maynarkh

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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 46 points 9 months ago

I saw one where it went:

  • Publish a copyrighted work
  • Sell it for 10 bucks
  • Have a friend pirate it 100 million times
  • Declare bankruptcy
  • Have the friend delete his copies
  • You're a billionaire now
[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So anyway, how exactly would you like to punish these people, whoever they may be, for not reacting properly to an unprecedented set of events?

The idea behind the higher pay of CEOs and the appreciation of shares is that the shareholders and CEOs bear exactly this risk. I wouldn't prohibit layoffs for the reasons you mentioned. I would mandate very generous severance packages and prohibitions on raising workload on other employees.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the real issues like Lola Bunny.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The backrest cover of an Eastern European long distance bus seat.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 4 points 9 months ago

Rounded corners I guess.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 34 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Luckily this is not an EU institution, this is an international treaty above the EU. For example, Azerbaijan is a signatory.

Point is, you can't easily get it through EU legislation to overturn this, as it would need to cross the ECHR, which it won't do.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 21 points 9 months ago

The entire internet is a data harvesting horror show. It's good for the economy though, so we don't do anything against it.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They didn't violate the social contact, they disrupted it.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

Sometimes a relationship has to be all about one of you, it is two people leaning on each other. The thing is, I can see how it might be hard to find someone to lean on if you are not stable enough yourself for someone else to do the same.

If anything, I'd say this is the opposite of selfish. Rather than going into a relationship just to satisfy your needs without being able to satisfy the other's, you get to take care of yourself a little.

I'm not a psychologist though, and I don't know how this affects someone long term.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 30 points 9 months ago

The EU made a law this way specifically to only affect the biggest gatekeepers, so that megacorps can't use it to further entrench their own monopolies. Nobody gives a fuck about iMessage in the EU.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 19 points 9 months ago

Network effects. The law lets me not install Facebook Messenger just to chat with my mom and Whatsapp just to chat with my some random corporate account, and instead use whatever messenger I want to chat with both of them. I wouldn't have a choice otherwise.

It's a great law, IMHO. It keeps monopolistic companies from gatekeeping services essential to modern life.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 14 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Maybe it's more like not able rather than not willing. As someone in a happy relationship that can't imagine my life without it, relationships are hard, and modern life is hard.

I mean, may they be happy. If they are not ready or able to commit to a relationship, but they need comfort in our increasingly lonely world, this may be a band-aid. A good solution would be to find out why people are lonely in the first place, and address it.

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