Copyright and intellectual property as a whole is actually bad for artists and authors and only serves the interests of large corporations.
While I agree that this is true currently, I do not believe that it necessarily must be. Life plus 70 years is some top-tier bullshit, and no one who isn’t a corporate bigwig will fight you on that. But 20 years from release date is not, especially if enforced equally on all creative works instead of just the ones made by artists who can afford corporate lawyers. Imagine if we had some way to protect against art theft or freebooting besides the honor system. Imagine if OpenAI actually had to pay artists to use their works to train Midjourney instead of just saying “it would be impossible to do this without massive amounts of copyright infringement, therefore you should just let us.”
The idea of
coffeecopyright is good, but corporate lobbying and the current most-money-wins legal system makes our implementation of copyright harmful. TL;DR: Interface good, implementation bad.I think even the interface is just intended as a band-aid fix for the current economic system (not gonna say the C word). In a better world art and media would be a public good.
But I do get your point. Could absolutely be improved for the current system.
Capitalism works great. You just need to put in a few guard rails and be willing to step in and fix she once in a while.
guard rails
B…But that’s SOCIALISM!
Don’t get me wrong, I think the tankies and communist are as crazy as the trumpets. A pragmatic center voting base is dead.
The people who claim to fight the hardest for civil rights, actually wind up making the situation worse, not better.
I don’t mean the people who fight the hardest, but the people who are the most in your face about it…
Truly fighting for civil rights usually means defending some of the worst people that exist, and most aren’t actually willing to do that.
Reminds me of that guy who drove kkk members to meetings, he had a collection of kkk uniforms he was given as his friends quit. I cant remember his name, he was a guitarist or bassist I think. He stood for thier rights of free speech and ended up changing thier minds.
I like the 1990s Super Mario Brothers movie
It is far and away a better story than the new one.
They went so needlessly deep on the world building while being completely disconnected to the IP.
I’m so glad I saw this cause I’m getting a physical copy of it soon.
Years ago there was a guy running for president in Mexico who proposed chopping off the hands of people who steal, rob, etc. I agree.
I’m not sure whether I should upvote many of these because I don’t agree with them, or down vote because I don’t agree with them.
You can upvote and downvite wether or not a comment is relevant to the discussion, instead of the classical facebook like (originally, reddit was supposed to work like that)
I hate Nutella, taste like greasy watered down cheap chocolate.
The EU version differs from the US version, and even the EU recipe was tampered with and now contains way fewer hazelnuts. The pre-2000 generation was peak nutella. No idea what letter you associate with those folks, I’m way out of the loop.
not all Christians are assholes who touch kids. a lot of (not saying all) the atheists here are absolutely wild
this is just true. first time i saw the atheist memes community i thought “huh that seems interesting” then i looked at whats in there and “huh these people just hate cristianity and barely even give good reasons for it”
No one hates religion as much as those who got free of it. It’s quite valid reason.
It’s of course always big news when another pastor was raping kids, but it’s only the iceberg of the violence kids experience in religious homes.
it hurts my soul hearing how parents treat their kids because of “the bible”
if they actually read the bible they’d understand that no, you shouldn’t throw away your kid out on the street because they’re “sinful”.
I feel like if most Christians would read and understand the bible, they wouldn’t be Christians anymore
Yeah I had to block the atheism and religion related subs bc they were cringe
A lotta internet atheists seem to care more about hating the specific flavor of Christianity they grew up under and didn’t like than the concept of religion in general, but they view those two things as one and the same.
They cry foul at (admittedly, abhorrent) outlier behavior and use that as a generalization against a globe of different religious practices without knowing how they affect the day to day lives of various practitioners.
It seems to me they have a larger problem with vulgar hypocrisy and abuse of institutional power than the concept of theism in general.
