Yeah, in a vacuum, sounds like a solid idea. Russia isn’t that friend, though.

I’ve been playing through this and collecting the RetroAchievements for it. I keep picking up my handheld for other games before deciding to tackle a few more puzzles instead. I’ll be both relieved and a little disappointed to finish it.

I’ve been called all sorts of names just for asking for real evidence instead of flimsy suggestive bullshit. It took SO much pressing to get anything at all on the Ukrainian Nazi line they love so much, and I got SO much hostility for it.

Lemmy.ml users in particular will defend fucking ANYTHING done in opposition to The West. Like they love to support Russia against Ukraine.

I wouldn’t be surprised. I have an older Anbernic device, an RG35XXSP, that runs ROCKNIX.

Get a vasectomy, don’t make your problems your children’s problems. They dont want them.

If all the people who give a shit stop having kids, only those who care the least will have them, and that will be a truly fucked generation, one that will most certainly throw kerosene on the fire.

What does Gnome dislike about the idea so much?

This is what we’d do if it was us.

Frankly, I doubt it. Half the world seems to be sliding towards authoritarianism with the other half already there. America is leading the charge, sure, but nobody else seems eager to dive on their own grenade to fix it, either.

If you want people to act, focus on giving them a way to act that feels meaningful and worth the sacrifice. There’s not much for safety nets in the US, so if people are going to risk hunger and homelessness, they need to feel like they have a meaningful choice, one where their sacrifice makes an appreciable difference.

What option do they really have as individuals? You can say general strike as a concept, but people need concrete plans, and they need to be widely known so people can act in unison. Just telling people to get off their ass and act is trying to set people in motion without any idea how to keep all the headless chickens moving in the same direction. If there’s not a fully coordinated attempt at massive unity, there’s just no way it accomplishes something. People will act here and there, they’ll get fired, they’ll get replaced because tons of people need work, and the mess will continue. It must happen coherently, or it’s just a bunch of martyring. We need to figure out how to coordinate on a large enough scale when so many people are so heavily reliant on corporate media and social media, who will most certainly be weaponized against any such movement.

Look, man, I get it, I really do, but I don’t think you quite grasp the responsibilities some other people have. Maybe, just maybe, if we could actually coordinate something big enough to have an impact, but there’s nothing like that to join. We had some of the biggest protests in national history multiple times, and nothing really happened. When we lay it all down and sacrifice everything not only for ourselves but on behalf of our whole families, under the current circumstances, what exactly do you expect to happen? A handful of us try a general strike, get fired, and immediately get replaced because the job market is absolute trash? Because that’s what’s going to happen if we just act on our own.

You want people to do something, and that’s really understandable, but you’re ultimately asking people to give a lot when the current circumstances mean we’re unlikely to get much in return. If you want people to act, we need to figure out how to change circumstances or at least reframe things so people can see the value in their own personal sacrifice.

Mate, some of us got kids to feed. Them going hungry isn’t just a slight discomfort.

Nothing more offensive to a capitalist than trying to get your money back

a “We value your privacy” popup that doesn’t value your privacy (1072 partners in the cookie popup)

You misunderstand, they value your privacy monetarily, as in invading it makes them money.

But what were talking about isn’t implemented a flawed system, it’s improving one that’s already flawed, and the result still wouldn’t be perfect but it’s better than what currently exists

Except this is something we disagree on. I do not agree that the massive extensions to copyright are anything other than deeply flawed.

And it doesn’t prevent passing even better laws further down the line, but I think you know that creating new more comprehensive survivor benefits that would cover everyone is a much harder sell than a comparatively small tweak to copyright laws.

“But it’d be hard to do it right, let’s just bandaid it with more flaws.”

And if we remove those copyright benefits before those new systems are ready, you’re leaving people in the lurch without any safety net until those new systems can be created (if in fact they ever are)

I could maybe, maaaaybe, agree to a big shift with a grandfather clause. Anything already published would then get the old rules, and anything new would get the new, much less restrictive rules. I’d still rather just fix it properly, though.

Just because the system is flawed doesn’t mean we should implement even more flaws in the system to cover some of the old ones. If providing for retirement and a family that survives the early death of their provider are your priorities, let’s work out systems to ensure everyone gets the support we can both agree should be provided. Depending on inherited IP rights and depending on an employer to contribute to retirement are both deeply flawed plans, and we’d be better off doing something like eliminating the cap on social security taxes so we can make sure everyone’s retirement is covered and that survivor benefits are sufficient.

My guy, what do you think the state of benefits in the US is? Most people would consider themselves lucky to get a 401k match from their employer. So in effect, the artist gets more to leave behind than most Americans.

Even that’s kinda ridiculous. Why are we inhibiting everyone so your child can profit off something they never touched and that you finished 50 years ago? You had the rest of your damn life to figure out how to profit off it.

I think that’s largely true in the US, at least.

From my understanding, a few places have tested it, and it always works surprisingly well. Arguably better than career politicians. It sounds counter intuitive, I know, but how much of that is because we spent the last 4+ millennia living under career politicians and being propagandized by them?

Then why not just shut the fuck up if you’re not gonna say anything useful? Stroking your ego publicly and insulting others is less than useless.