primrosepathspeedrun

lemmy isn't too evil. on purpose. mostly.

certainly less vile than facebook. "no political system is perfect so im'a just exterminate the jews and revere the fuhrer" is not a good look

and if that sounds like hyperbole, remember how many of your young-male and elderly relatives were radicalized by that social media platform, which has been critical or complicit in multiple genocides, finished and ongoing.

yeah but those are mostly gone or otherwise unusable now, one way or the other. that's kind of the problem.

edit: I wish I could help. there are reddit communities I miss too, but reddit killed them, and they haven't popped back up anywhere.

we absolutely should. facebook is fucking evil, and getting everything to move off it, damaging the network effect, is important for creating a more free and open information ecosystem.

so, media creators-the writers actors set designers camera people etc, they don't get money for media. it's just not a thing. the money you spend on a movie does not go to the people who made it. sometimes books. sometimes book money goes to the people who wrote them, but that's still pretty rare. like, as long as the most recent contract negotiations with WGA and SAG went on for, their leadership accepted deals that absolutely fuck them.

so I dunno how to help them make a living. I guess the same way I would if I were paying disney; live in hollywood and tip 50%.

I can afford it

so you can afford to have disney fucking murder your loved ones? dude, that's a level of non-material wealth that I literally cannot comprehend, im fucking jealous.

you don't discipline power with laws. has never worked, will never work. you discipline power with pitchforks and torches and communism. you discipline power with a guillotine, or in a coal mine. nothing else has ever worked.

right but it can't protect the powerful without gaslighting you, because the direct use of violence for control is really really fucking inefficient, and the use of pure terror for control isn't much better. you need to build the prison in your prisoners' heads, y'know?

this is why you pirate, so it's still illegal for them to literally murder your wife.

satire is fucking dead. NEVER consume media legally. not if you have anyone you care about in your life. I wish this was a fucking joke,

like, when I read 'farenheit 451' and 'free culture' I thought I knew how fucking horrible and dystopian corporate control of culture could be. I had some pretty grim images in my mind, and got really into having my own copies of things outside the bounds of the various laws. then this shit happened.

that's not how it works. the law does not exist to protect you; it exists to make you tolerate your exploitation and feel like it's fair.

edit: fixed one letter.

doing a hell of a lot worse than suing them needs to be normalized.

not just agents and property of corporations who piss you off, but their executives, and any corporate lawyer or judge.

edit: to remind them why they try to gaslight us with the courts. if you care about the law, break it. if you don't, also break it.

not just block video, but ban? wow. its like they want you to pirate.

I feel like a brightly colored teddy bear that hides in your kitchen to shoot you with a memory erasure ray to change who you are as a person is the most MKULTRA thing ever.

and trust me, when someone who can't stop thinking about that shit starts getting optimistic and looking at silver linings, people get, WAY more upset than they do when we just point out how fucked everything is. like seeing the silvery edges of the mushroom cloud is way more disturbing than the death toll.

yes please, if you wouldn't mind. thanks for understanding, if you hadn't, you would be a literal nazi.

having more variance in player capabilities and unique strengths (this build can fight orcs forever without getting tired!) that can kind of shape a campaign is much better than all the shit that tries to reduce variance and balance, keeping players at similar levels of general capacity just isn't worth the effective homogeneity.