Hugucinogens

Fyi, string theory, which is a popular, well known theory that assumes 11 dimensions, doesn’t really have that much appeal in the scientific community. It’s still fun to talk about tho

100% lol, hadn’t thought of it that way

As per usual. If you don’t have money to protect yourself, it’s because you’re lazy and/or stupid, and definitely worth condescending.

… Yeah it is 🫠🥲

In literal terms it translates to “before-the-road” (pro - drómou)

(this literal translation includes the ambiguity of before- as in ‘temporally before’, or before- as in ‘in front of’)

So any way you slice it, it’s pretty ironic.

“Prodromou” is a Greek surname, with the rough meaning “the one who walks the road before others”.

So him being “a visionary” is fun, lol

Well, he sure as fuck has balls.

Literally, metaphorically, as well as probably 3 times a day

Semele was just a priestess who got diddled by Zeus, as you do, and got pregnant with Dionysus.

However, after shenanigans by Hera, she got tricked into asking Zeus to show himself to her in his full godly might, and because he was oathbound due to earlier power-of-boner stuff, he had to unwillingly comply.

He tried his best to show the tiniest sliver of his true being that would count, but she was still mortal, and got burned in godly flame for just witnessing him.

Zeus, saved the foetal Dionysus by strapping him to his thigh until the thigh-pregnancy was complete, and later, Dionysus found his mom in the underworld, and made her into the God of Drunk Frenzy.

Following all that, Semele appears to be uppity about her incredible husband to her sister, because Semeles husband carried their fetus to term after Semele died, while her sister’s husband was a mere wife-and-son-murder-attempter.

I love out of context ancient greek mythology. Btw, all that, makes Dionysus the only god in this graph, apart from Gaia herself, to not be the product of direct incest. (Is brain-parthenogenesis incest? Who knows)

Lord Uncle Zeus getting it on with ALL his nieces

No wait, I miscalculated, those are cousins

Edit: except Maia, that’s a niece… I think. This layout is confusing

Just as a sanity check for you, I think you’re right about the people who choose to post on this thread.

“Something someone can’t do”, is a subset of “job”, because a “job” literally is something you get money for, because other people don’t wanna do it for some reason.

But the antiwork community is not here, and to be honest, your user of the word “type” in “only one type of job”, muddles the meaning of the sentence a bit.

Holy shit it do

Hear me out.

This kinda looks like the point of view of mother earth taking off her wet panties.

I’m really sorry, I might not be ok.

Prion City here we GOOOOOOOOO!

Actually wonderful little game.

It was my first “it’s so hard that it makes me wanna beat it” kind of game.

Hooked ever since

I’m getting the sense that you didn’t actually watch the whole video, because your only two points in this comment,

In the absence of IP laws, creatives would be able to create their works, but they’d also be competing against companies that have the resources to monetize, influence the general public, and kill the franchise through poor choices.

And

It’s really important to know that the vast majority of people aren’t going to have the goodwill to tip or otherwise support free works, and it’s even less likely if a large company does enough marketing to overshadow an artist.

, are answered during the video, and I don’t see you arguing the points made by him, you’re just straight up stating the opposite.

And your first point,

Right now, a majority of creatives don’t own their IP in the legal sense, and they can’t stop large companies from milking their works dry as a result.

, is about how the current system doesn’t work to protect actual artists, yet does work to protect large IP-pimping companies.

“Reasonable control” is only possible in the legal sense, not the real sense, so I doubt artists care about it, outside of monetisation, which is what we’re attempting to replace.

Right now as we are speaking, the art of thousands upon thousands of those creators is being stolen constantly by legally gray AI scraping by huge companies, or illegally by smaller merch leeches.

The internet makes data protection impossible.

The law, only prevents the most egregious kinds of ‘monetisation with someone else’s art’, and is unable to stop the rest, for practical reasons.

If artists didn’t have to worry about being compensated enough… Would they still want to have “reasonable control”? Would we still “risk” them being “demotivated”, from being unable to forbid others specifically from making money with their ideas?

I think the human drive to create isn’t that neurotic. I think this kind of “demotivation” only happens for the kind of human who has been abused for years by the rules of the absurd economy we live in. And that’s what we’re saying should change.

Hey hey now. Don’t hate the companies themselves. They’re playing the legal game in the exact, only way the rules allow it to be played. If they don’t, the law and the shareholders fuck them up instead.

Edit: I guess tone is hard to convey through text, so let me be clear:

Companies bad.

But also:

Just hate the copyright law itself, directly. Its only reason for existence is so rich fucks get richer, safer, and should be just abolished.

(45 minute video by Uniquenameosaurus, who also has done an incredible series of videos on the practical ethics of media piracy, with a focus on anime as a jumping off point).

Get me a fan or air conditioning, for survival, and I’m in

Please.

I didn’t say literally any of that though.

I said its main function is to distribute violence.

Money mainly exists as a way to decide to whom you will deny service.

The more money you can give, the less people will deny you what you need, and the opposite is true.

I think the problem is in the “measuring someone’s worth using an arbitrary number”, and not the money itself.

It’s that human worth shouldn’t be attached to a random hierarchical tool, whose main function is to distribute violence.

Lol

I just love when large organizations (governments included) skimp on something for monetary reasons, and get fucked down the line.

Too bad citizens pay the damages.