The reason this is possible is because the media is completely controlled by billionaires. They have the ability to make slightest legal infraction by Democrats A BIG BREAKING SCANDAL for months. So Democrats must be perfect and republicans can do anything without the public being aware.

“One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed,” Politico reported. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying/

Your linked article references the account that was known but not billed. Ars Technica references both that account and a second account that wasn’t known and wasn’t billed.

Even the first account was illegal in that water usage exceeded the original water limits agreement.

Nothing says rent.

I recognize asm but what’s a hellott keyboard?

Hedy Lamarr spread spectrum patent

Deleting Trump from history is not enough. In 20 years he will be brought back as a forgotten hero.

What needs to be done is to change everything to “Trump is a pedophile.”

“Trump is a pedophile” needs to be on all park passes, passports, and large banners hung on federal buildings.

The Gulf of Mexico needs to be, “Gulf of Rapist Trump.”

It doesn’t need an update, it needs enforcement. The law is about copyright holders losing rights at time of sale, not the specific media that the copyrighted material exists on.

The EU enforced their first sale doctrine on Valve.

IMDB started as an open wikipedia type website where everyone contributed content about movies and actors.

As soon as volunteers had added enough content that it was really useful, the IMDB creators locked out the contributors and sold it.

The physical media is whatever is playing the content. The law doesn’t specify the media.

1909, one year after the Supreme Court ruling: “Your honor, I know that the Supreme Court ruled that publishers can’t add a shrink wrap license that prohibits cheap resale of copyrighted work but you see, I delivered the content on llamas where it was printed onto scrolls at the customer’s home so the law doesn’t apply. You wrote the laws thinking about trains and ships transporting books and I use neither.”

Rage Bait: they did it “illegally.”

but weren’t billed because they didn’t inform the local utility of one water hookup,

^^ That’s the illegal part.

When a consumer hooks up a utility without informing the utility, that is “theft of services” and they are arrested.

https://www.4029tv.com/article/fort-smith-stealing-electricity/71286214

Then I’m really confused by your first reply:

" Lemvotes.org. No hiding it here. "

Bots seem to be just as hidden on Lemmy as reddit.

maybe more to the publishers not allowing that

It’s not up to publishers. Publishers tried to put a disclaimer on books preventing cheap resale. The Supreme Court struck it down and it was written into law over 100 years ago.

Someone with no books but watches Angela Collier is more educated than a person with a bookshelf of Danielle Steele.

tech feudalism

I use Steam but Gabe was one of the original tech feudalists.

Valve ignores the First Sale Doctrine, a law for over a hundred years. So now instead of being able to resell your games for whatever amount you want, your games are forever under the control of Valve.

Then how does Lemmyvotes show self upvoting? The accounts that upvote could be followers.

she’ll probably not get jack shit done because of the newly massively gerrymandered congress, intrinsically anti-democratic senate, and actively hostile SCOTUS.

Using the Trump precedence, she can ignore Congress and SCOTUS.

I like books but its media in a different form. It could be great or it could be trash. The book format says nothing. I’d consider someone who watches the YouTube channel Angela Collier as more educated than someone who has a bookshelf full of Danielle Steel novels.

cheaper

Because they don’t have the medical knowledge.

the jedi order doesnt have infinite money

They have virtually infinite money. They ordered an army of millions of clone troopers based on the word of one Jedi.

metal hit harder than hand

Fans claim Vader is weaker than he could have been because he is mostly robot.

voting themselves up. Lemvotes.org. No hiding it here.

Are you saying there’s a way to upvote yourself multiple times from your own account? Because Reddit doesn’t allow that at all.

Use of the word Lucifer to mean Satan predates Dante.

https://www.academia.edu/30735419/The_Use_of_the_Bible_in_the_Arengae_of_Pope_Gregory_IXs_Crusade_Calls_in_The_Uses_of_the_Bible_in_Crusader_Sources_ed_Elizabeth_Lapina_and_Nicholas_Morton_Leiden_Brill_2017_pp_206_235