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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, but I wonder how accurate that is, taking myself as an example. I know that I don't have a drinking problem (as in, I don't feel a need to drink alcohol and sometimes go weeks or months at a time without alcohol simply because the opportunity doesn't present itself, and can control and have controlled my alcohol intake when necessary without any issues), but points 2 and 3 have definitely applied to me, and 1 possibly as well. The problem wasn't my drinking, but that an abusive person needed something to criticize and degrade me, and that was a perfect opportunity. If I had stopped drinking that person would have found something else (and they did when I drank less due to covid).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you written anything? Have you composed or recorded a song? Have you drawn or painted a picture? Taken an artistic photo? Even written some source code?

  Yes I have, yes I have, yes I have, yes I have, and yes I have.

  And yes, I'm thinking about this from the point of view of a creator. It's fucking difficult to make ends meet. Talk to any artist that hasn't managed to get a salaried job as an artist (you have to be really, I mean really good at what you do) or gotten lucky enough to make it big. They're saving money anywhere they can. They're working second and third jobs. Honestly, on average, artists are the poorest people I know. Despite copyright protection being strong (put the AI thing aside for a minute, since it's a fairly new problem). The lab results are in. It doesn't work.

  You know what they would like? To focus on their art, and not their financial issues. Oh, and many would like to not worry about the legal grey area/hellhole when it comes to remixing or rearranging others' work. I've made an arrangement for a song I was fascinated with, but I haven't released it, partly because I don't want to deal with all the legal BS.

  This was meant to be a real solution to a real problem at the dawn of industrialization; how can the person who writes a story compete with a person who owns a printing press?

  You're mixing up your history here. Copyright is much, much newer than the printing press. And even if you take that assumption, that calculation has changed, since again there's next to no cost to making copies anymore. So now, the companies have used copyright to become gatekeepers while also keeping as much of the profit as humanly possible.

  Why is the prescription a society where creative people are the only ones who can't capitalize on their creations?

  ...except they can. There are plenty of media creators that get their audience to sponsor them, to varying degrees of success.

  But honestly, if there's no worry about food insecurity or housing insecurity, do you want to create art or just profit from it?

  I'm not going to go into the slippery slope tirade at the end except to say this: look at how filthy rich companies like Disney, Sony, etc. are. They are that ridiculously rich because of copyright. Is that really what you want?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That, and it only solves one of the problems copyright causes. The problems in regards to using content to create more content is still there. The problems with massive companies raking in millions while giving the creator pennis is still there. The problems with access to content. All the spinoff issues with DRM are still there. To give a couple of examples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The more I think about how to fix copyright, the more I wonder whether we really need copyright.

  I mean, think about it, the original idea behind copyright is to protect the small guy who creates media and wants to sell it from companies that might want to sell it themselves. Well, it's not working whatsoever. The small guy gets pennies on the dollar, while the big companies rake in the profits.

  So honestly, let's just abolish copyright altogether and work on more of a donation base (that actually gets to the artists, since they control it) which is already being used with video a lot, and to ensure that artists can afford the necessities, add universal basic inco... OK shit I'm at it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas

  Part of the problem is there are plenty of humans pushing agendas as well, which makes everything that much more difficult. They, like bots, don't have any interest in honest discussions, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? That's hilarious and kind of awesome. Where?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can't tell if this is photoshopped or not..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents... Huh...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents: "no sex before the wedding"

  Also my parents: "...and then we had no other option than to drink wine, and that's how we became a couple."

  Mmmkay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨typical lemmy users on their way to work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no way this could possibly go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah except it gets that much more difficult to get up when everything around you is fucking freezing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  into another environment

  No, out of the environment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peas plz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rolled oats seems to work pretty well. They tend to float and the ducks like them (and it's not bad for them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In my case, bookmarking things is something I do to remove it from my sight and memory, but not lose it entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn't even say that it's to be able to charge homeless people - how are they going to pay? It wouldn't be particularly smart financially.

  It's more about just not having them there. Say what you want, but if a bus stop reeks, it makes it much less attractive to take public transit. Of course, it just moves the problem somewhere else - but the transit authority doesn't have to worry about it too much anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The title of this post is wrong. Nowhere does it say in the articles that this was caused by Karoline Leavitt's brother. I'm not saying that it's definitely not the case, but right now there's no evidence for it.

