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Off Topic Fun / Re: Awesome stuff you have to share, V4
« on: April 29, 2022, 08:46:37 AM »
We need context on why this is awesome.
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Whats kinda sad is that some of us worrying about money, if given enough to 'not have to worry' would use it up and then still have money troubles. Look at the stats for 'lottery winners'... I'd feel kinda disheartened if I were able to give 10 folks millions, and some of them just 'blew it all'... ending up about where they were originally, or worse.It makes sense, if you think about it. People resist change. Suddenly coming into lots of money with no plan for it causes them to be reckless and stupid about it.
Wow, it does look beautiful.
Is it just me or are most problems we have in this thread money-related? I need to become a billionaire already.
I'm entering my contests (of which I post a daily one on the Discord) so I'm working on becoming a millionaire!
Granted, if I win a million dollars I probably wouldn't tell anyone.
Perennially low expectations means minimal incentive, too. If you're always expecting the worst to pass, eventually you lose the ability to rejoice when it doesn't.Isn't that a bit of a depressing way to live?
Low expectations means minimal disappointment.
It sounds like you are of the standpoint that humans have rights just by existing even if they are no protected by an outside entity such as the government or the UN.
That opinion has never held water with me and I do not agree with it.
If facebook retains the ability to literally pull the plug and shutdown the site at any point, then no matter how big it gets it is still a private forum with restrictions on speech.
When you agree to terms of service that spell out things that aren't allowed to say then you've waived your right to freedom of speech. Unless the government takes over Facebook/Twitter/whatever that's the way it should be in my opinion.Law culture is very different from where I'm standing. (Brazillian law has its roots in Roman tradition.) Certain rights should always remain unalienable regardless of the circumstances.
People have done the same with some terms of services to waive their right to privacy in certain aspects of their life. Also there is no right to life, it is more of a prohibition against killing that is applied very differently depending on situation/location/other factors.
That does bring up the question of whether one can consider a virtual space on the internet a public speech venue, which is something for which there probably should be a stricter definition. But as ever, law is slow when it comes to these sorts of things.To be fair, the right of free speech only applies to government restrictions on free speech. You have no right to say whatever you want on Facebook (or twitter, this forum, etc).
Once any platform is large enough to be a de facto public square, free speech needs to apply, regardless of whether or not the owner of the public square is working with or for any government, either in public or in private.
To be fair, the right of free speech only applies to government restrictions on free speech. You have no right to say whatever you want on Facebook (or twitter, this forum, etc).In which case it might as well be useless in a sense.