You and I know thats true and piracy in some cases is shown to increase sales because people decide its worth money and/or talk about it more. Heck some people pirate things they already own just because they’re too lazy to find the copy they own.

Their (incorrect) logic is that if you were pirating you weren’t purchasing their content anyway.

Some forms of money are more imaginary than others.

I don’t think Vance pulls out.

Don’t need to steal a lot of journals made deals.

That’s literally what calling your government representatives is. You’re supposed to be able to pressure your representative to represent you.

Scihub if its before the last few years. Otherwise email authors and/or post a link on a science forum asking if anyone has a pdf to share.

There are a lot of physical things I miss from being young, eyesight, faster recovery from injury and illness, etc. I didn’t have money, I had unmanaged depression, I lacked a lot of self esteem. However, I had more friends(or at least acquaintances), more hope in people, much better physical fitness, and in hindsight a lot of my worries weren’t that serious.

Aging and youth are both mixed bags. But I’ll take being older without a doubt. -A younger millennial

Lemm.ee shutdown there are communities of same name on .world, .ml and vlemmy.net

Mbfc is ok but is itself biased towards Western and Pro-Israel content.

Then the AI companies that have openly used pirated stuff could also get disconnected lol. Of course business will be fine and individuals will get shafted who expects anything different nowadays.

I certainly will but I know other parents won’t until the kids learn how to get around whatever parental restrictions and we get Barbie saying some real fucked up shit. That gets them sued.

Being “safe” is also a gamble, if you aren’t bringing anything new or unique you’re gambling that the title or brand is sufficient for success.

The issue is potential copyright, the right to be “forgotten”, and of course illegal porn (csam, “revenge”, etc).

Isn’t not doing that part of the draw of foss? That sort of UI/“engagement” is necessary for monetization but is not for foss.

A product getting “sold” is in direct contradiction to it being foss. That’s the viewpoint of money and enshittifiers.

Most people here are specifically avoiding those companies in part because of their “engagement” algorithms.

They have previously been hacked.

I know a first cousin of mine did. :( Over 15million people used it.

The only silver lining is that they’ve been bought by a research company instead of an insurance company. I don’t know if theres a legal leg to stand on per the data. They almost 100% agreed to give up ownership to the company, that’s the only way it could do any of the genetic relationship analysis that it did.

Ivermectin (anti-parasitic) aka horse dewormer.

Isn’t Pinterest just Instagram for food and knickknacks? I never used either…

They were more subtle about it but they’ve been there from the start. Now they’re just more vocal.