I honestly haven’t had this much fun online since AOL charged by the hour.
It really feels like Lemmy is just a small slice of the internet made for millennials and maybe some younger generation X.
EDIT: lmao I can't believe someone was so butthurt that this whole ass post got removed.
Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell
Never forget the names of the men who engineered Bushes torture program. Plaster these names everywhere. Call them what they are: War Criminals.
I certainly hope Husayn takes them to the fucking cleaners.
I'm a vegan Arch Linux user, and I couldn't decide which I was more excited to tell them about first.
As an American. I'm so, so sorry. It's a plague over here. It's definitely a cultural thing. The ways the US functions at it's core demands it, in its hyper-competitive work landscape. Thankfully, a lot of Americans understand how fake it is and hate it, too. It tends to mostly present itself in more "successful" individuals in the States.
Oh no! The audacity to show your real emotions (or lack of them) among your coworkers!
Can't you just fake having a happy little life like all the other worker drones? We're a family here, and that means suffering for our sake.
They did, but Lemmy said "That image is too large!"
This can be said for literally all self reported polls and studies. The thing is, generally widely accepted techniques are used to attempt to account for dishonest answers. This isn't a new problem, it's been worked on for a long time. It's not like scientists and pollsters have never considered that people might lie and just take it all at face value. There's just only so much you can do about it.
The only time I ever see this brought up is with explicit intent of discrediting the poll or study in question.
It's valid to be more skeptical of self-reported studies than studies that rely on harder evidence, but that doesn't mean polling and self-reported studies are worthless.
Bibliotik, the site Books3 is from, regularly updates and has torrents to software specifically for removing the copy protection from ebooks.
I wonder if part of the lawsuit is about the fact that most of the books on Bibliotik had their copy protection removed before being uploaded.
AKA "Fun with boxes, dead bodies, and breaking physics."
I think people forget that the internet has fully supplanted television and unlike the 90's home that had a TV that was somehow always on (or at least that's how it was at my Aunts house in the 90s), people these days while away their hours fully plugged into the internet. I would suspect people who watched a lot of television were more likely to fall for scams on TV, too (my Aunt, for example, believes literally everything on FOX News). Internet scams are far more of a free-for-all than television ever was.
I think it is probably more about how Books3 is and was always the full content of a torrent site for books.
Fair Use is all fine and good but its very telling that these companies are happy to justify piracy when its convenient for them and then oppose it when it is not.
It is rather hypocritical and there is also questions whether Fair Use can apply to a non-human. People generating art and text with it are in a weird grey area, because on one hand it can be argued they are using a tool, but on the other, the results are so random: how much influence does the user actually have over what they create? If the answer is "not much influence" then the tool is creating the art, not the person. At that point, is it really reasonable to argue "fair use?"
I saw what you did and I know who you are.