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MortalWombat @ MortalWombat @kbin.social
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The Superbowl is nothing more than watching rich people fight over a ball while companies spend obscene amounts of money to blast advertisements at you.

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  • I've zero interest, but I was forced by my wife to bust out the digital antenna and make it happen. She's only watching for taylor swift and the commercials though.

    • Audio books? is Audioserve still the bee's knees?

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  • I use audiobookbay. I don't trust them enough to "sign up", so I just snag the hash from the description and edit it into a magnet link.

    • How are you watching the the Super Bowl

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  • Digital antenna. OTA is still free.

    • Is good ol' Materialize the only real option out there for 3D printable file sharing?

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  • I've never seen an invite pop up for materialize anywhere. I'd gladly trade for one, but I guess it's fucking unobtanium. I've not found any other sources either, and I've looked.

    • Is Usenet still reliable, am I missing the right way to use it?

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  • This is the answer. There are free indexes out there like https://binsearch.info but thanks to automated DMCA takedown bots, there's very little on "open" usenet that stays up for long. You need to get on a private index and, unfortunately, pay for a subscription to get any kind of reliability.

    • askBeehaw: should copyright even exist at all? and if it should, how long should the ideal term of copyright be?

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  • The first 20 years should be free. I think that's a reasonable timeframe for an author to make a reasonable amount of money from a work - or at least to determine if it's worth extending the copyright.

    After the initial 20 year period, it should need to be renewed every decade, on an increasingly steep scale. Let's face it - some works can go on making money for a very long time. I think the creators deserve to continue making money off their works if they can, but only if it's really worth it to them, and they're pretty sure that the work will continue to be increasingly profitable. I suggest that the fees to extend the copyright be based on the profits from the work, and should increase with each extension, up to say 80% of the previous decade's profits at 60 years. That way, virtually everything would fall out of copyright by that point, unless the holder was very sure it was going to be incredibly profitable going forward.

    • US says Wagner coup is ‘real’ and ‘serious’ as White House consults allies

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  • Lol, because that's how Russian warlords operate. "No, it's cool, I'll just chill here and not invade anybody".

    Prigozhin is as bad (if not worse) than Putin. The rest of the world would be no safer with him running Russia. Best-case scenario is that this bullshit destabilizes the country to the point that Putin is deposed, somebody rational takes the lead, and they agree to cease all operations in Ukraine in exchange for western assistance putting down the Wagner rebellion. It'll take all of a week to stomp out Wagner, if Russia allows the rest of the world to do it.

    • What do you feel like life will be like on earth in 100 years?

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  • Big same. I've spent the last 30 years arguing (and voting) for sustainable policies and environmental regulations, but what little progress has been made is woefully insufficient. I did my best, but obviously humanity doesn't actually want to survive.