DeLacue

The ideas that copyright has been pushed to ludicrous extremes and that people deserve some control over what their creations are used for are not mutually exclusive ideas. AI is not simple piracy though it is something much more repulsive. There are many forms of piracy I can get behind and many pieces of media that now only exist because of piracy. Compare that to ai which mulches down people's creations, steals everything yet makes it unrecognisable enough that casual users won't notice and certainly won't find and become fans of the original sources. It ruins the ability for new artists to be discovered as now they have to fight a sea of slop just to get noticed.

That's not even getting started on the immeasurable stupidity of allowing corporate control over human creativity.

Ai and it's apologists are disgusting.

"Looksmaxxing has drawn criticism because some influencers promote dangerous techniques to change their appearance, including striking or damaging their jawbones and other risky practices."-from the article.

The looksmaxxing guys have a thing they call bonesmashing where they will hit their jaws with hammers or other implements in order to break it a little. This is done so they can reshape it as it heals. This is a repeated process. The jaw is broken and reshaped continually until they look a little more like the cartoonish over exagerated jawline of the chads from those chad memes. No I'm not kidding and no this is not done with any kind of medical supervision.

The answer is a combination of corruption and regulatory capture. It started with sports betting. They were able (through extensive lobbing) to convince the government and the regulatory bodies that sports betting should have looser rules than regular gambling. This enabled them to advertise and expand far more aggressively. This caused a massive gold rush of sports betting companies looking to take in some easy money.

There were lawsuits of course but they just set legal precedent that weakened gambling regulations and narrowed what the government could call gambling. Simultaneously a big boom of retail investment apps and sites showed that there was money to be made in the financial speculation markets. Financial speculation is just another form of gambling so those companies empowered by all that new money put a large portion of it to convincing the government that financial speculation is not gambling and cannot legally be considered such.

This resulted in massive gambling loopholes; now you can call any site or app a financial investment app and you don't need to worry about any gambling rules. What we get now is the result of effectively completely deregulation gambling. They want you to bet and gamble on everything.

It's not even legal through some obscure loophole either the; amendment that banned slavery had an explicit exception for prisons and prisoners. Also, it means there is no reason for them to try to reform criminals. It's in their best interests for the convicts that leave their care to quickly get arrested to come right back again. Trying to give them education and opportunities costs money and that's money that can be spent on kickbacks and bribes to get their facilities full. There was one judge who immediately sent any juvenile defendant before him to the same facility. The facility that was sending him kick backs. Now as you mentioned the whole disgusting life destroying thing has been supercharged thanks to the crackdown.

No authoritarian government cares to listens to protestors. Yet they all fear them. The point isn't to make the government comply but to show everyone how many people are on your side. The more people show up the easier it is to motivate people to resist.

The things is that they do have the right to do so. If they were to simply, unilaterally declare which candidates they're going to put forward that too would be perfectly legal. There is no law mandating primaries. The parties are Independent organisations and how they pick their candidates is entirely up to them. If you were to create a brand new party and pick which candidates you're putting forward by drawing straws that would be perfectly legal too. Both parties just choose to hold primaries because for one thing it picks a candidate more likely to win and secondly it obscures how much democracy has been undermined in the US. The systems have been rotting well before Trump.

They don't have a plan. This cut the head of the snake strategy never works. It hasn't worked on stopping organised crime or terrorist groups. When you murder someone they are rarely replaced by someone more moderate.

It's already expanded. It started as going after "rape and incest" but now it's all adult games. But a bunch of lgbtq games have already gotten hit. I am beyond furious.

Every single human animal hates your guts

Modern civilisation is slowly falling to barbarians, except none of the barbarians are foreigners.

Being a nice person isn't bad but "nice guy" is a term for someone who presents themselves as nice and polite (but only to people they're attracted to) and expects romantic attention in return for being nice. Basically, they think the fact that they put so much effort into being nice they deserve that romantic attention. They'll often talk about how nice they are.

Of course, anyone who needs to repeatedly tell you they are nice tend not be.

I recommend Scavenger SV4 It's a very unique game where you send a rover down to a planet to grab what alien artifacts you can before your radiation exposure gets past the point it can be treated. You can bolt some of them onto your rover to make it better and send it down again. It also has several hundred different endings that are decided by how much radiation you absorbed and how much loot and what loot you brought back.