Copyright is whatever makes the wealthy wealthier. They’ll be copyright reform, but only to protect these new industries.

‘deprogram’…‘barred from having contact with their protective parent’.

This will be decades of lawsuits and millions of dollars.

On the bright side, more people using VPNs.

I think we need to normalize alternative landscaping. Think tall and thin sumac with lots of mulch on the ground. Once in a year dump lots of mulch and don’t mow anything. If you don’t like gardening, and don’t spend time outside, just plant large bushes and mulch. I see so many people around that just don’t care about their lawn, and do the easiest thing so it looks like everybody else’s.

Neighbor cuts their postage stamp lawn with a loud lawn mower for 30 minutes. When they finish the next neighbor thinks to themself, ‘I should cut my lawn’, and starts a loud mower. When they finish the next neighbor starts. ALL Saturday. One after the other! Can’t you all just do it at the same time! Why can’t you use a push mower on a lawn that is smaller than a car parking spot! Why does it take you 30minutes, of using loud power tools, to cut a lawn the size of a car parking spot!!!

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It’s not about the rich. No one cares, except for a small handful of people. The vast majority of people want to fly away on vacation, own a large home, have a crappy grass lawn, eat meat everyday. They see environmentalism as some sort of odd lifestyle. If you make a law that says they can’t use gas lawn mowers, they’ll scream and go bat shit insane, call you the devil. They are relentless in wanting to pave over anything living.

The irony of not being able to spiral downward, when spiraling downward.

Promote Frisbee golf? That way you don’t need to cut grasses.

And jobs are so stable, and give great benefits.

40 years of a recession will do that to a society. An entire generation fucked.

I wonder if climate change will drive people back to places like Pennsylvanian? Good water, forested, temperate.

I wish that misuse of charity funds, and running a fraudulent University, verdicts where more in the spot light.

I think that there might be a certain size that is just comfortable for a car. Elderly people really can’t get into small micro-cars, like a Honda Fit, it’s hard to maneuver into them if an older person has joint pain. I think that’s why crossovers are popular, they’re just regulars cars that have been given a 6inch lift and a hatchback to make storage easier.

1 extra year will help to see how the batteries actual perform. After 10 years a Tesla’s battery is under 80% of its original capacity, you’re at the point of losing 1/4, 25%, of range. Not sure how many fail completely.

…and you’ve been recruited into the Crusades. God speed holly warrior, may you strike the infidels down.

I remember when corner stores rented DVDs, this could be another business for them. But…since they haven’t adopted it I guess it really isn’t that profitable. Power tool prices have come down in price and size.

Many neo-nazis used the BBS system to find each other. The funding model of direct email and such, that is used today, could probably be traced back to the early 1990s BBS forums. Scummy people have a way of finding each other.

allowed the village idiots to find each other and band together,

You can exploit them more if they are a mob.

youtube

Youtube is horrible in some respects for creating a false reality. Click on one video and down a rabbit hole you go, your stream gets filled very quickly of similar videos, but sketcher in content.

I don’t think that the Saudi prince or Chinese operative really care how the stock does. The problem is do you think you can short the Middle or China, or do you think that’ll they’ll keep dumping money in…since it’s pennies to them and they earn favor with potentially the next POTUS.