ChemicalRascal
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ChemicalRascal

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Trademarks? Why...? All trademarks do is ensure consumers know who made a given product.

If I make cola, even if it's the same as Coca-Cola, shouldn't consumers be able to differentiate between my cola and Coca-Cola's cola?

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Hold up. What purpose, exactly, does having trademarks expire on the death of the author have? What do we gain from that?

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If the answer is "I am cis" or "I am trans", what is the question?

The question would, to be blunt, be "are you cis or trans?", because "cis" and "trans" are just shorthand for "cisgender" and "transgender".

It's a question of very limited scope -- even if you were to reword it -- because in modern society, the exact detail of if someone is cis or trans isn't really practically important. If someone is a man, say, society cares a lot more about them being a man rather than being a cisgender man or a transgender man. (I'd say the same about women, but there's obviously a subset of society that is in the process of demonising trans women, so...)

I think the core issue you've found is that cis/trans-ness is something that only makes sense in the context of something else, the gender identity of the person in question.

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NTA. Your agent should have waited, or clarified, or even just communicated in any way, in order to continue inspecting the property. And even if it's such a huge problem that they missed one room, it's within their capacity as a functioning adult to come back another day to make sure the room isn't somehow in a terrible condition that isn't already reflected by the rest of the property.

But they're not the asshole either. Your housemate is, assuming they're stressing you out about this and making you worried that you're going to make him homeless. It sounds like his housing is a source of anxiety for him, but he shouldn't be putting that on you.

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The submersible that imploded near the Titanic wreck.

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Hold up, it was originally supposed to be a trade show for journalists. It's always been about the big corporations. They've always had a dominance over the event.

The problem was that E3 was seen by the public as something to desire access to, as being exclusive and so on. This drove the organising body to open it up to more general access. In doing so, the audience changed, so the content on display changed, and it became a shitty version of PAX.

And that's what killed it, in turn.

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I was gonna smash out a few bike rides this weekend, but the BOM is predicting it's gonna rain… Why are we cursed so?

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Hope it comes back negative.

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An outstanding problem, though, is linking to specific posts and comments. And, after that, I would argue both kbin and Lemmy should support more nuanced parsing of cross-instance hyperlinks, to reduce friction and UX pain without requiring users to memorise new syntax just to make links work.

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I'm not surprised. To my understanding, IAF was only permitting people post hardcore pornography, for example, so... they flew pretty close to the sun, there.

Obviously a pretty effective form of protest, in terms of being disruptive, but I can't imagine a world where that doesn't bring down the boot.

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Because it wasn't a porn sub before. They had, what, eleven million users? If you can't see the problem there, I think you're being a little disingenuous.

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Then you haven't really thought about the situation at hand, then. Like, at all.

Imagine sending a picture to your friend. Unprompted, undiscussed. If the picture is a meme, we can both surely agree that that isn't problematic in any way. If the picture is a dick pic, you've just committed sexual harassment.

Even though both were sent without explicit consent, the context of your existing relationship matters, and -- in the context of you and your friend not sending sexually explicit photos to one another on the regular -- the lack of consent in the case of sexual material is a significant issue.

This is essentially the problem with the scenario at hand. The people who suddenly had pornography show up on their front page did not consent to it by subscribing to a porn sub. Yes, even if it was voted on by a tiny minority of subscribers, and yes, even if the sub essentially became a porn sub -- the eleven million existing subscribers didn't consent to seeing that material.

There is, frankly, essentially no way to take an existing, large subreddit, with millions of users, and make it a porn subreddit without violating the consent of a significant chunk of those users. No matter how much the moderators want to do so.

Please don't tell me I need to explain sexual consent to you.

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Was it only hardcore porn? All I saw was 50% memes about nudity allowed and 50% basic nudity like boobs and pussy reveal by gonewild / only fans posters. Divnt even see softcore solo content let alone hardcore porn.

... Did you just imply that a "pussy reveal" and "basic nudity" isn't "softcore solo [pornography]"?

Except a small number that probably opted in for NSFW for getting spoilers or other non nude purposes, most already have nude content present in their feeds and use alt accounts.

This is some high octane copium. You're just gonna broadly assume that most users consume porn on Reddit? Like that has any relevance, even if it was true?

Going by the memes many did seem unaware of the decision to allow NSFW content, but given the site wide opt in it seems reasonable to allow.

No, it's putting porn on people's screens without consent.

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Opting in to NSFW content is not consenting to randomly have pornography thrown at you by a subreddit that wasn't a porn sub when you subscribed.

What the fuck, dude.

Majority of them did consent to the possibility of encountering such content. Thats the whole point of that check mark.

There's an enormous difference between "I'm okay with content considered NSFW, like descriptions of war and so on, being shown to me" and getting porn in your main page. That check box is not an "I consent to being shown porn" button.

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The glaring oversight in your opinion is that all NSFW posts are clearly marked as NSFW, and desktop reddit along with all the mobile apps have settings requiring you to opt-in to view NSFW posts with further settings to actually display the image previews or hide them (default).

But not all NSFW content is porn. And turning on NSFW visibility is not the same thing as being subscribed to a porn sub.

Your whole argument is disingenuous and borders on concern trolling or pearl clutching. Reddit is full of porn and other NSFW images, so don't act like they're suddenly showing hard-core porn to a bunch of kids or something.

Okay, let's change the scenario a bit then. Let's say I magically know you have NSFW content turned on, on your Reddit account. We've never conversed.

I then, unprompted, start sending you links to hardcore pornographic images, in your DMs. Once every half hour or so.

Is that something you think would be totally fine? Do you seriously think I wouldn't be violating a lack of consent on your part? You've turned on visibility of NSFW posts, after all, you must be fine with seeing it!

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Is there something wrong with choosing to avoid someone's software because the developers are tankies, in your opinion?

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Well, that's welcome news. I was worried for a fair while that they weren't able to get a case together, given the deadline kept getting pushed back by the courts.

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Came here with the intention of mentioning Factorio as well. What really makes it next level, though, is the modding community and support for it. IMO the vanilla endgame is pretty quick, you can actually burn through the game with very limited resources and using very little space -- and then you have modpacks like SeaBlock, which make complex machinery an absolute must, and make even basic stuff like power generation a proper challenge, to the point that a single playthrough will ultimately be at least a hundred hours.

What Wube have created with that game is nothing short of marvellous.

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Ah, honestly, I wouldn't recommend starting with SeaBlock. Krastorio 2 is a better overhaul-ish mod to get into modded gameplay.

Best of luck with the Deathworld Marathon run, that sounds pretty damn difficult.

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Outer Wilds is indeed a masterpiece. It's not really what I would call a "shooter", though, so it might not be what OP's after, it's more like Myst and so on. But it is absolutely excellent.

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I frankly disagree. If I were to write a list of benefits of using private trackers (ergo, actually directly answer OP's question), that's exactly how I would write it and I'd very likely use a similar writing style.

Further, ChatGPT doesn't use the "<Topic>. <Further elaboration on topic>" format from what I've seen, and IMO wouldn't finish out the post with a recommendation to OP how they could get their feet wet with a particular private tracker.

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Ultimately, they're both ActivityPub clients. Kinda. Maybe client is the wrong term.

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Okay, sure, but what about venting in a community that is intended to be about Reddit, not a community that is intended to be about something other than Reddit?

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The thing about automod comments is that they were, indeed, comments. As such, they showed up in your replies.

So if you made a post, you'd get that message in a place you would expect to see content that you would actually want to engage with, that is, people discussing your post.

So, in short, yes.

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