Now I want everything science related written in conspiracy voice. Then again, with the current US government, that’s how our leaders read them anyway.

Yeah, that’s one of the things that I disagree about with the world’s most senior space cadet.

Public domain audiobooks, read by members of the community. It’s a beautiful thing - which is why AI scrapers seem currently determined to tear it down.

Having looked at the forum, they seem to be under attack by a swarm of AI scrapers. If anyone can help them defend against the attack, please do so.

For me it’s simple: I lost my planned career. I was going to be a librarian. The money to give me a scholarship dried up. So I pulled myself together, bopped through decent jobs for a decade or so, and now have a career.

Unironically, Ditto.

There’s also lishogi, if you want to learn that game.

Making sure to keep it legal, right?

Let’s stick with Project Gutenberg - Public domain ebooks and other media, spanning centuries. They’re incredibly important for keeping our literary past alive.

I might have more later.

So, as I expected, the judgment is entirely useless. Without strong enforcement, these judgments are utterly valueless. The court exists as a watchdog against corruption and abuse - but at this point, it’s contributing. He should absolutely be micromanaging the White House and looking out to preserve the meaning of our Constitution.

Sales and income taxes should both be reduced, honestly. Maybe not eliminated, but reduced. Then again, I also think that wages for elected officials should be cut - every elected American should be paid the median wage of their constituency. You want to be paid more? Do something to improve lives.

The problem is, this is the one industry I don’t mind the tariffs for, really.

Firstly, the loss of plentiful textile jobs in America has reduced our potential labor pool significantly. Second, the labor standards in these nations are often well below what I’d call acceptable; and the only way to change that is to sharply reduce what we import from them and try to get some level of ethics involved.

Maybe a saner politician, after the midterms in 2026, will be able to use this to push regulations on US companies to ensure that all labor done for goods imported to the US is maintained at US wages and levels of safety and worker protection equal to our onshore workers. Instead of blanketing the nation with a tariff, make the companies responsible for the welfare of their employees (and the ethics of any material produced in their name). Plus, if they’re forced to show that they’ve paid US-equivalent wages to every foreign employee, they’ll be more inclined to move the labor on-shore, since the transportation costs will start to hurt. Of course, the current crop of corpocrats won’t do that, but maybe someone will.

She’s about to be so fired. I wish her the best.

Oh, I’m aware that both Lemmy and Mastodon have good apps. I’m just pointing out that if the ‘argument’ is that alternatives don’t have an app, MBin does have one.

Why aren’t we suggesting Mbin over Lemmy, actually? Because it seems like it has the same options. And Mbin even has an app (not just the PWA function)!

Not enough masks for 2022, but you’ve captured my experience under the lockdowns.

Not everything gets tested at Groom Lake. There’s also the Lakehurst skunk works.

He’s just saying the quiet part out loud though. This was always the rule.

So that everyone can experience it mostly. Potentially, yes, they could profit from it too, possibly, yes.

I just want to make it clear, I am a hobby writer who regularly releases my work PD.

There’s no problem. Those books should all be in the public domain anyway.

I mean, he was imprisoned for genetic experimentation on babies without informing the parents or basically anyone else. So… I don’t think he means that in a specific way. He wants to do whatever he feels like without oversight.