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Disney wins in that scenario, because they have more resources to spend on getting their media out there.

As… Opposed to now?

If Disney does plagiarize small artists’ work, and becomes known for it, they take a reputation hit, and the artist gets an explosion of exposure, as long as it is provable he made the original story. (Disney making million-dollar budget movies of your OC, isn’t even that bad for you, to be honest, but let’s assume that it doesn’t market the fuck out of your small artist story. In real life, stories are not in competition.)

If Disney doesn’t, then it’s an undeniable positive for worldwide creativity.

The only thing copyright protects, is big companies’ exclusive right to public-consciousness characters.

1. The current system doesn’t protect small writers either. Look at the amount of money plagiarism gets you, with copyright law in effect.

And

2. at the stage where you’re big enough for copyright to effectively protect you, provable publication dates take care of that problem through reputation. If you become known(read: found out) as a plagiarist, you get the boot from the public zeitgeist, never to receive public money again.

Copyright only protects the Mouse’s bottom line, and strangleholds creativity.

Prion City here we GOOOOOOOOO!

I’m 70% sure that the larger truck exists because exceptions have literally been made to the law on purpose due to lobbying, which is why every company pivoted to them.

Get me a fan or air conditioning, for survival, and I’m in

Please.

I didn’t say literally any of that though.

I said its main function is to distribute violence.

Money mainly exists as a way to decide to whom you will deny service.

The more money you can give, the less people will deny you what you need, and the opposite is true.

I think the problem is in the “measuring someone’s worth using an arbitrary number”, and not the money itself.

It’s that human worth shouldn’t be attached to a random hierarchical tool, whose main function is to distribute violence.

Virtue signalling of exactly this.

This is the intended message.

Well, you do you, but the trillion comparison has many, many other comparisons, further info, and interesting possible real-world uses for that money in the scroll. It really is recommended.

Though admittedly it does take some time, like a long interactive video.

Also… That’s should say something for the issue of inequality, itself, lol

If you’re talking about the Irish one, yeah.

The disease that made food inedible: British imperialism.

“Our inherently good government with unfortunate rich fascist fucks in it, vs their inherently nasty foreign government”

Wow! Another season! Maybe this time they’ll finally fix the online match-starting experience bugs! Right?

… Right?

I’m happy for you, but that just isn’t the average user experience. The crushing majority of people aren’t tech-savvy enough for that. And Reddit, relies on that majority.

For better or worse for everyone involved, it’s their experience that makes or breaks the site, and it’s them that enshittification takes advantage of.

Well, even then, the differences between a paradigm of romance, and a state-supported power-structure… Are not just ‘consent’, now, are they?

Adam, my beloved

That channel is amazing.

You should also know that SLS is banned in the EU, so this post made no sense to me until I went to Google for answers…

I swear, sometimes it’s hard to fathom the little ways you got it rough over there.

A Google listicle about “7 banned substances in the EU” or some shit, straight up lied to me.

SLS (Sodium laurilsulfate) is not banned, not even particularly regulated, in medicinal products, in the EU.

“The vast majority of SLS use is in oral products (tablets and capsules) where it rarely displays any adverse reactions.”

It only is “not permitted”, as a food additive in the EU, and there is a 2017 study which argues for its regulation in skin products, because of irritation.

I was careless on the internet, and the world is more complicated than it seemed at first glance. Story as old as time.

Naw, the farts are actually the best comparison.

Plants “breathe” normally too, taking in oxygen, and producing CO2. Separately, they also take on CO2 and sunlight, and produce “food” and expel oxygen.

Since it’s a by-product of their “eating”… It really is a fart, isn’t it?

I mean, there is no humane way to kill someone.

But on the USA death penalty issue, yes, generally choices about how it is carried out, are made with the spectators in mind, and the process itself is made more torturous in order to make it look better. (John Oliver has some great information in his death penalty video)

‘Bike lock’ theory?