Some economist please corrcxt me if I’m wrong, but: Trickle down may not work. However, trickle up should.

If you do say, UBI, people will spend the stuff. And the money will go to the big players. They’ll buy their food at Walmart. Or meds at Target Pharmacy. Or get a loan at JP Morgan.

Unlike, say Walmart, who won’t buy their huge private jet collection from the swathes of less-than-well-off people across all of America.

So even if UBI made people lazy, even if it made people less productive, the money will still disproportionately end up in the hands of the rich.

One is too little.

Our Glorious Leader needs at least three.

Ideally, he’d retroactively get one for each year after his International Debut in Cinema (Home Alone 2)!

Yes.

Me and my buddies. And a lot of wilderness.

There’s nothing that screams “pussy” quite as much as toxic masculinity.

Guns, flags and monster trucks are almost infallible giveaways.

Well…

CK did want guns readily accessible. CK did say gun violence deaths were a sacrifice he was willing to make.

Given the fact that Luigi might be pinned for the crime, it’s equaly likely that CK truly has had a larger share of responsibility in the killing at hand.

To adress the mems side of the question: Memes aren’t a large portion of the original work. Often times they’re screenshots of video material, so the “portion taken from the original” is minute. Some meme formats, however, are digital art pieces in and of themselves. (Note the word format - the “background” of the meme, for example the “If I did one pushup” comic)

But even with that consideration, a meme doesn’t bring harm to the original - it’s basically free advertising. And as the memes are usually low quality abd not monetized, it can be passed off as fair use or free speech in some jurisdictions, while others merely turn a blind eye. And why shouldn’t they?

As I said, memes have a multitude of points going against them being copyright infringement. They’re low-effort, short-form media, usually with a short “lifetime” (most memes don’t get reposted for years). Most often they’re a screengrab of a video (so a ‘negligible portion of the original’) and almost never bring harm to the original, but only serve as free advertising. Again, usually. This means most meme formats’ involuntary creators have no reason to go after memes. You could probably get a court to strike a meme, but probably on defamation grounds - and even then, the meme will most likely die (not the format!) beforehand, so such suits are usually dismissed as moot.

Compare this to an AI model (not an AI “artpiece”): It’s usually trained on the entire work, and they’re proven to be able to recreate the work in large part - you just need to be lucky enough with the seeds and prompts. This means the original is “in there somewhere”, and parts of it can be yanked out. Remeber, even non-identical copying (so takig too much inspiration or in academic speak, “plagiarism”) is copyright infringement.

And to top it all off, all the big AI models have a paid tier, meaning they profit off the work.

If you were to compare memes to individual AI “artworks”, then it is the same thing as memes. Except if the generation is a near-verbatim reproduction, but even then, the guilt lies with the one who knowingly commited infringement by choosing what to put into the model’s training data, and not on some unlucky soul who happened to step on a landmine and generated the work.

“You”, the user of the AI model isn’t engaging in copyright infingement directly.

However, whoever made the model that you used did. Most using copyright protected works.

Some people are paying for these models. This is what’s the problem: financially benefitting off others’ work without permission (or royalties).

It’s like the age-old piracy dilemma: the person using direct downloads or streaming can’t be fined in most jurisdictions - it’s the duplication and sharing that’s forbidden.

This exact analogue exists with AI models: training a model and giving it to others to use is distributing access to copyrighted material. Using an AI model is not.

I hope Italian dockworkers are determined enough to dock imports for a while. Hopefully without armed intervention from the state.

No. They want to protect themselves from… Their own security forces.

Yeah, checks out. Our little parlamentarians are all big pedos (at least the ones pushing for this shit).

If you replace yours after every use, then go for it!

If you keep a more traditional schedule of toothbrush replacement, I’d strongly suggest one brush per person per month. You might get away with one brush per 2 people per month, or one brush per person per up to 3 months, but not both.

They shouldn’t.

Most include features such as a (subpar) news feed and weather.

These things are nice, but there’s no need for a launcher to have them. They can, and should be done by other, dedicated apps. Someone mentioned widgets, but the launcher doesn’t talk to the widget’s app via Internet… it talks to it via IPC (inter-process communication). Ergo, no Internet permission needed.

Same with keyboards. They give you access to stuff like “ID this song”, “get user-created themes” or “better swiping and handwriting recognition”, all the while doing god-knows-what with your data.

It’s basically a ruse. Give the users something thst needs the Internet permission, even if optional, so you can sensibly request it. Wheb you do, you get the unlimited, impossible-to-control permission (revokable only via ADB), allowing any and all Internet traffic.

As they say, “with power comes responsibility”. This is a lot of power. And most apps in the Play Store don’t give much confidence in their devs’ data responsibility.

You can try looking at Settings to disable Internet access, but YMMV depending on the exact flavour of Android.

Step 1 of Nazi mass murder: ✓

No! You’re forgetting! It is Charlie who is the true martyr! \crocodile tears *

• Someone, somewhere, for some fucking reason

The original Utopia of More is a dystopia in today’s standards.

They’re miserable.

They slowly fell into the hole known as misery. Drawn in by others.

For a time, they managed. But with each time, less and less.

After a time the quicksand got too strong.

Now that they’re deep in the hole, they draw others in. Some people do it unintentionally and some very intentionally. As always, most are in the middle of those two extremes.

Most think that if their lives are miserable, yours can (or even should) be, too.

Some vent their anger on others without even noticing, while others take a more active gratification from it.

Whatever the case may be, miserable people are the worst employees. As in, they do the most damage to their employer, regardless of size.

They’re the literally the ‘bad apples’. They’re themselves of low performance. But the true problem is they spread their misery to others - some faster and some slower, but all do.

It’s not wrong. The “common center” lies inside the Sun.

Therefore, the Sun orbits itself and the Earth orbits the Sun.

“A category for Einstein” is still a bit of a high sell.

That’s like saying your mom’s like Hitler because he was a human.

If it’s just Germany doing this, maybe it is high time to dump it out of the union?

Perhaps protesting this would hit a little close to home and actually cause change.

Great Scientist?

I’ve never even heard of them!

They don’t. Not really.

America is nothing economically without its trading partners. And that goes for every country, not just the US.

Accepting what the US does is a stupid idea on any country’s part because Trump’s tariffs have nothing to do with “normal trading”. If anything, they’re abnormal.

And they should be treated as such. Laughed off. Ridiculed. And most certantly not appeased. This entire situation isn’t unlike the Hitler Sudetenland stuff.

Whatever Mr. President says Mr. President gets. Not really a good foreign policy move. It was percisely the US who set up penalties for countries “restricting trade”. Why should other countries not hold the US to the rules?

Both import and export tariffs are barriers to trade. Since Mr President’s childish demands are appeased, soon enough, those countries appeasing will start “reciprocal” tariffs on Mr President’s percieved enemies. Why? Because it’s Mr President’s next logical step.

Now, short of all countries that decided on appeasig the US make a sharp U-turn, what’s done is done.

But, should they decide on such a course of action, they’d isolate America on the world market, which would dissuade Trump from keeping his mercantilism up.

The alternstive is isolating themselves from others, together with America.