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it's counterproductive to passive aggressively imply that people should cultivate a worldview that you think is correct. even if you are right, you seem not worth agreeing with.

no one worth agreeing with starts a sentence with >Maybe if you read the right books

evidence for this?

because everyone I know pirates and no one I know has had an issue with it. I've never read an article about anyone being prosecuted for it. respectable people do it without fear

10 years ago is a long time

that's not enforcement of consumer piracy laws. that's enforcement of distributor piracy laws

the UK would be a good example of what they're referring to. in the UK there's absolutely no enforcement of consumer internet piracy laws whatsoever

I get what you're saying by this, but I think OC is just being practical. This is the world we live in. It's shit and I hate it, but if you want something done, 9 times out of 10 you need to consider these questions

I once spent some time in Berlin train station waiting for a long-distance train. it seemed like the layout of the entire train station had been rearranged without changing any of the sign posts. it was like a quite mundane nightmare

>Large Corporations are powerful and will do everything they can to get what they want

that may be so, but it doesn't make it a good thing, or something we should accept. corporatism is bleeding the world dry, and nearly everyone seems content to sit back and watch. corporations will be corporations, we lament, but resolutely fail to do anything about

>black-block sentencing algorithms in US courts

what is this?

I think both can be true at the same time.

We look for consciousness and order in chaos in order to protect ourselves and participate in society, but we also ignore and deny consciousness when it's convenient

if you'd like, you can google toxoplasma gondii

just going to throw this out here without any basis or evidence: I think it's cats. too much exposure to cats and their parasites, and there's an Alzheimers in the mail

it's a great idea, but - depending on where you live * - in the current political climate (i.e. corporate consensus) it's on a scale of "unlikely" to "the opposite is more likely"

this might fly in the Germanic countries (sans England), but in most Western countries the corporate pushback would be far too high.

even if long-term it would be cheaper, businesses a) don't like change, and b) don't like being restricted in any way whatsoever. imagine how hard coca-cola would lobby to keep using their classic bottle design. imagine how easy it would be for the corporate-owned press to sell this as Sovietism reborn or some other such nonsense

I feel like in America and the more right-wing countries, you're far more likely to be seeing a law enshrining the future rights of businesses to non-homogeneity

*America, based on your use of fluid ounces

not to be all "this is what they want you to think", but this is the very message I'm talking about

if this was the 50s or 60s, they would have made this search engine publicly-owned, and today it would be a cherished part of society being threatened and/or deliberately sabotaged by the corporate right of politics, a la the BBC, or the NHS, or Medicare/aid, or libraries, or youth centres, or public schools, or whatever equivalent you have of those in your country

whether he does it as a side job isn't really relevant, but I do think that there's a bit of a cult of personality going on here.

he's clearly a good lockpick, but even in a thread that isn't about him, he's somehow dominating conversation and gathering plaudits. I completely agree that being famous doesn't make you the ultimate arbiter of anything

in any reasonable society, these problems would be absolute cause for public intervention in the industry, possibly even as far as a publicly owned search engine. but somewhere along the way, corporatism has wormed its way into everything. the left, the right, academia, media, everything. and the message they've left is:

criticise corporations all you want, but don't you dare suggest an alternative

To take a cynical viewpoint, based on the examples given by the author, it could equally be that he's just lost interest in what I would describe as lowest-common-denominator action novels. He was able to fully listen to the book about focus.

I find that I can pay attention to the things I'm interested in as well as I ever could, but interests change and develop over time. I still avoid smartphones, but I don't think they've actually done anything to my attention span

the first few years I used the app

this was a troll and you shouldn't reply, but I'm more or less against zoos, in the sense that I won't support them with my money. for most mammals and some cephalopods, they're cruel and exploitative. I'm not against them as a last ditch measure to conserve a species though

to each their own, sure, but the way you say it's not too different from church prayers and the like is as if they're not pointless and ridiculous in the first place. if they found an interesting fossil in the back of a churchyard, it would be equally grating to hear the local priest saying that it's gonna bring us all closer to God