Equal parts absurdist poetry and robotic dystopia. Wonderful.

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The problem is those companies (premiumize, debrid, whatever) are entities that make profits from filesharing and give nothing back to artists. That’s not morally defensible.

Filesharing itself is perfectly morally defensible, and in fact sharing culture is good for society (including artists).

So while they might be convenient, they also shouldn’t exist in the first place. Parasitic companies shouldn’t be rewarded for their patristic behaviour.

This is spot on (pun intended).

No, you don’t need that. You want it because it’s convenient and we live in a consumerist society where everything “needs” to be “frictionless”. Intentionally clicking on an artist’s bandcamp page to listen to a recommendation is fine. It’s a lot easier than mail order or taking the bus to the record store to buy a copy.

I get what you’re saying, but we need to question the parameters of the challenges more often.

What do you mean by “they control the app fully”? Something like https://github.com/abba23/spotify-adblock will let you run the app without ads, which kinda contradicts the idea they control the app fully.

The president of peace and all that.

We all agree this is just distraction and the arbitrary nonsense is really the point: “we make up what is true” is what they are trying to show.

Uh, there “Trump 2028” caps at the top left of the photo.

He’s casually showing world leaders his shitty hats and that he plans to run for a third term despite it being entirely unconstitutional.

I can’t tell if it’s complete bravado or sheer incompetence.

Or, according to the person who read the article, because the case is not what the title suggests it is?

I’m not convinced you’re asking yourselves the right question. Do you want revenge and punishment, or do you want a better society?

Don’t get me wrong, the USA are so fucked up currently it’s hard not to want to get back at those causing so much damage. I share that feeling.

But we know from evidence that prison as punishment just generates more violence and horror and doesn’t create a better society. Prison as rehabilitation does a lot better towards that goal.

I think you’re misunderstanding me, I’m not disagreeing with how unacceptable, reprehensible and un-fucking-ethical police behaviour is: the Police suck and are, in many cases, an unfixable organisation.

I’m disagreeing with the death penalty.

The fact that it’s traditional is entirely irrelevant and, at worst, an appeal to tradition.

End the death penalty.

The death penalty is an abomination. No.

I get the sentiment, and share it to a large degree, but death penalty? WTF?

Of course they will never let it apply to themselves.

Fascist regimes delight in and depend on arbitrary enforcement of rules.

It’s really a shame OpenWrt doesn’t make it easy to switch to Caddy as the webserver, as its file listing feature is really decent (and it’s a great webserver in general).

Yes. As I was saying elsewhere, he’s a journalist reporting on tech which includes scams, so of course he did actually used a real card to test, otherwise he’d be speculating rather than investigating.

And we’d probably not be hearing about this.

He’s a journalist reporting on tech which includes scams, of course he did otherwise he’d be speculating rather than investigating.

And we’d probably not be hearing about this.

We live in dynamic environments of complex interacting relationships, in case you hadn’t realised, so outcomes are not binary.

It makes them part of the cultural Zeitgeist. And when they are already famous, it maintains their currency in that regard.

And remember kids, protectionism is bad (except for when we do it).

And how inconfortable it makes that other people think this is desirable, especially people in positions of power.