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I hate you so much right now.

What a surprise. Strip out the equipment that can unequivocally know that there's a solid object in front of you and you drive into solid objects from time to time.

No it is absolutely not theft. It is not theft by law. (There's a reason why we have both "theft" and "infringement" in the lawbooks: they're different things!) It is not theft morally. (Theft removes the owner's ability to use something. Infringement does not. Infringement is a lesser moral crime if it is a crime at all.)

Please do not fall into the trap the IP holders like to lay by equating theft and infringement in your mind. You can have your opinions on whether infringement is bad or not (and the facts are … complicated with both sides being largely full of shit on this), but it is a matter of fact that theft and infringement are entirely different things.

Use the right term for the offence. Don't let IP holders' deliberate conflation to confuse the issue get to you.

Oh no! Talentless louts don't like people who've cultivated actual skills that people appreciate!

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Wait, remind me: Whom does this inconvenience?

For me it would be Das Boot.

I'm pretty sure it is too. For starters the part that's been layered on top doesn't have that suspicious 50/50 light/dark thing going on that gives away so many AI generations.

The Ringworld one is brilliant.

Don't care much about either. My phone does the job for me and I have enough clothing to last me to the end of my life. (You know, about six weeks.) (I jest.)

If I were the kind who'd want children, I'd likely wish to raise them using a scissor lift.

Wow! He has enough self-awareness to figure this out! (Not yet enough to actually stop being a human being made entirely of intestinal effluent mind. Baby steps.)

Yeah, small businesses were already suffering at the hands of big box stores, stagnant wages, and online purchasing.

And now there's a downturn.

Anything made in the USA (though that is not primarily because of cost of living, only partially). I used to stop off at various street food vendors for a snack on the way home every second day or so, but now I maybe do that once a month. And that is cost of living related entirely.