Yeah. What this lawsuit in effect did is say “Games can fall under art and education. Publishers shouldn’t think just including a swastika in a game is illegal, because it isn’t. Just as a movie can include it, a game can as well.”

Of course, it still needs to not glorify nacism deliberately or inadvertantly. But it’s sad that it took this long for this non-question “legal question” to have been finally asked in court, and answered with the most expected answer - and dare I say it - one more expected of past decades than this one.

Their interpretation did. Games now classify as art and fall under the art-related exception from censorship.

The one who ordered the work?

Or does the RIAA have a $10 a pop deal with the artists’ guild?

So they’re actually not anti-AI art. They’re anti AI-art in their field, because they (rightly) percieve it as direct competition.

But if a visual artist uses it for music, how can he sleep soundly and claim a musician using it for visual arts is inethical?

That’s just slandering competition tooth and nail, all the while proving it’s good enough by using it yourself. Not an ethical stance.

Not reached, but breached?

What is Linux, a virus?

I remember whn Linux hit 4% as if it was yesterday.

In the laisses-faire market, any levy and any price is perfectly legal by definition.

Doesn’t deepseek have a wailord and mistral an “M”?

But the US ones are in fact assholley tho.

Yeah, sure. Everyone throwing out old books is knowledgeable enough to know and willing enough to check that the book they’re throwing isn’t rare or important.

You’d think people would check on the off chance it’s worth a bunch but you’d be surprised.

To be honest, I’d be MUCH less against this practice if this shredding at the very least included saving the original scans at at least 300 dpi for everyone to access, freely.

Ideally, they wouldn’t cut them by the spine, but even giving the despined ones to an archive/library would be just above the unpermissible line.

Despining, scanning and public access archiving is borderline permissible.

They can: hire locally (not a bad thing), move out of overpriced areas (also not a bad thing), pay/find closer housing for employees and negotiate better prices (also not a bad thing) or just make remoteable jobs remote.

All positive consequences of… Having to pay your employeea for their time spent for the company.

Not only that. Travel time should count as work time, with full reimbursement of all travel costs: gas, tickets,…

If they really feel that added cost is worth it? Let them.

Takes you three hours of travel time to get to work and back? That counts into your 8h workday, so you’ll both be paid full salary for it and get to work “only” 5h at the office.

Most should quickly turn away from the idea.

From what I see, 0 = 10 on this scale.

Because a certain group of certain countries made the main comparison axis “capitalism - communism” instead of “totalitarianism - freedom”. I wonder why.

The loophole is obviously the amendment mechanism - it always is. You can try to close the loophole, but it’s an impossible ask.

And besides, there’s no perfect constitution. Most countries change them pretty often. The US is an outlier in that regard with its 200+ year old constitution.

Times change and so do circumstances. Any constitution that wants to stay relevant long-term needs a way to change things to match the times and stay current.

What’s important is the entire system and bureaucracy around that sole document: it can turn the most totalitarian core democratic, or the other way around. Laws, rules of conduct, procedures… They all make a stable and coherent system. It’s not all in the constitution.

But if he wants to spy on you in your home, suddenly there’s a perfectly valid reason (in hsi book) why your house is special and doesn’t get the right.

Objective and simple. And having some baggage. That’s what metric is.

And celsius is fully objective and simple, with none of the baggage the meter, kilogram or h:m:s have.

No one said metric was perfect, because it’s not. It’s the dumb dumb standard we have. But it works well enough for the vast majority of things.

Yes. Just as feet and inches are for height. And miles are for distance. And pints and quarts for liquids. And ounces and fluid ounces.

We can make as many of these exceptions as we want, and the only clear winner of the “most ubiquitous use of imperial” has to be inches on porn sites.

But what objectively is the truth is: the rest of the world, save for Liberia and the other place use metric for everything, with the UK being another strange holdout, use metric. International communication is less and less America-centric, and Fahrenheit is American hieroglyphs for us Europeans, because metric is very nice a system as well:

10°C is cold and 20°C warm. 0°C is very cold, 30°C very hot. 20+ is T-shirt territory, <10 is for a winter jacket. Two sentences to catch 80% of the nuance, tops.

To become an expert in Celsius you only need to know 0-40. For Fahrenheit? 0-200 from what I gather. Celsius is very coarse, so every degree means something 15 is noticeably less cold than 14. Everyone has their t-shirt temperature. Mine’s 17-18, someone else’s 14-15.

Also, when dealing with the weather, you never use decimals. Not needed. A gimmick. As with most other things. The only time you use them is when you look for a fever. 35-37 is normal body temp, 37+ a fever, when measured under the armpit (which seems most common).

Tbh Amazon always had outrageous pricing for me, raging from 1.5-4x the price on other platforms. I don’t think I’d ever seen a competitive deal on the site.

I wonder if it’s their algorithm taking a distaste for me in particular or a local glitch, but no one in my area uses it either.

In any case, locally marketed price aggregators never even showed me an Amazon listing in the first place, so it’s probably an issue on their end, as most people aren’t willing to pay $76.5 + $115 shipping fees for a product worth at most €50.

Working for an idiot with peers that are his fellow idiots. Definitely worse than just working for an idiot.