I’m 70% sure that the larger truck exists because exceptions have literally been made to the law on purpose due to lobbying, which is why every company pivoted to them.
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).
“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.
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.
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Bruh what are you talking about. The “We need mods” post is still pinned in the community, first thing everyone sees when they browse the community itself.
This is not just power, it’s also a demanding service, done out of responsibility and goodwill, and that is proven by this accountability-seeking post itself we’re in.
We’re a long, long way from being Reddit, as of yet.
Huh, today I learnt, Minoans were settlers and had some settlements outside of Crete in nearby islands. I still couldn’t find info about Santorini itself, but you presumably have heard that piece of info somewhere, so I’ll take your word for it, random internet person.
Which should be embarrassing, because I grew up in Crete, we studied Minoan history 3-4 times throughout school, and had multiple school trips to the various ruins.
But nope. Just dates and languages, and some of the art (this piece’s clothes are historically accurate, actually. Lovely era).
This is all fascinating. Yeah, the island being basically an arms length around the volcano, would get it absolutely fucking blasted during an eruption lol
Btw, according to Wikipedia citations, the book on Minoan colonialism (one of the three sources confirming the settling of the island around 1300bc), was published on 1981.
So no, as cool as it would have been to have had a recent archeological discovery, this case was either a big lack of interest by the writers of the school books, or maybe just a touch of sanitization of history. It’s been done a lot to our school books. (Or maybe my memory didn’t catch a one-sentence note somewhere about “spreading to the Aegean sea”. It’s been many years after all)
We thank the Minoan tiddy for bringing us this history lesson today.
Though we absolutely should reconnect with that part of our heritage!
And you! You should absolutely be proud of your heritage! Your “mush of fried pork scraps and trimmings”(Wikipedia’s words, not mine) may not be “free-tiddy traditional garments” but…
I actually bet there’s some real interesting stories around this kind of traditional, basically “make food out of what we have” kind of meal. Like our “horta”, being what kept people alive during the various famines and imprisonments, during German occupation.
Here in Greece where the weather gets hot as fuck in the summer, and where we get an incredible number of tourists, it’s not uncommon to see some of them (one every two days for example, if you work around the busier places in the centre of the tourist city I live in) be braless.
Mostly younger (white, probably middle class) women, but I think people are slowly being liberated again with younger adult Gen z, after a big sexual closing-off that happened last couple decades.
France tries to pass an extremely unpopular reform on its colonized island on the other side of the world, allowing french citizens to vote after 10 years of staying on the island, that just so happens to be the world’s 3rd largest nickel exporter.
Locals, already fucked by years of colonialism and being economically disadvantaged, protested, and in the escalating violence, were suppressed by armed police, that killed 3 young locals. One policeman dies, days later in the hospital from a wound.
France locks down the airport and port with military, applies 12 days lockdown to the already curfew’d capital, and stations another 500 police men on top of the 1800, making for almost 10% of the population now, being french police.
Tiktok is banned, because it was said to be the main way protesters organised.
Their politicians claim no colonialism is happening.
This article sensationalises the violence of the protesters, and dryily describes that of the French state.
It is also ordered such that the heavier crimes against the people of the island, are placed after: a vapid introduction that “takes no sides”, one mandatory extra click to “load the rest of the article”, and a bunch of ads.
Biden administration sets 50 miles per gallon fuel economy standard for 2031 (www.washingtonpost.com)
The new standards are part of a broad push to get more Americans into electric vehicles, and reduce the environmental cost of driving.
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