I am so glad to hear this! Thank you for sharing, I was anticipating the results of this!

As opposed to everyone else calling them bootlickers, I think there is likely a subset of people like this who are not considering piracy against the big corporations as unethical, but the “trickle down effect” of piracy towards smaller business/individuals.

For example, if you were to pirate Starfield, no one would really care. If you were to pirate something like BlackOps, most people wouldn’t care (and those that do are corporate bootlickers). However, what about pirating indie games, or music VST’s, or circumventing a patreon from someone with under 100 supporters?

There’s two camps when I see anti-piracy comments; the bootlickers, and those that have the idea that pirates pirate everything relentlessly. The fact of the matter is that piracy does not hurt big corporations, but we cannot say that is also true for small developers publishing their game on their own, and vocal anti-piracy, or rather artist-in-mind individuals, will let the world know that we should support independent artsits and not pirate.

Now, whether or not indie games are getting pirated is a whole different story. And really, what this comes down to is just having the opportunity to purchase in a way that supports the pirates ease of access.

Also, it completely ignores the ethical aspect of piracy which is why support a company that doesn’t have your interests at the forefront of its business practices. Which is a very similar reason to decide to not pirate – I enjoy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I would like to see more if it, I will pay Hulu and watch the show to tell them to make more IASIP.

If you like something, don’t pirate it if you want more of it. It’s actually very simple. If you do like it but can’t support it for personal reasons, don’t expect to get more of it.

Which of course, for the anti-piracy crowd is another sentence for, “you didn’t pay to watch it so they cancelled my favorite show!”

Tl;DR - A poor crossover between an individuals enjoyment of corporate content and an supporting independent artists living wage.

I could not believe it, but I’m choosing to… Believe it.

Yeah but what your dad didn’t talk about was how the generational connection to the meme has been slowly bled out by social media companies, replacing genuine nostalgia for manufactured social humor.

That is to say, boomers felt more connected to their memes than they did to ours, and more than we did to ours.

Likewise, we have more connection to the memes of our youth than Gen Z supposedly will/does to their memes.

And of course, it’s a bunch of B.S. because how do you quantify nostalgic connection! We didn’t watch Skibidi toilet, so how could we call upon it’s nostalgia the same way that we do for F7U12 or Trollolol?

The only thing I could potentially agree with about my own claims here are that there is a small shift in the amount of relevance of each generations cultural memehood, where as each newer generation comes, there is more and more content to draw from. Not only do current generations have Mario and Sonic memes, they also have Skibidi and social memes, so I could see there being a bit of a “limit” on how possible it is to like all of the memes equally.

Basically, in 20 years, will Skibidi be looked back at as fondly as Rage comics? Honestly, probably. But how about all of the other 49,000 memes?

The best meme survives, so what will be nostalgic for Gen Z?

Hello, Sally. I have been trying to reach you since our meeting in sophomore year of high school, where I saw you walking into the classroom right after Brett Kentchner. If you see this, call me at 860-809-098() I love you

Charles

I can’t remember, are bone spurs a disability?

I like mastodon more than twitter but I also am just not big on the micoblog format

You mean cable packages, which have been on the comeback

Twice impeached nonce not removed.

Oh definitely, there’s that tipping point that will force change haha. I wonder once people our age and younger generations start getting into politics, if we will fall to the same fates of corruption or if we will finally start making strides to reform it. Or, well, if it’s too late for any of that regardless, but I wouldn’t say that’s a reason to succumb to evil.

The issue right now for American governments, and I assume others, is that we are so heavily tied to corporations. Corporations fund the government and the individual politicians, corporations are legal entities and it’s just clear that it’s an oligarchical corporatocracy and the sheer fact that a company that owns 300 companies which all own 300 companies are all legal entities which can buy in to lobby for more power than any American individual… To get corporations out of politics seems dauntingly inseparable.

That said, to sustain nearly 350million people on an already failing infrastructure designed to funnel food into deserts while the cost of producing wheat and corn products goes down all while raising the prices (presumably because funneling food 1,500 to 10,000+ miles is expensive)… It seems obvious to switch to more sustainable solutions. Why are we trucking food and boating food instead of having more local farming operations, as one of a hundred thousand other things we can pretty feasibly accomplish.

