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.
You think that opinion is gonna cause you to be bombarded on Lemmy?
Well it got me bombarded on reddit.
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.
not all Christians are assholes who touch kids. a lot of (not saying all) the atheists here are absolutely wild
Yeah I had to block the atheism and religion related subs bc they were cringe
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
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.
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
Militant Evangelical Atheists are the worst. Give me a good laid back agnostic any day.
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.
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.
I like the 1990s Super Mario Brothers movie
I’m so glad I saw this cause I’m getting a physical copy of it soon.
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.
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 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.
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)
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.
deleted by creator
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.
Linux is a useless hassle for most computer users.
I’d go a step further. Desktop computing as a whole is overkill for most users.
As much as I’m loathe to admit it, my cheap Asus Chromebook is likely more than what 90 percent of humanity requires. And most of them could easily just get away with using a phone or tablet instead.
I’m an old school guy. I love a good tower with a pair of monitors and stuff to do my editing and 3D design. But even those intensive tasks are getting better on smaller form factors.
It’s just not my world anymore. I’ve aged out of it.
To add to this. Most complaints about windows from linux users are just people who don’t know how to use windows, which is kinda embarrassing considering its the most used OS by a really big margin.
Linux based OSes are by far most popular globally. Windows is only super popular on desktops and laptops.
Isn’t that mostly due to Linux being widespread on servers, and by extension Android? (And if we’re talking Unix, then MacOS, too)
Yeah, Linux has some high 90s percent “market share” in server space. Android is a “cherry on the top” with vast majority of mobile phone markwt
I’m willing to bet that 95% of the users using a ‘Linux based OS’ would have absolutely no clue, and if you put them in front of a desktop with Linux on it they’d be as lost as anyone else.
I’m willing to bet 95% wouldn’t care, they have their web browser there and that’s all that’s needed.
I’d even go so far as to say most people would find a stable Linux distro with GNOME easier than Windows. The user experience for most part is closer to that of your Android phone.
That’s kinda my point, Android is a Linux based OS. But go to any random guy with a Samsung and ask him to install Minecraft on a Linux desktop and he’ll have a panic attack.
open app store > search ‘Minecraft’ > press install
It’s literally harder to install on Windows
Android and ios is easier to use compared to both Linux and windows
I don’t understand iOS. It’s super unintuitive. Maybe it’s coming from the fact that I grew up in the DOS generation and had to fumble around with everything to get it done, that I am just fundamentally incompatible with a hardened and uncustomizable OS? I keep looking for “obvious” functions that simply don’t exist, and am continuously flabbergasted when someone hands me an iPhone to do something.
Linux, Windows, Android? I’ll figure it out in seconds.
I also have this problem with apple products, but I hear people tell me it’s more intuitive. Maybe I just havent spend enough time in the whole ecosystem to learn the hieroglyphs.
If you need to spend time to familiarize, it’s by default not intuitive.
Black tea is superior to coffee, because the caffeine rush is much more pleasant and the crash is mild. It’s better at helping you focus and improving your mood. Tea doesn’t wreck your stomach lining and turn you into a raving looney when you can’t get it. It’s cheaper than coffee, pound for pound. The people who run the world are all tea drinkers.
Standard English breakfast? Or something else?
Nay nay! Loose leaf single origin or GTFO! Since we’re being controversial, let’s be a fun type and talk about what really matters. How long of a steep?! COME AT ME TEABROOOOS
takes his daily ritaline
Yeah such a mild crash when I drink tea in the morning
I enjoy both but well brewed tea seems to be faster and less work than well brewed coffee. Both to prepare and in cleanup / maintenance of the equipment.
Indeed! High five!
Capitalism has done more for everyone on this planet than communism ever will.
Alien Ant Farm’s “Smooth Criminal” is best version.
Despite the major problems with modern society I think we’re still living in the best age in human history so far.
Firefly was overrated and was right to be cancelled.
How can cowboys and hookers in space be anything but fantastic?
Get out.
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\))
