I'd be more ok with this if the expensive specialists on board were actually making bank instead of really low wages.

He doubled down when called out. Claimed 'anyone else would do the same' and threatened to sue anyone criticizing his actions. Zero remorse or reflection.

There are also competing digital market spaces. You can only buy through Sony on PlayStation.

The DNC and the RNC basically want the same thing, except the Democratic Party is much more subtle about it.

The old RNC. The new Republicans have taken over and actually do want all the fascist hateful stuff. The old guard courted crazies and those crazies took over.

My wife's workplace tried to have them do dream journaling and then had them come back and report back to the group on what they dreamed about. This is a fortune 500 company that you've absolutely heard of before.

I mean sometimes it's 'let me suggest this foss alternative that doesn't actually do what you need it to do' and then getting mad that the user doesn't want to use a program that doesn't do what they need it to.

They can't do anything if you stand your ground like these people

No, they still can. It's not legal (for whatever that's worth these days), but they can absolutely just bust down your door anyway. We need to start treating them like they lawless criminals they are.

The system will not save you, at least not immediately. You might get let go later, after they've sufficiently punished your resistance, but that's it.

Somewhere along the way we built a system that doesn't actually require you to do or make anything. And that's been absolutely horrible.

There's no way any costume that looks that good would only cost that much

You're forgetting the part where there are 6 boar spawns that respawn every 2 minutes and there are 15 people waiting on the next spawn.

I mean 1/3 voted for this and another ~1/3 couldn't be bothered to show up to vote at all in 2024 after everyone knew exactly who he was and what he wanted so... As an American all I can take from that is that most of us are either for it or simply don't care one way or the other.

I no longer believe my fellow countryman are good people. They are at best, dangerously apathetic and lazy and at worst they are actively happy all of this is occurring. Or at least 2/3rds of them are.

What's the opinion on certain high risk countries where there's a high likelihood of the artifacts simply being destroyed? If I remember correctly ISIS and other similar organizations have burned or bombed several historical sites before.

Piracy is somewhat similar to vigilantism to me. My ability to consider it a negative is directly related to how fair I consider the legitimate methods available to be.

If similar efforts were focused on consumer protection laws as we do IP protection, I don't think pirates would have much leg to stand on, and they'd be seen in more of a negative light.

But since consumers are regularly fucked by corporations, all I see is two sides both doing bad shit and I'm not feeling all that charitable for the faceless megacorp. I also dislike pirates who pirate from small time creators. But that's about as far as I can care given the state of things.

We should be focusing on stronger consumer rights to truly fix the problem for all sides.

People have gotten way too comfortable with censoring speech. I understand the fight against intolerance and propaganda and how hopeless that fight can feel, but we've sometimes taken things too far and that's only going to hurt us in the end. The left is not going to be the one that will take these compromises to the limit. We will be the most hurt by every bit of erosion we allowed to happen.

Specifically, I'm referring to efforts to get right wing platforms taken down not by being banned by a Facebook or Twitter or something, but by attacking the infrastructure on which a right wing website it run (such as attempts to get Truth social shut down by going after AWS, ISPs and other basic Internet infrastructure). It's a similar approach as is sometimes done when they target payment processors and trying to shame them into banning these platforms from processing payments.

These types of attacks on speech should never be allowed no matter if it's the left or the right. We can ban people from our private business or gathering place, but we shouldn't be able to stop them from creating their own. And no, basic Internet infrastructure shouldn't get to play the 'private business' card. They are effectively the roads, utilities and other generic infrastructure of the digital age.

Those attacks are no different from the right's constant attacks on abortion clinics by attempting to subject them to needless and pointless regulations meant for full hospitals. Or as if we'd allowed a water company to start selectively shutting off water to places they don't like.

We need more protections for the neutrality of infrastructure (both physical and digital) and keep the fights firmly restricted to end user platforms. Lest we find that someday our enemies have taken these tactics and beat us with them with far greater ruthlessness than we'd ever use.

Personally I don't actually want physical media anymore. I just want digital media to actually be something I own.

Isn't Pokemon like... The biggest IP ever? Way bigger than Star wars or marvel or pretty much anything else? Not sure they're actually hurting. At all.

In most countries, governments protect citizen rights in 'public' or governmental spaces. Private spaces, like those owned by corporations are subject to far fewer protections.

As the world has grown more developed and more privatized, what is the worth of your rights, if nearly everywhere is now considered a private space and thus not subject to those rights?

I think part of a government's job should be ensuring that 'public' spaces still exist and that they exist in the forms and mediums most relevant to the culture and technology of the day.

The internet needs spaces that our rights are fully present for and that aren't subject to the whims of a private corporation.

The reason isn't really silly, I get it, but the punishment was.

In high school I spent a lot of time reading. Basically every lunch, every study hall period, etc. I read a fairly significant chunk of the library.

Problem was that I also tended to read during boring lectures in class, which pissed off a couple of my teachers and resulted in not great grades.

But all of their punishments were designed to punish people who hated to read. So my math teacher finally snaps and sends me to in school suspension... where I sit in a room and the monitor on duty is absolutely delighted that I sat there the entire day to read and even lets me go early for such good behavior.

I was later kicked out of honors courses and put into a remedial study hall situation. Again with a monitor who was supposed to make sure people were actually studying. Only way to get out of this was ... a library pass. Where I could freely read whatever I wanted. Never did spend much time in study hall.

The Disney genie was also just a scam. Aladdin explicitly wished to be a prince. Not look like a prince or be as rich as a prince or have a parade like a prince. But actually be one.

Instead he's revealed to be a 'fake prince' because the genie half assed his wish.

They didn't need to. Copyright enforcement was unequal enough that it only applies to regular people. Facebook downloading illegal torrents doesn't count for some reason.