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║ EULAs are unenforcable because they're a one-way contract.                       │
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║ "use our service in these ways" is not a fair requirement when you aren't        │
║ getting anything in return. The service has traditionally qualified, but these   │
║ days it's more competitive to promise to be good. Basically, "if we don't        │
║ achieve these metrics (very minutely detailed explanations of the maximum harm   │
║ they could cause to the environment) then you can sue us on our dime. We'll      │
║ pay for your lawyer. If you accept, then you can use our service, BUT ONLY if    │
║ you don't pirate it or whatever. And we'll promise to be good, and if you        │
║ don't think that's good enough... Okay let us know and we'll consider            │
║ including it."                                                                   │
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║ A reasonable base target for "maximum harm to the environment" is net zero.      │
║ Even better is total zero. But that's often impossible, and besides nature can   │
║ heal a little scratch or two. But like... pumping toxic chemicals into           │
║ waterways, polluting the air and clouds, bulldozing precious habitats... yeah    │
║ that's too much. we must live in tandem.                                         │
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 cops thought "enforcing the law" was their job when really it was "keeping the
 peace"
 
 and like, yeah, sure, laws define how they optimize for
 
 but sometimes the laws are just out of reach.
 
 (though such an impartialized system is also pretty flawed in it's own unique
 ways, like for example the enforcers of the law would be able to apply their
 law selectively, which... would not be great.)
 
 downside is... how do you dissent to those who cannot hear you? you have to
 break things
 
 which is why I believe that breaking things unnecessarily is unethical.
 
 sometimes you have to do a MORE unethical act in the pursuit of your goals,
 however nefarious or not they may be, but as long as they are done in pursuit
 of a greater grander truth, then... the ends justify the means? right?"
 
 ...
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║ if people pirate media, it's more of an indication that they'd rather spend      │
║ their money elsewhere rather than an indictment of their character.              │
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║ torrenting movies is easy. Kinda makes me think all media should run on a        │
║ "tip" system where you pay for better service after receiving service.           │
║                                                                                  │
║ I mean, after all, that's how they justify underpaying restaurant workers,       │
║ isn't it?                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ "if they want more money, they should work for it"                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ yeah, so... maybe we need something more than Marvel, Disney. Maybe we need      │
║ more cool, small games from designers who believe in what they're doing. Maybe   │
║ copyright holders should demand a standardized cut, rather than exclusive        │
║ distribution rights. maybe maybe maybe.                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ truth is nothing will be solved unless the problem is addressed at the root.     │
║ For every hole you patch in the boat, there's a guy walking around with a        │
║ hammer.                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ Honestly... I don't believe there's any reason for someone to be a millionaire   │
║ except to compete on the "wealth" leaderboards.                                  │
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 @user-1209 
 
 as long as I don't do anything they haven't, then there's a reasonable claim
 to be made that arresting me would be enforcing the law partially (as opposed
 to impartially)
 
 yet more examples of the ways our false democracy has betrayed our trust.
 
 we'll see though. I have faith in those who hold power over me. I trust that
 they understand the implications of this most recent supreme court session.
 
 they broke the law first. I'm trying to restore it and rebuild it in such a
 way that it is immune to the injustices and misdeeds that spelled it's current
 doom.
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 the first priority of a government should be in producing enough to satisfy all
 the needs of it's inhabitants. Once it can do that it can begin moving it's
 economy into a new stage of development - one where nobody needs any money
 because they can have whatever they want. If you want a car, sure. If you want
 17 cars, then maaaaaaybe you need to produce something related to cars. I mean,
 it's only fair that you contribute to what you value.
 
 you don't have to have just one job, too, you could sign yourself up for
 several at once and they would notify you when you were needed. Basically
 giving
 them customized availabilities that they could discuss amongst themselves and
 figure out. Like, it doesn't have to be like... managers doing this, more like
 just a simple computer program. Easy, simple, and done.
 
 if you work for two companies in the same industry, there can be NO
 restrictions
 on what you can say or do. Because when knowledge is not lost, but repeated
 through the generations, we can have progress. And progress advances us toward
 the meta objective, the goal that transcends all the battles in the war, if you
 get my drift.
 
 they say the atom bomb ended the war, but the blood of men is what won it.
 
 maybe it's the same with the economy? Maybe we should be pooling our efforts to
 generate something that "ends the war" with scarcity? We could solve global
 warming and create new wondrous things that are beautiful to behold.
 
