the absurd economy we live in. And that’s what we’re saying should change.

Hey hey now. Don’t hate the companies themselves. They’re playing the legal game in the exact, only way the rules allow it to be played. If they don’t, the law and the shareholders fuck them up instead.

Edit: I guess tone is hard to convey through text, so let me be clear:

Companies bad.

But also:

Just hate the copyright law itself, directly. Its only reason for existence is so rich fucks get richer, safer, and should be just abolished.

(45 minute video by Uniquenameosaurus, who also has done an incredible series of videos on the practical ethics of media piracy, with a focus on anime as a jumping off point).

Thanks a lot, I will probably take you up on your offer soon, as soon as things settle and patterns start to emerge, because things are still very new and chaotic for all 3 of us 😅

Woo! Thanks for the notification too!

Me. I would. Sounds dope.

(Hi, yes, it’s been 5 months and I felt compelled to write this.)

I formally request you please bring out the puzzle notepad, and at least give us the riddle. Maybe with the answer in a spoiler

It’s written in this way:

:: spoiler like this,

for example.

::

but with three : instead of two, per set.

Lol

I just love when large organizations (governments included) skimp on something for monetary reasons, and get fucked down the line.

Too bad citizens pay the damages.

So… You can use it. As exactly described. By the description of the problem.

Sorry for being snarky, but this is exactly what the “paying people to use your energy” part of this situation is.

Oversimplification:

Sugar gives depression after half an hour.

More Complex carbs make you lethargic.

Fats wake you up and give you energy for some time.

Hormones in the human brain be wack so take these with many grains of salt, but they work as a rule of thumb, and help you start to pay attention to what your food does to your brain specifically.

I have the same exact problem too, and if anyone has better explanations for it please tell me too, but, since my cat is 6 now, and this has been going on since she was a kitten, here’s what I’ve noticed:

First things first, cats often (but not always) shit outside of the box as protest.

For mine, it most probably had to do with how clean she thought the sand was.

Mine was always this way when I also had that closed box, as well as when I was using silicone sand when she was still small, but without the box.

It’s only recently, that I’ve gotten normal bentonite sand (clumping pee, easily fully removed), an open box (ventilation), and clean the sand almost always daily, that she has almost stopped. And when The Depression hits and I forget to clean it for 4 days or so, she does all the things mentioned, I’m assuming out of desperation, to make the bad smell go away.

Silicone sand needed to be fully replaced, and the box be thoroughly washed often, because it would at some point stop being able to contain the ammonia smell.

The closed box, I noticed, would both, contain and absorb bad smells itself, as well as incentivize me to not clean as often, since it didn’t bother me when it would start smelling a bit 😐, but the cat had to be in a shut box, faintly smelling the ammonia for many many seconds.

Full disclosure, bentonite sand has a few studies correlating it with cat respiratory problems, probably due to the dust that cheap bentonite has packed in. I’ve decided that it’s still probably for the best to buy bentonite with its dust filtered out(slightly more expensive), since it helps incredibly with cleanliness (if your cat has to groom unclean paws, that’s going to strain her kidneys and liver probably).

Also, the sand is both extra useless weight, and makes cleaning harder, because it clumps worse. The more expensive brand, where they remove the dust, makes everything easier, and probably much healthier.

Not a connoisseur, so take what I say with a grain of salt but… Isn’t the appeal of it, the significant personal interaction? You can’t get that by ripping a couple vods. The ability to live chat (and throw paid messages their way), and have them respond, seems irreplaceable.

Crumply crinkly. Want.

My source is that I feel it in my bones.

It’s a late-stage-degenerated meme.

According to knowyourmeme (other comment by AirBreather), it started from a series of popular tumblr posts of a “Who would win?” format

Then it got moldier, then the mold became part of the reference.

If Ada says so, then uploading here is good enough on its own, but for the times that images stop uploading, I’ve had a reasonably good experience uploading to imgur.

You just need to link it properly afterwards, so it embeds. That was just adding a normal link, and putting an exclamation mark (!) right before the link, like this


Mine can get surprisingly close 👀 The Balkans are surely, one of the places of the world.

Oooh, had it via direct download, I’ve wanted to seed it for that exact reason. Mind pming me a magnet so I can assist?

Honestly, because troubleshooting gets annoying for me when I want to play a game, I have made a brain-dead algorithm for how to play games on the deck, and it looks like this:

1. Do I want to buy it on Steam? If not,

2. Does it run in Windows? If yes, just download and install in Windows PC, and then (Warpinator) it into the deck. Add shortcut to steam, use latest stable proton. That’s it. You’re done.

3. W-wait… It doesn’t run natively on Windows? (Old af games like Touhou 6). Just Bottles it, and finagle with the setup a bit, that’s gonna take some effort.

As a general rule, proton is a beast, and I have stopped bothering with Linux native piracy entirely.