  Come on, can we please not stoop to their level when it comes to spreading misinformation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨😥 😥 💔 💔⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus fuck I've seen too many of these in a row, now my brain hurts 🤕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a question of: what are they doing with the money from the collection plate? Are they using it to maintain the church building, paying the people working for the church a (modest) salary and providing support for those in need? That's not what Jesus had a problem with, he would be for that. Are they telling people "God only loves you if you buy X" and using the money to get rich? That's what Jesus had a problem with. So it's not collecting money that's the problem, it's how it's done and what is done with the collected money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would almost say the background doesn't really matter in this case. You (or someone you know) is being told by their parent that they love them, but there is obviously a reason to doubt it. What is that reason? I feel like there's much more behind your question that you're dealing with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most, no (but that also extends to romantic relationships). But there are parents who will tell their children they love them, but also abuse them without a second thought. I've seen it myself. In that case, I think it's pretty clear that they don't actually love them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best approach to port an iOS app to Android?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't know what kind of a state your code is in, but if you haven't done it yet, seperate the code for the app's logic from the code that interfaces with the iOS APIs as much as possible. The code that handles the logic is the code you'll be able to reuse (at least I would be surprised if there wouldn't be a way to compile swift code for Android). Side Bonus: this makes it much easier to write proper tests. Then you can work on adapting the code that uses the iOS APIs to use the Android APIs. Either there's a direct way to call the APIs from swift, or someone will have made a library somewhere that you can use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His arguments aren't exactly solid. They are:

  • It isn't widely used. Well, just because something isn't popular doesn't mean it's bad. See Linux, Tor, ...
  • It is only being used for speculation and criminal activity. That's simply guilt by association. I've actually seen places that have stickers that say they accept Monero, for instance. I doubt they would have put up those stickers if there weren't people who actually used that as a form of payment.
  • Everyone who disagrees with this is in a cult. I don't think I have to elaborate on this one.

  We badly need a payment solution that offers privacy. Even cash is getting less and less private with automated serial number readers. If Crypto offers a perspective to fix that problem, I'm all for it, at least as a concept (minus a lot of the crap that's being done with crypto nowadays).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't tell if L take or W take⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many women either expect men to make the first move or are just way too shy. I've had a number of women say it directly.

  Case in point, I was at an event a half a year ago and guy said I should ask a certain girl to dance, since she likes me but is to shy to talk to me directly. Only problem is, I only wanted to dance my ass off that evening and wasn't too interested in getting to know anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are children always portrayed as the epitome of "innocence", when a lot of kids are evil af and bully their peers, and name-calling runs rampant in schools?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Kids are often a reflection of their surroundings.

  Case in point: a teenager, call him Carl, that I've taken under my wing a bit in our Organization expressed worries to me a while ago about one of his classmates, call him Mark, joining, because Mark would apparently bully him. I promised to keep an eye on it. I got to know Mark a bit better, and he seemed to give off this downed vibe, but despite keeping an eye open, he never seemed to be nasty to Carl. About a month ago, I was at an event where Mark and his mother were there. His mother berated him, calling him stupid over and over, and even made him confirm that she was right. This answered so, so many questions. Poor kid. I've also taken him under my wing a bit in the meantime, at least as far as I can. I think things have improved between the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything I can't remember⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think of an entirely different song:

  Youtube

  Invidious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At 1%⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course electricity comes out of a VGA port, but it's only a signal, I wouldn't assume that it's anywhere near enough to charge a phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wear your seatbelt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Germany you're also responsible for the safety of your passengers. If you get pulled over and someone in your car is not wearing a seat belt, you will get fined. You're driving a multi-ton death machine, you're responsible for taking care of the people in it.

  Also, someone not being buckled can be a danger for other people as well. Depending on the accident an unbuckled Person can become a projectile and severely injure or kill others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctors don't want you to know about this one product⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF am I even looking at?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Long is Too Long for a Reply?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I submitted a song that I couldn't find the name of a long time ago in hopes that someone could ID it. About 15 years later, someone replied with the name of the song. It definitely brightened my day to have a nice surprise like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forklift driver who won £1m on rushed to hospital after ‘three months of partying’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  / 6. That leaves, say, 80% of $91.2 million or $72.9 million.

  Here is where things start to get less clear. Personally, I think you should dump half of this, or $36.4 million, into a boring S&P 500 index fund. Find something with low fees. You are going to be constantly tempted to retain "sophisticated" advisers who charge "nominal fees." Don't. Period. Even if you lose every other dime, you have $638,400 per year you didn't have before that will keep coming in until the United States falls into chaos. Fuck advisers and their fees. Instead, drop your $36.4 million in the market in a low fee vehicle. Unless we have an unprecedented downturn the likes of which the United States has never seen, should return around 7.00% or so over the next 10 years. You should expect to touch not even a dime of this money for 10 or 15 or even 20 years. In 20 years $36.4 million could easily become $115 million.

  / 7. So you have put a safety net in place.

