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What’s red and hurts?

A brick.

That’s not the point. Trump is known to use the law to intimidate, even if he loses.

I swapped it out because it wasn’t working on my end, either (I think the site didn’t like me linking to the picture

Have you written anything? Have you composed or recorded a song? Have you drawn or painted a picture? Taken an artistic photo? Even written some source code?

Yes I have, yes I have, yes I have, yes I have, and yes I have.

And yes, I’m thinking about this from the point of view of a creator. It’s fucking difficult to make ends meet. Talk to any artist that hasn’t managed to get a salaried job as an artist (you have to be really, I mean really good at what you do) or gotten lucky enough to make it big. They’re saving money anywhere they can. They’re working second and third jobs. Honestly, on average, artists are the poorest people I know. Despite copyright protection being strong (put the AI thing aside for a minute, since it’s a fairly new problem). The lab results are in. It doesn’t work.

You know what they would like? To focus on their art, and not their financial issues. Oh, and many would like to not worry about the legal grey area/hellhole when it comes to remixing or rearranging others’ work. I’ve made an arrangement for a song I was fascinated with, but I haven’t released it, partly because I don’t want to deal with all the legal BS.

This was meant to be a real solution to a real problem at the dawn of industrialization; how can the person who writes a story compete with a person who owns a printing press?

You’re mixing up your history here. Copyright is much, much newer than the printing press. And even if you take that assumption, that calculation has changed, since again there’s next to no cost to making copies anymore. So now, the companies have used copyright to become gatekeepers while also keeping as much of the profit as humanly possible.

Why is the prescription a society where creative people are the only ones who can’t capitalize on their creations?

…except they can. There are plenty of media creators that get their audience to sponsor them, to varying degrees of success.

But honestly, if there’s no worry about food insecurity or housing insecurity, do you want to create art or just profit from it?

I’m not going to go into the slippery slope tirade at the end except to say this: look at how filthy rich companies like Disney, Sony, etc. are. They are that ridiculously rich because of copyright. Is that really what you want?

That, and it only solves one of the problems copyright causes. The problems in regards to using content to create more content is still there. The problems with massive companies raking in millions while giving the creator pennis is still there. The problems with access to content. All the spinoff issues with DRM are still there. To give a couple of examples.

The more I think about how to fix copyright, the more I wonder whether we really need copyright.

I mean, think about it, the original idea behind copyright is to protect the small guy who creates media and wants to sell it from companies that might want to sell it themselves. Well, it’s not working whatsoever. The small guy gets pennies on the dollar, while the big companies rake in the profits.

So honestly, let’s just abolish copyright altogether and work on more of a donation base (that actually gets to the artists, since they control it) which is already being used with video a lot, and to ensure that artists can afford the necessities, add universal basic inco… OK shit I’m at it again.

Really? That’s hilarious and kind of awesome. Where?

Can’t tell if this is photoshopped or not…

Oh god, they literally have one of those simpleshow videos in a Wikipedia article…

What I’ve never understood is the difficulty with blood pressure, as in you don’t have gravity pulling the blood down to the nether regions, making it hard to keep an erection. But how is that any different from when you’re lying down?

I mean, I really don’t see the problem here. So they move somewhere else. That costs money. And generally you’re hiring lower class workers. So… There’s still money being transferred down.

My parents: “no sex before the wedding”

Also my parents: “…and then we had no other option than to drink wine, and that’s how we became a couple.”

Mmmkay.

Honestly, it’s two years, barely anyone will even notice. There are people who graduate at over 30 and it’s no big deal.

Holy shit that’s just abuse at this point. For all you know she might be the cause of your depression.

IT restrictions should be much more conservatively applied (at least in comparison to what’s happening in my neck of the woods). Hear me out.

Of course, if you restrict something in IT, you have a theoretical increase in security. You’re reducing the attack surface in some way, shape or form. Usually at the cost of productivity. But also at the cost of the the employees’ good will towards the IT department and IT security. Which is an important aspect, since you will never be able to eliminate your attack surface, and employees with good will can be your eyes and ears on the ground.

At my company I’ve watched restrictions getting tighter and tighter. And yes, it’s reduced the attack surface in theory, but holy shit has it ruined my colleagues’ attitude towards IT security. “They’re constantly finding things to make our job harder.” “Honestly, I’m so sick of this shit, let’s not bother reporting this, it’s not my job anyway.” “It will be fine, IT security is taking care of it anyway.” “What can go wrong when are computers are so nailed shut?” It didn’t used to be this way.

I’m not saying all restrictions are wrong, some definitely do make sense. But many of them have just pissed off my colleagues so much that I worry about their cooperation when shit ends up hitting the fan. “WTF were all these restrictions for that castrated our work then? Fix your shit yourself!”

Yeah except it gets that much more difficult to get up when everything around you is fucking freezing.

So… Reddit is full of posts about stupid shit happening on 4chan. Now the fediverse is getting posts about stupid shit happening on Reddit. Now we just need 4chan to post about stupid shit happening in the fediverse and we’ve come full circle?

“All opinions other than mine are only supported by dopamine highs” - wow, what a great new way of being condescendingly dismissive!

OP actually left the consequences of climate change open. No, it probably won’t be a Mad Max inferno. Probably not. But we also don’t know where the tipping point of the oceans is, because they are storing a shit ton of carbon. Hit that tipping point, and that carbon may well suddenly be released into the air, and then the shit hits the fan.

But even if that scenario doesn’t happen, and the world is still theoretically perfectly livable, you mentioned one of the main problems: mass migration. We already see what that’s doing today. We’re not far away from World War 3 anymore. So yes, the question is perfectly legitimate.

(And before anyone thinks it: I’m not blaming the migrants, of course they’re not at fault, they have every right to look for a better life. The people at fault are entirely different, but it doesn’t change the fact there is a causational relationship)

As @myotheraccount mentioned, this is 330km/h, but yes, they still need drivers. On the high speed lines, the train can do quite a bit on its own, but you still need a driver to take care of the stops at stations, for non-high speed sections which generally don’t have the automation infrastructure, and for the case the something doesn’t work or go as intended.

There’s not much of a need to “keep an eye on the machines”, they’re pretty sturdy, made to go at that speed and have gone through a number of tests to ensure everything works the way it should. Unless we’re doing a test run, but that’s another story.

Reminds me of an ad from over a decade ago. (For those who speak German: youtube, sorry, I want able to get an invidious Link working )

A woman is sitting at a bar, and a man in a suit comes up and sits right next to her, taps his car keys on the table, and then lays them on the table and moves them towards her.

“400 horsepower, 12 cylinders, top speed 296…” He nods proudly. “Tomorrow evening 7 o’clock?”

She grabs a large key on her keychain and shows it to him: “10,877 horsepower, top speed 330, tomorrow morning, 8:43…” She puts the key on the table and pushes it next to his key. “…track 7”.

The ad was from the German railroad attempting to recruit drivers.