Otome-chan

typo of google.

anime from creators of Cowboy Bebop and John Wick

wait what? that sounds hype af.

This is literally the project I’m working on. I have mine voiced as my husbando Impey Barbicane from Code Realize. Though I’m thinking of training a tts on some youtuber voices that I like.

A trademark is a name. The point is to remove ambiguity and confusion when multiple people are selling similar products. Ie to prevent name collision. Once the company or person is dead, there is no longer an issue. Having indefinite trademarks will mean we will eventually run out of names, as every name will eventually be taken over many years. By having them expire upon death, the trademark is freed up for reuse.

Perhaps not have it immediately upon death though. I wouldn’t mind, say, a 200 year trademark, for instance. Trademarks aren’t preventing culture, they’re just clarifying names.

Imagine if one person ever in history could be named “Joe”. Naturally during Joe’s life it’s useful to ensure no one else has his exact name. but after he’s been dead for 200 years? Do we really need to make sure no one else ever is named Joe?

Look at the Atari situation. Atari is a company that is long gone and everyone knows it. However, companies are propping themselves up as atari because they own the Atari trademark. In the system of “someone holds their trademark even after death”, these new atari companies can’t call themselves atari. Is that good? bad? up for debate, but regardless no one is confusing them for the old classic atari (or maybe they are haha).

But atari (the old company) surely isn’t being hurt by the confusion.

Then you just have companies transfer ownership of their IPs to some notable figure in the company and transfers away from them when they die/leave. leading to indefinite ownership of copyrights by a company. This is even longer copyright than what we have today.

I think trademarks should be for the life of the company/author. since that’s literally their purpose. but copyrights and patents shouldn’t last longer than 20 years at most.

Copyright should be abolished entirely. But a reasonable length if it needs to exist is maybe 20 years. Think about stuff from 20 years ago. Movies like the first matrix, or games like the original super mario bros. These are classics, no longer something the creators rely on for profit, yet shape our culture.

Copyright is used to harm culture for the sake of profit. An absurdly long copyright period can only harm society for the sake of shareholder profits. Ideally, things should enter the public domain at some point, and ideally at a time where the cultural impact can be felt. Anyone who disagrees with this should believe that disney is an illegitimate business, as almost all of their IPs are things originally in the public domain.

If copyright as it is today existed back when disney started, we wouldn’t have beloved disney classics.

yes it’s possible with a bit of effort. you have to do the panels/layout yourself, and getting ai image generators to spit out consistent character/outfit/style can be tricky/difficult, but people have done it. if you can’t run stable diffusion yourself you might be out of luck tbh.

I pretty much just vote for whoever pushes leftist policies and is on the ballot. 9 times out of 10 that’s green party.

green party exists. also you could’ve voted for someone other than biden in the primary.

It’s called lemmy because all the lemmings join it.

except he hasn’t. at most he said something about 10k being cancelled, not student debt entirely. meaning many people will still have plenty of debt even if biden’s thing passes.

this is what happens when you vote for biden. he pretends to support leftist policies to win your vote, and then immediately backstabs you and avoids doing what he promised. we’re still waiting on $2k checks as well.

same sentence, same meaning

just tell them asap. idk who tf thought it’d be a good idea to put windows in a bathroom.

Ah I see what you mean. I do have a “filter” but I meant more in terms of beliefs/views. I’m not gonna apologize for what I believe, but I’m not gonna throw stuff out that I know will hurt someone if it’s unwarranted. I know when and how to bite my tongue if need be to keep peace.

yup. people often see it that way though. I try not to hate anyone even if I can disagree quite strongly with stuff. I’m vocal about what I think and unapologetic about it, but I try to avoid creating strife/hate/conflict.

I haven’t noticed any anti trans stuff though I wonder if I’m the person they’re talking about lol

yup, it has gone on quite a while. I think people are still joining though which kinda makes it an evergreen topic for the time being.

I’m of the opinion that the fediverse (and more specifically kbin) is my new home to talk about stuff. Reddit’s been in the news and on my mind, so why not talk about it? Talking about other platforms isn’t necessarily advocating for them. And people are gonna wanna talk about stuff. if not here, then where?

I do think it’s important to encourage discussion of topics other than reddit, but to just avoid discussing reddit entirely? idk. Like I’d still talk about facebook, twitter, instagram, etc here if they’re relevant and in the news.