The USSR famously took ownership of Tetris away from its creator.

He developed the game on company time. If he’d lived in a capitalist country, the government wouldn’t have taken control of Tetris, but the company would have. Every software company contract I’ve ever heard of has a clause that says the company owns any code you produce while working there.

Yeah, I don’t see why #2 is necessary. Make the government have to compete with the free market. If you’re poor, you get a government-funded apartment, but if you’re wealthy, you can afford a luxury condo.

There are food banks in my city, and nobody believes that they’re a threat and they’re going to put supermarkets out of business. You could just have standardized, ubiquitous food banks run by the government.

Yeah, it’s basically “If you keep calling all of the stuff I like ‘communism’, then I guess that makes me a communist.”

I thought that tankies were just communists who think that Stalin and/or Mao did nothing wrong.

Oh, there’s a trial and some other stuff. There are extra steps. Still slavery, though.

It’s the same argument. These people are enslaved. The 13th amendment abolished slavery “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”.

This needs to be higher

So do I.

The mental gymnastics you people play to justify copyright infringement is amazing.

I don’t need mental gymnastics. All I need are ROMs.

When Nintendo started Virtual Console, I was really impressed, because instead of fighting emulation, they embraced it and made money off of it. All of these old games were just potential profit that they were sitting on. On top of that, they even managed to get games from non-Nintendo consoles onto VC!

Then, they discontinued it, and I’m sitting here, scratching my head and trying to figure out why. Nintendo is a strange company. They have an undeniably awesome product and very talented and creative developers, but also pretty bone-headed management.

Sorry I want a well-managed UNIX system with a nice GUI while not coding?

Linux with KDE.

Why would you answer it? If it’s important, they’ll leave a message. I’m not going to pick it up and risk having to deal with a scammer or something like that.

I hate to tell you this, but this isn’t only a trait of narcissists. This is something that most people do. It’s a lot worse with narcissists, though.

Most people’s values and beliefs are all wrapped up with their sense of self, so if those beliefs get attacked, they feel like they’re being attacked.

Avoiding this is very tricky and counter-intuitive, but there are techniques. Look up “street epistemology” if you’d like to know more. There’s a guy on YouTube who goes to college campuses and has discussions with passersby regarding their beliefs. Basically, it’s asking people “What do you believe?” and “Why do you believe that?” Like I said, though, it’s tricky and takes a lot of practice, and it’s really easy to fall back into old patterns again.

Because ROY G BIV is much easier to remember and say.

How dare you suggest reposting things from other websites! I have never been so shocked and scandalized in my life!

I’ve used it for several years now, and I could never go back. It makes me shudder to think of trying to type out words by tapping on individual letters again. Swiping is so much faster.

Humans are moral agents, though. Just because something happens in nature, that doesn’t make it okay. There are lots of examples of rape among wild animals, but that doesn’t make it okay for humans to do it.

A lot of vegans are concerned about climate change, too, but it’s really tangential to the philosophy. Veganism came out of the animal rights movement, so it’s really concerned with exploitation and suffering. If there were no environmental issues with animal products, vegans would still be vegans.

Plants may react to damage, but that isn’t the same thing as pain. Plants don’t have a brain or a central nervous system.

Plants aren’t sentient, so yes.

Here’s a good video on why vegans don’t eat honey. Beekeeping is really just another form of factory farming.

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It isn’t a perfect analogy. I doubt that any analogy is. I regard defederation as an advanced topic, though, and it isn’t necessary to understand it to grasp the basics.

We could sit here and speculate about what makes sense to the average person all day, but at the end of the day it wouldn’t amount to anything without evidence to back it up…user studies or something like that.

What I’m asking is does it make sense to you?

I think the point is to have the freedom available. Most people are going to get their email from GMail, but you have the freedom to get it somewhere else if you want to, and you can still send to and receive email from people using GMail. You can even roll your own mail server.

You can’t post to Twitter from Facebook or vice versa, but if Facebook and Twitter were part of the Fediverse, then you could. Does that help?