Wrong, fully possible as far as ActivityPub is concerned. Instances may (and most do) set the requirement themselves though.

No, i get it. The propaganda’s collapsing in on itself and I’m here to make fun of it.

I remember whn Linux hit 4% as if it was yesterday.

TIL Abreal existing is an “unusual circumstance”

No. Violence always was, still is, and most likely almost forever will be - an integral part of society.

However, “The State” has the monopoly on it and on its legitimate use - one it lends out to its organs, giving them rules of conduct, standards and a uniform to make it feel legitimate.

Honestly - just uploading to archive.org or their spinoff of Google Books would be acceptable. At least the stuff out of copyright.

Not only that…

They use this fucking incredible argument:

“We destroy the book because when we scan it - that’s a new copy. If we destroy the oroginal - only one copy (the scan) remains”

As if the model doesn’t get copied over and rented out in bajillions of instances. Its product - by all AI service ToS’s made free to use and copy royalty free (unlike say, every single library in this world, which universally forbid the photocopying of lent out books). Meaning - copyright infringement of the worst kind in any sane interpretation. Shame this world is insane.

Such an incredible spin on the rules. Using them as the excuse to go against the core cultural, civilizational and moral imperative of archiving, while going against the spirit of the concept of what copyright was initially made to do - give authors the path to a livelihood from their work and denying it to parasites such as publishers.

Copyright truly is dead. Indeed - the global copyright rules were on their last legs before AI and used only as anti-consumer protection for publishers (not authors!), but now they’re a sinked ship - the mask is off. It’s all plainly visible what they’re here to do now.

In the laisses-faire market, any levy and any price is perfectly legal by definition.

Doesn’t deepseek have a wailord and mistral an “M”?

But the US ones are in fact assholley tho.

Check the same statistics from 50 or 70 years ago. Current beliefs are by definition not traditional.

“Murder is bad” is not as sacrosanct an idea as it should be. In fact, historically, it was quite the opposite. Just look at the US’s traditionally sadistic murders in the name of justice, from old lynchings to the new cross-mounted “lethal injections”. Even the naming is so… Out of touch.

You’d think the cross at least would raise some eyebrows in the relevant religious community, but you’d be wrong.

There’s so many superstitions and beliefs that once had a purpose, but now do not, other than holding society back.

Koreans still think a fan will kill them, Europeans still think colonization was actually good for the colonized, and the USians still think their country is the absolutely first and best in the world, or at the veary least a 1st world nation in the development sense.

In most places, “traditionalists” claim any raped woman wasn’t actually raped, because all of them must have worn miniskrits, looked at the man seductively and secretly wanted it. In fact, she should be the one punished for raping him! And it’s always a him and her. The rest should naturally get the lethal injection treatment.

What old beliefs tend to be is held by people with a lack of critical thinking skills. Which means a bunch of it is superstitious bullshit that has little more than a tangential basis in reality. Moreover, their critical thinking skills tend to make those beliefs skew just the right way to be as disjunct from real life and as senseleness as possible even when the tangential relation with history is plainly visible.

Yeah, sure. Everyone throwing out old books is knowledgeable enough to know and willing enough to check that the book they’re throwing isn’t rare or important.

You’d think people would check on the off chance it’s worth a bunch but you’d be surprised.

To be honest, I’d be MUCH less against this practice if this shredding at the very least included saving the original scans at at least 300 dpi for everyone to access, freely.

Ideally, they wouldn’t cut them by the spine, but even giving the despined ones to an archive/library would be just above the unpermissible line.

Despining, scanning and public access archiving is borderline permissible.

You don’t get it. It was never about past decisions guiding or restricting future ones.

What precedent is: a) to be used as an argument and b) a way for the high court to set rules for lower ones to abide by… Until the next recalibration.

They can: hire locally (not a bad thing), move out of overpriced areas (also not a bad thing), pay/find closer housing for employees and negotiate better prices (also not a bad thing) or just make remoteable jobs remote.

All positive consequences of… Having to pay your employeea for their time spent for the company.

you mean

glass Glass;

which is almost worse than stringing together random fancy words.

(Edit: added backticks for that nice mono font)

Also, it’s FOSS so you can always make your own skin/theme.

Not only that. Travel time should count as work time, with full reimbursement of all travel costs: gas, tickets,…

If they really feel that added cost is worth it? Let them.

Takes you three hours of travel time to get to work and back? That counts into your 8h workday, so you’ll both be paid full salary for it and get to work “only” 5h at the office.

Most should quickly turn away from the idea.

Yeah sorry, saussage fingers. Fixed now.

That is everyone except a handful of designations. Everyone except babies, the dead, and the theoretically alive such as Mitch McConnel.