Christ - in what world should someone who legitimately tried to pull an insurrection/coup on the country - something that already should've instantly made them an enemy of the country - get to run for its highest office?
It's ridiculous that this even has to be a "longshot legal bid" - it should literally just be ticking a box!
When half your users are bots anyway, might as well have half your moderators be bots too
Going after the copyright holder for infringing on your work, which by merely existing commercially infringes on their copyright, is one hell of a way to get sued out the arse...
Having said that, it is a crime that LOTR still hasn't entered the public domain yet.
In a market that expects infinite growth in a finite reality, I can assure you that I'm not the least bit surprised that companies are using "inflation" as an excuse to gouge their customers for what increasingly little they have
Oddly enough, I think most people aren't motivated by the idea of making bucket loads of money for other people while they see barely a drop of it.
Maybe if you paid people better, they'd be better motivated to make you money.
As the saying goes, minimum wage = minimum effort
That's because the economy is strong... for the rich.
The problem is shareholders expect infinite growth from a finite space, and that growth has to come from somewhere.
If you're already producing as many of your product, as cheaply as you can get away with, then the only thing you can do is charge more - but that strategy only works if the worker's wages don't go up with the profits.
As a result prices are going up, but worker's salaries aren't anywhere near as quickly, because the rich are scooping the extra cash and leaving all the working class to starve.
What brought this quote into the limelight most recently is Louis Rossmann's coverage of Sony pulling all Discovery channel content not just from their storefront, but also from people's libraries.
Sony essentially stole content from people's libraries that they'd already paid for, not just rented content. Sony argued against this that you only had a licence to the content, you didn't own what you bought, hence the quote's meaning...
If buying isn't owning [because it's all just a copy of their content], then piracy isn't stealing [because it's also just a copy of their content].
This is what happens when you defund education and replace it with conservative "news"...
It's astonishing to me that one of the most well documented atrocities to ever befall mankind, the evidence of which not only still stands but you can literally go walk around it, can be deemed a myth.
This isn't some Bible story, you can literally go see the remnants of it with your own eyes!
When you've spent literally decades trying to bury your past self with philanthropic acts and good PR, it becomes quite easy for people to think you're at least nicer than the steaming turd in a dumpster fire that is Elon Musk.
Gates may be nice compared to some of his billionaire compatriots, but understand that's a very low bar to pass.
To a certain extent it splits the audience, but that's the intention behind federation - to allow communities split across instances to talk to one another.
The main reasons for doing this are:
It keeps server costs down. Bigger servers require bigger money, and the people running these servers are relying on donations, they're not billionaires that can just keep expanding forever.
It prevents all our eggs being in one basket - if a server goes down, only the community on that server goes. All the other communities can continue, and may even have cached content from the downed server.
It prevents the same power imbalance thar Reddit have. If a host starts acting malicious, the community can move to a different instance.
Ah, I see this is one of those little differences between KBin and Lemmy.
So you guys see that first one as just the GIF and not that massive URL that we see.
Except that it is clearly satire - it's poking fun at the idea of anti-intellectualism.
Having said that, one could argue Poe's law - it can be hard to tell these days what's satire and what's not, and not everybody is laughing at anti-intellectualism