SnotFlickerman
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- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 8 hours ago:
Cancelling Beyond Good & Evil 2 for a 13th time, huh?
- Comment on "Hey Butthead what if this place is like, the manifestation of all our sins?" 17 hours ago:
Come to Butthead.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 day ago:
They also go great with dipping in olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
- Comment on NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books 1 day ago:
I’m trying not to waste my time getting all worked up
Too late, you’ve done nothing but rant in this thread. Get over yourself.
- Comment on NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books 1 day ago:
He’s a doctor of economics, he has a PhD. He’s not exactly a tech bro by any stretch.
The paper I linked is literally an example of him making something. Unless you somehow erroneously think that research papers aren’t entitled to copyright protection, which, surprise, you’re wrong.
This isn’t even worth replying to. Get your head out of your ass, man.
I’ll quote Mark Hosler of the band Negativland, who made a shitload of art. Negativland was also instrumental in designing early Creative Commons licenses.
“If you really want to keep control of your art, keep it in your house, don’t share it with anyone, don’t share it with the world.”
- Comment on The holy journey 1 day ago:
LSD is often distributed on small pieces of paper that you dose by putting them on your tongue and letting them dissolve.
- Comment on NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books 2 days ago:
See, I think copyright has value, I think it has just lost sight of its original goals and intentions because corporations (which never die) have vested interest in copyright being as long as possible.
According to the research of Rufus Pollock, optimal copyright term is between 15 and 38 years. This provides a range that the majority of copyright holders will make the majority of their income from copyright on, while also promoting the originals goals of copyright which was to allow artists to support themselves while also promoting creation of new media. The majority of copyrighted works only have a real shelf-life of 15 to 38 years before people aren’t really looking to pay for them, so why should we have copyright that exists beyond that when most will have already made all the profit they will ever make from their works within that timeframe.
I personally think UBI is a pretty weak replacement for copyright. UBI shouldn’t wholesale replace markets but rather be a safety net for people who are struggling and need a basic amount of support to reasonably survive.
- Comment on NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books 2 days ago:
rufuspollock.com/…/optimal_copyright_term.pdf
The research has been done, and speaks for itself.
- Comment on NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books 2 days ago:
Copyright needs to be shorter for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones would be that if copyright was a reasonable length (15 to 30 years), this would all be a moot point and everyone could use books from within a recent timeframe for any kind of use, including AI training.
Further, this would make it feel a lot less hypocritical like piracy is okay for giant corporations and their products as long as they make oodles of money but piracy for regular people is still bad. I mean for fucks sake they put the guys from The Pirate Bay in prison for less, under the same argument: that they were profiting off of pirated works, just like AI companies are.
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 4 days ago:
Forbidden Gummygoo
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Love these lyrics, gonna have to give that song a spin, thanks.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I mean pretty easy for a skinny girl whose profile is nothing but thirst trap pics with a link to her onlyfans page to say.
Not so easy for the unfortunate looking women who hit on me and I politely try to let them down as kindly as possible.
There are extremely sadly ugly people out there of all genders. They didn’t ask to be born that way but it is not easy for them.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 6 days ago:
It’s not actually called “sex change surgery” it is called gender affirmation surgery and/or gender reassignment surgery.
So it’s not so much a misnomer as it is uninformed people using the wrong terminology entirely.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
since I sit down
A man of culture and grace.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I drink a ton of water and only water. I also wipe because I sit down when I pee. (There’s nothin that crazy bout me, I’m just takin a whiz, mind your own biz, why’s everybody starin at me?)
So I mean, already do that, but I’m also very smell-sensitive in general.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Under the foreskin starts getting smelly fast, imho
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Uncircumsized complicates this further and that smell increases more quickly.
Source: 😏
- Comment on I have two questions 6 days ago:
What would the animators do if they have their own way?
Get paid better. I think fewer of them are as interested in the final product than they are getting a paycheck that isn’t a joke.
- Comment on And that's final 6 days ago:
Do you want the mustache on or off?
Too bad.
- Comment on groceries 6 days ago:
Devs, fix this exploit, pls. Cheaters taking advantage.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 1 week ago:
also sorry if the seahorse is hard to see
I am emotionally damaged and triggered from seeing this seahorse. It was a very hard thing for me to see.
- Comment on Someone should really do something 1 week ago:
Somebody is doing something and that something is naming birds awesome names.
- Comment on Bees 1 week ago:
- Comment on groceries 1 week ago:
Technically I think that’s how all groceries start, by being farmed.
- Comment on groceries 1 week ago:
Why settle for rare when you can grind for a legendary drop?
- Comment on How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet? 1 week ago:
USB thumb drives. Sneakernet. Common in Cuba before they loosened internet restrictions, from what I’ve read.
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 1 week ago:
In April 2011 he also made a sockpuppet account on MetaFilter to jerk himself off with self-aggrandization while pretending to just be a fan, only to be called out basically immediately by regular MetaFilter users.
metafilter.com/…/Consider-Catbert-who-was-once-ha…
mefiwiki.com/wiki/Scott_Adams,_plannedchaos
There’s so many ways to suck and this guy tried basically all of them.
- Comment on rules of the pirate code 1 week ago:
Rule 3789 of the Pirates Code: never keep your device fully charged.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Bisexuals: Por que no los dos?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Even better? Vasectomy.