The FOSS ethos is stupid.

If I had the ability to destroy people's access to an idea by never having created it in the first place, then nobody has the right to complain when I destroy their access to it in another, more noticable way. Like claiming a domain or paywalling a piece of software.

That's why I hope DRM wins in the end. The right to control an idea always belongs to the actor the idea depends on.

Wow! You are so cool and awesome! I'll make sure to send you a notification the next time a little girl is killed so you will get another chance to show off! The death penalty is too good for these freaks, honestly!

Yeah! All that suffering she went through would be for nothing if we don't get to kill a pedo out of it! I wanna milk her death for every little bit of sweet sweet retribution I can get! You died for a good cause, somebody has to suffer to show how different we are from these monsters, am I right?

Melvin was the one discussing it though...

Calle didn't want to negotiate. Clearly Calle didn't want the domain that badly. I don't see the issue here.

True. What else could they possibly do?

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Bad comeback. The correct response to people playing semantic games is to go along with with them. You are right. This thing ISN'T like this other thing in that way. This thing is like this other thing in the sense that they have this one specific aspect of them that is the same. Then they end up in the exact same place in the conversation, but without that response.

I like mine better.

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I don't want your stupid pennies. Let me post my art the way I want to.

Never let someone make themselves look stupid and never rub it in. Maybe you'd keep more friends.

Go ask the taxpayers to pay your wage directly and see if the government was truly representing their will.

Isn't that just sucking the government's tit with extra steps?

I don't know why people say that anonymity is a problem for fiat online. Just use a stolen credit card lol

Education is a pyramid scheme.

Does anyone on here have any good money laundering tips?

Just finished reading the My Hero Acadamia fanfiction "Just Deserts" by Elbowsnapper on RoyalRoad. The story follows an overpowered protagonist in his struggles with interpersonal relationships and vigilantism. It's good! I recommend it!

I don't HIGHLY recommend it though. I was disappointed in how poorly I felt it explored the theme of living in a society (bottom text) where using one's natural capacities for defense is forbidden without a license.

If I was a child predator, I would probably target the animation meme community.

You are exactly correct. The profitability of a platform is determined entirely by human choice. And one thing that can be counted on is that humans will choose platforms with prejudicial content filtering.

A person can already host their own speech through individual effort alone. Similarly, indexing and filtering internet content can already be done through sole individual effort of those who would listen to that speech. In a way, we have perfect free speech on the modern internet already, even without needing to build new infrastructure.

You can hardly be said to have a platform in the first place unless you some form of tyrannical filtering, in addition to hosting and sharing user content. My argument is that these services need not be mandatory. In fact, they SHOULD not be mandatory. I believe that given the importance of user choice, in a well designed platform, the tools to achieve cheap and perfect free speech would already be built in by default. I believe that to have a platform that does not at least have the option of allowing users to post or view any content is either putting in extra unnecessary effort in order to artificially block some uses of the platform, or the platform is ALREADY shooting themselves in the foot by not respecting user choice as much as it could be.

I like advertising. I am a lazy leech who cannot justify paying for all of the online services I choose to depend on, or the content I choose to consume.

Advertising is a way to give back to those I choose to associate with, and more importantly, it is probably the way to give back that has the lowest possible barrier of entry to me.

Advertisements are just what I deserve, and what the creators deserve. I have been aware of the option to disable ads in Duckduckgo for quite a while now, but I refuse to take advantage of that option. It makes me sad and frustrated that Kagi does not have the option to pay through ads.