Would have

As we’ve discussed at great length, the Internet Archive’s Open Library system is indistinguishable from the economics of how a regular library works. The Archive either purchases physical books or has them donated (just like a physical library). It then lends them out on a one-to-one basis (leaving aside a brief moment where it took down that barrier when basically all libraries were shut down due to pandemic lockdowns), such that when someone “borrows” a digital copy of a book, no one else can borrow that same copy.

The decision opens the door to doing the same thing to any library that offers digital copies of the books they own.

They shared them the exact same way regular libraries do it.

And that’s the reason why sites like this one shouldn’t be registered and hosted in the USA.

All major ones, it’s that simple

Does diesels with over a million miles count?

There’s plenty of gas and diesel cars that can also last pretty much forever if we apply the same logic of “having to replace parts doesn’t count”…

The one I’m thinking about was in trial in a bio engineering community somewhere in Latin America (easy way to get financing, get people to pay to be your guinea pig)

Found it!

https://www.luminaprobiotic.com/

They do exist, from memory they have another type of bacteria instead and there’s even a project trying to transfer it from people with it to people without it.

Also as you said evolution doesn’t try to fix stuff and there’s a whole lot of stuff that could have evolved for the better (heck, we’re not even that well adapted to be standing up!), but if it doesn’t prevent reproduction then it gets passed down.

Ferrari be like “That’s not normal?”

Minimizing the chance of things going that wrong… So not trusting anonymous people on the internet?

How many FOSS users are actually able to understand or fix the programs they use? Do you systematically check the code of everything you get from GitHub?

I understand the principle and I do use FOSS, I just don’t make myself believe that more than a ridiculously small minority of people actually check the code of what they’re installing.

Too drunk to get it up 👍

At the same time it’s much easier to sue a company you know compared to LollipopCat35 from GitHub

You are a completely captured voter, you have no choice but to support the Party. They have you hostage and you love it.

No, in fact I don’t vote for him because I don’t live in the USA, I just argue with idiots who think they’ll save Palestinians by not voting in the next US election.

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As someone else said, getting the Republicans elected will not improve anything if people don’t change things from the bottom up (it will actually make everything you’re angry about worse). The Democrats won’t change their stances if they lose that election unless new people take the place of the politicians in place at the moment, they will just rely on people being angrier at the Republicans than they are at them after Trump’s next term, the result will be four years of things getting even worse and the Democrats having to fix even more shit when they get back in power in 2028.

Same difference, cutting your nose to spite your face.

Yeah, better make sure red MAGA wins instead so you can get genocide denial, destruction of international law, destruction of local law, a brand new genocide in Europe and less woman and minority rights.

That will sure teach that 81 years old a lesson to see even more people suffer for the rest of their lives until he croaks in a few years!

I live nowhere near a tornado sector and watched a tornado pass a couple hundred meters from where I live…

Simple, if you can’t get elected before a age X then you shouldn’t be able to get elected after (life expectancy - X)

Example: Can’t become president before 35? Life expectancy is 75 for men and 80 for women, men can’t become president after 40, women after 45.

Just watch how fast life improves in the USA if you put a measure like that in place, not just from having younger politicians but also from wanting to be able to get elected later in life.

Same for voting right, can’t vote before 18, can’t vote after 57 and 62.