I love this.

What Does “From the River to the Sea” Really Mean?

Please explain yourself.

The video is worth a watch. It actually doesn’t argue that all vegans must be anti-capitalist.

Instead it’s a take-down of a video of a popular vegan influencer arguing you can’t be both vegan and anti-capitalist.

James C. Scott traveled a sparsely trafficked road. As he goes to the other side, I imagine him crossing in defiance of the traffic light.

There’s a similar extremely visible movement in Barcelona. Tourism has always been a soft version of colonialism, but in Mallorca, Menorca, Formentera, Ibiza, Barcelona, and Valencia, it does double duty. These regions are economic powerhouses for Spain, but they’re former autonomous societies that were conquered and colonized by the Kingdom of Castille.

While traveling there you’re likely to meet people who speak Spanish, German, English, and French out of necessity to communicate with tourists, but even speaking Spanish in these areas is an insult to their autonomy. The native language of Mallorca is Balearic Catalan. If you go to the Basque country and don’t speak the Basque language, you’re going to get some pushback. There’s a similar independence movement centered in Barcelona but popular throughout Aragon, Catalonia, and the Balearic Islands, and assuming the people you meet prefer to speak Spanish adds another layer of colonialism on top of the tourism.

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Classic Dropout.tv

ACT V SCENE III

Milwaukee. A room in the convention.

[Enter TRUMP, Veep, and Attendants]

TRUMP

Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:

Till Key Largoe wood remove to Maralagoe,

I cannot taint with fear.

KYLR

‘Party of law and order’ mocked as Trump adviser speaks at RNC hours after prison release

‘Bless his heart!’ GOP delegates reportedly gleeful over Biden’s ailment

!PleasantPolitics aspires to be a place where people can have good faith discussions about politics without interference from trolls and assholes. ‘Unpleasant’ doesn’t mean merely having different opinions from conservative Democrats. Creating an echo chamber was not the intended goal.

Use this one weird trick to get free energy from your old smoke detectors!

I don’t believe you’ve actually read the article. It’s not that long.

Is there a clear business model? It seems like the goal is to make it free for collectives and non-profit use, and then collect fees from for-profit companies. The CC-NC-SA has an obvious business case because not everyone has the capability to set up and use the software, but it’s popularity can create a secondary market for people to pay for other people to host it for them -> leading to revenue. Basically the Freeware model with the addition of the source being open. With art it creates a carve-out for copyright that allows free sharing, but once the art is used in a commercial context, the artist should get a cut of the revenue.

But if there’s a secondary market of collectives providing that service without the need to pay, wouldn’t they out-compete a privately owned service that pays for the software? Why would a privately owned service fund a software company that doesn’t want them to exist? Likewise, why would a corporation use an artist’s work that was shared under this license?

Kyle Gass’s agent was Michael Greene of Greene Talent Agency. Which conservative clients has he represented? If it’s true, someone should really hold his feet to the fire on this.

Succinct and eloquent.

You seriously think an opinion article from the Guardian is arguing people should vote for Donald Trump?

I think this would be a difficult sell, in part because not only would you need to write ironclad terms, you’ve need a whole new organization to enforce it. I don’t think the Free Software Foundation would endorse it.

I could see a similar thing working with art and literature though - Creative Commons already has a non-commercial license, so creating a new category of restricted artistic license doesn’t seem too far off from what they’ve already endorsed.