You're loosely describing most of human history.

"Let's take these plant babies and grind them into a pulp, drown it, let it be eaten by a bunch of tiny monsters until they fart enough gas, and then burn it" also sounds kinda weird. Welcome to the universe; shit's a little whack.

If we'd always been accounting for all the actual costs of cars, including externalities, most people would have never been able to afford them, we'd recognize them as the very costly luxeries they actually are, and not have completely dismantled our ability to live without them in every city except NYC, Boston, Chicago, DC, and San Francisco.

This perspective of "Either you agree with me or you're complicit in a conspiracy against me" is incredibly childish and immature.

Sometimes people have different opinions than you. Try to find a way to deal with it.

Congrats, you've just passed every conservative's wet dream, by not only making it harder to pass any new laws because you're constantly going to be busy renewing the old ones, but also making it so that all you have to do in order to kill a policy you don't like is to wait and do nothing.

Imagine if Republicans could kill Social Security by simply waiting and fillibustering in the Senate, and go on to blame Democrats because they technically have a majority.

Yes.

There is nothing in the law that makes that a relevant factor, and there are simple examples where you'd clearly not want it to be. If I was working on a novel, sent a copy to an editor, but then my hard drive crashed, it'd be more than a little annoying if that suddenly voided my copyright and my publisher then proceeded to publish my novel without giving me any money at all since it's suddenly become public domain.

I get the point you're trying to make, but this isn't the kind of thing you generally build into law because there are always edge cases that can cause problems. It's simpler to correctly assume that the copyright holder almost certainly won't object the existence of the copy while retaining the rights to them.

You have to realize that this is not a terribly convincing statement, right?

These aren't mutually exclusive. It can both be true, and Russia could have intentionally boosted the story on social media in order to cause greater general distress.

The funny thing is how people on both sides could read your comment and agree with it, but for opposite reasons.

ngl, I was expecting to enjoy roasting in downvote hell, so this has been a pleasant surprise haha.

I think a lot this stuff winds up people taking the bad feeling of paying for a thing, which is course completely normal, and twisting it into them somehow being personally wronged rather than simply accepting that yeah, spending money feels bad.

That said, if there is an obvious bad guy in this story, it's pretty clearly the labels, and given how unimportant radio and traditional music marketing is becoming, I would love to see more and more artists operate independently or with small labels and see the oligopoly of the Big 3 fall apart. They may have been somewhat necessary 80 years ago, but nowadays, they simply don't provide anywhere near as much value as they suck up.

The international organization is called the International Committee of the Red Cross. National Red Cross and Red Crescent groups are simply local subsidiaries, essentially.

Please don't try to make clever gotchas if you don't even understand what you're talking about, and for anyone who upvoted this, please don't upvote something just because it seems vaguely clever and snarky.

Hamas isn't a rational actor fighting for a free Palestine; their one and only goal - literally written into their charter - is to eradicate every Jew from the land by force.

Every Jew they kill is a victory for them; there's nothing more to it.

The suggestion that if Israel simply lifted the blockade and stopped all security operations in the West Ban there would be complete peace is ridiculously idealistic and naive.

You are not going to convince a nation that just saw hundreds of citizens brutally murdered and kidnapped that the only thing they have to do is fully open the borders and smile, and then the people who just murdered them will come out and be their friends.