Snot Flickerman

and I believe since it doesn’t directly affect me, I don’t care one way or another.

I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

-G. M. Gilbert

Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his writings containing observations of high-ranking Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Gilbert

Sounds like you’re the traditional Republican voter. Give this a read:

https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/

The only person derailing at this point is the person who refuses to engage with other ideas and just repeats “I stand by what I said.”

You obviously did not make any attempt to understand Debord’s quote at all if all you took from it is “plagiarism is okay.” Maybe pick up a fucking book sometime, dude.

You can hard disagree all you want, you literally dismissed the ideas without even considering them, but sure, you do you too, buddy.

Thanks for the purposeful misreading and at no point making an attempt to engage with a different set of ideas. We’re done here and I will be shitting on you and your stupid fucking license vociferously from here on out because you’re an arrogant egotistical asshole.

It’s not a defeatist attitude, it’s that we have fundamentally different views on copyright and intellectual property rights.

I didn’t want to get into that part because why argue when we’re clearly on different pages, but since you want to call it defeatist and telling me I’m sucking corporate dick instead of wondering why I feel differently, I guess I’ll give it a go.

Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

-Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 1968

I was influenced in my thought on this kind of stuff by people like Debord and Mark Hosler from Negativland.

To mangle a quote from Hosler from a video I haven’t been able to find online in almost 20 years:

“If you want to have control over your art: Keep it to yourself. Keep it in your home. Don’t show it to people.”

As Dawkins theorized with memetics, when an idea is accepted into a new mind, the idea propagates and changes as it moves between people. Once that idea has been ingested by someone else’s mind, you can’t take it out of their mind again. They are already generating new ideas based on the meme of your art, thought, ideas. Copying each other is literally just how human communication works, and all this work to lay claim over it is at the very best superfluous and at the very worst a gross instinct of domination and control as opposed to sharing.

Creative Commons doesn’t even offer the license that Negativland helped develop anymore.

Am I giving up my rights or am I living in the actual real world of how real human communication actually works? If I wanted control over these ideas, I wouldn’t bother sharing them.

I’m in the USA, I’ve been seeing this harrowing bullshit for a long time. Long before it affected me personally. I’ve been angry about it for a long time. Nothing changes, everything gets worse. I’m just a statistic. It is what it is.

Thank you for the kindness, however. The kindness does matter.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest that Zelenskyy probably isn’t stupid enough to not be aware of that already.

Expect a lot of fearful people who are expecting their medicaid to get cut and lose access to healthcare.

As someone with cancer, that’s what I’m going through.

Not much can be done. The suffering is the point. The majority will not stand up for people like me.

real issues

Really not trying to be rude, but it’s like going out dressed up like a clown, and then wondering why no one takes you seriously.

The person dressed as a clown could still have cancer, but people aren’t gonna ask about your health because you’re dressed like a clown. Perception sets expectations.

To a lot of us, the licensing text is silly and superfluous, sorry. The courts the world over prioritize corporations over individuals and if you try to sue an AI company for scraping your comments… no offense but you’ll probably lose unless you’re a secret billionaire. That’s why it’s silly and superfluous, because the likelihood of you actually being able to protect them as intellectual property is near zero.

You literally put it in every comment, and thus, people look at you like you’re dressed like a clown.

Nyet.

Well I guess they would just have to wait to get that word in since their undersea cables were cut.

Seriously though, good point, it would absolutely fuck over island nations.

Satellite internet may be slow, but there’s a good chance a lot of traffic could get routed through it.

It would really only separate the Americas from Europe/Africa/Asia

I think it’s hilarious that Sony was so scared of Bluray failing and becoming another Betamax that they basically bought out any future from under HD-DVD which probably would have been more successful (like VHS).

In the end, streaming won the day and Blurays are already a thing of the past.

To be clear, the first Blurays were coming out in June 2006, Netflix began internet streaming in January 2007, barely six months later.

Whoopsie doodles Sony you fucking idiots.

(I mean there’s a lot of reason streaming sucks but fuck Sony for real.)

I paid for a lifetime pass like six years ago or more. It was definitely before Jellyfin was well known or well developed.

I’m probably gonna keep using it until they do the whole “lifetime is over” crap these kind of companies usually do.

I’ll at least have gotten my moneys worth.

Got a specific video you could suggest from them?

xfce is fucking king shit for laptops, imho

First image is from a film about a submarine…

Hmm, yes, the US Navy uses Linux on their nuclear subs, this is correct.

Second image is from a film about a lighthouse…

Lighthouses indeed have Windows.

Meme checks out, carry on.

because of blatant racism.

Don’t forget ableism, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny.

a DEI

A diversity, equity and inclusion?

I’ll not mince words here, using the acronym like this is purposeful with the intent to undermine the entire point of diversity, equity,and inclusion initiatives.

If that is not your intent, Don Dickle, then consider rephrasing and never using such a phrasing again.

Sagan wrote a lot of stuff that was right on and makes me sad, too.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.