Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

When anyone complains about 'music piracy' my response is usually, "There is no music. Home taping killed it.'

I saw a woman sleeping. In her sleep she dreamt Life stood before her, and held in each hand a gift — in the one Love, in the other Freedom. And she said to the woman, ‘Choose!’
And the woman waited long: and she said: ‘Freedom!’
And Life said, ‘Thou hast well chosen. If thou hadst said, ‘Love,’ I would have given thee that thou didst ask for; and I would have gone from thee, and returned to thee no more. Now, the day will come when I shall return. In that day I shall bear both gifts in one hand.’
I heard the woman laugh in her sleep.
— Olive Schreiner, Dreams, 1891

@mkl 美味しい！

@NPR Well, I can't go to Walgreens and now I can't go to CVS either. It's a good thing that we don't allow monopolies and that there are so many small independent drug stores on every city block.

@futurebird Totally agree. Writing a book has become part of the grift. They buy a bunch of copies of their own book, then give them away on a radio station or something, and like magic they are a now a "New York Times Bestselling Author." I'm sure any valuable information that the book may contain, will be discussed on a reliable news source.
My reading time is too limited and valuable to give any of it to that.

@xianc78 Look at how proud they are of themselves. Wow, they really taught a lesson to that menace to society.

@juliaserano I agree. Debating with those people does no good. Instead they try to make it appear that a certain topic is controversial where no actual controversy exists. It's the same tactic they use to deny Evolution and Climate Change. They have no actual proof for their claims, but they do have finely calibrated logical fallacies and rhetorical tactics that make winning a "debate" difficult, no matter how correct one is. A skilled debater could win a debate on the premise that "water is not wet" using their tactics, but water would still be wet.