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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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But.. do you pay subscription for Steam that they can just jack up any time they want and there isn't anything you can do about it other than straight up quit and lose all your stuff?

No. That's why.

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Land surveying would be my recommendation. Jobs can be all over and as someone living in BC, my days of fieldwork could be absolutely spectacular sometimes. You also tend to jump around in worksites and with the right firm, travelling is definitely possible.

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Most of the time it’s groups of 2 (unless we’re talking about municipal development, which is a different beast altogether, I’m thinking firms that do lots of out-of-town work), but often you can be in camps as support. Frequently, there will be a team working a big project on rotation, so lots of opportunity for shared experiences.

Admittedly, my experience in rugged coastal mountains isn’t going to be the same as those that are working in dense urban environments. I assume because OP is talking about camps that they live in a place that offers reasonably close proximity to wilderness.

Also, you have to have a fairly high interest in math and the outdoors to stick with the profession.

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I assume it’s looking for that one space that should be a semi-colon in a sea of garbled letters.

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“Choosing”

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You think the entire populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military?

Also, entire cities in Southern Germany were entirely wiped out. Munich was re-built from the ground up.

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Uhhh.. Milei’s been in office for what, a week? Are you saying the “Peronistas” were driving people in to protest their own government?

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Fair. Argentina’s politics are complicated. I was there in 2002 and remember groups of people sitting in circles discussing the political situation at the time.

I love Buenos Aires btw, hope things get better.

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Yeah except those protests were not astroturfed, just people with valid complaints.

And they were right.

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No, my comment was questioning whether a political party would bus protestors in to protest their own party, not claiming that there weren’t any protests at all.

EDIT: I was assuming these protests were happening for months. That said, I can see that they could be protesting the election results, so the time between the election and the swearing in.

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“Great work McConigal, they split America’s voters from ear to ear”

“Hey, I’m tryin ta eat lunch here”

For reference:

https://youtu.be/vDtdCxGosUQ?si=bYz3OW529ytIYeLu

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Sir, this is a shitpost.

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Well... they seem to get that mixed up pretty often.

Alliance Defending Freedom asks U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in Idaho abortion case (idahocapitalsun.com)

Attorneys for two national law firms have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a federal case in Idaho regarding whether emergency room physicians can continue to be shielded from prosecution under the state’s abortion ban....

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Names group “Alliance Defending Freedom”.. proceeds to actively attack freedom.

Elon Musk’s X sues media watchdog Media Matters over report on pro-Nazi content on the social media site (www.cnn.com)

After a devastating advertiser exodus last week involving some of the world’s largest media companies, X owner Elon Musk is suing the progressive watchdog group Media Matters over its analysis highlighting antisemitic and pro-Nazi content on X — a report that appeared to play a significant role in the massive and highly...

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Ok, but like, X corp? For real? Musk really leaning into the comic book villain shit he’s got going on lately.

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Hey! Don’t speak for all of Canada! Milk comes in containers on the west coast, just as the universe intended.

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Lip injections. Not once has looking like you just got hit in the mouth with a hockey puck helped someone look better.

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That’s pretty wild actually. Can’t imagine that many of these votes are near unanimous.

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Canada has a killer track record for housing dissident diaspora communities. Just ask India.

Trump, who once appeared to defend January 6 threats against Pence, calls on his former VP to endorse him (edition.cnn.com)

“Because I had a great successful presidency, and he was the vice president, he should endorse me,” said Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nod. “I chose him, made him vice president. But … people in politics can be very disloyal. I’ve never seen anything like it.”...

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Well.. he’s not part of “treasonous anonymous” because he’s clearly part of “treasonous obvious” aka the GOP.

They don’t need to be anonymous about it, sadly.

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This guy wants Gilead and he's not quiet about it.

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Are you insane? Pizza rolls are a million times better out of the oven. No contest.

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While I would tend to agree, if I'm reading this correctly, they sent the letters for the sentencing... meaning he was already convicted of rape and they were pleading for leniency for an old rapist buddy, like within the last few months. That is a really bad look no matter how you slice it.

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Great, now do the Scientologist pricks that protected him for years and threatened his victims.

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Holy shit. Jokes aside, if this is real it’s a damn shame. It’s actually insane that he would get killed for a scientific experiment. Why would anyone want to be involved in science in Russia if this is how they deal with failure? It’s no small feat to land on the fucking moon.

Meta putting profit ahead of safety by blocking wildfire news, says Trudeau (www.reuters.com)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday criticized Meta for blocking domestic news from its platforms, saying the Facebook-parent was prioritizing profit over safety as devastating wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate their homes....

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This is the dumbest argument.

If you want to stick it to facebook, tell people to stop using it and direct them to better sites for news. This guy is so tone deaf.

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Is there a difference between artefact and artifact? Or is it just another weird thing in the english language?

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Seeing as they are specifically tailored to each person and they work to treat those that already have pancreatic cancer… is vaccine the correct term?

Is it a vaccine because it induces a response within the patient that then kills the cancer, whereas something that would be considered a treatment would directly destroy the cancer like anti-biotics do to bacterial infections?

Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt (decrypt.co)

Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski’s style...

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Was he paid for his art to be included?

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Wow.. so in your mind there is basically no copyright and nobody owns anything. That is incredibly reductive and completely ignores centuries of legal precedence since the constitution was written.

You are basically claiming that anything that is ever put on display anywhere, ever is public domain and that piracy doesn't exist.

Celebrating A true Canadian hero (lemmy.ca)

40 years ago today Terry Fox, a 21 year old Canadian who lost a leg to cancer, began an east to west cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day and made it to 145 days and 5,373km before he was forced to stop and he lost his battle with cancer.

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This makes me teary happy.

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Well that's horrible.

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We all know where this tech is going.

Only a matter of time until we finally get that PH haptic feedback we’ve always wanted.

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Not since Reagan was the president of the actors’ union in the sixty’s.

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David Zaslav is head of Warner Bros. Discovery. He took over recently after the merger and proceeded to make a bunch of unpopular decisions regarding everything and made life worse for all employees and fans. He cancelled a million projects mid-stream including a fully finished batwoman movie to get a tax write off. He also gutted Discovery when he became CEO awhile back, taking it from education based to reality tv garbage because that makes more money apparently. He’s basically a real life Jack Donahue from 30 Rock.

It seems GQ wrote an article about how nobody in the industry likes him and then it got pulled.

Now you’re up to speed.

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Oh absolutely, Jack without any redeeming qualities.

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