TwilightVulpine @ TwilightVulpine @lemmy.world

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I am not stupid and I'm capable of empathy. Really, do you need a reason to understand that bombing hospitals full of innocent civilians is a horrible thing?

I also know enough recent history to have some inkling that widespread bombing might not be that effective at stopping a terrorist movement. Say, like US wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.

What do you mean, "at it again". If you don't want me to make inferences about what you said, you want me to just stick exactly to your words and forget my own understanding of the world, what is left to do but call it but vague moralizing?

People can "act like a grown up and accept not having everything always"... or they can pirate. You can not like that, but that is an objective possibility that they have in our world. Just as you don't seem to be moved by the idea that poorer people want entertainment too, I'm not particularly morally shaken by massive media companies like Netflix not getting as much money as they possibly could. Especially when people cannot afford it, why does it matter if they still watch it or not? Netflix can't lose money that it would never get to begin with.

I could say that this sort of moralizing seems to come from the assumption that the market is fair and just but you are probably gonna whine at me that "I never said it was", and if that's how you want to go about this conversation I don't think there's much a point in continuing. You said what you said, I said what I said and that's it.

It's a lot of fun to drive around in GTA 5 though

So you just wanted to do some vague moralizing without thinking of what that would imply? Alright then.

Oh yeah, somebody goes to you and tells you to move to diffent country or they'll drop a bomb on you and your family, I'm sure you'll happy to comply. Whatever religion and ethnicity you are, I'm sure you can just go anywhere vaguely similar and know everyone on a first-name basis.

This is neither a matter of handing the whole region exclusively to palestinians or to israelis. Justifying it because "there are other arab/muslim countries" is such a frankly childish way to justify a conflict as serious as this. Needing to say this is almost ridiculous, but a region doesn't need to be populated by only a single kind of people.

If by "free" services you mean ad-driven internet services, I don't think this is as much a consequence of those, rather than the growing power of media companies and their influence over the law and technological development. They were fiercely against piracy since ever, their attempt to vilify VHS and cassete tapes comes to mind, but now copyright law is stricter than ever, digital ownership has been eroded into nearly non-existence through absurd one-sided License Agreements and devices increasingly act as if storefronts of the manufacturers rather than as a tools purchased by the customer.

This is not because there aren't enough people paying, but because the media companies are never satisfied. Loads of people subscribed to streaming but it isn't ever enough, it doesn't guarantee that their quality and collections will remain as good.

Do you have anything but dismissive snark or are you going to pretend continuous bombing of civilian buildings is some sort of surgical targeted action.

I get the spirit of that, but actual creators (not executives and investors) still need money. We can't fully rid the internet of monetizable platforms without harming them.

It's interesting how "acting like a grown up" here entails to submitting to the demands of corporations and rejecting the reality that they don't have absolute control, no matter how much they want to.

Are you going to tell me a poor minimum wage worker is the spoiled immature one, compared to a media executive?

It's interesting that even though technology advances and public options could evolve with them, people are still expected to jump through archaic hoops. Even if there needs to be a quota for lending, that could be handled digitally too.

The way media companies act today, if libraries weren't already a thing, they would not allow them to be invented.

At some level it happens due to people wanting stuff for free... but if it's the consequence of that is that works are preserved and disseminated, that's more valuable for our culture than when companies vault them and lose them, or when they never release them at all, like Warner has been doing lately.

One might say that these companies have all the right to make these works unavailable, but this is clearly a situation where the "proper" is more detrimental than the "clandestine". After all, the way these companies handle it, when the ridiculously excessive copyright length is over and the works are supposed to cease their artificial monopoly and be returned to the Public Domain from which everyone takes inspiration, there might be nothing left. A DVD is unlikely to last 100 years.

This is not a matter of life and death but culture has its value.

It's a false dichotomy to condition ceasing the extermination of a whole innocent population to protests towards a terrorist organization. Israel does not need to bomb several hospitals to stop Hamas. There are other ways to go about stopping terrorists.

Maybe you don't see many calls at Hamas because people are catching up with how wholesale persecution and extermination of people is often justified by pointing to a few malicious individuals that are part of that population.

I hate how newer phones are designed to act like they are still owned by the manufacturer.

You are not accounting for how lately average tech knowledge and skills have been declining rather than increasing, and that internet access is so ubiquitous that even given the best attempts at monitoring and restricting, there is no lack of alternate ways to access whatever one wants to.

Legitimately, it was much easier to control what kids accessed when the only place they could do that was the single family computer the household had.

The most likely option is that they will rebrand and we will have to push back against a "completely new, completely different functionality" in a few months.

Funny that of all things that US employers demand and impose, it's vaccinations where you draw the line.

Depressing that people treat money winning over justice as a given. There is realism, and then there's defeatism.

Monster Energy Drink are also litigious assholes

https://gamerant.com/monster-energy-drink-indie-game-developer-lawsuit/

We’ve had an answer since the Internet was created: don’t let kids have unsupervised access to it.

I'm very much against this bill, I don't even think it will help kids any, but lets admit that this is very much easier said than done. If we really mean to be honest, this is just something we say to mean "it's not our problem, don't bother us with it". But it's not a solved problem, even remotely.

Assuming a moderately tech savvy parent, which is not a given, there are so many alternate ways to access sketchy content, and supposedly child-friendly platforms are so poorly moderated that very few parents can truly manage to control what their kids see. Even YouTube Kids and Roblox are full of stuff that shouldn't be there.

Then there's the matter of longer and longer shifts that parents face today, and consequently the diminishing time they have to watch over their children. We also went from wired internet and a single shared household computer to everyone having smartphones and Wi-Fi in every corner. A parent can do everything right and their kid might still end up exposed to inappropriate content by their friend during recess because their parents didn't bother with any of it.

I don't want the internet to be child-proofed or that this is used as an excuse for government overreach, but I don't envy parents who need to deal with this matter today.

It's already kinda annoying not to have all the old content but I can see the reasons behind that. But a new game starting from scratch of a genre they are experienced with should have much better performance now that there aren't all those additional mechanics. Failing at both of these is just an utter disregard to their customers.