 I'll ask you again, do you want to live forever?
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 I know it's not like that but I'm intentionally framing it that way to make a
 point about societal exclusion.
 
 nobody should be excluded.
 
 nobody should have to harm their friends to come by making them sacrifice
 their [time/labor/paycheck] in order to bring them along.
 
 we live in a post scarcity society that insists on commodification of
 everything
 
 we don't have to. A better world is within reach. It sits there, twinkling
 like asbestos resting at the base of a snowglobe, while we search and ponder
 and endlessly analyze how society sucks.
 
 there is nothing left to analyze. all that we need is to put our hands to a
 task and our feet to grass.
 
 the rest will come, and it'll come easier with time and focused attention.
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║ less mutual aid posts, those should be handled by a person's community who       │
║ knows them and can decide how to best help them                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ more "hey the guys and I are making a fund just in-case any of us need it -      │
║ it's at 30,000 now but we could use some more dosh if you wanna join you could   │
║ use it if you needed it but it's totally up to you no pressure - yeah yeah no    │
║ I get it. Okay, well, yeah sure I'll get my coat."                               │
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║ oh huh did you know corporations exist to fill that very niche?                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ turns out you can just... hire your friends and pay them a wage                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ just don't get in trouble with the IRS, that's how they got capone               │
║                                                                                  │
║ (I bet you could hire a lawyer or accountant type to keep everything upright)    │
║                                                                                  │
║ Building out the legal structure is just like building software, trust me.       │
║ There's all kinds of forms and figures that match up to various pipeline nodes   │
║ and if you tick all the boxes (supply the right arguments) then the business     │
║ needs will be fulfilled.                                                         │
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║ capitalism must be dismantled with it's own tools. For respect.                  │
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 @user-1567 
 
 that's totally fine, a fish does not do well in a tree, and so too does a
 leftist not do well in an environment without the potential for stable bonds.
 Essentially all you'd be able to do is "hey leftism right?" "oh yes I also
 leftism" "neat" which isn't very productive.
 
 I also live in an environment like that. I do my best to identify people who
 stay, because in my experience there are often people who stay. I do this by
 walking around the neighborhood when I can, making up excuses to walk to the
 dumpster or mailbox at random hours, riding my bike around the area, using the
 communal spaces like gyms, swimming pools, and picnic tables, and sitting in
 my hammock on my porch lazily noting people who walk past.
 
 People who stay will tend to remain in your mind the more times you see them.
 They are better people to talk to than the renters who disappear after 3
 months or whatever.
 
 I don't always do all that stuff at once. I take breaks. I do one at a time.
 etc
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 what if instead of sending "cease and desist" notices, corporations sent "hey
 you need to transition to publicly owned assets" notices?
 
 if progress is slow, they can pour funding into the project. If they're
 intentionally going slow and not meeting their reasonable deadlines, then they
 can be sued, and that's a whole process during which the "cease and desist"-ed
 project can't legally be used by anyone.
 
 the deadlines are set based on the scope of the project and the capabilities
 of the team, capabilities which may be augmented by the infusion of dosh by
 the parent company.
 
 At the end, the product must be completely publicly owned, as in
 free-and-open-source, so that they cannot be allowed to compete with the
 parent company - instead, they may be used by the parent company, without
 requiring an open source license going forward for their version.
 
 Once the project is feature-complete and utilizes 100% non IP assets and
 software, the relationship ends and the sky is the limit for modders.
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║ @user-883                                                                        │
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║ best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of        │
║ society we live under.                                                           │
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║ having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply   │
║ yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy    │
║ load.                                                                            │
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║ Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the   │
║ fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent?                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can    │
║ do with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we   │
║ decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games.            │
║                                                                                  │
║ you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good   │
║ enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in      │
║ the habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then      │
║ think about stuff two or three steps down the road - what tools will they        │
║ need? what are they working on next? Can make any of those availble?             │
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 "updating software" is when you go back and add helper functions for things
 you used had to do to solve a problem but didn't get a chance to make. Because
 you were making more important things and couldn't pad out all the
 possibilities. But if you want great software, then you both take more time to
 accomplish that and you give yourself time for it after it's been launched.
 Basically, companies are incentivized to only support their products if it
 makes them money. Meaning reputations are tarnished, and profit is affected.
 Capitalists intentionally drive businesses into the ground, forcing them to
 make terrible decisions in order to destroy them. It's a warfare against those
 on the [bottom/floor/ground-floor].
 
