Normal people don’t. But if you’re a billionaire who buys talent then people call you a genius who made Tesla or Amazon.

I know the character and the game, but I don’t get what this is supposed to convey as a comment.

And yet, if the US cares so much how come it doesn’t take more comprehensive steps to prevent them?

It’s only ever invasions of privacy to feed directly to law enforcement. And they won’t even enter the building to confront active shooters.

The Bible only works in the US when it comes to persecuting minorities.

Bigots only have the OT quotes about hatred barrelled, book, chapter, and verses. They cannot recall where a single passage talks about love and mercy and generosity.

This weird in context of the show. Skips is the oldest, as an immortal, and would outlive the rest of them. Labeling him as the newest media is off. It’d be more accurate if it were depicted as daguerotype outliving digital.

This is a terrible take, as most content creators I watch already cannot survive off of Youtube ad revenue and rely on third-party monetization, like Patreon subscriptions.

Besides the fact that plenty of people make content for free, from the simple love of creating something.

That’s a good point.

I’ve never held any illusions that black people would ever be made whole from any of the multiple abuses done to them by the USA. Black people have never been “economic peers” to levy expected, financial obligations, just resources to burn through.

So, I’ll admit that I was unclear and came in with undeclared preconceptions: no, I don’t think black people (in slavery, newly-freed, nor in the prsion system) are expecting to be done right by their incarcerators. So no, there is no “expectation” of payment that is being unmet because the US barely pretended it was a trade.

Someone else mentioned the colonies reneging on French debts, which is an example of the US making a deal with and witholding (re)payment.

But those tacitly aren’t expected to be reimbursed for labor, so that wasn’t what I was asking about.

Does the US, as a polity, have a history of non-payment after rendered services?

That’s more famously a Trump staple.

Yeah, the very idea of discourse has been deconstructed so thoroughly that I can see someone saying “but humans are animals” as justification for being a monster. Or that you deserve to steal if you can find a gap in the laws preventing it.

I can see how you might have that internally, but the material imagery here is of something being stolen off a plate. It’s directly at cross-purposes with what would be at the top of people’s mind when interacting with the post (assuming they’re not the type to sprint to comment before engaging with the post at all).

I hope this was preplanned, and they didn’t just passively watch a cat ruin someone’s meal from a single table away.

It’s fine to steal from a company, but (literally) off another person’s plate?

Ah, makes sense. Thank you.

I don’t get “elbows up”?

These people are flooding free projects with shite code: they lack that level of self-awareness.

But you believe a formal declaration that they don’t want AI crap code will stop complaints from the degenerates who then try to sneak it in? Or the people who complain that they’re “needlessly denying good code”? People will always complain and argue.

I’m not awake enough (nor qualified enough) to get into “laws” and what they’re “actually for” but sufficed to say that I don’t think the analogy applies to a curated resource. Sure, it’s free but it does have an owner and you can’t stop the owner from doing what they want with it, including unilaterally canning random contributions. You just fork it.

Is all AI code tagged “hey, Claude made this puddle of piss code”?

This is a real “just catch all the criminals” type comment.

A system that benefits people who lie about objective facts should be destroyed.

If the tactical business decision is to look someone in the face and say “spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours, idly gazing at photos of anything is not an addiction” in order to protect business interests, then things are wrong. Addiction to a product should be met with horror! Oh no, how could this happen? Instead, it’s part of the business model.

“Business” is a blight.

And who says it can’t be both?