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No, I want to die. I fucking hate reality so much that I want KILL YOU ALL.

What’s the street address of Google again? I’m already homicidally insane, I’ll start by burning them TO THE FUCKING GROUND.

To be fair, I use a simple smartlock whose only purpose is so I alone can unlock my bedroom door without needing my physical key duplicated for others to enter at desired times.

To also be fair, I have a hodgepodge of smarthome lights and plugs linked via ifttt that I am now worried will not have any replacement option in 15 years. Maybe I made a mistake, but I do actually have a need to rely on a smartswitch to turn off the lights when I leave home.

Maybe he is an employee who bought the pen with employee discount? Just saying that’s possible, even though it’s a complete guess.

Okay, is it just me or is the total global revenue for physical media music less than $2 USD a year? I must be reading it wrong.

I actually may have confused two threads about this topic and forgotten which poster I was trying to respond to. To be clear, all I wanted to say - in short, that I agree with her if she’s arguing in good faith, but that doesn’t justify the above poster hating Israelis and the words “finally, etc.” sounded anti-semetic. Any past online behavior of mine that suggested I feel otherwise is not something I want to influence people to hate a group, and I felt that needed to be pointed out. In the past I’ve made mistakes in my online posts, visible or not, but I never hated anyone for beliefs, only individual actions. My words were not the right ones, I get it. Please stop, I am trying to be unbiased and not “politically correct” because history doesn’t repeat for no reason and yes, there is nothing that is inherent to anyone that prevents them acting like a fascist, no matter what label you can otherwise apply to them. Hypocrisy is a thing, genocide is something every culture is guilty of. It’s not pleasant, but it is fair. We have free will, check your bigotry before it wrecks everything. I will be unsubscribing to this entire community now that I’ve said my peace, please block me if you’re too partisan to realize I am not saying Hamas are not guilty, only that Israel’s government is not free of corruption by hate anymore than Hamas if carpet-bombing hospitals is in their playbook.

What went over your heads is that Israel’s leadership doesn’t represent its people anymore. You honestly think anyone could say “no” to Hitler and live? That’s why there was a war, you fought on a battlefield or you died at the hands of a police state.

Sadly, this is no different. Israel right now is trying to use industrialized genocide. The Nazis were the first and for a long time only ones to try to exterminate a human group specifically using industrial genocide - a holocaust.

I am NOT saying Israel as a whole is responsible. I’m sorry if I ever gave that impression. Their current leader, however, is no different than every other Stalin, Mussolini and Trump history has ever had. Do not make the mistake that was made 100 years ago.

People thought Germany’s former opponents were right to offer concessions too. To a degree, they were right, but only if they had done so sooner. By the time someone dangerously hateful got into power, it was too late for it to do anything but embolden a genocidal dictator.

This isn’t about Ukraine or Russia, don’t mistake this for a war. The Hamas are indeed monsters, but the Israeli government and military are peppered heavily with people who firmly believe that they should have exclusive control over that section of the world (the Gaza Strip, I’ll have the grace to not speak on someone else’s behalf about what places a country intends to own beyond clear intent).

In short, I’m trying to say “you realise the horseshoe theory works on ALL authoritarian viewpoints, right?”

Wow, Hitler much? The entire reason I’m PO’d at Israel is the hypocrisy of committing the Second Holocaust, you can’t just say that Israel is evil down to the last child and not expect people who care about actual justice to want you dead.

Fuck you, neo Nazi.

So is art itself. I might not name things the same as my inspirations or create anything identical, but I haven’t written a single thing that wasn’t based on something else.

I don’t want the AI being trained on my work either, but that’s because I oppose “automated mass slavery”

“Oh, you don’t want to be a slave in return for only the most basic of food and shelter? Sure, see if there are any jobs out there anymore, now that robots can do all of it for rich arrogant god complex sufferers like me. Lets lay the new ground rules… You’re DISPOSABLE to me. Beg and worship or die.” - A designated slaveowner’s thought process, 2084.

Stop thinking like a capitalist and start thinking like you’re an angry drunk if you really believe LLM should be outlawed. Envy is not a flattering look on anyone, you included. At least protests and riots get shit done, even if that means sacrificing a lifestyle you’re clearly only enjoying thanks to being self-centered in your artistic pursuits.

Fact is, art is SO hard that I am in my 30s, broke and have no employable skills other than research, social skills (barely, blame Autism for ruining it for me) and creative ability.

I earned, like, $15 to $20 CAD from publishing a book of short stories on Amazon over 2 years. Before you ask why, I am not excluding quality as a possibility but for the most part it’s because nobody is into optimistic post-singularity sci-fi anymore and I refuse to rely on anything but word of mouth for advertisement because screw the advertocracy.

My point is, if people pirate Cody Gibling’s works, I’d rather they do so because I only want enough money to be comfortable and anything else I get would be aimed at more serious pursuits like activism. You know what I pirate? Anything that they make too hard to access in the first place. Like dead MMOs or completed movies that were cancelled to get the studio a free tax break.

This. Didn’t even use my Pixel 8 (then brand-new) until Grapheme OS was available for it (my Pixel 7 Pro got damaged beyond repair in an incident, not happy but though I expect privacy I don’t expect a phone to survive ~20G of force) because fuck Google.