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CosmicTurtle0,

The hypocrisy around this argument is just crazy.

Alt-right: Trump is being persecuted!

Normal people: but president can do whatever they want, right?

Alt-right: yes!

Normal people: so…president Biden is allowed to persecute whomever he wants right?

Alt-right: (visible confusion)

We all know, in their minds, Biden is bound by the law and not protected whereas Trump is protected by the law and not bound.

But they would never admit this.

CosmicTurtle0,

Iirc cases where the central complaint is AI, ML, or other black box technology, the company in question was never held responsible because “We don’t know how it works”. The AI surge we’re seeing now is likely a consequence of those decisions and the crypto crash.

I’d love CVS try to push a lawsuit though.

CosmicTurtle0,

Car manufacturers and oil producers have a vested interest in making bikes, ev bikes in particular, illegal.

Basically the same playbook that Henry Ford used to make cities less walkable.

CosmicTurtle0, (edited )

If you simply want to allow people to view your code, you can just upload it to GitHub or something similar.

By default, your work is copyright and you hold all rights, excluding those you give up to GitHub.

Open-Sourcing your project is all about choosing the license that you want your users to use.

Please, for the love of God, choose an existing license. Don’t go out and try to make one yourself or mix and match. Not only do you open yourself up to liability but it just makes it harder for you to keep track of it.

Choosing a license is all about your personal preference and what your goals are. The two ends of the spectrum:

  • MIT License: do whatever you want, so long as you attribute me. Most libraries use this license.
  • GPL/AGPL: if you use my code, you must also release using GPL/AGPL or similarly appropriate license. Linux Kernel famously uses version 2. Linus Torvalds has issues with some of the terms in V3.

There is a lot of middle ground between these two philosophies. Most of the major licenses have seen some level of court cases. I personally use AGPL, which is often seen as one of the strongest, most restrictive, licenses.

I do not recommend releasing code to public domain. This often is a point of contention between OSS purists and OSS “spirit”. I personally believe we’re entering a new world of AI-driven content and I don’t want more code feeding that beast.

The license is then copied and pasted to a LICENSE file at the root of your repo and, boom. You’ve open sourced your code.

Keep in mind: that commit (and all future commits) will be available under that license until your copyright expires, so long as that license exists in your repo. You cannot claw it back.

One word of advice: you aren’t likely going to see a bunch of people downloading your stuff. So don’t get your hopes up that you’ll have people submitting bug reports or making PRs, etc. All of my projects are just for me to use with one or two people reviewing it for fun. All but one, anyway.

CosmicTurtle0,

These are the same people who argued that forcing people to wear masks is fascism.

You literally can’t make this shit up.

CosmicTurtle0,

We all know we shouldn’t.

We all still do.

CosmicTurtle0,

If it’s still in alpha, then a standard non disclosure should be fine.

A non-disparagement clause is overkill.

CosmicTurtle0,

If you read the reactions from banks, it’s sickening. They are threatening to raise fees elsewhere, or interest rates, to “make up for lost revenue” because heaven forbid they just make less money and be okay with it.

These companies make obscene amounts of money.

They don’t need that much money.

It’s sickening.

CosmicTurtle0,

Na

CosmicTurtle0,

Weird. Anytime I do that I get Rick rolled.

Canadian photographer Francois Brunell searches and photographs similar people, but who are not related to each other. He has currently done about 200 couple portraits.

Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle spent 12 years tracking down real life Doppelgängers — two individuals who are not related but could pass for identical twins — and photographing them. He calls his project “I’m Not a Look-Alike,” and it’s starting to get some well-deserved attention....

CosmicTurtle0,

People still do.

I can’t find the study but people over estimate whether someone looks familiar, especially in stressful situations.

There are people in prison right now because they look like the perpetrator.

Imma give you a guess as to the races of these people.

The wikipedia article on eyewitness testimony goes into more detail.

Rudy Guliani Blows Past the $43,000 Budget He Committed to in Bankruptcy Proceedings (www.nytimes.com)

That amount would cover, among other expenses, $5,000 in alimony payments to his ex-wife Judith Giuliani, $1,050 for food and housekeeping supplies and $425 for “personal care products and services.” He was also obliged to cover $13,500 in monthly nursing-home expenses for his former mother-in-law; she died in March....

CosmicTurtle0,

He later provided more information to the creditors’ lawyers, listing 60 transactions on Amazon, multiple entertainment subscriptions, various Apple services and products, Uber rides and payment of some of his business partner’s personal credit card bill.

