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Cake day: August 30th, 2024

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  • I think it’ll just keep sinking for a long time. The US has been hell for a very long time. It’s just gotten worse.

    It’s illegal to revolt against the state, and it’s illegal for individual states to seek independence. And that’s for the nation with the strongest armed forces in the world.

    I predict a slow, boring descent into a corporatist dystopia.




  • I wonder if someone’s made a joke like this in a science paper before. Something to the effect of “we don’t understand what’s happening in our experiment as it seems to break the laws of physics. Perhaps the physics police just isn’t around to enforce them.”










  • Their only chance at a defense (and it’s incredibly bad) is arguing that they only stole the stuff but didn’t distribute it to others. Kinda like buying drugs is typically not as severely punished as selling them.

    But yeah I really don’t think copyright laws are gonna change in a way that makes happy little individual piracy easier. Meta might want that at this very moment, but they’ll for sure feel differently about THEIR intellectual property.

    Without even thinking about big vocal IP holders like Disney.