Remind them that copyright cannot be enforced on anything AI-written.

Plot armor is way more protective than any helmet ever could be.

And that’s why I have a seed target of 0.9, so I’ll never have seeded the entirety of anything.

And then didn’t go to Minas Tirith.

Where did the remaining ones go after the battle at Helm’s Deep?

Could as well mean that the truth is labeled as Russian propaganda or that Russian propaganda is closer to the truth than American propaganda.

Eh, until you ask them how their own war of choice in Ukraine is going.

Technically, this is just a second prefix.

Now let’s get things straight – Bill Cosby was definitely a rapist, but I haven’t heard a peep about him being a child rapist.

Nah. Being attacked by evil doesn’t make you good.

You’ve got to stop with this black-and-white thinking.

Only one of these can truly strike fear into the heart of the enemy.

40% of Disney’s content

I feel like this number could be higher. Let’s try to get it to at least 60%

I’m conflicted.

On one hand, fuck surveillance and the state that does it.

But on the other hand, it’s not that hard to just go the fucking speed limit, people. And then you don’t have to worry about this at all.

165 is eight score, so I don’t feel “scores” is clearly articulating just how many children were killed.

But it’s also not “hundreds”, which is the next step up from “scores”. And anything more accurate would require more than one word to convey.

IMO, “scores” is fine to refer to anything between 40 and 200.

it’s been at rock bottom?

It’s not at rock bottom until the US collapses as a country and Trump gains the dubious honor of being the last president of the United States.

Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations.

What? How did this happen without me hearing about it at all?

First, thank fuck she’s gone. But second, what horrible creature will be (or already has) replaced her?

In my youth I was taught that democracy meant that the government served the people.

In your youth, your teachers lied to you.

Ten-year copyright would mean Marvel’s “phase two” movies competing with off-brand Iron Man sequels… and that’s ignoring how the character and all his good stories were public-domain for decades.

Ten-year copyright would mean the last Harry Potter book and half of the movies competing against commercial fanfiction. Just a flood of contradictory cash grabs which admittedly would not fund an obvious bigot.

Ten-year copyright would mean Game Of Thrones didn’t owe GRRM anything, if they skipped or delayed season eight, which frankly would have been an improvement. Admittedly it also means there’s been five years where anyone could publish their own damn version of The Winds Of Winter, and that might be the only way it ever comes out.

You say these as if they would be bad things.

In most cases, people will still prefer the ‘official’ sequels and such from the original creator. Because if you liked the original, then you’ll want more from the same creator, and maybe not so much from other, unknown creators.

To take one example, Copious fanfic of the Harry Potter books does exist, and it even existed well before the final books were released, much earlier than 10 years. Some of it was (I assume) actually pretty well-written and creative. And unlike the official books, it was available for free. And yet, readers of the franchise, overwhelmingly, preferred to pay to read the official sequels, rather than read free fanfic of it.

Could this result in slightly less profits for content creators of series works? Sure, maybe. But there’s also the chance that these off-brand sequels could be good. Perhaps better than official sequels. Perhaps even better than the original. Having more choices and more options out there can only be good for the consumer. And it might even be good for the content creators as well – it will motivate them to keep quality high during later parts of the series, since they can’t depend on IP protection and being able to ride on the coattails of previous success. Since disappointing sequels are pervasive in our media landscape, perhaps that will be a very good thing indeed.

You’re already stumbling into that conclusion with:

would mean Game Of Thrones didn’t owe GRRM anything, if they skipped or delayed season eight, which frankly would have been an improvement. Admittedly it also means there’s been five years where anyone could publish their own damn version of The Winds Of Winter, and that might be the only way it ever comes out.

But the biggest part is just giving consumers more options and more art. Just think of all the great art we might be missing out on, art that would have been made if copyright law didn’t prevent it.

non-straight ruler(?), i guess

It actually gets its name because in ye olden days, it was made from a malleable type of lead that came from the island of Lesbos.

I’ve been trying to convince myself to throw away those boxes for years.

As soon as the garbage truck hauls them off, you’ll suddenly need one of them and have to go out and buy one.

The moral of the story is: don’t throw away your unusual old cables.

List them for sale on ebay.

I envy you.