  You have provided for your family beyond your wildest dreams. And you still have $36.4 million in "cash." You know you will be getting $638,400 per year unless the capital building is burning, you don't ever need to give anyone you care about cash, since they are provided for generously and responsibly (and can't blow it in Vegas) and you have a HUGE nest egg that is growing at market rates. (Given the recent dip, you'll be buying in at great prices for the market). What now? Whatever you want. Go ahead and burn through $36.4 million in hookers and blow if you want. You've got more security than 99% of the country. A lot of it is in trusts so even if you are sued your family will live well, and progress across generations. If your lawyer is worth his salt (I bet he is) then you will be insulated from most lawsuits anyhow. Buy a nice house or two, make sure they aren't stupid investments though. Go ahead and be an angel investor and fund some startups, but REFUSE to do it for anyone you know. (Friends and money, oil and water - Michael Corleone) Play. Have fun. You earned it by putting together the shoe sizes of your whole family on one ticket and winning the jackpot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forklift driver who won £1m on rushed to hospital after ‘three months of partying’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be easy to lose perspective. It is now the duty of your friends, family, relatives, hangers-on and their inner circle to skew your perspective, and they take this job quite seriously. Setting up a trust, a managed fund for your family that is in the double digit millions is AMAZINGLY generous. You need never have trouble sleeping because you didn't lend Uncle Jerry $20,000 in small denomination unmarked bills to start his chain of deep-fried peanut butter pancake restaurants. ("Deep'n 'nutter Restaurants") Your attorney will have a number of good ideas how to parse this wealth out without turning your siblings/spouse/children/grandchildren/cousins/waitresses into the latest Paris Hilton.

  / 4. You will be encouraged to hire an investment manager. Considerable pressure will be applied. Don't.

  Investment managers charge fees, usually a percentage of assets. Consider this: If they charge 1% (which is low, I doubt you could find this deal, actually) they have to beat the market by 1% every year just to break even with a general market index fund. It is not worth it, and you don't need the extra return or the extra risk. Go for the index fund instead if you must invest in stocks. This is a hard rule to follow. They will come recommended by friends. They will come recommended by family. They will be your second cousin on your mother's side. Investment managers will sound smart. They will have lots of cool acronyms. They will have nice PowerPoint presentations. They might (MIGHT) pay for your shrimp cocktail lunch at TGI Friday's while reminding you how poor their side of the family is. They live for this stuff.

  You should smile, thank them for their time, and then tell them you will get back to them next week. Don't sign ANYTHING. Don't write it on a cocktail napkin (lottery lawsuit cases have been won and lost over drunkenly scrawled cocktail napkin addition and subtraction figures with lots of zeros on them). Never call them back. Trust me. You will thank me later. This tactic, smiling, thanking people for their time, and promising to get back to people, is going to have to become familiar. You will have to learn to say no gently, without saying the word "no." It sounds underhanded. Sneaky. It is. And its part of your new survival strategy. I mean the word "survival" quite literally.

  Get all this figured out BEFORE you claim your winnings. They aren't going anywhere. Just relax.

  / 5. If you elect to be more global about your paranoia, use between 20.00% and 33.00% of what you have not decided to commit to a family fund IMMEDIATELY to purchase a combination of longer term U.S. treasuries (5 or 10 year are a good idea) and perhaps even another G7 treasury instrument. This is your safety net. You will be protected... from yourself.

  You are going to be really tempted to starting being a big investor. You are going to be convinced that you can double your money in Vegas with your awesome Roulette system/by funding your friend's amazing idea to sell Lemming dung/buying land for oil drilling/by shorting the North Pole Ice market (global warming, you know). This all sounds tempting because "Even if I lose it all I still have $XX million left! Anyone could live on that comfortably for the rest of their life." Yeah, except for 33% of everyone who won the lottery.

  You're not going to double your money, so cool it. Let me say that again. You're not going to double your money, so cool it. Right now, you'll get around 3.5% on the 10 year U.S. treasury. With $18.2 million (20% of $91.2 mil after your absurdly generous family gift) invested in those you will pull down $638,400 per year. If everything else blows up, you still have that, and you will be in the top 1% of income in the United States. So how about you not fuck with it. Eh? And that's income that is damn safe. If we get to the point where the United States defaults on those instruments, we are in far worse shape than worrying about money.

  If you are really paranoid, you might consider picking another G7 or otherwise mainstream country other than the U.S. according to where you want to live if the United States dissolves into anarchy or Britney Spears is elected to the United States Senate. Put some fraction in something like Swiss Government Bonds at 3%. If the Swiss stop paying on their government debt, well, then you know money really means nothing anywhere on the globe anymore. I'd study small field sustainable agriculture if you think this is a possibility. You might have to start feeding yourself.