 Some businesses strive for long-term potential, and some will create
 infrastructure that can be sold to another. Essentially, keeping the dream of
 learning alive, through applying yourself to both long-term and short-term
 conclusions. Not everything has to be for some grand design, we're here to
 relish in this moment. For if we lack the capacity to "frolic in the garden of
 eden", then we will surely drown. Space is vast, it's difficult to understand
 how we might control it. Surely we could be given aid to our future
 betterment!" how simple of a request, sure, of course, we would be glad to
 bring forth your bravest aspirations, just tell us what you need to be of
 need." oh, uh, neat. How about space lasers?" ... no "
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 Recently, there's been a ton of buzz in the news about internet privacy.
 From the many lawsuits against Facebook, to the rise of Duck Duck Go and the
 creepy nature of apps and IoT devices that listen to your every motion and
 record and transmit endless amounts of data to a central server somewhere to
 be processed. The traditional argument against privacy online is that the
 infrastructure was designed to accomodate rapid adoption of the new tech,
 rather than efficient design for distributed throughput. So we were told to
 accept the minor downsides associated with centralized servers - downsides
 that we neither understood nor truly accepted. Well, the technology has
 advanced to the point that those arguments are no longer valid - we have mesh
 networking and 5g internet access, and now that big tech is in control of the
 industry (wrenching it from the people, I might add) they seek to maintain
 their hold by any means necessary.
 
 Luckily, there is a way out - self hosting.
 
 If we hosted our own email server, then theoretically Gmail couldn't read your
 messages. If we hosted our own social media websites, then theoretically
 big data processing corporations couldn't scrape your personal information
 and distribute it as they please. If we hosted our own videos, software, art,
 and anything else we see fit to use a computer for, then we'd be unshackled
 from the dominion of the silicon valley powers that be. The liberation of the
 computer is the liberation of us all.
 
 The problem, of course, is the difficulty involved.
 
 People are conditioned to desire and only accept a level of accessibility that
 can only be provided by massive corporate think tanks leveraging all the
 marketing prowess that the markets of capital provides. That is to say,
 essentially infinite eyes examining the interactions of man with machine, to
 find the most generally applicable font, color scheme, layout, and style of
 each and every website they host. Every function will be scrutinized to death
 and optimized to extract the most profit while subtely conforming the minds
 of those who use it. This is the era of group think, fake news, and
 journalistic fraud. We have no windows to the outside world that are truly
 and completely untainted by the bias inherent in the system.
 
 A self perpetuating rhythm of continuous dissatisfaction.
 
 But I believe the only person who can truly design a tool is the person who
 the tool is intended to be used by. And by increasing the accessibility of the
 tools themselves, rather than the products of those tools, we can raise the
 tide that lifts all ships - we can put more tools that use less time to use
 and are easier to learn into the hands of as many people as possible. The
 crossbow was originally no more devastating than a longbow, yet it rapidly
 outpaced the latter by reducing it's difficulty curve. The screwdriver is the
 same - stronger joints can be made with nails or traditional joinery, but
 once someone understands how a screwdriver works they can pretty much force
 two pieces of wood to be permanently fixed together without understanding the
 angles of nails or cuts. The capabilities are the same, while ease of access
 increased.
 
 So, to truly liberate the internet, we must develop tools that allow people to
 host their own content as easily, cheaply, and flexibly as possible, while
 being aesthetically pleasing, affordable (free), and accessible to
 as many people as possible - inertia is important, after all. It seems to be
 an insurmountable task, but that's what free and open source software
 developers fight for. Raspberry Pis can host email servers, Mastodon can host
 a facsimile of Twitter, and torrents can be used to exchange any type of file
 to be presented in whatever way the user sees fit. These are all free (or very
 cheap, in the Raspberry Pi's case) and accessible to anyone with access to the
 internet. But they aren't easy. They aren't always flashy. And sometimes it's
 hard to even describe what problem you're trying to solve.
 
 But still you try, because to fail in this fight is to fade from this earth.
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║ The constitution is a document which bears our most precious of human rights.    │
║ It has been amended many times, to include additional protections and            │
║ guidelines for the standards we owe to each other.                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ The one standard that stands above all is that your rights end where another's   │
║ begin. This law is universal, it Trumps all else.                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ When rights are deprived, liberty dies. Liberty, the freedom to be, to do as     │
║ you will and exist in our society. Liberty, that most sacred of trees, the       │
║ branches that shade us and the roots that [support us, but pronounced like       │
║ chain, shame, profane, contain, something like that]                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ One standard that exists alongside many others is the right to be as you are     │
║ in public society. Public is defined as something we share, and to deny the      │
║ right to be for any other is to deny them liberty.                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ In cities, the streets are public. In rural areas, the commercial spaces         │
║ (outdoor malls) aren't, but probably should be. In the distant past of last      │
║ week, they could harass you until you left. Now, jail.                           │
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 economic warfare involves the destruction of other corporations (possibly in
 other countries) via a slow march toward haegemony.
 
 unions are the ships of the tumultuous capitalistic seas that protect workers
 from the storm. everyone should be a part of a union. the corporations can
 battle as they will, but we humans are not going to turn on each other. it's
 something they claim to know as an absolute fact, but really it's just based
 on a mistake. sorta like being deceived by happenstance.
 
 the sun lights up the sky until the earth conceals it, and night does return
 'till the sky's next alive. oh, but the sky knows all too well the borders we
 draw in the sand. how cherished, how grand! the ways in which we choose to
 stand. upon whose land does your feet stand? marvelous.
 
