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are you cis or trans, and if trans are you transmasc or transfem? it doesnt say in your bio anywhere so i was just wondering
Does anyone remember when you weren't supposed to tell people online your personal info and it was weird and suspicious to ask for it I miss that sometimes
God I miss basic comprehensive internet safety guidelines. When it was normal to not give out all your personal details.
Hi! I was wondering if you please explain the function of "it" in sentence "It behooves the athlete to keep his grades up." What is "it"? Thank You!
it's a dummy pronoun or dummy subject! grammatically, english can't have an empty space where the subject should be, so in cases where there isn't really a referent we just plug in this semantically empty word for the syntactic vibe.
dummy pronouns, unlike regular pronouns, actually specifically do not have a referent! try replacing "it" in the ask with this phrase, and you get:
*the risk of losing a scholarship behooves the athlete to keep his grades up
which doesn't grammatically make sense – behoove doesn't take a subject that way! (which is why i wrote it with an asterisk; that's how an ungrammatical utterance is marked in linguistics literature.) "the risk of losing a scholarship" might be an implication of the statement, but you can't slot it in there without restructuring the entire phrase.
its so insane to me how people will maintain the perspective that occupying armies have to fight by carpet bombing villages and refugee camps because theyre dealing with an enemy that blends in with civilian populations and not realize or refuse to admit thats because theyre fighting civilians who are forced to take up arms against an occupying power
Its been too long since I've properly campaigned for Mona's initiatives on my main blog! Since the last update we have a wide array of projects your donations have contributed to!
She has distributed essential hygiene kits including pads for women!
And a lot lot lot of food package distributions as you can see below!
Please do not hesitate to donate! Every single dollar helps!! P*ypal.
G*f*ndme for distribution of necessities.
G*f*ndme to help Mona and her family.
Instagram to track progress + above links.
(If you live in India or Pakistan and want to donate, contact her through the means listed on her account).
Happy 21st of September!
"But this characterization confuses IA’s practices with traditional library lending of print books. IA does not perform the traditional functions of a library; it prepares derivatives of Publishers’ Works and delivers those derivatives to its users in full. That Section 108 allows libraries to make a small number of copies for preservation and replacement purposes does not mean that IA can prepare and distribute derivative works en masse and assert that it is simply performing the traditional functions of a library." Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive, No. 23-1260, at 31 (2nd Cir. Sept. 4, 2024).
"Still, IA argues that the third factor weighs neutrally because 'copying the entire work is necessary for Controlled Digital Lending.' Appellant’s Br. at 43 (cleaned up). As IA itself recognizes, this argument hinges entirely on its assumption that its use of the Works is transformative.7 But IA does not scan the Works in their entirety to achieve a transformative secondary purpose; it scans the Works in their entirety to substitute IA’s digital books for Publishers’ print books and eBooks." Hachette, No. 23-1260, at 42-43.
"7. IA faults the district court for improperly 'collaps[ing] the first and third factors.”'Appellant’s Br. at 44. But IA itself acknowledges―on the same page of its brief―the interrelatedness of the first and third factors in this case. See id." Id. at 42.
And that is how a court uses a citation to call your argument not only wrong, but disingenuous.
"IA’s first argument is a simple one: because its Free Digital Library is a transformative use of the Works, it cannot serve as a substitute for the originals. This argument, like numerous other arguments raised by IA in this appeal, is premised on its assumption that its use of the Works is transformative. But there is nothing transformative about IA’s use of the Works or its adherence to CDL―its digital copies serve the same purpose as the originals." Hachette, No. 23-1260, at 47.
This is what any person with any passing familiarity with copyright law has been screaming about the whole time. IA could have made a version of "CDL" designed to try to push the boundaries of copyright law in a positive direction, expanding a right to digital access. But they didn't do that. They just straight-up pirated books, got away with it for a bit, decided to abandon all pretense of "control" and just distribute their copies by the 10s of thousands, and now are trying to pretend piracy is transformative. When, no it isn't. (Even if you think it should be - fair use has a specific legal definition, and piracy doesn't cut it.) You can almost see the court's bafflement in the opinion - the IA (and, bluntly, the EFF) are trying to hammer their policy argument into a fair-use shaped hole, and it's just widely, obviously, legal nonsense.
"To the extent IA faults Publishers’ lack of empirical data, it forgets the burden of proof. Recall the broader context: Publishers have already established a prima facie case of copyright infringement. The only issue in this appeal is whether IA’s Free Digital Library constitutes a fair use of the Works." Hachette, No. 23-1260, at 57.
Oooh that kind of line in an opinion hurts. The court is not amused.
"IA asks this Court to bless the large scale copying and distribution of copyrighted books without permission from or payment to the Publishers or authors. Such a holding would allow for widescale copying that deprives creators of compensation and diminishes the incentive to produce new works. This may be what IA and its amici prefer, but it is not an approach that the Copyright Act permits.
For these reasons, we AFFIRM." Hachette, No. 23-1260, at 63-64.
In other words: we understand you want the law to be different. The courts don't change the law, however, we uphold it. (And you should know that.)
Anyway I sadly did not get a picture of The Lobster today but it has an incredibly unique color mutation called “cotton candy”, and it looks something like this but a darker blue:
It’s super cool and only about one in every hundred million lobsters have that coloration. This is why it was a Special Lobster Delivery
I fucking hate hostile architecture
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How was my doctor like "okay we'll try ADHD medication but we gotta be careful cause it's addictive" when I'm going through my day like "shit I forgot my meds. Shit I forgot my meds. Shit I forgot my meds. Shit I f
like my understanding was that addiction meant "I'm using this thing compulsively to get though my day and can't stop taking it, don't want to stop taking it, continue taking it, and escalate the frequency at which I take it"
But like
If "Addiction" just means, "I use it because it helps me function, and when I stop taking it then I revert to the damp sack of flour I was before I had it" then what. what isn't addictive
Am I addicted to drinking water
AmI addicted to sleeping
Am I addicted to wearing my glasses
What the fuck
Like again I'm Not a medical professional so I don't know jack about shit but one of my parents was an alcoholic and I can fucking garuntee they never just whoopsee forgot to pick up their smirnoffs prescription, like they were pretty on top of that
why do gay people have to be weird
#don't gotta tell me twice i possess a healthy fear of ticks as is
^real and true
just watched a video of a wildlife rehabber tube-feeding the teeny tiniest orphaned baby opossum and the comments are fucking KILLING me
baby opossum (too teeny, hasn’t finished cooking in the marsupial pouch like it ought to have done, doesn’t even look like it should exist):
the comments:
Hey, so, uh... What the fuck? Who is a) importing Przewalski's horses into the US and b) selling them at livestock auctions as mules or just surrendering them to rescues?
(For reference, there are about 2500 Przewalski's horses in the world. They are considered one of the last truly wild horses (and may even be a separate subspecies from the domestic horse). Their numbers dwindled to as few as 40 individuals in the 1950s to about 2500 today. About half are in captivity with zoos and conversation programs.)
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