Like the people hypothetically sentenced to work a restaurant service job so that they’re more empathetic to wait staff, I think many internet atheists would do well with a stint as a half-practicing Protestant who’s mostly in it for the potlucks or a Reform Jew who prefers to party most Fridays, but makes a point of showing up on High Holidays to catch up with acquaintances.
internet atheists
I’m really into theological debate/discussion but I gotta admit, I cannot stand atheist communities online. I want to believe all the vitriol and seething is coming from kids who haven’t processed their religious trauma… But I get the feeling at least half of it is adults with nothing better to rail against
My favorite are the ones that treat science like religion, and don’t recognize the hypocrisy.
I don’t think it’s treating science as a religion, as it is treating their atheism as a religion.
Internet atheism has just always been pretty bad. I enjoy a good joke about religion but some people take it to extremes.
when I first got on lemmy I literally never minded the atheist memes until awhile after. they started getting very extreme.
They may not all be pedos, but a lot more are assholes who hate homosexuals and trans persons, or assholes who want to deny women their reproductive rights, or assholes who keep voting for far-right extremists. Just because a lot of Christians are “nice people” doesn’t mean that their ideology causes any less harm.
I must’ve grew up in a very different household then most American’s. Practicing religion with my family the Christian ideology shouldn’t be any of those things, it should be to spread peace and love, “love thy neighbor”.
Anyone who’s a far right extremist especially in 2024 I completely agree are all assholes, but I hope I can reiterate that “Trumps Christians” is its own religion and ideology entirely, and a lot of other people, especially those practicing religion in other countries, are actually those peace wanting love spreading people that Jesus was actually trying to spread to his followers, we are commanded not to judge others for we do not have the right to judge, but also not to condemn others for the same reason. Instead, we’re commanded to spread peace and love to all of God’s children. That’s at least what I’ve been taught in my church, my family, and by reading the bible myself. We do not agree with those ideologies (being a general dick head, being judgmental, harassing people, restricting woman’s rights, etc etc) and anyone who does may believe in Jesus but are not followers of him if thats their purpose in life. And it sucks ever since Trump we’ve all been categorized into that group and painted as the same thing, which is what makes me despise him even more.
It seriously hurts to see how many Church’s and Christians have become so unbelievably fucking evil in the states.
Firefly was overrated and was right to be cancelled.
How can cowboys and hookers in space be anything but fantastic?
Fuck you! Fuck you AND the horse you rode in on.
Actually, you seem to one of the only ones to understand the post. But still, firefly was awesome, don’t go there
whats firefly
[TV series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series\))
Marketing should be banned.
Its sole purpose is to get people to buy shit they do not need, in order to make someone more money than they deserve. All through manipulation of your brain.
It’s the sole reason we are over consuming.
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Consumers would just search for those kinds of products themselves if they encounter a problem they feel the need to improve. They don’t need to be told those products exist.
This is objectively not true. Not everyone has every idea to solve every problem. Sometimes someone fixes a problem you didn’t know you had. Happens all the time in hobbying for example.
I can’t stand coffee. It smells skunky to me, and it tastes bad. It’s probably a genetic quirk of mine. But as a result I don’t get the hype for it, and I sometimes wonder if some people just like it because it’s cool to like it.
It’s definitely an acquired taste, I assume that if you get hooked on it, you start to associate the taste with getting stimulated which makes it seem pleasant.
Having said that, I don’t drink coffee (tastes awful unless it’s drowned in milk and sugar at which point what’s the point), but the smell is heavenly, and I like coffee flavour in cakes/desserts.
And I say this having tasted some of the best espresso known to man - my closest friend is obsessed and has equipment worth thousands, and we’ve sampled great coffee places including in Italy.
I’ve tried drinking it many times. In fact I used to drink it a bit when I was a teen, but the taste was “meh” to me and I was getting stomach cramps when I drank it. So I stopped. And over the years since then the smell has just got more and more skunky and unpleasant to me.
