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OldWoodFrame ,

If there was no DEMAND it wouldn’t exist. It exists illegally specifically because it can’t be done legally at the price point. That doesn’t mean anyone needs it, all the content is presumably available elsewhere. It just costs money and people don’t want to pay money.

I don’t want to pay money either, I’m just not high minded about it.

OldWoodFrame ,

That doesn’t track at all. I can’t afford a Lamborghini so the need arises for access to stolen Lamborghinis for cheap? It’s absolutely not a need, you can just go without or only access the free media that is available to you. In the car example, I can just buy an old Civic.

If it’s stealing bread to feed your family that is one thing, because it’s an actual need. If it’s getting stuff because you want the more expensive version instead of the version you can afford, there’s no need there.

The ethical argument is that there’s no one harmed because you can’t afford it anyway. It’s not that you need it like a starving man’s bread.

OldWoodFrame ,

If you’re saying “you should not restrict ALL culture to rich people” then, we’re not. There is plenty of culture available for free on YouTube, or on broadcast TV channels, or FreeVee. And paying for one paid subscription doesn’t make you rich, $10/mo or whatever is an accessible price for a subset of digital media to a non-rich person. And those libraries are sufficiently large that you would not run out of material to watch even if you only had one service.

If you’re saying “everyone should be provided literally all digital content for free at all times” that is a pretty extreme position which does sort of break the economics of any content being produced. Digital content would have to be plastered in way more ads or be government subsidized or something to have the money to make more of it. That’s not a political position I’d be on board with.

If you just want the current system but with you being allowed to download the stuff you want to see on services you don’t pay for…again, there’s an argument for that, but let’s not pretend it’s some high minded one. It’s selfish. You probably have the money to pay for HBO Max for one month to watch the new Game of Thrones and the Barbie movie but you don’t want to pay money and it’s really easy not to.

With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?

Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....

OldWoodFrame ,

I feel like weight class doesn’t do it. Women have higher body fat %. Is a welterweight woman athletically equivalent to a welterweight man? I don’t think so.

OldWoodFrame ,

An 87 year old man using a slur, I feel like you get a slight pass sometimes for being old and not knowing a formerly-commonly-used word has become derogatory.

But he used it, got called out, issued an apology, and then used it again. Yikes.

OldWoodFrame ,

Fortunately and unfortunately, there have been so many changes and breakthroughs on solar power over the last 50 years that this doesn’t really tell us much about current technology.

OldWoodFrame ,

Literally the only answer to this question, though. He can’t say he will pardon him, politically it would be terrible and it might impact the trial itself. And he can wait until after the election and pardon him then, even though it will mean he was lying now.

I don’t think this comment is particularly newsworthy.

OldWoodFrame ,

Metric has been legally “preferred” in the US since 1975. We just don’t use it.

Also while I was looking up that year I came across this wild factoid:

In 1793, Thomas Jefferson requested artifacts from France that could be used to adopt the metric system in the United States, and Joseph Dombey was sent from France with a standard kilogram. Before reaching the United States, Dombey’s ship was blown off course by a storm and captured by pirates, and he died in captivity on Montserrat.

OldWoodFrame ,

It is admittedly pretty weird that a whole group of species developed a baby-juice organ that is only used by the females to feed only the young babies.

OldWoodFrame ,

I’d like to rent your home for a weekend, I’ve always wanted to try living under a rock.

OldWoodFrame ,

They passed a constitutional amendment in Florida to let felons vote, a couple years ago. The legislature tried to backpeddle it as much as they could in order to prevent black people from voting, but the main mechanism is forcing the felons to pay a bunch of money, which isn’t a problem for Trump.

OldWoodFrame ,

In general, my take is that people should be entitled to a warning, but if they still want to do something to themselves that is a really bad idea and the impact is pretty much on them, well…

This literally is the status quo.

