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7d ago
No; I mean the low-stakes perceived misogyny -- boomer-tier wife jokes -- of "she's not here right now" might work on a male server. Of course you don't want to be menacing or gay to the male server.
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8d ago
Perhaps it would work on a male server
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18d ago
It's rare to see this kind of media coverage used against Democrats right? So what does this case mean? It's probably not a sign of Democratic moderation per se. If the authors really are Jewish it seems this is part of the re-alignment whereby (Zionist) Jews are becoming Republican? If so, we might expect to see more media and education power defect to the Right.
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19d ago
The common talking point about low-trust and high-trust society is a high-truster saying, "Why can't we just have fistfights? Why is everything a fight to the death?" and a low-truster replying, "Of course everything is a fight to the death." Another fun fact: didn't people used to just walk around armed (whether with guns or with swords)? They still insulted each other right?
I suppose you can insist on calling this honor culture and legalistic culture, but i think now we're just arguing over meaningless words.
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19d ago
"Violent Sikhs are just modern UK soldiers" is a hot take, but if he is getting convicted, isn't that evidence against the entire idea? And what you're left with is just inflammatory rhetoric?
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21d ago
I didn't have in mind any kind of service exploits when I said "hacking the client." Of course companies can ban you from their services, for essentially any reason.
I only had in mind white-hat "preserving a retired product," but I think its kind of silly to think the community or the market is entitled to that. Of course, the relevant punishment here is getting sued, not getting banned.
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21d ago
If a software license wants to say "you cannot hack the client, ever" then who is the law to prevent that? In general, we allow all sorts of things in software licenses.
To my knowledge, courts only enforce IP law against "hacking the client" projects whenever the companies can prove they're being financially harmed. Most of the time it means they have some version of the service up already. I suppose there might be cases where a very edgy fan fiction tarnishes the brand's IP, but presumably the company does believe there is financial damage in this case.
Well there is one other case, which maybe is the real discussion: if the fan-made project is making money, companies will go after it to get a piece of the pie. I think that's fair. If a company wants to stop service for their online game, I don't think it means the IP should become public domain. For example, the service might be unprofitable after merely 1 year. The company should still be able to expect royalties, for example. Or, be able to veto a fan-made service, even if it is profitable in the market.
I say this as someone who has played MMOs, as someone who is sad many have changed or shut down, and as someone who follows various emulator projects (And am sympathetic to the community).
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24d ago
One of the pushbacks people will give is that DiCaprio's dating young women is a kind of moral failure. Therefore, your readers would disagree with it this way: many of them are morally upstanding and would only ever want to date someone with similar levels of life-experience and power. And so, they would take issue with "Probably all men..." bit.
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26d ago
It could be for a similar reason to the rise of indie studios in Videogames? Arguably corporatizing these "art forms" leads to a lot of optimization that audiences eventually burn out from. Indie creators do interesting and artful things.
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26d ago
If we are talking about adultery laws and "absurdly cruel victimless crime sex," what does that have to do with laws against young men having sex?
Like, based on the original example of an older female teacher, it seems completely off-topic. What do you mean?
The question is not really open. Incels have status-anxiety, which is why they do not happily visit prostitutes. Relatedly, incels are commonly known as weird loners without any friends, which is also related to status.
A lot (though not all) of people see relationships as status markers, and incels especially so. This is why their obsession with looksmatches, hypergamy, entitlement, etc. They do not really want to have a happy relationship with another person, they just want a plus one to the company potluck.
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