Euphorazine

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[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

If you buy a movie, you are buying the rights to private use of the movie, you aren't buying the copyright. You can sell a DVD movie to someone else and it's not illegal and doesn't subject you to copyright law.

If you buy a game that has a license key, then yeah, you are buying a license to the game even if it has physical media, but buying a physical copy of an Xbox game doesn't have a license key (well, more recently they do, the box contains a store key instead of a disc, but before that was common practice)

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I don't see why there's a distinction for always online games. You don't "own" any game you buy off steam. All you get is a license to play the game off steam. You can't sell or trade them.

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Petroleum jelly like thing, to protect combs from freezing weather

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Notification access also allows them to show pictures, so they will show things like "you have a virus, download "totally legit antivirus " or other "warnings" disguised as windows alerts.

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I like to imagine these robberies are basically done out in the open. Mr. Meth President decides to hit a home, but before he can break in, the secret service breaks in first to clear the home of people.

There's a news crew outside all the time because it's easy to spot the motorcade as they hit a neighborhood.

Meth President comes climbing out of a window with a PS5 in hand, the HDMI and power cables dragging behind him.

The favorable media company headlines be like "Look at how he cares about education by giving people more time to study and removing the bad influences of video games from young minds!"

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

If Trump wins, I imagine Ivanka or Eric run in 2028 with the soft understanding that Donald is still running the show. If Donald was younger, GOP might try to remove term limits.

If Harris wins, I expect not much of anything to change. Dems don't have enough of the Senate to enact campaign promises, and if they did, they wouldn't act in it like in the past.

But hey, at least Dems populate government seats with people that seem to want to do a good job. We don't have the owner of private schools leading the dept of education or C-Suite Exxon guys running the EPA or telecom guys running the FCC.

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Undecided voters aren't undecided between Trump and Harris, they are undecided on leaving the couch to go vote.

So I don't really think it's changing the mind of voters and I don't see it motivating people to go vote.

Just seems like an attempt at counter narrative for "Comrade Harris". I don't see it moving the needle.

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 87 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (17 children)

Alaska, a red state, is reportedly trying to remove their rank choice voting. This isn't a "Dems" problem, it's a two party problem.

https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Ballot_Measure_2,_Repeal_Top-Four_Ranked-Choice_Voting_Initiative_(2024)

Even if state and local elections are ranked choice, the presidential election will still be a first past the post election and the electoral college is still designed for a two party system.

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Out first week of one shotting M1S and we did two shot M2S. Still progging 3

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

Not saying you and I would call it "ethical" but there are for profit companies who will pay for someone's funeral expenses to claim the body and sell it to researchers, universities, etc. So they didn't donate their body to science but their family sold it because they couldn't afford the service on their own.

Maybe not ethical, but legal, and therefore they may be able to claim it's "ethical" in advertising.

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Well, for almost a decade the GOP has had time to come up with their vision. They ran on "Repeal and Replace" in the 2016 cycle. But when it came time to vote to repeal, they still didn't have a replace option.

Prices didn't go down when the 2018 tax cuts reduced corporate tax by about 30%, I doubt when the ACA gets repealed and insurance companies can drop the uninsurable people they will lower the prices for healthy Americans, because they are already anchored at the higher price.

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Technically that's true, because it changed the law where you can't be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, but I'm guessing OP means he uses the marketplace thingy instead of having insurance provided by work.

(Also, the affordable care act didn't force you to have insurance, it was a tax penalty to not have insurance, but the 2018 tax act set that penalty to $0)

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