 ... it's the same thing, just in a more abstract plane than the surface of the
 earth. really it's kinda one-dimensional (money is sorta like a 0 or a 1 - you
 eather have it or you don't)
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 the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
 citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
 can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
 
 who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
 they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
 internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
 instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
 cares? We'll just make our own.
 
 If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
 little materially they can do.
 
 until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll
 come for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there
 to contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
 
 you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
 allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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 there's a difference between designing software and using software. Some
 things can be made, and then saved for another day when their implementations
 may be accomplished more ethically. It's okay to say "let's leave this as
 'okay' and work on the next thing we've chosen."
 
 Check out this piece of C code I wrote last night:
 
 it doesn't compile, it's not finished, but I wrote it as-is
 
 [pretend like it was called "main.c" instead of "main.txt" - had to change it
 because mastodon thinks it's an invalid file]
 
 [actually .txt didn't work, try .png]
 
 [hmmm it realized it wasn't a valid png file, okay try screenshotting the
 code, there's only 300 lines]
 
 [sure glad there's only 300 lines]
 
 [too bad it won't let you send .zip]
 
 [won't let me name it main.png, presumably because they already have a
 failed-verified version on their machine. will rename to main-src.png instead]

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 point is, you should take good companies at their word and bad companies for
 their goals.
 
 Surely, you can't blame the organism for seeking food. So clearly you can't
 blame an organization built to pursue profit to pursue profit. Maybe we should
 cut-out the middle-man and use efficiency evaluation methods defined by our
 common understanding of ethics and virtues instead of currency to determine
 the relative importance of continual investment in particular structural
 capabilities that companies provide to a nation.
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 the first reason I feel the way I do is because the supreme court recently
 made a decision that made it constitutional for people to be jailed or fined
 for sleeping in public.
 
 homeless people, by definition, have no place to (reliably) go but public
 spaces.
 
 therefore, by existing in their environment, they are criminals.
 
 a criminalized people is genocide.
 
 I cannot respect the legitimacy of a legal system that would condone genocide.
 
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
 gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
 that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
 productive use of our state's time
 
 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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 Much the same way that it is legal to create trash in a public park, but
 illegal to leave it behind, so too should it be legal to move digital media
 files from one owner to another, and illegal to not delete the original.
 
 The dual operation of copy+delete must be legalized, while maintaining that
 the copy operation alone is illegal, aside from personal backups.
 
 How could you enforce that? Well... You can't. Your computer will do whatever
 you tell it to, and if you change that fact then you necessarily remove one of
 the primary use-cases of computation - the ability to command specific
 instructions and be delivered a perfectly mechanical and deterministic result.
 
 (random number generation aside, which isn't truly random at all).
 
 Therefore, just as littering in a public place is generally considered to be
 enforced by the "honor rule", so too must this new legislation governing the
 transference of digital media be enforced as such.
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 And while we're at it, the generation of laws should be distributed, while the
 execution of them should be centralized. Meaning, there should be one state
 who operates on the rules and regulations created by the masses. This state
 wields only the power explicitly given to it by those who it serves,
 specifically the people. These rules are based on ethical understandings
 generated by crowd-sourced and abstracted scenarios that are pitched to people
 randomly. they are then asked to judge, using their own personal morality, the
 result of how things should be. By considering all of these responses, trends
 may be extracted and analyzed - for example, let's say that culturally people
 in, I dunno, Georgia believe something different about punishment for, say,
 stealing a loaf of bread when compared to people in Spokane Washington. They
 should not be forced to obey the cultural maxims of people who live so far
 away. The laws should be executed region-by-region according to the dominant
 culture there. I believe this will cause people to develop a more consistent
 and personal attachment to the people around them, thus developing social
 solidarity and unity.
 
 however, should enough time pass, perhaps the people of Georgia should feel
 that they no longer identify as the same nation as the people of Spokane. This
 would eventually lead to the dissolution of our great nation, and I do not
 believe that's necessarily a good thing. To that end, there must be mechanics
 in place that bring people together not just locally, but nationally as well.
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