PeriodicallyPedantic

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

What law?
The law you linked is 100 years old, and was superseded 50 years ago. The doctrine you linked explains exactly how it does not apply well to digital works, because you're making a copy (which first sale doctrine does not allow you to do) when you sell it, and also because you weren't sold the work in the first place, you were licensed it's use, and you can't sell or transfer licenses under first sale doctrine.

I agree this is counter to the spirit of the first sale doctrine, but that means laws need to be updated, not that a new law was created to deny you rights.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What copyright law did valve violate?

I can only assume that you think that copyright law are laws granting rights to copy holders, rather than laws granting the rights to the creator to control who can make copies.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The government should take the subsidies they give to the oil industry, and give it to green energy industry, so that we can become a world leader and can export our technology and expertise. Let's stop investing in a shrinking industry, and invest in a growing one instead.

You say "environmentalists should" as though they aren't already doing all those things. But the oil industry is also countering all those things, using government handouts.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The dude did the Nazi salute, and then publicly supported neonazi parties, and suffered absolutely no conveniences. People barely even talk about it anymore. I don't think he is as unpopular as you think he is.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 32 points 5 days ago (13 children)

Don't bet on it.

History is written by the victors, and we have a long road ahead making sure his ilk aren't the victors.

You underestimate their willingness to just blanket the surrounding area in herbicide. They don't actually need their water to be potable.

The spicy book section in the library should be called

Adult serials

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago

Police in North America exist to protect the property and interests of the wealthy, not to enforce laws that help the average person

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Afaict, nobody is making the argument that you're refuting.

There is art that is elevated by being horny and art that is made worse by it. Being horny doesn't fit this character, and isn't relevant to the story being told, so it seems like a bad fit. Being a bad fit, the only people this would benefit are creeps who want upskirt shots of whoever, and I don't think that's a demographic to cater to at the sacrifice of the more vulnerable demographics that this film is targeting.

Ah yes
Pee
Poo
Petunias

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

Not quite a horse

 

She is so proud of me, she tells everyone

 

I cum in the shower, instead.

 

Imagine living in a universe where, without even trying, you can run so fast that if you trip, you will die and splatter your body over a couple hundred meters of ground. And if you trip into someone, it'll kill them and possibly an entire pile of people.

Like, in motor racing, the cars get wrecked but the drivers are fine. In the movie Cars, they all die. The race spectators are watching a blood sport.

 

What is a bread roll if not all crust?
What is toasting, if not making the whole piece of bread more crust-like?

 

When toilets try to save money by reducing the amount of water they use per flush, but you end up having to flush like 3 times 🤬

 

What would you put in your second aid kit?

 

Be me.
I've started sitting down to pee because it's cleaner.
Stand up after I've finished peeing.
Pull up pants.
Turn around to flush.
There is poop in the toilet.
I forgot that this time I had sat down to poop.

 

In old plays and stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, poisons are depicted as being fairly fast acting.

Would they really have had access to such poison, or was it simply creative license? What would a realistic depiction of a poison of that era be?

 

I'm trying to figure out a ruling for something one of my players wants to do. They're invisible, but they took a couple of seemingly non-attack actions that my gut says should break inviz.

Specifically, they dumped out a flask of oil, and then used a tinderbox to light it on fire. Using a tinderbox isn't an attack, nor is emptying a flask, although they are actions , and the result of lighting something on fire both seems like an attack and something that would dispell inviz.

I know that as DM I can rule it however I want, but I'm fairly inexperienced and I don't wanna go nerfing one of my players tools just because it feels yucky to me personally without understanding the implications.

Is this an attack or is there another justification for breaking inviz that is there some RAW clause I didn't see? Or should this be allowed?

 
 
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