sj_zero @ sj_zero @lotide.fbxl.net

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Anyone who has actually needed a correct answer to a question realized this a long time ago.

The problem is that most people don't bother checking the answers.

Cable TV companies don't pay writers...

And neither cable TV nor streaming services are free, but OTA television is, and they pay their writers...

It's probably a good thing that the rest of the world doesn't think in this way.

Imagine if you hired a contractor to work on your kitchen, and the money ran out, and they left all your taps on with the drain plug in because they knew that that would damage your house. If a contractor did that, and cause damage to your house, of course they would be liable for what they just did. "We didn't damage your house, we just chose to stop working at the moment that would have maximum impact!"

Under virtually any other circumstance, nobody would have accepted that logic. Its probably unlawful, and it's definitely immoral.

The way that these companies use intellectual property law to secure for themselves a property right to something that someone else purchased from them ought to be highly illegal.

I believe there was a supreme Court case I better garage door opener, and the company that made the garage doors was trying to sue because they didn't want anyone using anything but their garage door opener. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that the supreme Court in that case explicitly stated that the purpose of the dmca is not to provide companies with a property right to something that people have already purchased.

Technology companies just went ahead and did it anyway.

Taking charge of your own life and choosing to be on a platform like lemmy instead of going to a platform like reddit or Facebook by default is a big deal.

It specifically damaged property on purpose.

Your right to strike isn't a right to damage stuff that doesn't belong to you as a bargaining tactic.

I found petg to be a lot more challenging to print with than pla, but there's a lot of really cool benefits to using petg like it's more permanent and more flexible.

I think the first thing to look at would be raising the temperature of your extruder. Seems like it isn't really flowing a lot.

If you're planning on doing more than one, then definitely it's amazing and useful. If it's just the one, then there are 3d printing services that have a decent turnaround and relatively reasonable prices. One benefit for really small runs is you don't need to learn how to set up the printer, they'll figure it out for you.

One thing to remember is that 3d printing manufacturing constraints are much different than injection molding manufacturing constraints.

Right? What's with that?

The best projects will have well written documentation that steps you through exactly what to do.

I started off not knowing anything about hosting and now I run like 6 services.

Companies decided to outsource everything then are shocked that all their outsourced stuff is being used for the benefit of the companies providing the services.

I've promoted for many years the idea that companies need their own competence but Theres a similar argument to be made for having their own infrastructure as well.

I feel like that's worse on android and ios. The former it's like "I saved it somewhere in this byzantine folder structure!" and in ios it's like "Fuck you we don't talk about folder structure"

I've been running my own single user instance since I think 2021 (I think I have 4 active users now). It's worked out very well for me.

The key thing that I found was I had to go out and find people to add. There are existing lists of people, and I also lucked out that at the same time I joined the fediverse, one comedian I like happened to open up an instance which brought a whole bunch of users who were on my level, and once that started then I was able to add all kinds of people from all kinds of different instances.

It was much more upfront work, but eventually my feed was a whole lot of fun and you don't need to follow many people to have a feed too fast to even follow

I usually hit civ 1 for ms-dos, civ 3 for windows, and I think I have civ 5.

But I like the first for no good reason. Same as my favorite version of simcity is the snes version.

Oh, one thing I can't really do anymore (for now at least) is some old school multiplayer gaming in doom, duke3d, quake, all those old games. That was my childhood, but not playing online -- playing where I can look over to my little brother and shit talk him for that kill or whatever.

Hardwar is something I wanted to play but didn't think I'd get a chance to, but it's up on steam now (so I just bought it)

I want to play baldurs gate 1 and 2 to completion but I just don't have time for it

I never did play through Final Fantasy 7, and it's a chonker of a game to play through

I've played through the later Final Fantasy Tactics Advance games, but I never got very far into Final Fantasy Tactics.

I own all 5, but my main focus in life has been my little guy.

And as a bonus.... I kinda want to have game of civ.... one more turn!!!

It is so upsetting that the cardassians were the ones that took over bajor.

Of all the races in the Galaxy asking us to make statues of them, it had to be the ones with 400 little bumps all over their face. Why couldn't we have been invaded by one of those races that has no nose or hair? Much easier to make statues of them.

They even ordered a bunch of people running passenger trains back to work. And that wasn't 100 years ago, that was this year.

I think that's exactly the sort of situation that I'm talking about, there's no need for that. Even in the case of something like a coal mine, you need to have a very bare minimum number of people to keep pumping running or there won't be a mine to go back to, well there's no reason why you couldn't just continue to send your staff (non union employees) to the mine site to do that bare minimum of work during strikes.

Of course, act of violence or sabotage shouldn't be tolerated. And that's where police should be able to step in if something is going on other than just a work stoppage. What happens quite often is the government steps in because it's politically inconvenient to have a strike happen.

In this regard, I think the government stepping in to do something like that is a violation of basic human rights. You can't just force people to work, and you certainly can't punish people for an otherwise legal expression of speech just because the speech is inconvenient for you.

Different human rights end up butting against each other sometimes. Let's say that there's a strike at the nuclear power plant. Would you be okay with just saying "no that's slavery" and letting the plant melt down and kill everyone who isn't involved with the labor conflict? Those people have human rights as well, and arguably the right to not be killed due to a labor action you're not related to is greater than the right to engage in labor action.

An alternative to forcing some union skeleton crew to continue manning the plant would be to loosen the labor monopoly the union has and to entitle the owner to bring in contract labor to run a skeleton crew during disputes.

If he wore a wig like bill he'd look like he hasn't aged!