They're coming for the communists now.
When they come for the trade-unionists and Jews, my neighbors will have long stoned the trail to my door.
And when they come for the rest of my neighborhood, no one will understand how they knew about dinner-table thoughts of dissent or wavering patriotism.
I think the abortion and trans kids situations are putting into sharp relief the danger of large third parties knowing too much about us. Facebook is absolutely scanning its servers for signs of unwanted pregnancies and relaying that information to red state law enforcement. Other platforms may be doing the same thing.
Women in the US are advised not to use period-tracker apps, given they do often sell the data they glean, and don't discriminate against far-right interests. And anti-abortion organizations are shopping.
Cool!
Naturalism: That giant deuce that you just dropped, that's the same stuff stars are made of!
I remember the devil went from popping volcanoes and starting plagues to selling nifty magics for immortal souls. These days He's into Rock-&-Roll and Dungeons & Dragons (also LGBT+ and feminism).
I'm assuming there's a secret holy order that retroactively gives salvation to everyone, triggered by the human species goes extinct, and that's why Satan has softened His game. But that's just me.
This is not a unique problem, as California history teems with lesbians changing their name to Morgana Labiablossom or Neopagans to Bridget Oaksparkle when when they cross a personal reckoning. Since it's super important to them, we practice in front of a mirror until we can say the name without giggling.
I wonder if that is what inspired Tungsteena Zarpedon.
That doesn't look like it has the action necessary to discharge a round. Blue states may find it in bad taste but legal.
The TSA will confiscate it quick as lightning, though (and an officer will pilfer it from evidence and use it at home)
taking something that does not belong to you does not explain how it is obvious that piracy is stealing, and suggests you don't actually know the difference.
Do you know the difference between copyright infringement / patent infringement and theft?
Care to try again?
You revised your text to change its wording. No footnotes.
And then you accuse me of ignoring or misunderstanding without acknowledgement that you've altered the thread.
I can no longer assume that you're arguing in good faith.
ELI5 then. How is it obvious that piracy is stealing? How is piracy not moral?
You certainly asserted such by arguing piracy is morally wrong. If IP belonged to the public (id est there's no patent or copyright) then everything would be in the public domain. Media piracy would not be a thing.
But you assert not only is it a thing but it is morally wrong.
So please, by what authority are you asserting puts IP in the hands of private interests, thus making piracy a moral wrongdoing?
Welp, a short internet news search of period tracker led me to this interview on Slate
On TechDirt (which I use a lot for tech-industry news) reported this in 2021, so before the Dobbs ruling was leaked or released in May / June 2022.
So, it depends on to what degree you need it confirmed, but it doesn't seem to be buried.
My most recent trans privacy freak-out was Texas AG Ken Paxton requesting a list of all Texas drivers license / state ID records that have requested a change of sex on their ID, which can also be found searching news.