dudes will be like “women only date based on looks they wouldn’t go for a guy who isn’t conventionally attractive” meanwhile the women in question are thirsting over the ghoul from fallout bc he’s cool and wears cowboy boots like looks literally have fuck all to do with it fellers
my solution to copyright is that everything unconditionally becomes public domain with the creator’s death. anything held by a group will lose their rights with the death of its leader; whether it be a CEO for corporations or a president for state media. this will solve no problems but will lead to extremely funny assassinations
sounds badass. sign me up
no it doesn’t and no we don’t. the “one strike and it’s over” paradigm is flawless
actually every copyright holder’s name and face will be put on a big evil authoritarian ledger so sending DMCAs will finally become just as scary as receiving them
Fights over who owns a copyright will be decided by trial by combat but both participants have to dress up as the property being disputed
i think the “what about groups” issue has an obvious solution - whoever is in charge at any point in time “owns” any IP created while they’re in charge. when they die, quit, retire, or otherwise pass on ownership to another person? everything they “owned” gets released into the public domain, and the next person only “owns” whatever is made while they’re in charge. if w company is overseen by a board or some other group, they have to appoint someone as The Person Who Owns Things and it works the same.
“but aves, people don’t work at one job their whole life - won’t this mean that corporate-owned IPs enter the public domain way faster on average than individually-created ones?” yes, that’s on purpose and it’s better this way
sometimes when I’m being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself “you’re being goob. you are being goob right now”
a lot of people could stand to start viewing the nakba and the holocaust as a continuum rather than as competitive binaries
Genya and Henryk Kowalski’s recollections of their 1948 arrival in Israel after surviving Nazi death camps, by Alon Confino in The Holocaust and the Nakba: a new grammar of trauma and history ed. Bashair Bashair and Amos Goldberg
If anyone has taken their eyes off what’s happening to federal workers in the US right now, here’s some highlights that we’re hearing from our comrades across the government who have not yet been fired:
In one building (hosting multiple agencies), the locks on the bathroom were changed so employees no longer have any access to a bathroom during the workday. People are peeing in trash cans.
Elsewhere, multiple agencies have reported that hand soap is no longer being supplied in the bathrooms.
Toilet paper supplies have not been adjusted to meet the needs of a vastly increased number of in-office employees.
Employee-owned coffee and coffee makers have been stolen or thrown away without notice (it was already illegal for taxpayer dollars to be spent on supplying federal employees with amenities like coffee, so many offices have coffee supplied by pooled employee funds).
Meanwhile, many offices don’t even have potable drinking water (recurrent legionella outbreaks), so employees have to bring their own water from home.
Despite an explosion in the number of workers in offices, cleaning budgets have been slashed and many offices are not being cleaned regularly enough to remain sanitary. Pests like roaches and rats are a problem.
The firings continue, legal and illegal. Entire programs are being cut. Managers have no idea when they might lose staff. Employees are getting fired at 6pm on a weekend or finding out when they’re unable to log into their computer or when they receive a shipping label in the mail to return their equipment.
Through all of this, the DOGE employees in federal workplaces are enjoying incredible and expensive luxury: AI-powered sleep pods, entire dormitories so they can live in federal buildings, nurseries for their children on site, free food and beverages, laundry services, and who knows what else. They have special security to restrict access to their areas of the buildings, including armed guards.
And I’m not just saying this to lament how bad it is for federal workers. I’m saying this because, as workers are reporting this to one another, the response is, inevitably: “This is illegal.” “Yes, but who would I report it to? OPM? They’re a DOGE puppet. OSHA? They’ve cut OSHA. The Inspectors General? Cut. The NLRB? Cut. My union? No longer recognized.”
There is no one left to enforce these laws, so taking away access to basic sanitation is now effectively legal. They are doing this to federal workers, who historically have been some of the best-protected workers in the country. They are doing this specifically because it demonstrates to the public sector that it is now legal to do these things to their own workers.
Side note that this is also EXACTLY what Elon did when he took over Twitter, because he thinks that paying for janitorial/environmental staff and building upkeep is a waste of money.
I love you shows with planned & definitive endings, I love you epilogues that prove the happy ending lasts, I love you finales that feature direct parallels to earlier seasons, I love you cast members that left years ago but came back to say goodbye, I love you well crafted & impactful final lines, I love you fitting send offs for the characters I love
i think what people tend to forget is that laughing at modern art also counts as having a dialogue with it. like as long as you’re respectful of the museum space and whatnot. you are under no obligation to take any of it seriously. when i go to a modern art museum I do engage with every piece and read the blurb and think deeply/discuss its intention and its execution but it doesnt stop me from having a giggle at the ones i think are stupid. often the artist is equally aware that it may be stupid. sometimes that’s the point also. it’s fun!
I’m always saying this. Fine art can be and often is funny. Intentionally so! People just assume a certain level of reverence is demanded and it often makes people clam up about their real reactions or react hostilely.
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