This. Another Jan 6th is the best we can hope for at this point. If Trump wins, it will be much worse than the first time. If he loses, but wins the coupe, then we get a civil war. I don’t like how 2 of the 3 options are a national shit show as opposed to a failed insurrection (best scenario at this point).
Working on it
Wait, instead of metaphor you meant a literal example? Absurd indeed to compare rape to downloading something illegally.
Yes, that’s the definition of a service. Just not sure what your point is about talking about prostitutes as if one was steeling a service when they get raped. Steeling from creatives is rape or something?
Sex is a fleeting service.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here.
saying that those who create are entitled to the value of what they create.
Here I was thinking we all deserved a giant meteor.
The publisher example is one of a difference in power and you’re saying that IP is there to protect the author. Except this whole video is about how that doesn’t happen anymore. The law is written and litigated by those with power.
The corporations exist to extract as much ownership as possible from the creative class, it is not a proxy ownership by those doing the collaborative work. See the recent WGA strike as an example. Unions and co-ops are the proxies, not corporations.
Prostitutes can’t have a romantic life unless they’re paid to do so? This is such a bizarre metaphor, let’s see where it leads 🍿
Also: if there’s no consent it’s not steeling, it is rape. It’s really strange to think how because of someone’s profession we recontextualize the act as steeling and not rape. Ie it’s like saying one is steeling from prostitutes while not addressing the fucking rape. This is your brain on Milton Friedman economics - where your body is capital and it has a price.
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If you “don’t like politics” and are “not a political person anymore”, why even define yourself as a political identity? Does “conservative” here mean a political identity that rejects politics? I’m confused.
Honestly I cried when I heard. It encapsulates my own views on grief but is also prescient and speaks as a father would asking someone to comfort their son after they’re taken away. But his children will receive no comfort, they were killed as well. It is little solace that he was with his family at the end. It makes me angry beyond words so I will lean on this poem to communicate what I can’t. Which brings me back to this Refaat Alareer’s views on teaching and using English to liberate. I’m autistic, I struggle with language sometimes and it was strangely familiar to hear his view. I guess my own words to add would be (WIP):
Be open to grief. Be open to seeing others As they see themselves. Be open to seeing yourself In another person.
Invite in the sorrow of others. Know their burden Is much like your own. Know your needs Are shared by others.
Let yourself be changed.
Heard the poem on the radio. The man understood the transformative power of grief.
Fantastic read, thank you
I would have more sympathy for that argument if the same was applied to the government regulating land and taxes. It ain’t your land or your money, you have it on lease from the government so stop bitching and render unto Caesar.
Because YouTube doesn’t want you to skip ads? If the ad was just another part of the show, you would just fast forward past the ad.
We’re going to relearn this lesson with LLMs. Open source is a maximalist approach to productivity.
At first I didn’t believe. Now I just want to know where the new outhouse is going to be installed.
What’s wrong with us dunking on dumb takes like this one?
It’s “polite” and therefore right. The angry people are the ones being unreasonable and are thus wrong. They instead should write a calm sounding letter, submit it to the media that is totally not owned by the same shareholders that wronged them. /s
Imagine the libs actually taking up arms. I can’t.