On Friday, government lawyers in the lawsuit filed a court record which said they asked the plaintiffs to remove the videos “from the internet due to concerns that the publication of the videos could subject the witnesses and their family members to undue harassment and reputational harm.” The filing then said that Fox specifically “has been subject to harassment and has received a number of death threats since the videos and video clips were publicized and circulated.”

They caused an untold number of actual, real-world deaths through their actions, but we can’t let them get harassed for it!

Boo fucking hoo.

No, I’m aiming to remove the objection. This seems like the easiest way to accomplish that.

I support giving everyone extra days off ‘just because’, actually, but that’s beside the point. The problem as stated in the article was that employers perceive disproportionate days off as a reason to not hire women; the obvious solution is to just remove that from the equation. I wasn’t aware that giving men days off somehow harms women, but apparently I just don’t understand.

Sounds easily solvable by just giving everyone those mandatory days off regardless of gender… Then there’s no employer preference towards men, and no perceived hardships created.

Well, this is a fresh kind of hell…

Game of Thrones (2011 - 2019) is really just the story of how a likable mostly non-verbal man acquired his disability.

It’s much more important than the ‘Obama wears brown suit’ thing. Firstly, because it’s incredibly disrespectful to dead soldiers, but secondly, and arguably more importantly, because if he wants to drive a wedge between himself and the military, we want to let him. We want them all to know - to be unable to ignore! - just how little respect he has for them.

I honestly love this. I find it interesting to spot the times when games do this. I think the Mass Effect elevators was the first game I really noticed it in, but some games are really good at hiding it.

Already has, but loading screens are too quick now to make it worth actually doing.

Maybe we should learn a lesson from Inglourious Basterds. Invite them all to a movie premier.

Unless I’m misreading the article, that’s not at all what happened here and even with encrypted emails, you’d still have been caught. They knew the email address that allegedly belonged to the instigator; they just needed to connect that email address to an actual person, not to see the contents of their emails. The payment data made that connection.

I think about this a lot. So many technologies that we have, if we could trust everyone involved to be acting in humanity’s best interest, would be amazing. If we didn’t have to guard our personal data like Fort Knox, there’s so many great things we could do with extensive connectedness. If we didn’t have to doubt the sincerity of everyone who promotes a service or product, everything would be so much better.

We can’t have any of those things, because humans are shitty, and are as a whole just in it for themselves.

What if it’s a collage of AI generated art pieces? Technically the artist did the same amount of work as someone making a collage of human-created things.

I remember downloading games from sketchy Warez sites on the school computers because they had a T1 line and I had dialup. They’d come in Floppy-sized segments; I’d go home each day with a stack of 10-15 floppies, copy the segment to my drive, delete it from the disk, and go back the next day to collect more. It would take weeks to get a whole game, and that’s only if the warez site didn’t disappear before I finished collecting parts. Then there was the butt clencher moment when I’d try to unpack the whole thing and see if it actually worked or not which, most of the time, it did not.

Those were the days.

I mean, you could make the same argument for paint brushes for traditional art. Or pencils. There’s a really big difference between someone using a tablet and an Undo hotkey to draw something digitally vs. someone making something with AI. One of those clearly requires a ton of skill; one does not require any.

I wonder what percentage has to be created by a human to be eligible for copyright. For example, if someone generates an AI image and then changes a few pixels, is that human-created? What if they over-paint 30% of the image? 50%? What if someone creates something in Photoshop from scratch, but they use Photoshop’s in-built AI driven tools to enhance it?

Either anything that uses AI in any capacity is uncopyrightable, or there has to be a line somewhere, so… Where is it?

You offer no solutions, suggestions, or even counter-points - only negativity and nay saying. Frankly, that makes me not really give a shit about your opinion.

There is nothing you can say to convince me otherwise because I have reality as evidence.

Then there’s especially no point in discussing this further with you.

Well, if that’s your takeaway from all that, I guess there’s very little point in trying to discuss this further with you.

Protests don’t have to be about intimidating anyone. They’re important as a tool for letting other people, who might also want to resist, know that they are not alone. I’m guessing based on your phrasing that you aren’t from the US, so I’m going to assume you aren’t familiar with how things work over here. It’s a big country, in terms of landmass. The US is almost as large as the entirety of Europe (~3.5m sq. miles vs. ~3.9m sq. miles.) It’s essentially impossible to coordinate anything over that large an area, especially considering how spread out everything is. Organized protests like the No Kings events, though, present a unified front across the country, and let everyone know that people everywhere feel the same way they do, and even though they might only have immediate contact to their local community, the resistance is much larger than that.

“Standing up to our oppressors” is also more difficult than you seem to think. It’s really easy to sit there behind a keyboard in another part of the world and type big words, but it’s a lot harder to commit to an armed resistance that will, in all likelihood, result in dying. The US military is huge, and mega-funded. Local law enforcement is very likely to be on the establishment’s side. They’re all armed and don’t hesitate to quash even peaceful resistance with violence. How do you think it’s going to go when someone starts shooting back?

For a true resistance to be effective, it needs to be organized and coordinated, and that’s simply very difficult to accomplish. I certainly don’t know how to do it. Do you?

Or are you just advocating for people to go die in ineffectual attempts to assassinate government officials?

It’s pretty far from fine, but regardless, this is the midterms; he’s not running for anything.

Hey OP, if you don’t edit in the link to the article in question, your post is on Death Row.