All right, the OP has made their sales pitch, and further discussion is unlikely to be productive.
Just a reminder: going to other spaces on the internet in order to manipulate votes or otherwise cause trouble is uncool, and we will take action against anyone we catch doing it. I’m proud to say that this does not appear to have happened in this case, so thank you all for that.
A further reminder that posts of this nature are considered off-topic for c/startrek - Fediverse posts belong on c/quarks.
I’d shove my cock down to your throat but I don’t fuck with nazis like you. Plus, you would enjoy being gagged a bit too much for my liking. Go fuck your father and play in traffic.
Excellent comparison post! Rastan was the very first arcade game I experienced. The cabinet sat in-between Pac-Man and a pinball machine at a place called Pepe’s Pizza in my hometown. The music of this game has stuck with me my entire life! Damn, what a fun walk down memory lane.
Isn’t the option above “other”, “I don’t want to use it” or something along those lines? just tick that? Never found these to be that annoying. Just pick at random and be done with it.
If there was no intellectual property, what would prevent a company like Amazon to simply sell any work every published in their best monopoly marketplace without ever giving a cent to the creators? How would, for instance, the author if a novel make money?
Donations and crowdfunds are the most common suggestions.
Or to come at it from another angle - 38% of the USA’s GDP comes from IP, and its primary beneficiaries are wealthy. If we paid towards a UBI instead of copyright holders, then many people would just make these things for free, with total creative freedom. The messages in our art and direction of our technology would radically change.
Gasp. Who would have thought actively courting Nazis would make risk averse corporations stop using your ads! Poor Elon! Also doesn’t help that the site was basic private for a while. I know I never bothered to log in while it was log in only.
Who would have thought actively courting Nazis would make risk averse corporations stop using your ads!
Nobody could have foreseen this! Nobody! Unless by some miracle they happened to look up who’s advertising on far-right platforms like Gab or Pravda Social.
“Pravda” is Russian for “Truth”. I find it ironic that TFG named his social media site after a newspaper that’s synonymous with "shameless propaganda’.
Not so much ironic as the Spider-Man pointing meme. Al-qaeda literally means “the base” and who exactly do you think all the Jesus freak stochastic terrorists are trying to rile up? Their base. Two sides of the same shit coin.
“I get to cp often, what I like there is: New experience, ability to see if people are willing to go too far and meeting new people, some of them are still on their way of learning”
lol I hope he loses it all. But I’m sure he’ll just find another rich loop hole to kick the can with another company. He got lucky with spaceX. Found the right people; and the right people that don’t put up with his shit.
I think we should acknowledge his strengths. Inspiring and empowering smart people to prototype something audacious is something he is very good at. He didn’t get lucky with SpaceX, he did what he is good at.
What he is bad at is the next step. And because his ego doesn’t allow him to step away and let somebody else do the next step:,take a prototype and turn it into a business, his companies are doomed to be just fluff.
I’m worried SpaceX will suffer the same fate under his leadership. There’s no escape from a leader with bad leadership skills.
“Inspiring and empowering” aka he’s rich and gonna get richer, nothing unique to the man himself. Those smart people could do leauges better out of a coperate environment - he doesn’t even let non-teslas park in their parking lot as their Cali research locations. Lotta empowerment there
Tbh I’ve spend time thinking on this, and realistically the only solution I could find is through mathematical optimization - describing it through and example, we’ve definetly killed hundreds of Einstein’s in Africa simply working for the west - we have the ability to provide food to every single person in the world, and certainly the technology to educate them.
If we simply offered everyone an equal chance to learn, and the ability to focus on “thinking”, instead of starvation, bills, poverty etc. naturally the best would rise to the top and statistically we’d have insanely better odds of finding smart people than the essentially lottery we got going on now. (Look at yee old days, population directly correlates with technological innovation, never one person being “built different” )
In our current society you can see this isnt happening everywhere, everyone knows you got to ‘know someone’ to rise to the top. A great example of being the film infustry; well known actors are somehow able to pop out amazing acting children, entirely uncorrelated to their connections right?
Musk is a beautiful example of this, cause he can hardly stop himself bursting at the seems with cockyness - and he was risen like he was gods child, so understandably he believes that, but he’s simply hooked on the dopamine rush he gets from making obsene amounts of money, soley because the exponential growth of ones wealth (and take a wild guess at how hr got anywhere with PayPal; hint hint it’s genetic). I honestly see him as no better than a common crack addict, but for some reason we decided he should have the power of a small country, certainly a dangerous thing in an addicts hands.
Sorry this got a little long, but Tbh this is the society I hope for some day!
“I was just trying to install this bloatware but now that I’m forced to provide feedback about software I didn’t want in the first place, I’m now going to uninstall all of your software and no longer be your customer.”
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