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To a severe narcissist, that oath just consists of mouth noises with no actual meaning. It’s a magical incantation that grants him power, and that’s all.

I could go with a merger of the Carolinas and Dakotas… weaken republican power in the senate.

I think copyright should expire the moment it is no longer actively being printed or produced. Out of Print should equal Out of Copyright. For older works, it they’ve ever gone out of print, that’s a good time to enter the public domain. Go ahead and get a good initial run, but when you cease making your living off it, let others have a try.

I understand this is not a popular take. I could compromise and allow the original 14 year + 14 year renewal.

Let’s think about upper tolerable limits: there’s zero justification for copyright existing past the death of the original author, and I emphasize original author as the sale of copyrights to corporate entities offends me deeply. I would see copyrights as licensable, but never fully transferable or even ownable by any but a non-corporate human individual.

But even the lifespan of the original author seems a bit long.

To be perfectly honest, in my true ideal world, copyright would not exist, and payment for works of art would not exist except in as much as everyone on earth would receive everything they need to live and thrive. Art would then be created by artists because they want to create art, and there would be no restriction on use whatsoever.

The jewish teaching of this is a little different. See, in Sodom, they were wealthy and only wanted to associate with the wealthy. Poverty was criminalized, and charity doubly so— and by criminalized, I mean that beggars and charity seekers were to be systematically punished with ritualized gang rape before being cast out of the walls.

So, like you said, some angels come to visit Lot, and he invites them into his home and gives them a meal. The neighborhood gets wind of this, realizing that his guests are not foreign CEOs come to make a business deal but rather some dudes without money that are getting some sweet charity— “stealing” from the city’s prosperity. Lot comes out and is like, don’t you dare touch these guys, take my family instead, and the crowd is like, “no way, you guys are loaded and help make our city rich. Give us these fucking poors so we can humiliate them and run ‘em out of town, we have no desire to run you (and your money) out of town. Step aside!”

Bit of a different take, with a bit of a different message. Now, what were the angels there for?

Well, god was talkig to Abraham and saying, “hey, Sodom is a such a blight on the landscape for their sheer greed that I’m going to wipe it off the face of the earth” and Abraham is like, “hey, there’s gotta be SOME good people there, right? Like at least ten?” And god said if they could find ten good people left in the city it wouldn’t be destroyed. So the angels show up, and basically the entire city is there on the doorstep trying to legally gang rape them for the crime of not being rich. So the city gets nuked.

Only on my TV, where my family watches youtube through our PS4. Old kids shows and taskmaster and the like. It’s incredibly obnoxious— ads play when you open the video, and if you want to simply restart it move to the correct place it’ll play the ads again, and the ads can be 60 seconds long each time. They also pop these unskippable ads up at the most obnoxious moments in the videos.

The “next ad” button often does bring the time-to-skip down by ten seconds or so, at least. Still obnoxious. But I’m not sure about a better way to access YouTube and Disney+ and Prime Video etc etc on the tv from one device, and, well, I have a 4 year old, so doing without is not much of an option.