Conservatives are fundamentally incapable of good government. They don't believe in it. They don't believe in fairness applied to all. They believe in hierarchy. In-groups to protect and out-groups to bind. They don't have good empathy.
I don't know how to grade myself on clarity of communication, but I'll share some things I think have helped.
Avoid long sentences. Many people don't read well, and even those that do will get lost in a long block of text.
Read back what you wrote out loud.
Do not neglect the emotional front. Conversations and convincing are about emotions more than facts. Acknowledge their position. Make them feel heard.
Read more. Read a variety of things. Op-eds in newspapers. Books of various genres. Old stuff. New stuff. Feed your brain more than word junk food.
Ask questions. Sincere questions. Don't try to trick them. People are usually happy to talk about themselves and their beliefs. Use this to find common ground and shared experience.
People are social creatures. They follow peer pressure. If you want to make the world better, one of the ways is to spend the effort to be better, to work on being kind with other people.
I had two different work friends, years ago. Both of them had low to mid grade homophobia. They'd say things. But after a couple years of me working on them, they stopped.
Was it worth it? Maybe. It was harder than just writing them off, but I like to think as a result of my spending the time with them, they hurt people less.
Many people can't comfortably quit their job. Not in the US. Finding a new job is difficult. Finding a new job that doesn't use Microsoft is even more of a long shot. Most people don't have the money sitting around to just coast without income for very long.
Edit: wow… So many people hate me because I don’t have to use. Shitty Microsoft products.
I don't think that's why you're being down voted. It's the "let them eat cake" attitude about people being stuck at shitty jobs, probably
Having these self driven cars run by private profit driven companies seems like a bad idea. Infrastructure, which this is trying to be, should not be private.
Displays of wealth in a world with so many sufferiny disgusts me
I was thinking the other day about how a friend once pointed out someone carrying a handbag that sells for $10,000. I'm like... send that person straight to therapy and community service. That's so much money on something a $100, tops, bag could do.
We might be at an impasse. I just don't think someone is entitled to a decade long lock down on their ideas. If you don't want other people involved, don't publish. Fan fiction has been part of human culture for like all of it. The idea that you can't profit from it is comparably modern.
basically just harkens back to what i said back up there. what about an author that does great world building, their world never becomes popular or makes money, and then someone else 7 years later sees their world building and makes their own story within that world and makes all the money and fame from it while the original author gets nothing?
Tough? Like in your scenario the work is just wasted and no one reads it. That's no better.
Many endeavors fail.
just don’t want to pay people who are profiting off someone else’s ideas but not compensating them for it.
That's how humanity has worked for thousands of years. Disney didn't write snow white. They made a new work based on it.
Well, yeah. Just look outside. Capitalism has made a handful of people uncontrollably wealthy and irreparably damaged the world, while leaving many people either in outright poverty or barely holding on.
You gotta put the > before the text to make it a quote, not after.
tell that to a guy like george RR martin, or JK rowling, or whoever created dune that “okay, it’s been seven years. now everyone can make stuff in your own universe that you spent your entire time world building and can make money off your universe without your permission. you had 7 years, your time to make money on it is up. if someone can make a better story in your universe it’s theirs now for them to make profit on.”
I would be happy to tell these extremely rich people so. I don't see this as a problem. That's how human creativity worked for centuries.
my claim is that people wouldn’t create as much and it would encourage more spinoffs of existing ideas,
I just don't think that's true and I don't think there's a reason to believe it's true. Go look at fan fiction. There's whole thriving, rich, communities of it. Fascinating ideas and remixes. Almost all of it violates copyright. But it's creative and people love it. Some of those authors go on to write their own original work. Why would you want to kill all of that?
I really don't think it "fucks over" the author. They got their art out there. They inspired people. They can still sell copies. I don't think they are entitled to a lengthy copyright.
The scenario where someone gets fucked over, in my mind, is they write something original and a megacorp scoops it up without payment or attribution. That's something a short copyright could protect. So when some nobody writes a cool story or song, Disney can't use their massive budget to capitalize on it without paying the author anything. That's why I would accept a short copyright.
I'd rather break up megacorps and not have ultra-wealth, but that's a separate topic.
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell released a statement about the incident, calling it an “incredibly tragic event.”
The US, maybe everywhere else, does this routine where something bad happens, people say it's tragic, and stops. No root cause analysis. No steps to prevent it from happening again. Just thoughts and prayers and that's it. It's infuriating.
There are many complex problems that are going to be uncomfortable to solve. We are all going to suffer before it gets better. But we should demand better. We should demand that the rich help or get out of the way.
You were saying people wouldn't create without copyright. And yet, copyright didn't exist for much of humanity. Therefore, copyright is not necessary for people to create. If it was, they wouldn't have created all the stuff they did.
Slavery and other horrors are irrelevant
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do you think after george RR martin released his first book 7 years after that everyone else could make their own ASOIAF books, movies, tv shows, etc without having to get permission or compensate george in any way? i feel like this is shafting the creator
7 years is plenty of time to profit.
