Maybe we should nudge vpzom? It'd be nice if we could get friendica groups working and incorporating better with the broader fediverse. (Also, I should try peertube channels. Being able to subscribe via lotide like a community would be a game changer!)
It federates pretty well, but definitely lacks in some important ways.
I was able to follow a friendica group which was neat, but I haven't gotten anything from that list yet. I suspect that unless they put a subject in the header it ignores the posts.
I was able to follow a friendica group which was neat, but I haven't gotten anything from that list yet. I suspect that unless they put a subject in the header it ignores the posts.
I like lotide, but the whole space is pretty limited. I think lemmy did a good job of scaring the sort of people who might want to participate away and lotide doesn't do a great job of telling about itself despite being a great and very lightweight platform.
Great to see there's literally nothing else going on in the world.
Man, we should probably just disband congress since there's nothing going on worth paying any attention to but this!
Man, we should probably just disband congress since there's nothing going on worth paying any attention to but this!
That's embarrassing. Only send a dick pic to your entire class if you're ready to smugly grin at the rest of the class about it.
I don't feel like this video really shows anything particularly exciting... I could build a robot to play with playdough too...
The purpose of copyright law is to promote the arts and useful sciences according to the constitution which grants Congress the authority to create that class of law.
One microsecond after I'm dead, there is no span of time you can give me a monopoly on my works that will entice me to create another work.
You could make an argument that investors in my work should get a chance to recoup their investment for some time, but a fixed time should be able to accomplish that. Give someone 35 years to make back their investment, and if the person dies they can pass it onto someone else.
What's happening instead is that this absurd length of monopoly is meaning that works are being erased from history because the copyright length is so long there's no way most works are maintained that long despite having no commercial value. That's the opposite of the stated goal. You can make an argument that something without commercial value isn't valuable and it doesn't matter if it was destroyed, but we have examples where something that was allowed to enter the public domain back when that was possible became valuable after the public discovered it and started to make use of it.
I put my money where my mouth is, and the graysonian ethic has something written into the legal page that releases it into the public domain 15 years after first publishing.
One microsecond after I'm dead, there is no span of time you can give me a monopoly on my works that will entice me to create another work.
You could make an argument that investors in my work should get a chance to recoup their investment for some time, but a fixed time should be able to accomplish that. Give someone 35 years to make back their investment, and if the person dies they can pass it onto someone else.
What's happening instead is that this absurd length of monopoly is meaning that works are being erased from history because the copyright length is so long there's no way most works are maintained that long despite having no commercial value. That's the opposite of the stated goal. You can make an argument that something without commercial value isn't valuable and it doesn't matter if it was destroyed, but we have examples where something that was allowed to enter the public domain back when that was possible became valuable after the public discovered it and started to make use of it.
I put my money where my mouth is, and the graysonian ethic has something written into the legal page that releases it into the public domain 15 years after first publishing.
"my theychild's first words were 'birthing person, please chop off my downstairs lockup'"
I tend to agree with this, but a lot of people start to point fingers at one political party or another when in reality it's a cultural decline involving both the people and the parties.
The danger isn't one party or another, it isn't left or right, it's governments utilizing overwhelming power in violation of basic human rights in pursuit of even more overwhelming power. It doesn't matter who does it, they're wrong.
The danger isn't one party or another, it isn't left or right, it's governments utilizing overwhelming power in violation of basic human rights in pursuit of even more overwhelming power. It doesn't matter who does it, they're wrong.
Normally I disagree with your posts on politics, but that guy is a total scumbag and deserves everything he gets.
Shame there couldn't be more consequences for being lying corrupt scumbags in politics. Hell, maybe even start holding the political parties accountable when egregious cases like this occur. After all, it isn't like the Republicans ever actually kicked him out. "A win's a win! Just like Stanos claims he said when he walked on the moon with Neil Armstrong!"
Shame there couldn't be more consequences for being lying corrupt scumbags in politics. Hell, maybe even start holding the political parties accountable when egregious cases like this occur. After all, it isn't like the Republicans ever actually kicked him out. "A win's a win! Just like Stanos claims he said when he walked on the moon with Neil Armstrong!"
Ironically, all they needed to do was STFU. Just stay out of culture war bullshit altogether. Hey everyone, don't you love watered down beer? Then Bud Light is for you! Everyone with no taste in beer can get behind that!
It's bad therefore it's unpopular.
My argument has been consistently that if we're going to use supposedly cheap green energy, it needs to actually be cheap and not just "well he said it's cheap". My proposal on that has been stuff like hydroelectric (and Canada has lots of hydroelectric), so people want to use the electric instead of dealing with the pain in the ass of fossil fuels for home use.
And if we're going to use electric vehicles, then they need to have a value proposition that isn't just "it's not as good as a shitbox from 20 years ago but it is a lot more expensive and you'll feel morally righteous". My proposal for that value proposition has been to go smaller and cheaper and more limited.
My argument has been consistently that if we're going to use supposedly cheap green energy, it needs to actually be cheap and not just "well he said it's cheap". My proposal on that has been stuff like hydroelectric (and Canada has lots of hydroelectric), so people want to use the electric instead of dealing with the pain in the ass of fossil fuels for home use.
And if we're going to use electric vehicles, then they need to have a value proposition that isn't just "it's not as good as a shitbox from 20 years ago but it is a lot more expensive and you'll feel morally righteous". My proposal for that value proposition has been to go smaller and cheaper and more limited.