The problem is that the impact is not only on them. There are people who are immunocompromised, particularly the elderly and cancer patients undergoing chemo, and children too young to get various vaccines, and they rely on herd immunity to avoid getting these diseases that might kill them or get them seriously ill or complicate their medical situation. So it’s specifically societies most vulnerable populations that are harmed, which is bad, not to mention the possibility that with enough spread the viruses could mutate and get around vaccines which would threaten everyone else.

And then you have to weigh those real harms against…what, exactly? People just…don’t want to? Because of their incorrect belief that the vaccines are more harmful than helpful?

The government exists to handle externalities like contagion and pollution and caring for vulnerable groups. Arguably, we should be a lot harsher on requiring vaccinations, like how we were on polio. But we aren’t.

OldWoodFrame ,

This would be a life goal of mine if they could guarantee I wasn’t going to get a damn DVD.

OldWoodFrame ,

Same way Uber lost money for 7 years straight. Investors.

OldWoodFrame ,

Hawking gets a Covid sample from a time traveler in 2009 and immediately travels to the Wuhan lab to study it and look for a cure, he successfully delays the pandemic and he almost gets to a cure but a bad guy time traveler comes to kill him in 2018 and without the watchful eye of Stephen Hawking, the world falls to chaos.

I’d watch that movie.

OldWoodFrame ,

Anyone can leave if they hate America.

OldWoodFrame ,

Yeah that would suck. But it’s still just a true statement. If Kyle Rittenhouse hates America he can leave.

Even if Native Americans do like America they can leave.

Anyone can leave for any reason.

It’s just a dumb…I don’t know I guess it’s not actually a threat. Dumb phrase.

OldWoodFrame ,

I need examples or I don’t understand.

OldWoodFrame ,

Admitting a negative documentary impacted your decision making just invites more to be made. Obviously it was the reason. Obviously they’ll never say that.

Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho (ktvz.com)

On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.

OldWoodFrame ,

I do like the idea of making Idaho more symmetrical.

Doesn’t seem like this would have much of an impact federally, it’s not like trying to form a new state where you’d get new Senators who agree with you. These people probably agree with Idaho Senators and not Oregon but their move wouldn’t change the composition.

OldWoodFrame ,

Not for House or Senate. Age just isn’t a close enough metric for what you’re trying to fix.

If you’re concerned with age-related decline, vote them out if you see signs of it, or if they would reach whatever age your limit is during the term.

If you’re concerned about longevity in office, use term limits or reform campaign finance such that longevity in office doesn’t grant too high of an incumbent advantage.

SCOTUS, sure. I think Canada has appointments until 75. Does not seem meaningfully different from appointments for life except less randomness on open slots.

OldWoodFrame ,

I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal.

I’m sorry, why? Microsoft basically owns OpenAI and has begun integrating it into their products. Apple doesn’t have any AI capabilities beyond Siri.

OldWoodFrame ,

So funny to call him “Former Green Bay Packers Quarterback.”

He’s going into his second season on the Jets.

OldWoodFrame ,

As far as I know the expectation is he’ll start week 1.

OldWoodFrame ,

I don’t like this because it’s not addressing the actual saying. Obviously the saying is about chicken eggs specifically.

But I’ve always felt obviously the egg came first. The first chicken was born in an egg, so the egg came first. That egg could have been produced from a creature with a mutation which caused it to produce the first chicken egg when it is not itself the exact same species.

OldWoodFrame ,

Real question is which came first, BBQ chicken or the Eggs Benedict?

OldWoodFrame , (edited )

I’m not following how it’s any problem for China to just be on Russias side? They get cheap resources while focusing the West away from Taiwan and showing the West the impossibility of trying to win a proxy war against a world power. Seems like they get everything they want. So they lose out on some trade with a smaller GDP than Ethiopia, whatever.

OldWoodFrame ,

Leave it to women, am I right?

OldWoodFrame ,

Seems to be making the point that it would be kind of dumb to spread across the solar system just making the other planets just as messed up as what we are currently doing on Earth.

OldWoodFrame ,

It is, and it’s a word we need there’s not a different term for it and it’s a useful concept. Close minded people just hate that it implies the existence of trans people.

