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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I used react.dev to change all of my posts to say “[date] As per the legal owner of this account, Reddit and associated companies no longer have permission to use the content created under this account in any way.”

    I figured it sounds like something a lawyer would tell me to put. Just checked and my old posts still say that.

    Though interestingly there was a silly fan theory I posted there that some shit entertainment media sites linked to and when I first changed the posts those sites were displaying that message. I’ve checked again and somehow they have the text from my post on there now. So that’s pretty weird.


  • I’m not a law talking guy, but from my understanding of it, downloading isn’t illegal. But if you’re torrenting it, you’re uploading bits of it to others while you’re downloading. That would be distributing it to others, so that’s copyright infringement.

    So if you could find a way to download something without uploading anything, you’d be fine. Kinda like if someone uploads copyright infringing material to youtube. You’re not going to get into hot water for watching that video, but the person who uploaded is.




  • This isn’t a Hollywood movie where one passionate speech or oen big act will make everyone start with a slow clap leading to a thunderous applause and a big happy ending.

    The problem is people believe the lies of republicans because they’ve been on that team for their whole lives. Some big gesture by a democratic party isn’t going to change their minds because the republicans they’ve trusted their whole lives will just say “they just did that because they’re evil commies that hate our great President Trump” and that’ll be the end of it. Or more likely, they won’t see it at all.

    The only way America can change is for people to talk to their family members and get them out of this cult. Or if they’re a casual Trump supporter, just talk about the things that are happening so they’re better informed about what’s going on. I know that involves having extremely awkward conversations, maybe involving being the adult in a covnersation with one’s parents, which is never easy. But people need to hear about politics from someone they trust, and it’s not going to be the democrats because people have been conditioned not to trust them.

    People who voted for Trump will either not see anything Democrats say or not believe it if they do.