Alien Nathan Edward

bizarre restrictions around background play

there’s nothing bizarre about it - the free version is shitty on purpose

Why would I fix something when I can bitch?

But humans being kind to humans means everything

Downvoted.

No matter how right you are you don’t get to be a dick.

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How does the latter not reasonably imply the former?

I’m not dumb and I write shit code all the time. Bad code only implies that the author is dumb if you assume only dumb people can make mistakes.

take note urban planners: even in the sky, trains work better

who’s hype for the state-industrial complex to track our every movement! surely this combined with a right wing political movement that is increasingly focused on punishing so-called enemies will never lead to a complete humanitarian disaster.

Precisely this. The few rights that feudal peasants did have are being ferreted out as “inefficiencies”

okay but land ownership and rent seeking are inherent, inevitable parts of capitalism. Even Smith talked about how rent-seeking is an unavoidable outcome of a system where one person can own what another needs, and about how in order to succeed capitalism will require some way of discouraging or taxing rent-seeking. “As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.” This isn’t a new phenomenon and it’s not a return to pre-capitalism, it’s capitalism doing what we all new it was going to do from the beginning.

Silicon Serfdom?

No that’s still capitalism. Capitalism is still the problem. To call it anything else is apologetics, the core issue is that the private ownership of the means of production leads to a concentration of power in the hands of precisely the wrong kind of people after selecting for and reinforcing the most selfish behaviors in them. It then allows them to essentially usurp whatever form of government exists.

or like in America, where if the cops want to kick your door in all they have to do is say they smelled something and then it’s on you to prove they didn’t

it will be interesting to see if we ever get to a point during the next inevitable global pandemic where masks are compulsory in some places and illegal in others

strike the earth motherfuckers, I just built a computer using nothing but water gates and Armok’s love

It’s like a Chekov’s Gun

this is the root of your misunderstanding. diversity doesn’t require a plot hook, let people just be different and let people who are different in real life be represented in the media they consume.

https://lemm.ee/comment/6088169

What’s wild is there seems to be a contingent on lemmy that goes into posts like this just to say “who cares that they harvest all your data?”

the question here is, on it’s face does an invasion of privacy constitute an injury? I’d argue that yes, it does. Privacy has inherent value, and that value is lost the moment that private data is exposed. That’s the injury that needs to be redressed, regardless of whether or how the exposed data is used after the exposure. There could be additional injury in how the data is used, and that would have to be adjudicated and compensated separately, but losing the assurance that my data can never be used against me because it is only know to me is absolutely an injury in and of itself.

if it’s as easy as just ‘hack them’ what’s stopping you?

it wasn’t because he used a VPN, it was because his income was illegal. It’s just that using a VPN is what made the income illegal

He didn’t die from being shot, it’s just that all of his blood leaked out of the otherwise harmless bullet hole