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- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 4 days ago:
But you can sell it, yes? And you can give it away for free or trade. And that person can create a digital copy and put it on a server.
So is it illegal to stream from someone else’s server?
- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 4 days ago:
The ownership transfer of the media is crucial. If I just give you access to my Plex, and you watch a movie that I own, that’s theft. If you have your own Plex, and watch a movie that you own the physical media of, that’s legal.
All I’m doing is hosting and storing the physical media you own and the digital copy of that. Only you can access it. Only you can stream it. It’s still yours.
And when you want to watch something else, you trade that physical media for someone else’s physical media. A one-for-one swap. Now you can stream the new physical media you own.
- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 4 days ago:
Oh, definitely.
It would be great if some lemming happened to be a copyright lawyer who could help out with the details to make sure I don’t get screwed.
- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 4 days ago:
Send me a physical disc. I’ll copy to digital media. You still own both of those.
When you want to watch a different movie, you give up ownership of your previous one and you now own the other one, including its digital copy which you can now stream. Wash, rinse, repeat.
- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 4 days ago:
Like Netflix before streaming, but with streaming.
So you want to watch The Matrix. We have one. You now own that physical DVD, because you asked for it. Because you own that DVD, you also own the digital copy that I made from that DVD. It sits on my server, but that’s no different than you saving files to any cloud provider. Now you choose to stream that digital file to your house.
- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 4 days ago:
Good point. We’d have to restrict number of stand to number of physical copies. Otherwise you don’t really own it.
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- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 3 weeks ago:
Correct. I live in suburbia. I can’t ride a bike to anything useful without going on a multi lane highway.
I don’t even trust myself to do that ride without dying. People think cars own the roads.
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- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
There’s a big difference between having no doubt, and thinking you’re infallible.
I believe if I drop something it will fall to the ground because objects with mass produce gravity. It may be that some other completely different force is at work, besides gravity. But I don’t believe that to be true. But if there is evidence that it is true, I will change my mind.
A good way to check if you believe something is to look at how you act. You see the cat, you act like. It’s a cat, you believe it’s a cat. If you see the cat, and hesitate and doubt, then you don’t believe it’s a cat. You may do some thinking and then determine it is a cat, and start believing it. And then you will act accordingly.
And that’s why funerals disprove religious belief. If people truly believed in their religion, and believed in the afterlife, funerals would be happy not sad. But they don’t believe in their religion. They hope that they’re right. But they don’t believe it.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
Sorry if it seems flippant, but I’ve been down this discussion before. Done the research before. And I’ve come to conclusions already taking into account what you sent. A quick Google of “what religions believe other religions are right” would get similar results.
The end result is: all religions make up their rules. It’s just people finding ways to live with other people. There’s nothing in them that isn’t explained easily by reality, or disproved easily by saying “no it isn’t”.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
I used to be. I learned a lot about a lot of religions. I was seriously Catholic for 18 years. They all have a dogma that their believers don’t follow well. They’re often internally inconsistent in their rules. They don’t get us new knowledge or truth or understanding of the universe.
If you objectively look at religion and how it’s used, it seems to be a convenient way to keep sociopaths under control (threat of a punishing father figure), a way to cope with mortality, and a way to funnel money and accomplish social goals. They had interesting uses in the past as forms of local government and keeping people from killing each other. They’re often used by horrible people to enhance their power and abuse others.
But today what’s the point? Get a hobby, join a club, follow the laws, and accept that death is the end.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
A realists accountability is to reproducibility and observability.
But if you can believe anything, and that makes you happy, then good. I personally believe red is green and drive how I like. Sure I’ve killed a few people, but that’s in reality so I don’t believe it.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
So Hindu believe that the alien worshipping death cult that thinks all Hindu should die is as true as their own religion? That doesn’t seem right.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
If you can believe that, then you can believe anything, and you’re one good conversation away from being manipulated and used.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
Citation needed
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
If there is uncertainty, there is not belief. There is hope.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
If you believe that, then you believe you do not actually know the truth. But only an interpretation of what might be true.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
I think you’ve just talked yourself into a circle. You can’t both believe something and doubt it. Doubt is the opposite of belief.
What you’re talking about is possibly belief in belief. That’s the belief that you should believe, or belief that you do believe. That is not the same as actual belief.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
You can respect someone and still think they’re wrong. Just like I respect you right now.
But if you truly believe in your religion, then you must believe that other religions aren’t right.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
And that’s why you shouldn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s very common. There’s a whole series of shows about it.
I think the show is fairly popular, there’s lots of episodes, but I only ever watch the first 2 minutes or so.
- Comment on Anyone know where I can buy or get books by the pound to start a new library for our local jail. To help them read and prep them for a GED? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly? Go on Facebook marketplace or the buy-nothing groups. Tell them you want free books. People have piles of books in their houses they just don’t care about. I’ve got a ton of kids books I want to give away. And I could part with a bunch of my adult ones too.
But shipping is expensive. So you’ll want to look local.
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 3 weeks ago:
How do you grow an anarchist?
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
The problem with believing in gods is that you think you are right. That makes other people wrong. And so it begins…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Every social media site has celebrities. I’m very happy with the quality of ours.
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 3 weeks ago:
She does seem extremely picky.
- Comment on Reporting an absence 4 weeks ago:
“poke them right in the butthole.” -My inner demons
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Daaaaaad
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Are you saying that we old people can’t be ridiculous hornballs? Once my hip gets fixed I’ll show you how wrong you are
