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Ease of access and stemming the flow of distribution are pretty big factors. Like, yeah, murder is very much illegal, but a lot of crimes are impulsive rather than meticulously premeditated, and can be prevented by simply making it harder for a potential murderer to get their hands on a weapon in the first place. Not that murders are only ever committed with guns, but most criminals are opportunists, not diabolical masterminds. A teenager with emotional problems is less likely to shoot up their school if there are significant barriers that will make it genuinely difficult to find a gun in the first place, as opposed to “their parents have an assault rifle lying around in their garage and this is totally legal for some reason.” If I wanted to buy illegal drugs, I’d be less deterred by the fact that they’re illegal as I would by the fact that they’re genuinely hard to find if you don’t already have a plug.

Because, like… you’re the one who responded to a stranger’s post. The gun control analogy wasn’t even the point of my post. I am not an expert on the logistics of gun control, and I acknowledge that. I am not the one making gun policy. Literally all I said was it’s dumb to talk about the issue in terms of talking about guns like they’re actual sentient things capable of being evil or having a will of their own, rather than tools for human use. Please acknowledge that you’re the one who jumped on me for making an untagged comment, asking me to explain in depth an issue I never claimed to be an expert on which was tangential to my actual point, and that’s actually a little weird of you.

Ease of access and stemming the flow of distribution are pretty big factors. Like, yeah, murder is very much illegal, but a lot of crimes are impulsive rather than meticulously premeditated, and can be prevented by simply making it harder for a potential murderer to get their hands on a weapon in the first place. Not that murders are only ever committed with guns, but most criminals are opportunists, not diabolical masterminds. A teenager with emotional problems is less likely to shoot up their school if there are significant barriers that will make it genuinely difficult to find a gun in the first place, as opposed to “their parents have an assault rifle lying around in their garage and this is totally legal for some reason.” If I wanted to buy illegal drugs, I’d be less deterred by the fact that they’re illegal as I would by the fact that they’re genuinely hard to find if you don’t already have a plug.

people tend to see archival as noble and necessary without actually analyzing the fact that to archive something, you need to be allowed to access and host it without the express permission of the author. there are plenty of authors in the world (such as the ones who set out the case against the internet archive) who would rather die holding the last copy of their novel than to allow someone to openly and freely distribute it.

the same freedoms that allow us to archive books or webpages online also allow for ai to be trained on works posted on the internet. intellectual property being protected by law would mean that you cannot use someone else's work for any reason, and that would include both "good" usage (such as archiving images/text/etc) and "bad" usage (such as downloading and using images/text/etc for training) and there would be no difference. danbooru is an archive, too.

we're in an era of "don't repost my art without my permission" and "don't take inspiration from my characters" and even "don't use my color palettes" when the simple fact is that if you made these things enforceable by law, immediately the same rules would be applied to things that the same people would go "but that deserves to be archived!" strictly against the wishes of the author.

you cannot pick and choose what kind of intellectual property does and doesn't count as something that can or should be archived (reposted, with or without credit) or used in derivative ways (collaging, tracing, referencing, using as training fodder). art is art is art. the people who cry art theft and demand that their art not be used for anything without their express permission are in the same shoes as the author gripping the last copy of their novel in the grave.

whether or not those demands are respected isn't, and shouldn't, be a matter of following the law. do you want the potential of jail time for having an art inspiration folder on your computer? do you really think blogs that repost art without credit deserve to have the police investigate them? do you want to live in a world where the simple act of having an art style that's juuuust similar enough to the art style of someone you've never spoken to, or having an idea that's juuuust similar enough to a novel you've never heard of, could ruin your life forever?

Libraries exist to give everyone access to works of literature, of film, of art. They catalog and archive. It is done purely for the principle that things humans make are worth saving and sharing.

AI training is done to make for-profit programs, whether explicitly paid for, or funded by advertisers. If your AI is intended to make you money (which it most likely is), then you need to pay the copyright holders of the literature you are training your model on. If you do not, you are stealing.

Libraries and archives are intended to preserve art. Libraries and archives are a boon to authors, as they make their works available, and help people learn about them. People are more likely to read an author they don't know if they can do it for free. And when they've done so, they are then more likely to pay real money for that author's other books. Or buy those books for friends.

AI is intended to erase human authors. Once an AI has scraped all it can from an author, it doesn't need the human anymore, and it will regurgitate sub-par work in mimicry of that author, all with the intent of making profit that would otherwise have gone to an actual human creative.

SHE NEVER QUITS!!!!

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And you have your staff play with their kids while you hold them in the tiny restroom as they come completely undone because they just found out that their golden boy husband is having an affair with the someone he's been doing residency with for the past three years.

He confessed that he'd rather be with the other woman but she's of a different faith and it's more important to have kids than to be happy. And no. No he will not grant her a divorce. And he will not stop seeing the other woman - because he's a man. It's his right.

TRUE story.

Also - She was NOT THE ONLY ONE to fall to pieces in our store for similar reasons.

I loath the ideology of "tradwives". It is a false doctrine preach by Patriarchy not a divine being.

It is the nature of evil to hide this way.

Married out of college, 4 kids, he spent 15 years building up his career while she took care of the house and the kids. When he was earning $600k a year suddenly he started to pull away - she wasn't as pretty anymore, the kids were loud, the house was a mess... She wasn't good enough anymore. He got himself a flat. He got her me and my precedessors to help with the kids. No, they can't divorce, that would make him pay her money for the kids and he didn't like that. Every once in a while a bill would be unpaid. My weekly checks would bounce. We lived in a $1,5mil house around DC and our gas or water was turned off more than once.

Somehow he was always out of money.

By accident she learned from a friend of a friend that he was actually seeing a young lady lawyer for a few years now. It wasn't her, it wasn't lost interest. He was just a piece of shit.

Thankfully, she had family that took no shit and they stood behind her and borrowed her money for lawyers to force the divorce now that she had proof of him cheating. She's spent tens of thousands to get there while he was resisting every step of the way - because without divorce he wouldn't have to pay her alimony, he could just throw scraps whenever he wanted and still pretend to be a good dad.

She's spent tens of thousands and two years to free herself from this man, and when she could finally go to work (thank fuck she finished college) she was earning $25k a year.

She only managed to get away with the support of her parents and family. Through the au-pair grapevine I've known other families like that. Too many. Lady down the street tried to commit suicide when same happened to her - she was from Taiwan and had no support to get free. And people around scorned her for being "dramatic" - women who held on to their places with their fingertips talked shit about her, because their own husbands would never...! Right?

I know that for many of you the development of Euro-USian societies up to the point of the Westphalian nation-state and eventually the postwar liberal democracy is definitionally and tautologically-civilization, but what if I told you that a large and growing contingent of people in the global south, especially since the beginning of al-Aqsa Flood, have began to view this bloc of nations as civilization's opposite?

What if I told you that to a great many people, the US and Europe are nothing more than brutal, bloodthirsty bandits and looters, who have not developed civilization but instead have used their mass stores of stolen wealth to avoid doing so? That they've used their masses of wealth gained through mass murder, banditry, and establishment of puppet leaders to flood the world with literally Orwellian propaganda, which defines civilization as its opposite, and merely hides the blood-stained, heartless cruelty of the white-lead "international community" under a petty façade of civility?