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    Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the US Senate since 1932. Will that change in November?

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  • In the US we’re far more familiar with the abuses and failings of the religion more familiar to us.

    Because the hypocrites are the loudest...

    I balked when I saw "megapastor" too, but dude seems legit. His experience leading a congregation of 25k every week is a huge advantage.

    His public speaking is going to be unbeatable, and he's not just going to push progressive policy on Kansas, he's gonna do it while quoting actual scripture.

    Everyone wants rightwing extremists to jump straight to enlightened atheism, ignoring the indisputable fact that some people really do need religion, so treating all of them the same just helps the extremist ones.

    If somebody has to believe in God, and will vote how they think God wants them to, might as well give them the option of a god who actually wants to help people.

    Especially when the candidate supports the voters wishers more than the last two presidential candidates.

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  • Dudes pro-choice and has a lot of progressive positions, and has for a long time...

    Dissapoining that people won't look past he's religious.

    It's fucking Kansas, and he's more progressive than any other option.

    This close to midterms, we need to be suspicious of anyone who just reflexively comments about how Dems are just as bad as Republicans.

  • You can't buy anything on these food delivery and shopping sites. Here's why that's the point | Simulated shopping sites offer the thrill of buying without spending a cent

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  • One thing that works just as well is paying bills.

    Like, always use auto pay, but when you want to spend, go pay a bill early. This is especially useful if you're using a credit card for points. Whenever you feel consumerery, whip out the app, and pay the bill to zero. You get the same dopamine hit as a purchase making the payment, but then you get a bigger one seeing it (will) go to zero.

    If you ever go to look and it's zero, instead of the dopamine from paying, you get one from seeing $0.00 on your credit card bill.

    Or just video games like animal crossing, I've always been convinced people just like existing in an economy that might not be "fair" but at least has a path towards eventually success. Even if you're shit at it (to my understanding) you just accumulate resources slower, but eventually you get there.

  • Right wing influencer Jake Lang arrested in Minneapolis for suspicion of rioting

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  • That's nothing...

    https://www.wsmv.com/2026/08/10/social-media-influencer-chud-builder-has-bonded-out-middle-tennessee-jail-following-his-attempted-murder-charge-heres-what-we-know/

    I'd bet money that idiot violates his bond in under 90 days by doing the same shit.

    I thought he was still in jail when I went to use him as an example, and am honestly surprised he hasn't fucked up already.

    But that shooting was only a week or two after he got arrested for being a racist shit stirrer in public. There's a lot of them and they all think they're invincible and everything will work out. So they're not going to stop. Now that he's out of jail, he's gonna start doing the same shit. Just a matter of when.

    Hell, they don't even need a bankroller, someone just has to have bots gass them up online and give them views, likes, and encouragement.

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  • and have permissive licenses

    ...

    That's the difference you don't see.

    There's not one license, there's multiple. Which is a good system, but doesn't mean there's no EULA, it means there's multiple.

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  • Jeffries, Kushner met privately, discussed potential areas of common ground: Sources

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  • Hes in litithe safest district in America for Dems...

    And his last primary was this season and the state party cancelled it when no one challenged him.

    No one.

    It was literally months ago, and no one ran against him. Granted a lot of it's very wealthy, but redistricting in 2023 means he's vulnerable to the left.

    But he has no chance of losing the general, he's not doing any of this to win his election.

    And this isn't "for the greater good" either it's to maintain neoliberalism even if it means helping trump

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  • Arch Linux has no EULA because it is not sold software like Ubuntu Pro.

    Right, your link is about use of online services...

    The following Terms of Service contain the rules for the use of the internet Platform Arch Linux, operated by the Arch Linux Team, accessible under the domain archlinux.org and various related subdomains (the "Platform") and the respective Services, namely provision of the Arch Linux package platform, the forums, the wiki, the bug reporting tool and a reporting tool for security issues, Arch User Repository (AUR), Mailing Lists, IRC Channels, collaboration pads and the Bulletin Board System (the "Services") of Arch Linux ("Arch Linux", "we") by you as a user (the "User", "you").

    There's no EULA, but after reading up on it, isn't it even considered software?

    Like, it seems to really just be a command line, that straps together a bunch of individual packages, which add up to a very very lightweight OS, and then even more can be added on.

    Seems really cool, and I like the idea. But my understanding is the packages themselves have EULA's on their own and function pretty autonomously.

    I think thats going to the closest anyone gets tho, thanks for linking it.

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  • By all means, find me a single example of software you actually own...

    Because that's waaaaaaaaay fucking easier than me listing every open source eula one by one

  • Jeffries, Kushner met privately, discussed potential areas of common ground: Sources

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  • Jefferies want low Dem turnout to slightly increase his odds of pushing out Martin after midterms so they can get a neoliberal morning the presidential primary again. Even if that means two more years of Republicans having House and Senate.

    He's gonna keep doing stupid shit, I've been calling it for months and it's nowhere near as bad as it can get yet.

    If Dems take the House on a wave of progressives, there's no way he gets Speaker now that the DNC can't us the VF as a club to get him the votes.

    For him personally his career is over if all the progressives who won their primaries win their generals. He's afraid he's gonna get Paul Ryan'd.

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  • The logic was:

    If I took home a $200 box of software in 1995, installed it, and then drove back to Circuit City in the morning and returned it, there was no way for anyone to tell.

