US. The tap water is safe to drink. Occasionally a metro area will have problems and issue a boil order, telling people to boil tap water before drinking, but this is rare. Some areas have problems with lead contamination due to aging infrastructure, but this too is uncommon in the modern day.
It should exist, but be far shorter. The original copyright law in the US was for 14 years, and I’d say that’s about right. We can argue about the exact length, but that’s a good starting point. In the modern age, that’s ample time to profit off of a work, and apparently it was back then, too.
If your movie, for example, hasn’t made you any money in the first fourteen years, it’s not going to make you anything. The vast majority of people aren’t going to see a new movie come out and think “Cool, I’m going to wait fourteen years and watch it for free.” A few might, but not a significant amount.
So the downside, lost revenue for creators (or more realistically, the companies employing the creators) is minimal. The upside? Huge amounts of content becomes available for use. From an economic perspective, this will boost productivity far beyond the lost revenue, leading to a net gain. Those clinging to immortal copyrights will hurt, but the economy on the whole will benefit.
There’s also the moral argument. Free Mickey, man!
My only advice would be to have a back up plan. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail, and there’s no guarantee you won’t get an unpleasant surprise. You say you’ll use the toilet if you’re about to shit yourself, but what if you can’t make it and do end up shitting yourself because you put it off so long?
Money. Not only can they better monetize it, it makes their numbers look better for the potential IPO.
The only data you give them is stuff you post on there. If it’s sensitive information, don’t post! I mean, obviously your stuff is going to get stored in the instance you post on. If you don’t think whoever running the instance should have that info, don’t give it to them!
Not really? Reddit has been on the downhill slide for ages now. I made this account two years ago, but there hasn’t been enough content here to really do anything with until now. For me, it’s like “eh, eff em,” and has been for awhile, even before the API changes.
Lemmy is great. It doesn’t need to be the end all to be all, and it doesn’t need to be a reddit killer. It just needs to be around for whoever wants to congregate and discuss.
It helps to get a hobby that involves other people. I’ve met lots of friendly people playing board games, and the hobby gives you something natural to talk about.
It is a little funny though. A lot of the time people give that as advice to meet women. I’m a man, and when I got into a hobby that interested me, it was 90% men that I met! It’s anecdotal, sure, but many of the women I have met were coming with their SOs. Still, it’s been fun, but I wonder what hobby I need to get into to meet all the women.
I may finally break down and get an account on Bumble or something. My work is male-dominated for various reasons I have little influence over, I don’t want to start going to church (though I could probably tolerate the local Unitarian Universalist congregation), and I don’t like to drink either, so bars are out. I’m exjw with JW family, so family matchmaking is out. I might not have many other options, though honestly I don’t feel like I need to be in a relationship either, so I suppose I can wait.
Yeah, it’s great. Night and day difference from when I first joined two years ago.
I built an e-bike. I had the bike sitting around, bought a kit and went from there. Pretty satisfied with it after having 1500~ miles. It has a good top speed and was a lot cheaper than buying a premade one. I’m surprised at how well the motor and battery have held up, considering I bought nearly the cheapest one I could. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised by the quality of cheap Chinese goods.
They’re just generally annoying. They’re tankies, constantly praising Putin and the CCP.
The beauty of it is that we don’t necessarily have to use lemmy.ml at all. Beehaw and Sopuli.xyz, two of the largest instances outside of lemmy.ml and the tankies, don’t federate with the tankies. It some ways it’s a good thing, as it encourages people to branch out instead of clustering around a “main” instance.
I feel like we’ve seen a lot of violence twinged rhetoric slowly worm it’s way into the main stream. “So-so SLAMS, UTTERLY DESTROYS other so-so in new interview.”
Haha jk… unless