I don’t even like coffee flavored chocolates or foods because of my dislike for the taste of coffee. I put up with the smell of the drink for my wife’s sake (because she loves coffee). But sometimes it gets so over-powering to me that I just quietly go to another room.
I really think it’s something in my active genes that causes my dislike of coffee. Like my body thinks it’s poisonous or something.
If you don’t support the Free speech rights of the people you hate the most, then you’re against free speech.
Being against free speech is authoritarian
All censorship is bad…no matter who’s doing the censoring
“Believe all women” has had devastating consequences on women who have been raped or sexually assaulted.
“Defund the police” actually hurts POC and lower-income communities the most, because the rich just hire their own.
Everyone is all uppity about climate change, but what’s going to kill us first is deforestation and the overuse of agricultural practices. It takes about 100 years for soil to replenish nutrients. It takes 200-400 years for new soil to be created if left alone. We’re fucked.
What’s the believe all women thing? I haven’t heard that phrase before.
“Believe all women” was a popular slogan that arose from the Me Too movement, and is part of why it petered out the way it did. The thought behind it was that these crimes were so heinous, no woman would dare to lie about being assaulted or raped. The push was to socially and legally punish these men who were accused without the usual evidence hats required.
While eventually, the legal system did work out to find the truth, socially, these men were crucified.
It was painfully obvious to anyone not trying to push an agenda that women lie just as often as men do, and while it’s true that MOST of us don’t lie about such heinous things, some of us absolutely will, for the attention, revenge, or both.
Look up Mattress Girl, shes one of the more famous ones. Lied for the attention and the grade.
TES4: Oblivion fucking sucks. It’s the worst title in recent Elder Scrolls history. Clunky, waxy, ugly, awkward, and looks like an early prototype of Shrek 1. There’s always a clash between Morrowind vs. Skyrim, but I tell you… It’s Oblivion that sucks the fat dick between the two.
I feel like three of your complaints are graphical when Morrowind and Skyrim are quite ugly. But where Oblivion can get really annoying to me is the level scaling and how enemies become walls of health as you level.
The scaling is fine if you understand how the leveling system works. The leveling system does suck though, and it’s removal in skyrim is a big improvement. It’s very tedious to manage your leveling to make sure you use enough minor skills per level.
I disagree, the scaling isn’t fine, it’s actually awful. Morrowind let you scale exponentially so the enemies can’t keep you. Skyrim has the drauger training but they eventually stop so you can push through to become more powerful. Oblivion though let’s enemies get more health always and eventually it hurts you to level up.
You’re allowed to disagree with me here and I respect that. I just don’t really enjoy how Oblivion starts balanced ish, you create a spell and are a god, and slowly that spell isn’t enough anymore because you jumped around too much.
Mathematics is a specialised branch of philosophy - and there is (probably) more than one valid kind.
I think maths is pure logic, an abstraction of basic truths. Like if you put two things in a bag, and put three more things in there, there are now five things in the bag. I don’t think there are other valid answers. Can you explain what about it makes you think it’s a form of philosophy?
The intuitionists argue that mathematics precedes logic, whereas Hilbert and his followers (their position being Platonism today) argue as you do (mathematics has its roots in logic).
Both branches of mathematics disagree on basic logical principles (for a Platonist “A or Not(A)” is universally true, but for an Intuitionist it is provably false in some instances). This leads to simple properties such as trichotomy on the reals (given any number, it is <0, =0, >0) failing for intuitionism but being valued for the Platonist.
Godel’s incompleteness essentially tells us we can never know which position is “the right one”, as no system can prove it’s own consistency (i.e no system can ensure itself will never lead to a false result).
Both are acknowledged as consistent systems with respect to one another within academic journals. It is very much a matter of philosophy as to which one is accepted as true.
Huh, I wasn’t aware there are different bases of logic being used for maths. Interesting. That indeed makes it much more of a philosophical question
If you ever get the time, it’s a really interesting field to investigate!
