You’re very unpleasant. Have a nice day!

Yes, and? In Arturia’s case, it would mean that their very expensive to produce software could be sold by a competitor.

It’s not though, I’ve heard of this program before, and they’ve done similar with elephants. It’s disgusting it needs to be done, but it does provide a net benefit from what I’ve read in the past.

Not every single thing that’s non-FOSS is enshittified, sometimes things cost A Lot of money to develop and those involved deserve to be paid. A good example of such software is Arturia’s V Collection, a music/synthesiser program that requires access to original synths to recreate them. You own your license and can deregister it and sell your key to someone else.

That picture makes it seem like they’re doing a really roughshod job pf removing these. Are they really okay without followup care? It looks like there’d be a high chance of infection.

anon’s gf is into girls and wants to see her gf all pretty. she has a fetish for seeing her loved one be happy.

I mean yeah, I don’t identify with the term atheist because it ended up shifting meaning to anti-theist on the internet in my opinion. I guess I just conflated it with “no religion” in my head, which is what the Australian statistic is.

Wait, atheism is that low in the US?? 38.9% of Australians indicated no religion at the last census, I knew we had more but never expected a whole order of magnitude difference!

Being realistic =/= Complacency

We aren’t special, but we do have mandatory and preferential voting, which is fairly rare the world over, and that absolutely affects the outcomes of our elections. Mandatory voting has a far bigger effect than most realise on curbing extremism. I’m just so exhausted from American doomers trying to pretend the entire* rest of the world is heading the same direction so they don’t feel as bad about the fluffed state of their nation…

Someone else mentioned the UK and it’s the same FPTP, low voter turnout problem as the US. You know who’s actually special? New Zealand with their Mixed Member Proportional. I’ll give you a thousand dollars if they ever turn fascist!

Yet the Australian people firmly rejected that Trumpism, and the Liberal party, which is who I was referring too, seem to be keen to push towards the centre under Sussan Ley.

The likelihood that we get a Trump style, fascist government that ignores the rule of law and the courts is infinitesimally small, especially with our mandatory and preferential voting system. The Coalition are awful, but to call them fascist is to water down the term until it has no meaning.

Edit: The one caveat I’ll add is Jacinta Price defecting to the Liberals but it’s not like the rest of the party had a choice in that matter, and I think they will grow increasingly frustrated with her if she repeats her Trumpist clowning during the next election.

Just because American conservatives are Nazis now doesn’t mean that all conservatives everywhere are as well. I feel like that word, and fascism, get diluted way too much these days and all it does is increase political polarisation. For example, it scares me the number of Gen Z Aussies that that believe our centre-right conservative party are Nazis and that we’re “one step away” from becoming the US. I mean I don’t like those conservatives, I think they’re fluffheads, but they respect the rule of law and wouldn’t try to overturn an election!

It’s honestly up there as being as bad as the r slur.

wild i have to block someone that purports to be anti-conservative for using a word like “sp*z” as if it’s not problematic

Bestie, photography is art. I can’t believe I have to say that out loud. Did you look at the above link? It’s a photo of a bird, not a meme and certainly not a stock template.

None of this gives you the right to ignore an artist’s wishes. As I’ve said, your actions here are not going to endear people to your cause, which in my opinion is far more important than “making an exception” when someone has asked you not to repost their work.

1. What exception? Let people make their own decisions and you can make yours.
2. That’s not how copyright works.
3. Still, I agree that content should be able to be reposted. Except when the artist specifically says to you “don’t repost my work” as has happened here.
4. Respect artists.
5. I’m fairly sure they were calling you toxic, and I’d agree that your behaviour here has been, especially as it seems they’ve asked you before to not repost their work.
6. Seriously, what exception? You’re protesting against .ml, targeting every single user that interacts with it is petty at best, and toxic at worst. It’s not going to endear people to your cause.

I dunno bestie, I have a +36 in Voyager for you, I clearly upvote your stuff often, but the way you acted in that thread was mean-spirited.

Yeah, it’s genuinely considered quite racist these days.

They literally said

I’m done playing nice about it.

in the comment you replied too?

I’m not stupid, I know that .m(arxist)l(eninist) is a tankie instance. But what the other user stated, that you’ve made it your entire personality to bring it up whenever possible, also rings true ¯\_(ツ)_/¯