If piracy is equivalent to “lost sales”, then why don’t media corporations record it on their public statements? They claim it happens, sure, but they never actually place it as an actual, reported loss – if they could, they would, trust me.
“Lost sales” are not even a legal fiction, but an actual fiction created as propaganda by media corporations.
you know there's kind of a sweet irony in how people saying they support you being your "true and authentic self" are generally the first to say "no, not like that"
I mean, I'm excluding the bigots who are ignored entirely, but I'm also tired of people who performatively say they support authenticity and think of authenticity as like, being "normal," when that is in fact the opposite of authenticity
reminder: riseup and protonmail have snitched before
"People use rise up under the impression that they wouldn’t cooperate with law enforcement but 8 years ago they buckled under pressure and handed over info to the FBI"
"If you choose to keep using rise up just be aware of this. if it’s a dealbreaker consider alternatives. Some are listed at https://blackblogs.org/policy/"
"Protonmail also complies with cops and has specifically done so against anticapitalists."
https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/02/reminder-riseup-snitched/
in the recent shaun video he talked about Those Who Walk Away From Omelas, where the premise is could you tolerate a utopian society if it meant just a single child had to be left in eternal suffering to maintain it
while I wouldn't in the way it's presented, I would if that child were bill gates or elon musk tbh
like if we have to put billionaires in eternal torment to maintain our society, that's a bonus actually
alterhuman, queer, disabled, leftist, pagan, witch, maybe autistic. willow or wil, or The Magician if you're feeling fancy. literal reincarnation of a fictional character.