OldWoodFrame ,

What does it even mean “one less account to track?” The money is still coming from a bank account, if you track the money in your account you would still have to account for a check, and it would be even worse if the check isn’t cashed right away.

Is it that you don’t have the monthly credit card bill if you send a check? But you’re spending the same amount of money regardless, checks are more like one-off credit card transactions, that don’t confirm payment like a credit card does. Checks are worse for the payment-neurotic. That’s maybe an argument for debit cards, it’s not an argument for checks.

OldWoodFrame ,

The most interesting part is…what constitutes “him”? What if he became a prince by having his DNA from his father replaced?

OldWoodFrame ,

Headline: “5 years ago renters needed to make less than $60,000 a year to afford the typical rent; now they need to make almost $80,000”

5 years ago renters needed to make less than $60k, they made $69k. Now they need to make “almost $80k”, they make $77k. When you put numbers to it, it seems less stark.

Median household income in 2024 is $77,400.

Median household income in 2019 was $68,700.

OldWoodFrame ,

Really thought this was going to be one of those “not you” memes.

OldWoodFrame ,

I miss the Me Gusta face and also the Dodo bird.

OldWoodFrame ,

“A teen said”

“filmed” interaction.

Seems like there’s more than “a teen’s” word to go on. There’s video evidence.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company’s return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

OldWoodFrame ,

I really like my job but if they started monitoring my data like that I’d absolutely quit. There’s already a monitoring mechanism, it’s called your boss needing you to complete tasks on time. If you’re doing that, the only thing data monitoring does it falsely call out people who are doing their work.

OldWoodFrame ,

SOMEone just declared a hiring freeze.

OldWoodFrame ,

I’m not going to make fun of him or his father for wearing makeup, men are allowed to wear makeup.

But I will make fun of him and his father for wearing makeup so poorly.

OldWoodFrame ,

I’m not a medical expert but I feel like a 70 year old with a literal hole in his brain experiencing memory loss and at a higher than typical risk of stroke due to a heart condition…hits all the risks we’re concerned about with the 77 year old and 81 year old.

Like it’s not literally the age we’re worried about, it’s the memory issues and likelihood of dying that comes with it.

OldWoodFrame ,

That’s… the point.

OldWoodFrame ,

A couple days ago my milk was all chunky when I tried to pour it in my cereal, because refrigerated air that was supposed to go to the fridge got blocked.

Milk wasn’t expired, just went bad due to a random mechanical issue over the course of the length of time the milk was being preserved.

Anyway, what’s all this about cryogenics?

OldWoodFrame ,

It was blocked by frost so uhh does sound like that second thing.

OldWoodFrame ,

If by “they” you mean Elon himself then yes and it sure is getting dumb.

OldWoodFrame ,

Well and the OP says he paid for the house in cash, vs just the down-payment, which could be as low as $37.5k for a $750k house. That’s a lot of money but across 2 years that’s $1600/mo, basically exactly what you’d expect to save on rent. Could also be significantly higher obviously too, if they went for 20% or something.

OldWoodFrame , (edited )

I just don’t believe anyone really has a comprehensive response to this news. Ok, 2300 people arrested. Out of how many protestors? What percentage were just immediately let go? What percentage were doing something obviously illegal and SHOULD have been arrested?

I believe in the right to protest and the right to protest with illegal action, as long as you aren’t hurting others. But if you get arrested for property damage you did cause…am I supposed to be mad you got arrested? No, it’s all part of the statement you’re making. If all 2300 were making a principled stand and making good trouble but still getting arrested…that’s not necessarily bad.

Meanwhile, maybe some percentage of these people did nothing and they’re just getting harassed by police. That WOULD be upsetting.

And some of these people were just being dicks and assaulting people and needed to be stopped. Sure, arrest those people.

A number of arrested does not provide any background information. Could mean anything.

OldWoodFrame ,

It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.

OldWoodFrame ,

Or it’s a coincidence. N=2

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