nimpnin @ nimpnin @sopuli.xyz

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The difference in intent makes sense. The difference in primary function does not, killing a person with a kitchen knife is no better than with a gun.

The problem with car accidents is that it’s difficult to know the intent of a person, especially carelessness kills a lot more people via cars than via kitchen knifes, and we can’t know for sure when it was an honest mistake by the driver.

When he is forced to.

cato institute

Lol

I mean it can work, at least in theory. I’d have to take a more comprehensive look at Estonia’s case. I will not take that source at face value though.

But recently I’ve seen analyses of both the UK and the southern EU countries’ austerity policies being failures. And that’s multiple countries with very different economies.

I understand your point. I just don't share the pessimism, I come from finland where the population density is less than half that of the US and our trains run fine. That's why I think the US could both build infrastructure that would bring about different kinds of traffic flows, as well as just build rail infrastructure for current traffic flows that would work just fine.

Don't know if we can reach an agreement on this topic though. There are arguments both for and against, and we can't really get closer to the truth without trial and error.

Austerity doesn’t work

Thats a lot of cigarettes

Days long doesn’t work if there’s not enough wind and sun, for example in the winter in the north (here in finland we have exhausted our hydro potential already btw)

Given that the general population doesn’t even know how allergies work half the time, it makes even more sense to ban peanuts on flights

The problem is that the producer’s business model is based on making and selling copies

This is all too vague to actually understand the effect of piracy. The economic impact depends how much piracy replaces actual purchases.

When I was a teenager, I would pirate a lot of music. At the time, I had very little money to spend. This copying did not replace any purchases. On the other hand, me not buying music right now is a lost purchase since I could spend money. That's why I spend some money every month actually buying music from bandcamp or whatever, which offsets the revenue that the musicians would otherwise lose.

Also, if the artist has other revenue streams, it doesn't matter as much. Musicians for example don't make a lot of money off of streaming nowadays, and a lot of their revenue comes from merch and concert tickets etc. So if you spend money there, copying doesn't really bankrupt the artist.

Of course each type of media has slightly different mechanics, but in general there are a lot of ways you can do piracy without really undermining the business model of the artists. And very rarely are the effects the same as for theft.

whose hegemony results in most of the world conforming to the same

Does it really? I know there are significant differences between US and EU copyright law, fair use comes to mind

maybe all the stats have eroded any intuition I had for these words

Probability is a numeric value between: 0 and 1 of how likely an event is going to happen. Depending on the definition, I would say that possibilities and plausabilities are both events with a nonzero probability. Colloquially, possibilities are more likely than plausabilities I guess. Source: two thirds of a stats phd and C2 level english skills lol

Hard times create strong men, strong men create hard times

medium distance low volume route

You say that like its a constant

Fake, no grindr chat has that few dick picks

Why are people so bad at doing things in moderation

Since 720p downloading isn't really available on yt-dlp anymore, I made an alias for it

 bash

    
alias yt720p="yt-dlp -S vcodec:h264,fps,res:720,acodec:m4a"

  

I have no interest discussing in your extrapolations of OP's motivations and behavior

Wouldn’t it be nice to share a hobby or personal interest with someone you are romantically and sexually involved in, too?

I've had a lot of different hobbies over the past ~ 10 years, some for a shorter and some for a longer time. Not once has that resulted in a genuine romantic connection. Not even a date.

On the other hand, I have had a lot of success finding romantic partners both on dating apps and in bars. All of the partners I've found that way have been at least somewhat likeminded and I've shared interests and hobbies with them. On an app, you see the person's interests in the profile, in a bar you can talk to them and find out whether you have something in common.

Maybe it's against the etiquette to seek out romantic partners at hobby events around here (a nordic country). Maybe I just personally don't like doing that. Either way, I totally understand if somebody wants to date in spaces that specifically cater to that.

I would say no. While they make the process more superficial and gamify it to the gain of the companies rather than the users, lots of people find partners on dating apps. A quick google reveals that already in 2017 dating apps were the leading way couples originally met.

So I would at least try them, just keep in mind how they work and what the incentives are. And don’t take it personally if you don’t get a lot of matches - that happens to a lot of people. Also I would definitely not pay for a subscription, that’s the scam part.