Lawn grass isn’t native, for one thing.

I have no idea who that is.

Copyright is law which is used to prevent free copying of media, while “intellectual property” is a term cooked up by corporate suits to generalize copyright, trademarks, and patents and equate them with property law. Richard Stallman wrote about this.

It has become fashionable to toss copyright, patents, and trademarks—three separate and different entities involving three separate and different sets of laws—plus a dozen other laws into one pot and call it “intellectual property.” The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident. Companies that gain from the confusion promoted it. The clearest way out of the confusion is to reject the term entirely.

Humans are not a threat to the Earth. Do you mean that humans are a threat to the environment? That would mean that we’re a threat to ourselves. It wouldn’t make sense to destroy us to save us from ourselves.

It zooms in when I click on it. Are you on mobile?

Area 51 is real. Don’t know if there’s any aliens there, but I’m betting not.

Let’s try that defense for public nudity. People can just choose to not look at it if they don’t like it!

There’s something seriously wrong with our communication infrastructure if some rich nutjob can just buy up an important piece of it and run it into the ground like this. This could’ve never happened if Twitter were a worker-owned collective. Chalk another one up for capitalism.

Both. It’s a quote from a movie, but it’s also a Satanic value.

How can they do that if they don’t have enough money

I liked it at first, but then I ran into some really weird shit. Re-installing didn’t erase the previous install, programs I installed disappeared after reboot, etc. This might be caused by the jankiness of UEFI, I don’t know. I’m never buying another HP laptop after they pulled this shit with UEFI. It’s given me so many headaches.

“This was made by AI” is the new “This is fake; I can tell by the pixels”.

I remember when it was considered a mark of professionalism for a web developer to have an email on their own domain. At some point that changed. I think after GMail came out it was so good that everybody switched to that.

I haven’t. What happens?

I don’t get it. This isn’t about a “freedom to offend”, and even if it were, suing somebody over it is the opposite of respecting their freedom.

“Be patient. It’s compiling.”

“Well, when can I use my computer?”

“…Tomorrow.”

I think the employees that are anti-Sam are the ones this letter is addressed to.

I actually don’t think it has anything to do with that tenet. It’s simply a basic principle of fairness: if you’re going to allow Christian clubs, you should allow Satanic ones, too. TST doesn’t attempt to set up After School Satan Clubs in schools that don’t have a Christian club, which goes to show that it isn’t about offense but equal rights.

Moreover, TST doesn’t try to force other people to obey their tenets. One of the things that Satanists hate about Christianity is that they try to force people who are not in their religion to obey the rules of their religion. Satanism doesn’t (and shouldn’t) do the same thing.

I wish I could block Elon Musk from reality.

I’ve been using Linux for almost 20 years, and AFAIK in all that time I’ve never encountered a Linux virus. OTOH when I run Windows, I hit a virus within the first six months.