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The TV movie standard of everything being available

TVs and movies are not universally available. Dogma is a pretty famous case of being universally unavailable for over 15 years. It was only announced this year that a new licensing deal had been reached. There are plenty of lesser-known shows and movies that are just gone forever.

But that is a case in favor of piracy and physical media. Films like 1922's Nosferatu only survived to today because of bootlegging. If we're expecting Netflix to: one, be around as a company for 80 years until their films enter into public domain; and two, maintain their originals on their servers for that entire time, then we're setting ourselves up for some pretty big disappointments and some rather huge holes in our cultural history.

Rights-holders can make these products available whenever they want. Nintendo added many old "abandonware" games to their subscription catalog that had been unavailable for much longer than ten years. If someone else is putting them out for free, they're stealing Nintendo's lunch.

There are very few cases where copyrighted material would have no owner and no legal mechanism to determine ownership.

Not saying I support the current system. I think current US copyright law is ridiculous and a net negative for our culture. Just clarifying that "Well, no one was selling it" is not a legally defensible position when it comes to copyrighted work.

I remember a lot of mid-2000s hipsters trying to use the N word ironically.

...Democratic Socialists of America Fund, a political nonprofit organization that funded the survey...

I trust this survey implicitly.

That's actually a very bad argument in court. Taking things off the market to drive scarcity and boost sales at a later date is a normal and common business tactic. See: the McRib, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and the Disney Vault.

I called the cops once after my apartment was broken into. They stomped around, flipped all my shit over, and "dusted for fingerprints." Then they accused me of attempting insurance fraud because I said I had more electronics than they expected.

I've never known a victim of a crime who was relieved after police intervention. Have you?

Oh, to be young and hot again...

It'd likely require a different statute. Like how running a red light is a different penalty if the driver is pulled over by a cop versus the vehicle owner being caught by a stoplight camera.

I realize someone already answered you, but just to further clarify: astrology was a common literary theme during the English Renaissance. Probably the most famous example modern audiences would be familiar with would be Romeo and Juliet, the "star-crossed lovers."

Stars signify destiny and birthright, so if the young lovers' stars are crossed, they're not in alignment and their union is doomed to a tragic ending. If one of them could've "changed their stars," Romeo and Juliet might've had a happy ending.

In February 2024, she reportedly went undercover as nonbinary to “expose” best practices at a gender-affirming care clinic associated with UC Davis.

Very weird.

Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: "gay", "homosexual", "lesbian." You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don't tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn't understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can't get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?

I mean, DC canceled Gretchen Felker-Martin's book, because she posted on BlueSky "Hope the bullet's okay after touching Charlie" on the day it happened. So people are saying some crass shit, even if you haven't seen it.