And they can still profit by creating new work, or selling people the authentic copy. People go see live music despite video existing. People buy designer bags despite bootlegs existing.
If anyone can write a spiderman comic, then the ones that are the best will presumably do the best.
If they had done "Xbox games on PC" 20-25 years ago I would have found that reasonable. Microsoft can fuck off.
Conservatives are bad people. They value in-group solidarity and personal power more than anything else. Cartoon villains.
Conservatives are fundamentally incapable of good government. They don't believe in it. They don't believe in fairness applied to all. They believe in hierarchy. In-groups to protect and out-groups to bind. They don't have good empathy.
Good. Send them to training. Better than sending people to jail, probably. Can we send people to therapy too?
I don't know how to grade myself on clarity of communication, but I'll share some things I think have helped.
Avoid long sentences. Many people don't read well, and even those that do will get lost in a long block of text.
Read back what you wrote out loud.
Do not neglect the emotional front. Conversations and convincing are about emotions more than facts. Acknowledge their position. Make them feel heard.
Read more. Read a variety of things. Op-eds in newspapers. Books of various genres. Old stuff. New stuff. Feed your brain more than word junk food.
Ask questions. Sincere questions. Don't try to trick them. People are usually happy to talk about themselves and their beliefs. Use this to find common ground and shared experience.
It seems like their calculations always return high prices. I can't think of any service that has had the price drop significantly.
People are social creatures. They follow peer pressure. If you want to make the world better, one of the ways is to spend the effort to be better, to work on being kind with other people.
I had two different work friends, years ago. Both of them had low to mid grade homophobia. They'd say things. But after a couple years of me working on them, they stopped.
Was it worth it? Maybe. It was harder than just writing them off, but I like to think as a result of my spending the time with them, they hurt people less.
Many people can't comfortably quit their job. Not in the US. Finding a new job is difficult. Finding a new job that doesn't use Microsoft is even more of a long shot. Most people don't have the money sitting around to just coast without income for very long.
I don't think that's why you're being down voted. It's the "let them eat cake" attitude about people being stuck at shitty jobs, probably
He should be personally, criminally, liable for the deaths and suffering caused by his policies. So should leadership that supported him.
Pc.
Sometimes they give some people a few crumbs so they'll fight other poor people instead of the rich.
Why would they lower costs when they can just not do that?
Having these self driven cars run by private profit driven companies seems like a bad idea. Infrastructure, which this is trying to be, should not be private.
I was thinking the other day about how a friend once pointed out someone carrying a handbag that sells for $10,000. I'm like... send that person straight to therapy and community service. That's so much money on something a $100, tops, bag could do.
It's not that good.
Much of a CEO's role is schmoozing with other rich assholes. AI can't do that. Maybe once it can buy hookers and blow.
We might be at an impasse. I just don't think someone is entitled to a decade long lock down on their ideas. If you don't want other people involved, don't publish. Fan fiction has been part of human culture for like all of it. The idea that you can't profit from it is comparably modern.
Tough? Like in your scenario the work is just wasted and no one reads it. That's no better.
Many endeavors fail.
That's how humanity has worked for thousands of years. Disney didn't write snow white. They made a new work based on it.
Well, yeah. Just look outside. Capitalism has made a handful of people uncontrollably wealthy and irreparably damaged the world, while leaving many people either in outright poverty or barely holding on.
You gotta put the
>before the text to make it a quote, not after.I would be happy to tell these extremely rich people so. I don't see this as a problem. That's how human creativity worked for centuries.
I just don't think that's true and I don't think there's a reason to believe it's true. Go look at fan fiction. There's whole thriving, rich, communities of it. Fascinating ideas and remixes. Almost all of it violates copyright. But it's creative and people love it. Some of those authors go on to write their own original work. Why would you want to kill all of that?
I really don't think it "fucks over" the author. They got their art out there. They inspired people. They can still sell copies. I don't think they are entitled to a lengthy copyright.
The scenario where someone gets fucked over, in my mind, is they write something original and a megacorp scoops it up without payment or attribution. That's something a short copyright could protect. So when some nobody writes a cool story or song, Disney can't use their massive budget to capitalize on it without paying the author anything. That's why I would accept a short copyright.
I'd rather break up megacorps and not have ultra-wealth, but that's a separate topic.
The US, maybe everywhere else, does this routine where something bad happens, people say it's tragic, and stops. No root cause analysis. No steps to prevent it from happening again. Just thoughts and prayers and that's it. It's infuriating.
There are many complex problems that are going to be uncomfortable to solve. We are all going to suffer before it gets better. But we should demand better. We should demand that the rich help or get out of the way.
You were saying people wouldn't create without copyright. And yet, copyright didn't exist for much of humanity. Therefore, copyright is not necessary for people to create. If it was, they wouldn't have created all the stuff they did.
Slavery and other horrors are irrelevant
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7 years is plenty of time to profit.
And they can still profit by creating new work, or selling people the authentic copy. People go see live music despite video existing. People buy designer bags despite bootlegs existing.
If anyone can write a spiderman comic, then the ones that are the best will presumably do the best.