I support this wholeheartedly.
SARGE
joined 7 months ago
Indeed.
I even sent them the related news articles about content I've had removed from my own devices, and still they don't seem to care in the least.
So I sent this to my parents, as they've spent hundreds, if not thousands on their Kindle books.
They don't really care. Zero interest in DRM-free backups that I can make them. They don't think it's an issue. They trust Amazon to not mess with their books, and that they'll always have access to wifi and kindles.
I mean, even if that is the case, so what?
Are other countries not allowed to have militaries anymore?
Space should not be militarized, in my opinion, but if the US is going to do it, then we don't get to finger wag at other countries for doing the same thing.
As I keep telling people, they keep saying "DEI" because even most Bible belt folks get uncomfortable when you drop the hard R they really want to say.
Is that... Chain link fence?
An extremely outspoken instance filled with people who simp for fascist dictatorships but ultimately consider themselves communist and some socialists.
Most would call them "tankies" due to their willful denial of the 198(9) Tiananmen square massacre as "western propaganda" despite non-western sources agreeing it happened outside of China.
Imagine if super outspoken trump supporters had an instance and spent a lot of time trying to lecture other people about how they're wrong when nobody spoke to them in the first place, then when presented with facts and logic they would respond with gifs, emojis, and a lot of claims that you're a CIA front/shill.
I know a few book collectors.
My personal favorite is a middle aged guy who buys hardback of mostly science fiction and fantasy books, in large bulk boxes.
If he's already got it, he gives it away. If not, new shelf filler.
He has a cabinet out in front of his house that he puts books in with a sign that says "Free books, please take one" and occasionally other people will leave one or two inside it.
And if he knows anyone that's interested in specific types of books, he offers up any extras to them first. All around pretty chill dude. Reads maybe one book a year.
The other ones I know are just collectors of old books from previous centuries, and don't even open them.
Collectors are weird to me. Why collect something you never plan on using? Stamps are one thing, but books?
If you're giving your printers arms and fingers, that's on you.
No joke, I started listing some things off as a proposed law to my in-laws one day, and both my wife's parents and her sister's husband thought it sounded like good ideas.
Right up until I informed them "congratulations, you support sharia law on the united states! You can't argue that you don't, because you were just praising it for how it represents good Christian values."
It's 100% because it wasn't invented by Christians. Or rather I guess, Christians mostly dropped its equivalents over the last few centuries.
I use shit bags for my dogs on walks, they're quite useful.
ICE on the other hand...
The problem is not the price.
The problem is Ai "art" is inherently stealing the work of other people, and not in a way that a painter can say they were influenced by some other painter.