PolarKraken @ PolarKraken @sh.itjust.works Posts 0Comments 34Joined 1 wk. ago
I called this shit from the beginning, that the tariff bullshit was just a legit-seeming way to make the market do stuff he could easily predict (by directly causing). Didn't realize he was literally communicating, nakedly, when to buy and sell though. Fucking WILD. And I promise before long he uses that exact mechanism to do the opposite thing and fuck all the folks who get used to listening to such announcements.
And nothing will be done. Stock market itself is such a fuckin scam, and I say that as a dude with a 401k.
I mean, "theft" implies depriving someone of something, to me. But I don't want to bicker about definitions if your position is more about morality of taking something for free than about the definition of theft.
For myself, I'll happily pay for things that provide fair value and a fair agreement / relationship. That includes donating to stuff that is offered for free - there are a handful of content creators and other services (Internet Archive, Signal, etc.) that I directly support, every month. And by the same token, I don't feel bad at all about enjoying something, for free and against their wishes, from a company or publisher that only offers unacceptable (to me) terms.
To me those are perfectly consistent. My dollars go to individuals and publishers that produce the kind of media ecosystem I think is good for us. Because - we must be clear - it's not a level playing field, and the shift away from consumer ownership is a plague of exploitation inflicted upon us. It's now metastasizing away from strictly digital domains, now to physical hardware, which is outrageous. Roku, for instance, can update your streaming device overnight and force you to accept their new terms, in order to keep using your device. This is not hypothetical, it happened (may have gotten company wrong).
Do you think the companies enacting policies, particularly ones prohibiting ownership outright, are operating from an ethical or moral framework? I promise they don't believe in anything like that. They screw us precisely as hard as the courts, and the court of public opinion, allow. And they're always trying to move that line in their favor.
Why do you care about pirating? Who or what are you standing up for, I guess I'm asking?
Oh, yeah that makes sense too. Bad premise all around I guess.
I mean, are you taking your definition of "theft" from the law? Or from your own internal set of ethics for right and wrong? Is it theft if no one is deprived of anything, because bits copy, and because you'd never trade dollars for the privilege of maintaining an exploitative relationship with a company but that is all they've made available?
If you're hung up on whether the legal system thinks it's theft - I dunno what to tell ya, it obviously does.
Edit: uh, maybe you're literally asking for how the logic in that statement works, which I read as just "if it can't be owned, how can it be stolen?"
I mean, say what ya want (and what we deserve in most cases), but the US has a ton of diverse wildlife. A crazy amount. And even more fun, it's super regional, including lots of pockets supporting healthy amounts of big and diverse fauna, including large predators. Many species of deer, elk, goat, we have moose, multiple kinds of bears, canines, and small numbers of various (badass and distinct) wildcats. Enough to reliably run into many of these in places, and run the risk in many more.
And that's to say nothing of the variety of smaller life, which is again regional and diverse. Just utterly bewildering. Uhh...guess I got carried away there lol
Some areas get little quail families, running along single-file. Dangly bits on their heads and all, it's the best!
The idea of elegant old French women doing sick vape tricks is just...really something.
Seems like even just the janitor (as well as all other employees) having an ownership stake in the company would be a simple and great start.
What is it about carpet stores in particular?! We had a "Shag-Rug-La" by us for a while and I wanted to give myself a lobotomy every time I drove past it. Lawrence of La Brea Carpets is egregious. Weapons-grade.
Dang, I know how that goes. Makes for a good dish for folks like us in that case, lot of it keeps for quite a while lol
That is a LOT of stuff hahaha I wanna try it!
That does make it tasty, I can stand to do a bit more of that too. Here's my decadent unconventional (but extremely easy) sandwich topper - crunch-less, sadly, but could probably be improved with some cheese crustin.
I like to melt some butter with red miso, about 50/50 or so? You'll know the consistency after messing around a bit. Red miso is super dense flavor wise of course and also doesn't mix easily, so yeah. Today I put it thinly on half a bagel, cream cheese on the other half, toasted, random stuff in between. You can add brown sugar to make it sweeter, or any kind of spice, also both lol.
Don't be defeatist. This is the shit that begins the rolling momentum that eventually causes stuff like that. Actions like you're talking about, absent obvious popular agitation, get treated like isolated random criminals, irrelevant and unsympathetic - see Luigi Mangione. And of course too much violence too quickly will result in extremely violent gov't response.
I understand feeling jaded but we need enthusiasm, support, action. The stuff you're saying is the opposite of that. But on the whole, I'm with you in the sense that I'd rather see 100 LMs than 1MM protesters. I think we're threading a tricky needle though.
Easy, teeth mash the plants into plastic 👍 makes sense if you squint real hard and have a few TBIs
Um. Think for a moment, who'd be granting these licenses?
Disappointing you, myself, and so, so many taste buds
Oof, I've never put nearly that much flavorful stuff into tuna for a sandwich, this sounds amazing. What have I been doing?!
Hmm, I don't remember much, and not in his books in general. Although I am the kind of reader that's wholly uninterested (no shade to those who feel differently!) - but it's entirely possible it's there and my brain doesn't really hold onto it! But put bluntly his stories are usually bleak, romance would fit a little oddly.
You say complacent, I say complicit.
Awesome!! And I don't think it was a series when I read it, so been a while for me too lol. And yeah, Revelation Space books are just so, so good. Can't say enough good things about the worlds this guy builds. Artifact in the meme would fit right in, lol