This is all the shit that conservatives give millennials grief for.

Stop eating avocado toast and going to Starbucks, Rudy.

CosmicTurtle0,

They got light sentences. And let’s face it, the people that are going to organize yet another insurrection are going to be duped by the same logic that Trump will pardon them or that their acts are justified.

Trump is threatening our democracy. Again.

He’s saying that if he doesn’t win, there’s going to be another insurrection.

The sad reality is that over the last four years, fascist states have put laws into place that make it legal to overturn elections for little to no reason. No oversight.

He won’t need an insurrection because he has willing accomplices.

CosmicTurtle0,

because of a backlog in alcohol and toxicology tests at the TBI, they are forced to wait months for proof of their innocence.

Christ. In a country where even a charge can set you back in terms of your job and other things that might require a background check, maybe, just maybe, they shouldn’t be charged until the tests come back positive?

“(The officer) said, ‘I’d like to do a field sobriety test, do you consent? And I said yes, I do consent, but I’d rather do a breathalyzer. And he said, we don’t do breathalyzer in Rutherford County. We do the blood alcohol test at the station based on your behavior.’”

Never consent to a field sobriety test or anything. Never talk to the cops.

CosmicTurtle0,

If they should be treated like snipers, that means protesters should respond in kind:

Make smoke screens. Tires work best. Bicycle tire with gas will make thick black smoke making it hard for the spotter and sniper to see.

Force projection works both ways: make their advantages into disadvantages. Snipers are long range units, meaning they have to be away from what they are targeting. If you can create enough distractions they won’t be able to see the forest from the trees.

All in Minecraft, of course.

Trump Lawyer Makes Disturbing Immunity Claim Before Supreme Court: Apparently, John Sauer thinks staging a coup should be considered a presidential act (newrepublic.com)

Donald Trump’s lawyer pushed an outrageous line of thinking on Thursday during oral arguments at the Supreme Court over whether the former president has immunity for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election: that a U.S. president could order a military coup d’état with almost no chance of repercussions....

CosmicTurtle0,

Jesus. I don’t know how many times I have to say this but impeachment is a political process, not a criminal one.

Just because you weren’t impeached doesn’t mean you can’t be charged with a crime.

I swear if Trump has been impeached, they’d be saying that he can’t be criminally charged because then it’d be double jeopardy.

CosmicTurtle0,

Millionaire and soon-to-be indicted Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.

That ought to get his attention

CosmicTurtle0,
  • That didn’t happen.
  • And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. <-- We are here
  • And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
  • And if it is, that’s not my fault.
  • And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
  • And if I did You deserved it.
CosmicTurtle0,

It goes further than that.

Sargent says something along the lines of, “We can’t tell people about this result. They’ll kill us.”

The entire film sets up the premise that NASA is hiding research about a flat earth. They are guarding the ice wall so people don’t see it.

Then they hide research showing the earth is round.

These people don’t care about science. They care about power.

It’s no accident that conspiracy theorists and conservatives have a considerable overlap.

CosmicTurtle0, 

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CosmicTurtle0,

A lot of people have forgotten that the lead up to the 2016 election, Republicans had passed bills in the house and Senate to do a full repeal of Obamacare. Something like 80+ times. Obama, of course, vetoed it. As the Republicans knew he would.

Trump comes into office, with a Republican majority and suddenly those bills stop.

Not a single bill goes through the house or Senate to do the full repeal.

Why?

BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS KNEW TRUMP WOULD SIGN IT!

CosmicTurtle0,

It was sad when the Physics Girl took Shell’s money to shill hydrogen fuel cells.

I get you need to eat but still…a very shitty move.

CosmicTurtle0,

Keep in mind that a celebrity can send you and me, regular joes, a C&D and we’d likely comply simply because we lack the resources to sustain a challenge in court.

What stops celebrities and organizations from suing South Park creators is likely the opposite: they have money and a legal team.

The same thing happened with John Oliver when he talked shit about some coal mine owner that was notorious for suing people. The mine owner served them from a court that had friendly laws but they were ready. And they had insurance to pay for it.

CosmicTurtle0,

I demand:

  • Studios have exclusive rights to their respective works for 2 years, after which time they are required to license it to their competitors for “at cost” fees, similar to pole easements for cable/electric companies.
  • Public Domain is reverted to 25 years after publishing
  • Fan Fiction is added as a “free use” exception

If we had better politicians, these threats from the MPAA would amount to just whining.

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