Nah, I don’t think she was serious about it. She was a frail old lady anyway.

Internal affairs will be in contact with you shortly.

Hate to be that guy again, but you forgot the period at the end of your sentence.

Agreed. Hate is poison to the mind. To me, it means you want to destroy something on sight. I can’t think of a single thing I dislike that much

Hate is such a powerful emotion. I can’t honestly think anything that I hate. I dislike many things but not hate.

It starts by being the best feeling in the world and then you just slowly get used to it and it becomes quite mundane. Some people intrepret the honey moon period ending as the amount of love decreasing but in reality it just changes. This happens to everyone. Also, the first time is usually the best feeling one, especially in the beginning, while probably not objectively best of all the relationships you’re going to have.

Immediate inflation is what would happen.

This is equivalent of stalking your ex years after breaking up and hoping them to break up with their new partner.

Move on.

If you can’t make an argument for your view using your own words, then I’m not interested in going any further with this.

questioning morals of not endorsing genocide

That’s a somewhat skewed lens to view it through, as not everyone agrees that what we’re seeing is a genocide. I definitely don’t think it is. I’m open to hearing arguments to the contrary, but so far, everyone I’ve tried discussing it with either gets emotionally captured or doesn’t argue honestly and in good faith, so the discussion goes nowhere.

Personally, I don’t see morals as entirely subjective.

I’d say that ‘worst possible misery for everyone’ is objectively bad and any attempt to move away from that is better.

YouTube is my TV. I don’t pretty much watch any movies or tv-shows.

Mittens are warmer than gloves.

Winter shoes must fit a woolen sock and not be too tight, otherwise the insulation gets compressed and doesn’t work.

Better to wear many layers rather than just one layer of super thick clothing

I have a picture of that moment:

I came across a cat while riding my bike. I pstpstpsted at it for like five minutes, and it kept pretending not to be interested. Then, out of nowhere, it just walked up to me - didn’t even stop to sniff, just went straight in for a headbutt and demanded petting.

I gave him a full deep-tissue massage, and he loved it, as if no one had ever petted him before. I don’t think I’ve ever met a cat that friendly.

The point was that both are morally wrong and I still keep doing it.

I don’t feel like defending a view that I don’t hold. I don’t get the sense from your replies that you’ve even understood my argument.

Without the current economic model, no-one would pay for big budget productions

I haven’t said that.

It doesn’t, as you imply, reduce the likelihood of big budget media existing in the future

I haven’t said that either.

a centralised fund we all contribute to in proportion to our means

Correct me if I’m wrong but that sounds a lot like paying for the content

many small scale investors… …like Kickstarter

This sounds like paying for the content too.

a legislated solution that protects copyright until artists are sufficiently recompensed

Recompensed? Sounds like getting paid.

To me it seems like there’s no disagreement here.

It doesn’t rust.

Iron particles in the air land on the bare stainless steel, react with it, and rust. It’s the iron particles rusting, not the steel itself. This is called ‘fallout,’ and it mostly comes from brake rotors. It contaminates the surface of all vehicles and needs to be removed, but with paint and clearcoat in between, this reaction doesn’t happen. The ‘rust’ on Cybertrucks is just surface contamination that can be cleaned off. If you left a bunch of modern cars out in the rain for 100 years, the Cybertruck would likely be the only one with anything left of it.

There’s plenty to criticise the Cybertruck for but spreading this rusting myth is dishonest.

I stand by what I said: if everyone pirated, no one would be making or funding big-budget movies because there would be no money to be made. Coming up with alternative payment systems for the media we consume is all well and good, but that’s not piracy - it actually just reinforces my point about paying being the moral thing to do. My argument isn’t that the current system is good; it’s that piracy wouldn’t be sustainable if everyone started doing it.

I think it’s objectively a true statement that the vast majority of big budget hollywood movies, video games and TV-series would stop existing if nobody was paying for them.

Obviously not all media would go away. I’ve never gotten paid for my photography or YouTube videos because I’m not making them for money. Same applies to a ton of other content creators as well.