MonkeMischief

This is exactly why I'd shut down any of that ridiculous "Kids just know computers these days" crap.

"No, Phyllis, just because 6-year-old-Timmy can crust up your iPad with boogers to consume endless dopamine-pumping content doesn't mean he has any idea what is happening behind that screen. At all."

I worked for a public library and one of the worst things was, despite CONSTANTLY reminding people that when their computer time ran out, the machine would delete EVERYTHING and restart itself, I'd always get some dope who would gasp in horror at closing time when the script ran.

"What happened!? It's just..g...gone?!"

"Did you bring a USB? Email it to yourself? Send it to the print queue yet?"

"No, I was just about to finish it!"

"...There is literally nothing I can do about this."

"But it was 6 pages and due tomorrow and--"

One dude literally asked me: "Can't you.....hack it or something!?"

It's physically painful.

As a cultured collector of memes, one of the most annoying things ever is downloading images to my phone from the internet with filenames like "124fdgklhhr24.jpeg" and if I don't separately navigate to it, hold down to rename it, move it manually to where I want it for later, it just falls into the endless "Download" folder.

I think this behavior is encouraged precisely so people don't understand directories, fill up their phones with random nonsense, and then happily subscribe to "cloud storage" when it's constantly pushed at them.

Go to shows.

Ticketmaster has kicked in the doors of the chat, and secured every exit with burly goons.

I can't help but agree.

I hate things like patenting game mechanics and the RIAA throwing people in prison over mp3s, and everything Disney does.

But as an artist I'd also feel kinda, no, REALLY, shitty, if the second I put my human soul into something that got any kind of attention, it was (now legally) ripped off and everyone but me would make bank off of it.

Tshirts, plushies, videogames, a major corpo making a bugillion dollar movie. . .and very quickly nobody would even know I did it. But we still have bills to pay and all the rip-off sandfleas dropshipping my intellectual labor would say "Get a real job then lmao."

How many games has Facebook or Zynga ripped off of small time creators and shoved them into obscurity just because they have the money and visibility?

Imagine how much it sucks to hear people describe your 5 year old work as "Oh that's like a clone of that 2 month old Facebook game."

Talk about punishing creativity. Everything would be like it is with AAA games and Hollywood now but worse: Trapped in a time-bubble of rip off fanfic of whatever hyper-consumer "fandom" that generation grew up with.

I think the people sincerely pushing this "eliminate copyright entirely" idea are the same "idea guys" that think prompting a robot will allow them to finally "tell their story" with the most minimal of efforts.

They're fine with intellectual theft because the burden of forming one's own personality not defined by consumption has already proven too great to bear.

...and their masterpiece will belong on the infinite trash heap of everyone else's story that did the same thing...

TL;DR: Keep copyright. Fix public domain laws. Tighten the leash on corpos.

Oh good Lord, I was partially inclined to agree but using generative Ai to make this point tells me everything I need to know.

It really feels like SOMEWHERE there was a legitimate use for this for very mission-critical stuff that might need to be immutable once published and kept for posterity...

...but then it just became yet another speculative asset to make magic money that fueled stupid monkey jpegs.

The pursuit of profit benefits mankind only by the occasional anomalous accident.

At first I read "200.000" as a particularly precise float, and laughed at the absurdity. Then I realized he meant "two hundred thousand" and it came full-circle from comedy to tragedy. :(

"Look, it's a premium service with added value. An Uber can't make cars sporadically pull to the side to get you there faster, can they? It's worth the extra money." /s

Exactly. There's no escape. O_O

I particularly seem to be into stuff that my community isn't feverishly trying to rent. That helps haha. Traditional paper books too, I could keep renewing them for a stupid amount of time because they didn't end up on hold. Found out the limit was 255 renewals until they suddenly dropped it to like 10 max. :(

But sadly all the good nerd stuff like R.A. Salvatore books or Discworld always has queues, yeah.

They're out to ~~stomp pressure on~~ er, maximize value proposition from your "pain points" with their ad-sponsored boots. (Uggs maybe idk)