The Octonaut

If you mandate that all education will be online and don’t provide equal access to the Internet, no it is not.

Just so we’re clear, the thrust of your complaint is that the government didn’t do enough to ensure equal access to education for everyone and that’s okay because people shouldn’t have such high expectations of The Greatest Nation on Earth?

LLMs are statistics, so one person doing it is primarily useful as a “don’t do this” example.

Yeah you didnt get the point of the post.

Forklift licenses are great though.

You have to actively turn it on by renaming game files.

But even then, we’re talking cartoon nipples not hard-core tentacle hentai.

HoniePop is a fun little time-based matching game and the content is sometimes funny while never quite veering into actual porn.

Based on what Steam did, isn’t uh, specific categories of NSFW that were removed? Or has itch gone 100% no NSFW?

It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.

Do you not consider Russians human?

You want examples of Chinese companies disregarding copyright? Uh.

www.aliexpress.com? Or, yknow, the actual article we’re commenting on?

You think I’m going to shift the goalposts for one example? Ok, yeah that definitely overrules literally decades of behaviour. You win. Here’s your Internet reward for the best argument. ⭐️

Explained is not the same as justified.

I would have thought this was obvious but forcing your rivals to abide by their own rules while flouting them yourself is not an endorsement of those rules, it’s a mockery of them.

I have no issue with people going after China. I’m not a hexbear/ml stooge. It is possible for two things to be bad. It is possible for something about a bad entity to be neutral or at least unsurprising. Which is how I would describe China’s lack of real interest in engaging with, from their perspective, the global order’s new fad interest in intellectual property rights.

And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.

Arf arf arf

No, but this might shock you, other countries have different definitions of what theft is. Theft is taking something from someone.

The funny part being that it is literally enshrined in American law that game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, so its not even in the definition of theft in America either.

“Issues with westerners” is an odd choice given that I’m Irish but ok.

It’s not my job to comfort American fragility. Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.

So is the shutter system. Blocking contacts unless a third is pushed in is great safety, particularly with kids.

If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.

We used to just call that “pointing out hypocrisy” before Americans found a thought terminating phrase for it

abduct Chinese paper makers, imprison them, steal the technology

sneak into China, impersonate religious figures, hide silkworms on your person, sell to a Roman emperor

sail into China, pretend to be a botanist. Steal tea and grow it in your starving colonies instead of food

“Why don’t China care about western patents and copyright?”

I’m spelling it the Hiberno-Hellenic way