Ah, I get it now. Thank you for the simple break down. I think we can all comfortably agree that meat is now…met.

Soooo… What are they saying? I don’t have xitter…

For real. Get these guys into leadership roles pronto! /s

The only thing this braindead administration wants is hatred, bigotry, and racism to spread.

I get his argument. I personally don’t mind it, but people are trying to curate their feeds better. Memes should ideally be for memes.

This better belongs in whitepeopletwitter. Do we have one on Lemmy yet?

There was a caller on the radio this morning that talked about how Dave Matthew’s Band was the first music that ever made her “throb” in her nether regions. She stated that all her husband has to do is turn it on on the other side of the house and she stops what she’s doing, and migrates to the bedroom because she’s like instantly ready to roll.

I’m a solid 8 at the moment.

Sure. But this isn’t a bump stock. It’s a forced reset trigger that was just unbanned… Which is insane. It essentially converts semi automatic weapons to automatic weapons.

If they are willing to defend facism and defend a dictator…then what’s the problem?

At some point your “I’m just doing my job” becomes, “I support an American dictatorship.”. Do you not have morals? Your “job” has now become antithetical to the American Democratic Ethos - you are now a de facto traitor to your country. Last I checked, traitors are an enemy of the state.

…so again, what’s the problem?

Yes Mr. Bossman, I would love to work at your company. I have aspired to be a <insert low-level job title here> since I was a small child. I would do anything to help out the company. My only desire is to help the business.

This post saved my life. 💕💕💕

I agree that most creators don’t become wealthy, and yes, there’s plenty of abuse and inequality in how IP laws are applied. But removing those laws wouldn’t solve that - it would just give even more power to the entities with the most money, reach, and legal muscle.

Without IP protections, smaller inventors and musicians wouldn’t even have the option to negotiate or earn anything off their work. A major label or corporation could just take it, polish it, and release it as their own without any consequences.

So while the system isn’t perfect, saying it “only exists to make the rich richer” misses the point. The alternative isn’t more equity, it’s no recourse at all for the little guy.

To keep it short and simple, it was more organic back then. Today, it’s more of a “designer” experience. You can still have a hell of a lot of fun, but it just feels less natural.

This is a terrible take. Sure. There are issues with the system, but these laws protect smaller musicians and inventors from having their ideas stolen and profited upon by larger players.

Without patent laws, there’s no reason to ever “buyout” a design from an inventor, or for smaller songwriters to ever get paid again. A large company or musician could essentially steal your work and make money off of it, and you would get nothing for all of the time and effort that you put into it.

It’s worth noting that Burning Man from 15 years ago is not the same Burning Man today and it’s tragic.

On one hand, I enjoy the schadenfreude of companies getting their just reward for enabling this bullshit, but in the other, I really mourn for all of those that are going to suffer from this. Our country is actively shooting itself in the foot, and blaming it on DEI.

Because we all know STEM fields aren’t already white-male dominated. Making it more hostile for women and minorities will reduce the amount of people that even want to get into the field, thus reducing actual talent. Studies also show that diverse groups tend to problem-solve better than homogeneous ones as they tend to consider a wider array of possibilities and avoid groupthink.

Fuck this frail white-ego bullshit.

It’s almost as if he doesn’t care about the economy and would rather buddy up to his perceived allies, the Saudis.

There was a shocking number of Section 8 people that voted for Trump based on the idea that he gave them money before, he’ll do it again. More than anything any other President has done for them.

Yeah, people tend to vote on rather shallow feelings rather than actual facts. This will cause some of these people to have very unhappy feelings about voting Republican in the future.

I had to do this with my childhood best friend…it sucks. Sorry dude.

You’ll be happier in the long run. I found I was hanging out with them for nostalgia’s sake, and I was exhausted with constantly having to “debate” them on issues.

It’s absolutely gonna feel like a 100 years. FML…