SpaceCowboy

Yeah kinda. But I'd say it's about removing people's ability to make purchasing decisions in general more than about piracy specifically.

When you can decide whether or not you want to purchase the newest version of MS Office, you might decide that your current version works fine, there's no new features in the new version you need. So that means companies selling software licenses need to always be putting resources into improving the software to entice people to pay for newer versions.

If the software is all being run from a data center, you have to pay a subscription to be able to use the software and access your data. They no longer need to make any improvements to the software since they have reliable revenue from just maintaining the computers the software runs on.

It's techno-feudalism. In feudalism, the lord owns the land and the peasants work the land, try to make a living and then need to pay taxes to the lord. It's a similar dynamic with data centers. The tech lords own the computers, and they allow the peasants to do work on those computers. Businesses try to make some money on the computers owned by the tech lords, but everyone is required to pay a tax to the lord that owns the computers.

This is just making an argument based on distraction. Person A did something bad but hey look over here Person B also did something bad so stop thinking of the bad thing Person A did!

Why is it so hard just to admit Iran's government sucks? They execute people on a massive scale, support terrorism across the Middle East, and are currently trying to hold the world's economy hostage by breaking international law and targeting civilian shipping in an international waterway.

There's abuser's logic going on here where something bad happens to you and you think it makes it fine to hurt others. The US is responsible for their bad actions and Iran is responsible for their bad actions. Bad actions by the US doesn't justify Iran's bad actions towards others.

Sure, Reagan, Bush, Trump have done or are currently doing shitty things and stupid things. But that doesn't make Iran's government the good guys.

Nobody other than boomers have brainrot and nobody other than boomers would ever go along with anything AI related to make money. Definitely just boomers doing that!

My generation is special and is completely pure of any greed and always well-informed!

There is a weird narrative where people pretend like there's some conspiracy to make countries near the equator appear smaller on maps.

The reality is the Mercator projection was made for navigation purposes. The world is round and there is no projection of a globe on a 2D surface that will ever be accurate. No one is trying to kick people down by choosing one projection over the other because none of them are going to be accurate. All maps are made with the general assumption that people understand the world is actually round and they should account for that. This kind of debate edges on flat earth kinds of silliness where people are being deliberately ignorant about how maps work in favour of dumb conspiracy theories.

Sure it's probably not worth opposing, but it's also a bunch of silliness that isn't worth proposing either. It is a sign the UN is disconnected from the actual problems of the world when they're worried about fucking map projections. Is it going to be international law that we can't use the Mercator maps for navigation, which is what they're designed for? Does the UN even understand that for some people a map isn't just a decoration to be put on a wall, but something that has a purpose?

Yeah I know there's some really deranged people on the internet.

It's a bizarre thing when people think that proving the existence of a narrative is the same thing as something being true.

Apparently there's a synagogue in it so some people are upset by that. You'll of course claim that Zionism is not the same as antisemitism, while also spending a lot of time reading a lot of articles that tell you to hate a video game because it shows a synagogue in it.

I'm, Canadian, I only buy plane tickets that fly over that shit hole.

Also this is the internet, nothing can be proven on the internet. That might be one of the reasons Americans have given up, you think internet bullshit is real. Neutered by the internet.

Anyway I got my groceries today, none of it came from the US. I can't prove anything, but that's something I actually did. What did you do?

We're resisting your kleptocracy up here. You could be boycotting Trump friendly companies down there too, you could be voting for the democrats. There's a lot you could do to make things better. But you won't because some bullshit on websites owned by the oligarchs tell you democrats are bad and boycotts don't work. Y'all gave up because the oligarchs told you to give up.

Why wouldn't you put them on the grid? The point of a grid is to have more robust and reliable energy distribution.

How about they need to spend some of their trillions on solar and wind (and batteries) that are connected to the grid so they're adding electricity generation to the grid that's equal to the their energy consumption?

That way when the bubble inevitably bursts, we can shut down the dirtier forms of electricity generation since there will be an excess of clean energy.

Not everything has something to do with Zionism FFS.

If the rumours are true, Andrew Tate is to Baron Trump as Jeffrey Epstein was to Donald Trump.

So maybe Tate's extradition warrant disappears. Or maybe he "hangs himself" in a prison cell. Or maybe he does get extradited because the rumours aren't true or because Trump doesn't give a shit about his children enough to intervene.

Hate to tell you this, but I'm pretty sure Jeff Bezos isn't for taxing the rich. Hasan Piker is a millionaire, so he doesn't want that either. He's gotta give that some lip service to keep his audience, but his primary goal is to promote racial tensions. This is how the wealthy have been keeping people divided for a very long time, so you're unable to make a unified effort to tax the wealthy, and do trust busting. I doubt Hasan ever even mentions trust busting, that's simply not in the public discourse at all. Because wealthy people like Jeff Bezos have control over what people are seeing and are able to keep certain things from entering into people's minds.

Hasan is in the wealthy class, and his job is to keep you from thinking about things Jeff Bezos doesn't want you to think about. The fact is Biden was doing antitrust actions against Amazon and others, then suddenly monetized leftism turned against Democrats. Whether that's a coincidence isn't all that relevant. The nature of algorithmic information consumption is you're fed what's in the interests of the wealthy regardless of the intent of the content creator. If a leftist is saying Democrats are bad because of Israel stuff, while the wealthy think Democrats are bad because of antitrust and higher taxes, they don't care about the reason why you turn against Democrats, only that you stay home instead of voting for a party that's against their interests.

In the past, Rogan had some pretty good guests on. So there was a lot of it being "smart guy explaining things to a dumb guy", and him just being all "wow" at whatever was being said was fine.

But at a certain point he started thinking that he wasn't a dumb guy and began talking about what he thought about things and having on guests that thought the same way as him. So now it's just the "dumb guys talking dumb guy shit" show.