They’re are a million wrong ways to come at the wrong conclusion. So why then would we be surprised when many of the people who come to the right conclusion still do it for a variety of reasons? Perhaps the initial premise of why copyright should exist is conceptually riddled with holes.

Owning an idea is inherently capitalist, but the average person who encounters a problem won’t spontaneously become anti-capitalist. They just know something seems wrong about this, but don’t understand why. So they make up a story to address their cognitive dissonance, like nihilism.

Name a crime

Don’t you still see their posts on other threads?

You should make a fork with a block that works!

That’s just asking for a treasure trove of links to theory

Wyatt Yankstrash

Gotta keep a plastic bag by the toilet, just in case.

I saw a therapist as a child. It was super helpful; that’s when I got my ADHD diagnosis.

I can understand not wanting discrimination on employees, but we really ought to be allowed to google businesses before spending our time applying. Some of them are blatant scams!

Wait do people seriously apply to mystery companies? I’d interpret this as the company knowing their reputation is bad.

Tell you what, I’ll apply if you don’t need to see my name until I’m hired.

I wish people had this

VIRTUE SIGNALING

When I suggest taking drivers licenses away, my fellow Americans act like I’m suggesting the death penalty.

Twitter does not make any sense to me.

The Cult of Consumption

On paper, I’ve got 20+ years of C++ experience.

In practice, it’s always just connecting some thing to another thing and you’ll be lucky if I outperform ChatGPT.

I just put my piano fingers in my pockets while I’m walking around. I think it looks sophisticated.

The Weimar Republic isn’t coming back, my friend.

As in, the rate of inflation was added to the mortgage rate you were offered. This is because tax incidence falls on the less elastic side of each trade, and credit supply is much more elastic than housing demand.

How are you measuring the concentration of economic power - Gini coefficient?