An idea i had that i imagine would turn out pretty well is Japanese speaking forums for westerners specifically. It’d have a buy in that no one interested in only trolling would go in for (learning a language, especially one far from English).

Some pirate coves protect themselves by requiring an invite from someone already in the community, that could work really well too.

Generally, just requiring a little work to get someplace would make communities a lot nicer.

I think that’s what most as execs want, sadly

You’d think this would drive away what mods are left, i imagine they are mostly there for the illusion of power they get at this point and this will be a step towards removing that.

But then, the entire corporatization should be enough to drive people away on it’s own but it doesn’t seem to be.

Funny how you ignore all the comments calling out your crap in depth, i suppose you know you’ve got a load of nothing here.

Or to not do it to begin with.

Intellectual property laws need to be completely abolished and remade from the ground up. They do nothing but harm society as it stands. That said, i don’t think ai bros care. They just want to have their product also partake in destroying humanity at every possible level for profit they couldn’t even spend if they tried.

But they don’t want us all to reap the rewards, they just want the rewards for themselves. The cruelty is the point.

So, in the u.k., it’s just one of those “we keep this handy to hurt the uppity poors” laws?

Lawsuit, sure, but is it actually illegal?

God damn i hate what the Internet has become, i can barely even comment on YouTube

You really have issues, my guy. Your obsession with authority is something you should get help shedding.

First and foremost, yes a layman should pick those jobs up. It’s not difficult to get the basics down and to safely work on things. Ffs sounds like you are terrified of even changing your own oil. i don’t expect people to swap out their own engines or build their own OS, but plenty of ‘advances’ knowledge can be learned in a week and be useful.

Secondly; the reason it’s competitive is because the number of doctors is artificially lowered by government intervention, not most people failing out of school or some shit. It’s also common knowledge to anyone who has ever worked in or adjacent to the medical industry that plenty of people in it are complete morons; hell there is a worryingly high number of anti-vaxxers even! Which i didn’t appreciate you comparing me to, jackass.

The lay person can have access to plenty of research materials, they just aren’t bundled in a major network, and many tools that you’d need to watch out for in self medication are cheaply available from smaller clinics.

Plenty of people in every profession are idiots, doctors included. They are no more special than mechanics or programmers.

The ‘strict vetting process’ is only a method of keeping the supply of doctors low. Literally, that isn’t conspiracy. Edit: although that is a u.s. issue specifically.

This in no way sounds like anti-vax rhetoric? Doing actual research and doing something that doesn’t affect others is literally the exact opposite of what those people stand for.

The human body is just another machine. You can learn it as easily as you can learn how to fix whatever horrible sound you engine is making. The only advantage a doctor has over a layman is more direct access to resources (both knowledge, as in easy access to research, and tools, such as blood tests), but that doesn’t exclude a random from using those resources themselves.

As long as you know what you’re getting into i don’t see the big deal. Doctor aren’t some higher beings, hell a lot of them are idiots, you don’t need a fancy piece of paper to understand a science (let alone a niche as small as medicine as it’s applicable to you specifically). Just put the legwork in before hand and you can probably even do minor surgery on yourself just fine.

Although this does not comment on the legality of substance that would be used for that, the law has no baring on right and wrong.

Ngl, i don’t see how bmw gets any sales when Mercedes exists. If you are actually rich a Mercedes is almost objectively the better vehicle, if you are just trying to show off the Mercedes is a better status symbol too.

You just blow in from stupid town?

Windows 11 went full mask off on how bad Windows really is, why would anyone use it? No one wants adware, ransomware, or spyware on their pc, let alone have it baked in.

…Well fuck.

Obviously not. hurting bad people is morally neutral at worst.

You realize you could watch every ad on every video a creator puts out for a year and generate them less than a coffee, yeah? If you care go give them 5 dollars.

Fuck, an integrated donation/payment thing on YouTube would go so much farther for Google’s profit than ads ever would as well!

Not scam ads, intrusive ads. A decade ago i read cracked and the only ads were non intrusive sidebar ads or a banner at the top. They didn’t play music, they didn’t interrupt what i was doing, they just existed. Google, being the near complete monopoly it is, could easily force the standard to return to that and many people would never even go looking for adblockers.