Yes, good, we're all very impressed that you know that word. They literally are pigeonholing you... and what's your point?
The only thing I'd add to the other very good replies on here is to your last bulletpoint. Good faith and "civility" are not necessarily the same thing. Tensions run high around here sometimes because "downvote and move along" is not only against our ideology but our downvotes are also disabled for the same reason. In a lot of situations asking someone to "act civil" or "be nice" are akin to gaslighting. As MLK Jr. said "Peace is the presence of justice, not the absence of conflict".
That said "fuck off and read this book" is the worst of the "bad faith" you can expect here, whereas in an alt-right instance you can expect to be dismissed with a slur if you go against the grain.
And what precisely is the moral issue with stealing? Depriving someone of their personal property, which piracy is not.
It certainly feels like we're on the precipice of something breaking what with computers rapidly getting more locked down, these secure enclaves and/or TPM chips verifying that you're watching on an approved OS and web browser before allowing you to stream, and then the video is encrypted until it gets to your actual TV. Crazy what they're getting away with.
In the near future I foresee pirates pointing cameras at TV screens then using AI to clean up the video, then media companies responding by creating randomized slightly different versions of videos so they can trace them back to the account holder who shared it (move some tree branches around, slightly different colored hat on background actors, etc) and perhaps getting legislation passed to stop cameras from being allowed to record IP protected material, and so on.
They want >$100 a month to come out with maybe one movie and maybe two TV shows worth watching each year? No thanks, piracy for me has become more of a means to assuage my fear of missing out and keeping in touch with the cultural moment than actual enjoyment of the media they're putting out right now.
I do not believe the quality would go down if their budgets were cut significantly.
It does suck how you have to keep on top of this shit so you know what someone is trying to say when you hear a less-than-half-remembered version of it next month. The shit I heard from the libs in my life about Evo Morales being a vicious genocidal election manipulating dictator, and a month later I wanted to rub it in their faces how I was right and they're all "what's a Bolivia??"
It takes a lot of energy to have to be simultaneously more and less engaged in news media than the people around you.
I'd take the best aspects of metric and amerikkkan measurement systems and invent DOZENAL METRIC. In fact, all math and counting will be done in base 12.
Build a railway through central America, terminating in Brazil, up through Canada to Alaska and then across to Russia.
Switch the internet from a server-client infrastructure to a p2p one with a small cache on every router using something like IPFS.
The rainbow capitalisms and pride Raytheons are nothing more than the indicator species of the on the ground conditions for grsm in the west, and it really isn't looking good for that ecosystem :cringe:
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