    Like, across all aspects of American media, profits skyrocketed with CDs because consumers couldn't easily copy them. With cassettes and floppy discs, piracy was just accepted. And when they got to start over with CDs/DVDs they wanted to do everything possible to break the piracy habit in the window they could.

    American Neoliberalism kicked off with Clinton in 1992, which is when all this was happening and corporate profits were prioritized over all else in the pursuit of campaign donations.

    Like, this shit didn't happen accidentally, we didn't just stumble into it.

    There's reasons for why our shit is so fucked and it's not in the EU.

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  • abuse the fact that software is licensed to rip that license away from customers

    A lot of it is widely outside of PlayStation or Valves hands...

    The puclishers have the same deal with them, and developers have the same deal with the publishers.

    If that wasn't there at every link of the chain, then that next person no longer has to pay anyone earlier in the chain.

    We kind of see the same with in-game music. That has to be licensed from the owner of the master, and possibly a couple more people. They don't like doing licences in perpetuity out of principle. If the Beatles let a game use a song and that game eventually sells for 10¢ or free, then that's a loss sale even 30 years from now in the way licensing works. So after 5-10 years, songs disappear.

    Or like how it took Kevin Smith forever to get actual ownership of the movie Dogma due to Weinstein being involved and everyone else just wanting to bury what he'd touched.

    EULA's and ownership is a lot deeper than software. Like, you can sell a used game of monopoly, but buying a copy doesn't mean you can make you're own and sell, the physical material is just associated with the license for the intellectual property.

    Like ship of thesus shit, if you start with a legit paid game of Monopoly, replace every single piece over 20 years, you can still sell it as a "used Monopoly game" because at some point you bought the license. If you made every piece the same way and then sold it, that's not legal

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  • All you have to do is change the name and remove any trademarked branding from it.

    So...

    They have to change it to legally sell it?

    Then they didn't own it.

    Although, I guess thanks for explaining what a "bullshit fork" is, I thought that wouldn't need explaining on here to be honest

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  • The Service provides users of Ubuntu with a free subscription to use the Service on up to five physical Ubuntu systems with unlimited number of VMs or containers for the eligible Ubuntu LTS versions as designated by Canonical.

    https://canonical.com/legal/ubuntu-pro/personal

    Why would you assume to own software if you don't even pay to use it?

    You can do a bullshit fork and then sell it, but if you owned it you could sell the exact same code with zero changes

    To prove your point you'd need that example: an open source program that you can sell for profit with zero changes.

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  • Nintendo was here before any of this was a problem

    Because NES locked it down at propertiary carts and still do...

    That drastically increases the cost of Ninetendo games, because Nintendo is the only one legally allowed to make the blank. Even gamecube used tiny discs.

    If you wanted to sell a NES game, you had to buy X amount of blank copies from Nintendo, then pay Nintendo to put the code on the blank, then pay Nintendo a licensing cut to sell...

    Like, it's not like Nintendo had consumers best interest at heart, they just nickle and dime developers at every step, which is why Nintendo versions costs more.

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  • Old school was "shrinkwrap eula".

    When you took the literal shrinkwrap off the box, you agreed.

    Then it switched to "use eula" and the box that pops up containing the EULA that says "click to accept" and there's no other option but to accept...

    That's the point you agree.

    I don't think it's ever been "at purchase" at least in America. Because obviously gifts are a thing and purchasers aren't always users and more importantly users aren't all purchasers

    A cracked game might circumvent those popups and/or screens, but I honestly don't know why they would put the effort in or if it would matter. And if it mattered probably varies a lot by country.

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  • It's in the EULA for every piece of software, including physical.

    If it wasn't, then buying a single copy would legally allow you to sell an infinite amount of copies.

    Because that's what actually owning software means.

    And video games are software.

    PlayStation:

    The Software is licensed to you, not sold

    Windows 95:

    The software product is licensed, not sold

    https://www.scribd.com/document/478767349/Windows-95-License-Agreement

    I know it's a joke no one ever read them...

    But you all really never knew this?

    Edit:

    Don't make me wheel out the 1980s CRT TV for the class...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

    There's always been freeware and shareware (yes, they're different) but if you as an individual paid money for software at any point, you've never owned it.

    Businesses can't even justify the expense of "owning" basic stuff like Microsoft Office and collectively spend billions. "Owning" software is fucking expensive, and usually means you coded it.

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  • Sony’s EULA has always said this.

    EULA's have been saying it since before discs were invented...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement

    If any EULA didn't say that, everyone who bought it could sell their own copies for $1 less then they bought it. Eventually the price of every piece of software no matter what it was, would be the hosting costs based on sheer size.

    What's wild is so many people never knew this, and are hyper fixated on the wrong part.

    Back in the day updates just weren't really a thing. There may be additional software (DLC except you bought it physical) in between editions, but for the most part the program was the program. So as long as you kept your install discs, you could always install that program.

    That is what you were buying, the physical means to install the program, and that has always been just a license and definitely not duplicatable. Selling used games/software was valid because you're handing over the physical means to install/run that software.

    The parallel would be selling a "used digital game" and it disappears from your library. And Sony could even take 10% or whatever as a fee, even tho it would cost money.

    Consumers could trust that any used game was 100% the exact same as new tho, there's be zero advantage to every buying new if a single used license was cheaper.

    That would be free market capitalist software, but the oligarchs don't want.