KillingTimeItself

Why is it possible to sell copies of public domain books when we have libraries?

because somebody physically produces the book wdym?

btw just because something is in the public domain, doesn’t mean that every variant attached to it is, just the one specifically defined under law, a book that is in the public domain, but also on the shelves of a retailer, might not be a public domain work at all. Because it’s a different work entirely.

I’m not even sure you can prevent the production of a work, just because it’s public domain, you just can’t hold copyright on it, so you could theoretically print and sell a book in the public domain legally, as long as you don’t declare that you own copyright.

i mean, i hate IP law as well, i like stealing shit.

yeah and this is the comment section of the thread of a 4chan post.

It’s not that deep bro.

the USSR was really only successful during it’s period of industrialization, past that they didn’t advance much and really only coasted on oil until that started to crash and basically killed them. Stalin also had some, interesting ideas of leadership.

China is an authoritarian state, has been for a long time, mao was, arguably one of the worst leaders ever. Created a massive famine that killed millions just so he could make a single nuclear bomb.

I’m not particularly familiar with the rest, so i can’t really comment. I guess you could argue that the US has done bad things, but so has basically every super power. It’s not really anything new. The primary thing is that the US still exists, china also does, but they’re also having domestic issues as well.

i seriously doubt you have any concrete view of politics or sociology to begin with.

Borderline rape? Really?

if you logically extend it into the future, where this would be an actual thing that actually happened, yes at some point it would become rape, it’s just not really a thing you should argue.

People say shit like this and I wonder how much meat space experience they have with… really, anything.

it doesn’t really matter, if you’re saying that you could have sex with anybody specifically one person, and that person doesn’t consent (which is a very real possibility) then at that point you would necessitate violating consent.

It’s just not a healthy way to think about sex.

Anyone else read “The Anxious Generation” yet?

unfortunately not, i’m busy watching the downfall of the US society atm, so.

a picture of (not me) because i don’t approach women in the club. Because i don’t go clubbing.

Shit’s weird, i’m staying home, no thanks.

Good meme though.

ah, yeah no that would do it, i wouldn’t report shit like this either. People are entitled to posting their dogshit opinions on the internet (myself included lmao)

And genetics were used to justify genocide and eugenics. By your logic are genetics absolutely evil?

genetics are a constant truth, so the argument should be based from the perspective that genetics mean something, in regards to genocide and eugenics, not that genetics itself is flawed, because genetics didn’t create this perception, humans did.

edit: retards was a typo of regards lmao, what an unfortunate typo.

it’s the internet, and this is a post about blackholes and a bird being recorded. This is a tad bit out of place for what it is, not surprised people downvoted it, probably because they thought it was irrelevant, oh well, that’s the internet, sometimes people like what you have to say, other times they don’t. Don’t think about it too hard, at the end of the day it’s just internet karma.

thats what a lot of AI is used for, just in different fields.

no, i don’t think that’s a reasonable answer, because you’re doing the fascist thing of “these people are wrong they need to change, and if they don’t we can justify whatever shitty behavior we want, because we’re morally superior”

It’s not dissimilar to a lot of nazi rhetoric.

I think the problem ultimately stems from a disconnect in social development through out society. Feminism has pushed women forward, successfully in a lot of ways, but it has also pulled men back, in a lot of ways, that’s not necessarily bad, but there is now a void there, and there is nothing filling it in, that’s why the manosphere got so big so fast. It’s literally capitalizing on an empty market.

If you want to solve the manosphere, the solution is simple, we need to fill in the void, and fix this disconnect that’s been happening for probably 75 years now. How we go about that is complicated, and not particularly simple, but i think it’s pretty clearly evident that the problem is aimless/directionless guidance for men especially in the last 20 years. Paired with historically contradictory ideas of manhood. Men are supposed to be strong and protect the weak, but it’s hard to do that when they don’t want it, or need it.

Once this void is filled in, this shit stops happening, simple as.

Its arguably worse that than comment itself. God I wish there was a male loneliness epidemic because these fuckers stopped talking.

oh no funny man on the internet yaps a lot about things.

I come here for sociological research more than anything.

yeah bro, it’s the internet, everybody has opinions.

“yeah so actually i think this is a big problem”

“yeah evidently it must be a problem, but like, this has always been a problem, and seems to be a consistent problem”

“YOU’RE LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!!!”

Lemmy User: It’s not really about women. Everyone suffers from this.

also to be clear, you are literally straw-manning me here, i’m not saying that “men have to suffer with women having an opinions” nobody cares, it is what it is, i think it’s interesting actually. You’re the one arguing that because people discuss topics that they find personally relevant is somehow “oppressing women”

I’m not saying you shouldn’t shitpost about that stuff in shitpost threads, by all means do, there’s interesting dialogue in it. I’m just saying this is a common occurrence anywhere on the internet, for any community. Hell go find a community for something as mundane as lego, you’ll find the same shit there.

Not everybody NEEDS to have their own specific issue that specifically effects them for it to be a valid or real problem. I just think this issue is far broader than most people expect it to be, ironically, i could argue you’re literally behaving the exact same way you claim i am. Because you are, and that’s exactly what’s happening.

Do i care? No, i don’t it’s the internet do whatever you want.

what if im the bear?

“dragonfucker” and “attack helicopter”

i mean, if they’re doing it as a haha funny, i see no harm, but if they’re also being assholes, i think that takes precedent. You aren’t legally required to fill in your gender tagging appropriately so.

Try making any post that focuses on situations uniquely or disproportionally experienced by women and you get mostly “what about men” or “men have it worst” responses.

that’s kind of just how controversial things are on the internet though.

Evens shitposting from men will get similar responses from women, it’s just how it is now. Sort of always has been.

the paper doesnt necessarily need to absorb the ink, the ink just needs to dry on the surface is such a way that it adheres well enough it doesn’t rub off, or stay wet.

So really, you want a high adhesion, quick drying ink, which would basically let you write on any surface it’ll stick to.

fair enough, but good on you for giving them what they deserve.

He spent decades campaigning on anti-crime discourse that prioritized higher budgets for police to spend targeting minority communities, a fact he was absolutely aware of.

this was during the 90s crime wave? Right?

Let his failure be a galvanizing lesson about all the failures of American liberalism. Leftism is the only true political opposition to fascism.

i have yet to see a single lefty produce a functional model of government. Liberals base their entire ideology off of a functional governmental model. You have an uphill battle in this regard.