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by scoofy 1y ago
Yes, in 50 years, I hope we as a society respond to the struggles of people then too, instead of nit picking our way to destroying an entire two generations ability to build wealth like we have done here.
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by scoofy 1y ago
If you understand the underlying reasons for why an investor would buy an actively depreciating asset , then you understand why OP suggests--correctly in my opinion--that this is a non-story. We have a housing shortage. As long as it loo
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by scoofy 1y ago
I can want something to be legal without insisting it’s a human right. All the courts did here was say “no you don’t have a right to distribute pornographic material without age verification.” After which, it becomes an issue for the legisl
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by scoofy 1y ago
Distribution of pornography to minors has almost always been illegal during that time. My photos only, go back to the 80s and you can buy porn, but not if you are a kid. Obviously it was a lot easier to enforce because it was physical media
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by scoofy 1y ago
I’m a liberal. I generally agree with the principle, not the premise. My point again is that these “rights” you’re talking about are built on our social contract. There is no premise that “porn is free speech,” in fact, quite the opposite,
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by scoofy 1y ago
I remember when Four Barrel Coffee had blown up in SF. I lived in the neighborhood, and learned, there was just an entrance in the ally behind the building for locals. No sign, just a way to skip the line. I have no idea if it’s still there
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by scoofy 1y ago
This article misuses the term Luddites , or at least references an erroneous use. I think the modern "you were wrong about the Luddites" meme is honestly a bit exhausting. The movement was about breaking the machines. You can fin
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by scoofy 1y ago
After invention of the electric bulb. >It’s easier than ever to light lamps, and harder than ever to make a living from it Lamplighter used to be a job. Now it’s not. The point of anything becoming trivially scalable for most people is t
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by scoofy 1y ago
This one of the reasons I always preferred Janeway to Picard in Star Trek. Picard goes on to defend Data's rights when he's effectively just a machine Maddox wants to take apart in The Measure of a Man. Janeway by contrast never r
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by scoofy 1y ago
Thanks! Aside from the occasional 503 error (again, I'm trying to get as much as possible out of the cheapest plan), it works pretty well.
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by scoofy 1y ago
> Dr Kaveh Madani, Iran's former deputy environment head now at the UN University, has called sanctions "an environmental weapon." It's a strong claim, but the effect is undeniable: countries facing water stress are b
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by scoofy 1y ago
This reminds me of my borderline exhausting quest to build a wiki for golf that isn’t extractive like most golf sites. Trying to bootstrap it without any funding is a lot, but necessary, and I have to run it on a shoestring. The frustrating
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by scoofy 1y ago
40's
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by scoofy 1y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/who-killed-hannibal
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by scoofy 1y ago
Articles like this always make me livid. I feel like it’s a kind of clickbait. We have a wildly successful woman (used to “work” at playboy, uses Raya as a dating app for Christ’s sake) suddenly concern with where all the men are when datin
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by scoofy 1y ago
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp9274
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by scoofy 1y ago
or “Stop breaking the law asshole”
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by scoofy 1y ago
I like the implication that Jews control American media. Classic move. Would enjoy again.
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by scoofy 1y ago
It’s hard to understand why we can’t do a lot of sensible things, like not blasting tiktok on the bus or not speeding on local streets the in our cars. Most people are happily ignorant of anything that doesn’t reinforce their priors.
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by scoofy 1y ago
Your model for paying labor is "Other people should pay, but I shouldn't have to pay." That fails the basic categorical imperative.
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by scoofy 1y ago
We are throwing them away. "Reusable" is a term of art. We're not talking about the actually reusable canvas-like bags. We're talking about heavy sheets of plastic. The situation is complicated, and nobody wants to hav
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by scoofy 1y ago
You have no model for how labor gets paid.
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by scoofy 1y ago
>And dont "creators" me. It is about google earning more money for their stockholders and managment collecting their rewards, not about "think of the children". Classic consumer-only socialist. You have no model for
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by scoofy 1y ago
How do creators get paid under your rubric? They already get 55% of revenues at YouTube which is basically the highest percentage in any creator industry. How do we pay creators under your rubric and allow them to be discovered?
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by scoofy 1y ago
This already happened with Dropout.tv when college humor left YouTube. Yes, it ain’t perfect. The alternative is the creator literally stop making videos. YouTube is already not serving ads for demonetized videos. People doing it for the
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by scoofy 1y ago
Yes, businesses want money. The point is that YouTube has no leverage on creators. they have to play nice because the barrier to entry is nil as competitors already exist in Twitch, Dailymotion, Nebula, Vimeo, Dropout, etc. None of that h
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by scoofy 1y ago
I’ll switch to Nebula if that ever happens. Content creators have no loyalty to YouTube and will share their content elsewhere when YouTube annoys their paying fans.
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by scoofy 1y ago
They split revenues 55/45 with creators. That level of profit sharing is basically unheard of in television, film, books, etc. Again, yea, there are monopoly concerns, but you’re going to move the goalposts to “anything scalable” being
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by scoofy 1y ago
Everyone wants to talk about other people being greedy when justifying their own coincidental preference for not giving away money they don’t have to. Nebula is there, it’s not free either.
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by scoofy 1y ago
You can also pay for YouTube. I do. It’s nice, not crazy expensive. No ads. Creators get paid. Everyone wins.

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