@alex_02 The problem is, every time a human contracts it, it increases the chances it could mutate to human to human infection, then those of us who aren’t raw milk lunatics could pay the price for their stupid.
@grumble209@ai6yr Lots of those folk inherited the money. They could do a lot of charity work, since they don't need a wage to live well. But most weren't taught empathy, they were taught they were above the masses.
Publisher states a payment has been made + sent remittance.
I have not received the funds (after six weeks now) and my (UK) bank’s customer services, fraud and international teams have all stated they cannot see any payment and that I do not have a block on my account.
Any advice on what to do? I’ve never been in this situation before, and the amount of money is not insignificant. But also, the publisher appears to be very much in “we’ve paid so nothing we can do” mode now.
@rowan_johnson Payment advice was sent to me on 3 April. I emailed on 12 April, asking for expectation in how long it should take for payment to arrive. It’s now 13 May. No idea what system they’re using, but, yes, it’s got to be something biggish.
I’ve experienced some messing around from one or two big companies, but not to a point of sending bogus remittance. (That would surely be fraud.)
I’d assume for now that something has fallen through the cracks somewhere. I think you’re just going to need to be persistent. Definitely worth being firm with them to get them to take you seriously, though. Regardless of what they think they’ve done, you haven’t received the payment.
I understand the idea of a loan: borrow money, pay it back over time plus a fee for the favor of having more money sooner.
I understand having a company and taking out a loan: borrow money to do something to help the company make more money and pay it off... but it's OK you made enough that it was a good idea.
But HOW can someone borrow money to BUY a company then say the cost of the loan should go on the companies books?
@futurebird That’s your mistake. They absolutely do not care if the company does well. They sell off its assets and pay themselves bonuses and then it goes bankrupt because they saddled it with debt. Next company… lather rinse repeat. Someone else built the company not them, they don’t are about it, the employees or the town it supported. . @MagentaRocks
Companies aren't the best of the fabric of communities, but they are a part of the institutional fabric that makes society work.
They have institutional knowledge, they are centers of social and economic activity. Just destroying them to grind them up for parts is very short sighted and ... making things worse for profit.
It's bad enough this happens to real institutions in other ways.
@clacke@evan Whee! I was one of the first people on identi.ca, and had a habit of sniping the post IDs with round numbers. I ended up getting most of them, but it looks like 10,000,000 was the only which survived on archive.org.
Est-ce que je dois m'inquiéter que l'État utilise le système d'alerte des téléphone pour ces conneries de flicage des JO, ou plutôt de ne pas l'avoir reçu ?
@heldum@krazykitty face à une question rhétorique, je vois deux attitudes possibles : ne pas y répondre, car elle est rhétorique ; y répondre, soit qu'on n'a pas vu que c'était rhétorique, soit pour jouer le jeu.
We also recorded a special episode of AppStories with a bit more backstory + why I continue using the iPad, despite iPadOS: https://appstories.net/episodes/383
When it comes to AI art (or "art"), it's hard to find a nuanced position that respects creative workers' labor rights, free expression, copyright law's vital exceptions and limitations, and aesthetics.
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That's illegal in nearly every other kind of labor market. But if we're willing to entertain the possibility of getting a new copyright law passed (that won't make artists better off), why not the possibility of passing a new labor law (that will)? Sure, our bosses won't lobby alongside of us for more labor protection, the way they would for more copyright (think for a moment about what that says about who benefits from copyright versus labor law expansion).
But all workers benefit from expanded labor protection. Rather than going to Congress alongside our bosses from the studios and labels and publishers to demand more copyright, we could go to Congress alongside every kind of worker, from fast-food cashiers to publishing assistants to truck drivers to demand the right to sectoral bargaining. That's a hell of a coalition.