No, but the contrast in the press spin is observable in the west, where we are and where this article is. There's no condemnation, it's framed as more or less understandable.
LainTrain
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Damn and Japan's been licking his boots hard too. No one is safe.
Imagine if western countries did this for that comedy about North Korea from a decade ago ("The dictator"?) that Kim Jong Un took offense too? There'd be crazy outrage. But when it's about kowtowing to Israel it's all fine.
To be honest this one I am okay with.
I obviously think we should help if we can, but there are some very hard economic realities we are facing right now that even if we had a well-intentioned government (we don't) would mean we should help ourselves before helping others, and oh boy do we need help. Decades of privatisation left our govt with the square root of fuck all. Our social service funding hasn't kept up, our pensioner pops have exploded, shit is all fucked up. The country is looking rougher and rougher by the minute, homelessness is rampant, jobs are scarce, and most everything is unaffordable. Everybody is beholden to elderly landlords first in tax, then in rent, then they vote for the ones with the most vile, most racist beliefs.
Great, now we're in a Truman show situation
K-pop stans are inti Jihad now?
Imagine transcending mortality to appear in some future commercial pushing some funko pop NFT pyramid scheme to produce shareholder value for people who claim net zero before they go jet setting to Epstein island because they bought a section of forest that was already there.
Did she say anything wrong tho
To be fair, that's not that unusual anymore
We looked at 2020 and said let's have another one
The crime of theft is depriving another person of a possession they have, the dynamics of piracy are completely different.
First - piracy is taking a copy of something that can be produced ad-infinitum. No actual thing is taken from anyone.
Second - the idea that it's depriving someone of hypothetical income doesn't hold because often times thing X being unavailable via piracy isnt going to mean the pirate is going to pay, they are just gonna pirate thing Y instead or even just get nothing at all.
Think about it - if dominos pizza was free, I'd eat it a lot more. I'd probably get fat, too, because it's literally free so I'd eat more. But as it stands it isn't, and I dont eat it. On the whole I probably eat less total than the amount I would eat if it were free.
The point is - the inherent abundance of digital goods is an inherent behaviour changer and introduces a completely different dynamic than what we're used to IRL. The scarcity in the digital world is absurd and artificial and it's stifling human potential to make the line go up.
And third, and this is adjacent - copyright is just absurd to me, it is deeply absurd to me that one could claim ownership over something immaterial as intellectual property in the first place, ideas are not things, they do not belong to anyone, it's pure category error to suggest otherwise, imo. Not that obviously artists or scientists shouldn't be credited for coming up with ideas or something but that's a job for historians, not the police.
Intellectual property's only benefit is that it really shines a light on how capitalism is not at all some inevitable product of human nature, but in fact requires heavy enforcement and ultimately a threat of violence (prisons) to protect the elite's ownership of the means of production and the economy at large.
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Mold is caused only by one thing: slum housing. There's no other way around it. All excuses about insufficient heating or people not opening windows are nonsensical landlord propaganda or wild cope from brainbroken landleech apologists.
My last place was filled to the brim with it. Every ceiling, every nook and cranny, it even ate one of my vinyl records through the sleeve because I simply leaned it against a wall in a corner, that's how bad it was.
It was one of those gross partitioned victorian mcmansions and I had the basement level flat, a houseshare of 5-50 "people" above. Full fat humidifier running around the clock and nothing at all. It filled up with water, but barely made a scratch at the humidity.
Landleech said nothing could be done about it and just painted over it once. Humidity never dropped below 80%, and it was basically always cold as fuck.
Now I moved across the country and live in a new place, converted office building done circa 2017. Humidity is at 50% year round, it's really nice and no gas or boilers in sight either. I haven't changed a single one of my habits and I've never seen so much as a speck of it here. It's bigger and has nice modern design and costs less to rent, too.
Our housing is ancient, our infrastructure crumbling, our classrooms have ceilings caving in, our hospitals have floors falling through - half this country needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch to modern standards with modern utilitarian design.
We've spent more on HS2 so far with nothing to show for it than what it cost to build the entire city of Milton Keynes (adjusted for inflation).
We need to build taller, stop asking permission from residents, build on so-called "greenbelt" land and nationalize enough to afford to build affordable housing ourselves where the market can't help and tax wealth to prevent landlords from scooping it up and letting it fall into ruin for profit as they always do.