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Password sharing is not piracy any more than loaning your friend a DVD or watching a movie with your family is piracy. The service is already paid for. Execs just consider sharing to be eeeevil because they can’t exploit every individual person.
coming out of my cage and i’ve been doing just
not good
I very much appreciate that Disney practically designed Baby Yoda for the sole purpose of getting people desperate to subscribe to Disney+, now Baby Yoda is becoming a mascot for internet piracy and the mouse is furious. Absolutely iconic.
Couldn’t you just pause it
oh my sweet summer child
Couldn’t you just pause it???😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
COULDN’T YOU JUST PAU-AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pause?!?!
PAUSE!?!?!?!?!?!?
Pause???? 😂😂😂😂 Oh man, how old is this poor kid?
PAUSE?????
I read this study by @universityofbristol that used ai to model vision in different types of animals. It makes big cats a lot more terrifying. Deer and antelope like to hang out with birds, and the birds give warning calls when they spot a predator. From the deers perspective, the birds must have some psychic ability. Since deer can’t experience these colors, they probably can’t imagine that predators are a completely obvious color to other animals. There’s probably a lot of things that we cannot see, don’t have the words for, and don’t have the capacity to imagine, but they exist. Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER
Fair point. Back in the 90s, Clinton had an aggressive plan for the “National Infrastructure Initiative”.
Verizon, AT&T, BellSouth, CenturyLink and others got $200 Billion in funding, plus tax breaks, favorable changes to laws, and other perks in exchange for a commitment to upgrade the telecommunications infrastructure across the nation to all neighborhoods rich and poor.
Specifically there was supposed to be fiberoptic lines run to every house capable of running at least 50mpbs up and down and up to 500 channels of video costing the average consumer around $50/month. This fiberoptic system was by law supposed to be open to ALL competitors and not be a Comcast owned set of wires or a Time Warner set of wires. This was written to PREVENT area based monopolies and allow everyone to access a “free open market” of service providers.
There were even specific deadlines and goals to reach by state. At least 50% of Pennsylvania households were to be hooked up to this fiberoptic system by 2004. At least 75% of New Jersey by 2005….
Then the telecommunications industry came back and said, “Hey… Look theres been a lot of mergers and acquisitions going on so no one really knows where the money is anymore, not to mention price increases all around…. Give us ANOTHER $200 Billion so we can finish.”
All told, the direct payments, tax incentives, regulation cuts, etc have cost the US almost $5 TRILLION since the 90s.
Do you have fiberoptic internet in your house? Do you have a market of internet service providers competing to provide high speed service to your home? Do you pay less than $50/month for your TV and Internet service?
No?
Then you see that the telecom industry has not fulfilled their side of the bargain and have earned the penalties that are coming their way.
If you paid someone to build a house on land that you own, you wouldn’t keep paying the builders rent as if they were your landlord. You might hire them for routine maintenance if they did a good job though. That’s your monthly bill, routine maintenance of a system that we the people are supposed to own.
Nationalize all telecommunications infrastructure. We paid for it, they were just the contractors who built it and never left. They did a shitty job, never met any of their deadlines, and THEY DONT OWN IT.
I remember last year there was a post that was really excited about the concept of community-created, community-run and community-owned internet and how simple it is and projects creating it in working class Detroit neighborhoods (much more exciting and empowering than internet owned and run by a neoliberal surveillance state IMO) but now these telecom corporate lobbyists have funneled their vast resources to roadblocking it or making community internet illegal in 26 states
A further update to that article was posted a month and a half ago.
what if public libraries were open late every night so that:
- children and teens who cant get home until a later time have a safe, warm, well lit, populated area to socialize, charge devices, rest, etc
- children and teens have a safe place to go to stay away from danger
- people who have jobs that take up most of the day would still have time ANY DAY OF THE WEEK to go use the libraries facilities (printing, computers, etc)
This is exactly what public libraries are trying to achieve - public libraries as a third place is a whole thing - it’s just that the funding isn’t there (yet).
Libraries need and deserve so much funding
thinking about the statement that all maladaptive coping mechanisms were helpful and, well, adaptive, at some point, and that they become maladaptive when the circumstance changes or when their detriments outweigh their benefits, and how the framework of “this is no longer helpful to you” is probably better than “this is a bad habit/this is bad for you.” How much better “you don’t have to live like that anymore” feels than “that’s a bad habit you picked up when you were in a bad place.” “It’s ok, you can look now,” vs “you’ve been tainted/infected/sullied by a previous bad circumstance.”
Oh look, I found a summary of the entire Harry Potter series:
“In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness —from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis.”
— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (via decadent-romanticism)
your 20’s are all about finding THE wackiest, THE ugliest, short-sleeve button-up shirts that no one in their right mind would wear, and then wearing them as much as possible
Customer Service Wolf in “Weird”
“If capitalism were simply a way to meet material needs, it would make no sense that people work harder now that less labor is required for production. But capitalism isn’t just a way to meet material needs; it’s a social system based in alienated relationships. As long as the economy distributes access to resources according to wealth, advances in manufacturing technology will simply force workers to seek other livelihoods. The machine no longer needs us, but it still needs us to keep working.”
— work (via becoming-vverevvolf)
Mr Ratburn from Arthur is gay! It was a straight bait and switch! Oh my god!
Mr Ratburn and his husband Patrick
