All of them. I dislike every marketing tactic ever invented.

Easy solution. “The Internet Archive” should rebrand itself to “Archiving the Internet” to confuse everyone who talks about how “AI” should be able to steal books.

Agreed about changing the copyright law.

Until that happens though, they must not be allowed to have it both ways - call us “pirates” when we copy their shit without paying for it, and tell us that paying for shit they copy is “impossible”.

Maybe. Probably. Who can keep track?

Libraries are still a thing. You can still go there to borrow a book, read it, and return it, so that others can read it.

Public libraries are under assault from every direction.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1119752817/local-libraries-have-become-a-major-political-and-cultural-battleground

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html (apologies for nyt link)

https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans

Pretty soon you either won’t find the books, or even the libraries themselves. Piracy is the only way they are leaving to us.

your Communist inspired Fantasy Football League

You mean OUR Communist inspired fantasy football league, comrade.

It’s a trap!

I’m one of those people that couldn’t get past the middle part. Plus, something about that engine gives me terrible motion sickness after 30 minutes of playing.

I’m a software developer. All my relatives assume that I know how to troubleshoot every computer problem they have. From cleaning up crapware-ridden ancient Windows XP laptops to replacing failed hard drives, they call me for help.

I mean I do, but that’s not the point!

Wait 5 second, they will tell you.

Also, at least 27 percent of bears shit in the woods.

I mean what other choice is there? The way US elections are designed (electoral college, distribution of state representatives, re-drawing local districts on whims, unlimited amount of money being able to be poured into campaigns without any oversight or even reporting requirements, etc.,) voting for a third party is throwing your vote away. So you vote for the lesser evil. Unless you are so brainwashed as to vote against your own self-interest out of fear of the other side.

Do NOT let them recite their poetry to you!!!

I take it as “received a diploma from an accredited educational institution”.

Louis Rossmann’s 20-minute rant on needless cloudification of shit incoming in 3… 2… 1…

Learned this very recently.

AI is not ready to take over your job. It is, however, perfectly ready to convince your boss that it’s ready to take over your job.

I think you mean “isolation”. Individualism had nothing to do with being alone or not making friends.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/individualism

With my track record, the moment I start mining again is when they fold.

Ethereum mining.

I finally got a decent GPU in the beginning of 2022 and set up a basic rig. In September of that year Ethereum switched to the “proof of stake” model, rendering mining useless. I managed to maybe get a total of $200 worth of Eth in that time, and that was that. Taking into account the cost of electricity, my profit was around $100.

“Are you a full stack developer?”

“No, I specialize in …”

I feel that, my barf bro!