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Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.

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  • If the duration of copyright is short enough, why reduce it further based on heartbeat?

  • You're drunk at the arcade while your husband plays dancing games. What do you do while you wait?

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  • I would totally join in the dancing game with my wife unless she said no, since I'm terrible at them. If so, then I would probably play retro fighting games or anything else that catches my eye.

  • Macaroni and cheese

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  • Yeah, nobody would say the words of an acronym, like PIN number or ATM machine!

    (you are correct)

  • Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

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  • I'm still baffled that all these wealthy fucks aren't hopping on the environmental bandwagon when there is so much mo ey to be made completely replacing the entire infrastructure if countries.

    Are they afraid to make money? Do they just not understand it and can't see how it could be far more profitable than existing polluting industry?

    But then somehow they are fine dumping their wealth into fucking AI snakeoil?

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  • Generally they earn a somewhat stable income over time as an employee. Most artists do the vast majority of their work unpaid at the time and then try to make money off of all that work afterwards.

    Plus companies wouldn't be negatively affected by this change, so it is just punishment for individuals.

  • Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing

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  • The defendant breached his employer’s trust

    The company breached employee trust when they fired a bunch of people during a "realignment".

    Four years is far too long. If he had run over the CEO in the parking lot he wouldn't have gotten four years.

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  • You own copyright the same way you own a piece of paper that says you own a house. Someone who made a lot of money in a short time from their labor can pass on the rest to their children. Copyright spreads out the income over time by allowing exclusive income on ideas for a limited period of time. It is what allows a musician to make money from their songs without needing someone to directly pay them for writing fhe song at the time it was made.

    Copyright as a concept is not horrible when applied to exclusive distribution for a short period of time, and that time period shouldn't arbitrary end on death any more than someone should lose the house their family lives in because the person whose name is ok the deed died in an accident.

    It just needs to be far shorter and companies should be changed so that the way people and companies use it. Otherwise every person would create a company, give it the Copyright, and then fhe company could be i herited.

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  • 10 years plus an option for a 10 year extension is plenty.

    Copyright should only apply to other individuals and companies trying to collect income (not just profit, making any money) from copying as well. The whole original idea about protecting the creator from being easily copied was a decent idea, and really only makes sense as useful to society in that context.

    And yes, I am in favor of every work of art being in the public domain within two decades. That is plenty of time to benefit from exclusivity, they can create additional art or do some kind of promotional work or something else to keep making money off the fact that they created something that deserved to be exclusive.

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  • Inheritance

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  • A publisher currently publishing a book when an artist dies would have one less expense as they continued to rake in the money.

    People make money off of the public domain all the time. Printing bibles is a booming business and copyright on the text expired ages ago. They do get to claim copyright on all of the stuff surrounding the text, like any illustrations, introductions, covers, etc. Most early Disney movies were based on works in the public domain.

    Sure, it would allow instant access to copyrighted works which is neat and all but getting it earlier because the person died earlier is a silly reason based on all artists being hermits who have no families. It also ignores all the copyrights that aren't owned by individuals, and companies don't get into car accidents. Why should someone who keeps their copyright be more at risk of their family losing income than a company?

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  • So you would rather the publisher make the money instead of giving it to the family of the artist for a short period of time.

    What terrible priorities.

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  • Minor children of artists benefitting from their parents work is one possible reason. Like if an author had a five year old why shouldn't the kid get royalties if their parents is in an accident?

    It should be short enough that the child of an artist shouldn't be benefitting for decades, but there are cases where an untimely death would screw over the artist's family and allow the publisher to make all the money themselves.

    The current setup is awful, but there should be at least a period of time after their death for rights to be inherited that is no longer or possibly shorter, than a reasonable time frame like a decade or two.

  • How do you handle overeating caused by boredom and innatentiveness?

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  • It took a couple of months, but I had to get into the habit of writing down everything I ate. So each meal, each snack, etc. The first month was the hardest, but after that month I was solid on meals and working on snacks, and then around the end of the second month I was making decisions to not eat so I wouldn't need to write it down.

    Sadly I lost the habit during covid because it felt successful enough that it trailed off. Put the weight right back on and I'm trying to get back to it again, but damn it's hard!

  • The Fifth Circuit Ruled That the NLRB Is Unconstitutional

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  • Is the fifth circuit then one conservatives go shopping for to get the pants on head stupid rulings they want?

    If so, can we start calling it conservatives pleading the fifth because they don't want to make their cases in front of real judges?

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  • I find it hard to believe that someone who entered a PhD program wasn't given a heads up immediately about the competition for professor positions.

  • FBI raids home of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton

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  • Bolton became his opposition after Trump's first term. They aren't going straight to executions, but they are starting to take action on the dissenters.

  • simple rule

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  • Oh, I probably blocked it then like most NSFW communities/themed servers.

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    Stinky is cute y'all why ban him

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  • Reminds me a bit of Bender from Futurama.

  • FBI raids home of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton

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