Our biggest hassle here is the one we are already facing – food deserts and living in inhospitable places. Southern California gets all of its water from Northern California and the goes and farms, or fulfils contracts for water to Universities that are making green grass. In the desert. Utah is 2 cities surrounded by desert (I’m exaggerating, but am I?). Oregon is a series of forests, grasslands (due to human destruction) and now a few concrete jungles (our major cities). Every town on the outskirts of these are struggling because they do not produce what the community needs, so many of them struggling are farmers supporting the alt-right. Meanwhile, Oregon is the number one U.S. producer of blackberries, hazelnuts, peppermint, cranberries, rhubarb, grass seed, florist azaleas and Christmas trees, and 80% of our agriculture is exported with half of it being to foreign countries (which is fine to me IDC). Meanwhile, we also have the highest number of ghost towns where towns and cities have lost their industry and now no longer exist or have literally 15 or less people living there. I imagine that this is less of an issue in the E.U. since it’s so small by comparison (in terms of ~3 of our larger states is equal to ~1 country).

It just seems odd that our priorities are so focused on exporting when our local towns could really benefit from having farms that produce food that go to them and then having an industry to work in. Since they currently don’t have either…

I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but it is so interconnected, I mean just 100,000 tons of hazelnuts are needed for the demand of Nutella alone and that’s fulfilled by multiple different countries from a company based in Italy and they utilize satellites to view palm oil deforestation damage…

That’s the kind of world we live in. Satellites for chocolate spread. Oil fracking to get gasoline for chocolate milk from Nestle. I just don’t know how we get not only the U.S. government on board (although realistically we are the primary problem – the E.U. is far better in so many ways) but it being a global issue… Like, it’s a byproduct of our globalization and so how do we fully reintegrate local production when people will kill for Nutella, or do kill for some burgers.

I just hope we figure out how to move forward. We’ve sort of done worse than stay the course, we’ve somehow put out even more power consumption and pollution in the last decade.

Yup, this is why I didn’t pay for REAPER until the check for my first audiobook came through!

I’m still waiting for that check from the author, but you best believe $60 of it is going to the software that made that job possible!

Honestly, internet feuding has been the inception of the cyberpunk culture, it’s just evolved from internet forums to omegle to vines to tiktok.

It’s always just been kids on the internet amidst adults on the internet and the only difference from the early days is that it’s all recorded now. There’s a large part of society that is running on social media, without some sort of societal shift this will only continue. Honestly, it’s only society that is using it, it’s the corporations that are making it. People will find what is easily available and use that, it’s why we’re in this mess. It’s why we have cars as a primary transportation system, it’s why we have social media’s specifically for feet pics, and it’s probably why none of that will probably ever change.

Did these voters not see this all before? What was it that changed…

Like, I’m glad things are turning around but… what changed?

predatory chains like dollar general

Dollar general is actually one of the businesses that’s still open in the comment I made in this thread, but they don’t have groceries. There’s also a Ray’s, but that’s also not really a grocer. But I was also wondering how much of they were affecting the situation

One of the local rural towns we pass through just had its only grocery store close. There is still a fair amount of existing businesses, and it’s really only less than an hour from my city, but it seems like it’s going to be very problematic for those people soon. It makes me wonder just how long the other businesses will be able to survive.

I have a feeling that the grocery may have closed for personal/possibly health reasons. I have no basis for this at all, just that the town itself looked to still have clean buildings for businesses (not decrepit/dilapidated like some of the other verging ghost towns) and they were open and clearly had people. That would have me suspect not that the grocery was failing, but that maybe the owner had to close for personal reasons.

No, the friend is saying

downloading music is legal as long as the artists have authorised use of their work and it is only played privately (not distributed).

Artists are opting in to allowing their music to be pirated, so it technically would be piracy under that law.

However if it’s privately played it may not matter

2 days ago was Friday, it’s likely they don’t work the weekends.

Giving Lady and the Tramp vibes

The Felon and the Elon

Seconding reafir, or really any audio silencing plugin.

Record silence for 5 - 8 seconds, turn on FX, set to subtract and then playback the silence with the checkbox.

You’ll see the frequency range it takes up. In some cases this can affect your source audio, for example if the clicking sound is in the same range as a higher pitched humans voice, they may become warbled or inaudible.

This can be done to take out car whooshing/air to some extent, and general background hums from line input or gain noise or fans.