My face is midway between 😱 and ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ right now. That sounds difficult. Have you found anything that helps? Do you just sleep like crap every night?

For what?

I think selling such skulls would be highly unethical.

Would you? Why? FWIW I agree that as long as there’s a living person who cares about the fate of the bones then selling them would be unethical, I’m just curious as to your specific reasons - like, what is the hypothetical you’re imagining, behind this statement? Are you contending it would be unethical even if nobody living cares, just due to the provenance? I can see why you would object if the former user of the anatomy believed in the sanctity of remains, for example.

I’m not sure I’d agree, but I’m not sure I’d disagree either. I’d need to think on it more. Right now, I’m leaning towards respecting the wishes of the dead as far as their remains go, because the universe is big and cruel and the only kindnesses are those we make for each other, so why shouldn’t that extend as far as we do?

I think you don’t understand the difference between fundamental rights and regular old rights. A right does not have to be fundamental to be a right.

And, if copyright law were about encouraging creation, it would not restrict the use of other peoples’ work.

Would you do me a favour? Read back over this thread until you realise you just argued creation is “encouraged” by a category of law which only restricts the use of other peoples’ work, including modifying it to create derivative works, and has been used as a club against creation to boot. Consider, how does Nintendo kill Smash tourneys? How many YouTube videos have been wrongly DMCA’d?

That’s crazy! At my job, I just help our users. I don’t have to build (and then maintain) infrastructure with them.

I regularly fix my bashrc file with Notepad. I run it in Wine because I cbf to RealVNC from my Windows CE media server.

(n.b: None of this is real, I wrote it to upset people, I’m sorry)

No, it is not. Copyright law ensures the original creator gets paid for their work and nobody can imitate it (quite literally “the right to copy”) without permission. Copyright law is about making money.

Heritage law is about preserving history.

Ehh, I halfway agree, but there is value in keeping historical stuff around. Heritage laws exist in a good number of countries so that all the cultural architecture doesn’t get erased by developers looking to turn a quick buck or rich people who think that 500 year old castle could really use an infinity pool hot tub; there are strict requirements for a building to be heritage-listed but once they are, the owner is required by law to maintain it to historical standards.

I only halfway disagree because you’re right, forcing people to pay for something has never sat right with me generally. As long as the laws don’t bite people like you and me, e.g. there are relatively high requirements for something to be considered “culturally relevant” enough to preserve, I’d be okay with some kind of heritage system for preserving the internet.

Sometimes, a shitpost is so shit but also so very post that I get trapped in a whirlpool of knowing it should be upvoted, but not wanting to. Congratulations?

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From the extract alone I can tell this is either AI slop or so badly written as to be no better.

Pick any of them, and repeat it over and over again. It’ll quickly become the weirdest word in the language, at least for a while.

I’m out of the loop, what movie or show is Elon in where he’s playing an African?

Ugh when will people stop leaking military secrets on internet forums this is our national security you’re playing with 🙄

(/s because it’s 2024)

I have a clip from one of the tracks on this album! The Tale of Bobo Fuckwit

Just a few loose ends to tie up in the Courts, we only need it a little longer…

Fine, but I wanna be super mega doubleplus extra neuro-ultra-diverse (/s, in absence of a trollface emoji 😂)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTHB8iC1C0E

“Double-neurodiverse”? Look I’m all for more acceptance and understanding of me and my ND homies, but I’m pretty sure you only get the buff effect once no matter how many conditions with that flag you have; it doesn’t stack.

What an atrocious waste of food. And what exactly was this supposed to accomplish? What did their best case scenario look like?