I don’t think that we need million-dollar movies. And, no, I don’t think that humans would quit making art if you removed the profit motive. We’ve been making art going all the way back to pre-history, and most of those artists were not wealthy. Art wasn’t something created by capitalism in order to get people to fork over dollars for the latest Marvel Cinematic Explosion.

We also wouldn’t have any media if everyone pirated.

[citation needed]

If nobody copied, a lot of media would get lost to time.

Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.

Because they’re two completely different things.

Damn, the whole world really is going authoritarian.

This was the first thing I thought of, too. “Glad to see the guy from that Daft Punk video is having a pretty great life these days!”

Thanks to your comment, I found out that PCSX2 uses CHDs. I thought that was a format that only MAME used.

In the case of archive.org, why not just download directly from the website? I’ve never seen a need to use their torrents.

Donald Trump does not have “all the power”. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be acquiescing to the courts at all. It’s wild to me that you think that the US government would do a worse job of running SpaceX and Starlink than Elon Musk.

You’re treating it like simply replacing one CEO with another, but that isn’t what it would be. I know that Trump wants to be king, but he still isn’t.

I’ve got the feeling none of y’all read past the headline.

Yeah, let’s leave all that power in the hands of one narcissistic egomaniac who’s frequently going on ketamine benders. What could possibly go wrong?

Trump has been impeached successfully. Twice. What I assume you mean is that he hasn’t been removed from office. That could be the consequence of an impeachment, but not necessarily.

Yeah, whenever I had a job that required a Mac, they had the decency to loan me one. If my job required me to buy one, I’d be looking for another job. I hate Macs.

Some guys don’t like pink, don’t like smelling like flowers, don’t want to wear dresses.

“Some”? I would say “most”. Why do you think that is? Just a coincidence?

The fucking gender-norm police. Typically older folks. I once had people snickering at me for holding a bag with the crook of my arm, instead of the manly way, with my hand. And you better not cross your legs the wrong way when you’re sitting!

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It’s called “soap”, people, and if you want to reduce waste (and save money), you buy it in a bar, not a bottle.

It’s because they know how to use rm -rf, and they don’t know how to use rmdir. Honestly, I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever successfully removed a directory with rmdir. I always wind up using something else.

Just give rm the entire path or a relative path like ./~

Whoopsie daisy-cutter.

They aren’t even food!

They don’t even have to be a racist. It could just be some form of racial bias. It’s usually a bias that they aren’t even aware of, and it gets glossed over as “the candidate wasn’t a good culture fit” or something like that.