I hope people realize that trump was able to do all this because of years of bad law writing and eroding of the balance of powers. All that concentrated power is great until someone you disagree with sits in the throne you built. It would be nice if after trump, we learn our lesson and vastly shrink the power of the office. Unfortunately , I believe it is likely people won’t realize this and will put even more effort into strengthening the power of that throne after trump is gone, in an effort to more quickly undo his work, which of course means someone will be able to redo the damage even faster at a later time.

IP is simply a state backed monopoly privilege. This obviously leads to a slowing of innovation and price rises due to lack of (by force) competition. IP is unethical and doesn’t even accomplish what it sets out to do. You don’t need government promises of monopoly rights to create innovation in the marketplace, competition drives innovation.

No. It’s useful when you need a quick picture for something or help visualizing something. A huge timesaver. I haven’t seen it generate anything good enough to be hung in an art museum, so I don’t really understand why anyone would hate it. It’s not really competition for actual art. Also, I want to say that I don’t think anyone’s art was “stolen”. That’s the same ludicrous argument the RIAA uses against online file sharing. Any images used in the training was downloaded, mathematically analyzed, and deconstructed. “Stolen” would require a heist at the museum.

It goes back to critical thinking, the struggle to learn something is the most important part.

But I plan to use that loophole for my retirement, and at current inflation rates I’ll be a billionaire too by then, although eggs will still be unaffordable.

How did people figure out what email provider to use?

Yeah the least they could do is seed forever.

Authoritarian is up on the poltical compass, not right, although its often left since it often requires a powerful state.

It’s good!

Doesn’t it have a complete set of sex chromosomes at that point?

Great read, thanks for thoughtful content

Capitalism is defederating power, otherwise youll end up centralizing power and end up under some form of authoritarianism. We have all these elites because of privaleges granted by the state, not capitalism. We need less state if we want more equality.

Vetted members could still bot though or have ther accounts compromised. Not a realistic solution.

I wish lemmy had more niche interest groups, like marvel champions card game. Then there’d be something to talk about that isn’t how we should force others to give a percetage of their earnings to the goxernment.

Wait until they find out 68 is also divisible by 17.

Everyday I was there I had to wear a mask and I developed asthma. Believe whatever you want.

I lived there for many years. Trust me, they do.

China pollutes way more than the US though and are far less transparent about it.

Sometimes you’re just passionate about something and want to share it. Maybe they were passionate about that specific setting. Ever hear of fan fiction? Luckily, you can’t really take things down once they’re online. They can always be found, the more popular the easier it is to find.

Yeah, but what if healthcare executives shopped there?