Alt: Prince John villain from the Disney animated Robin Hood who Musk is emulating, raising taxes (tariffs, gutting social programs to give himself more government subsidies, etc) to pay himself more from taxes, the literal intro to the character in the movie is him fawning over a bag of money chanting “Taxes! Taxes!”

What are you going to do, just destroy an entire farrier industry? Think of the economy we can’t build roads to other cities when we need to take care of <insert things we can work on fixing today without ignoring new frontiers and technologies>.

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Over 70 million including many retirees, orphans, and disabled workers. The people most in need of help and the reason that trying to run a government like a capitalist business is one of the dumbest forms of government organization ever. A quick way to radicalize someone against you is to harm their family or take their money.

As long as it’s got mech switches and can run a qwerty layout I’m happy

Extreme centrist

/s is an interesting addition and could use a glyph

Pancakes are flapjacks if they’re big and silver dollars if they’re small, but in the picture I see crepes.

Working class working directly for other working class instead of corpos and billionaires is the wealth class’s worst nightmare because it makes it obvious to the average person nobody needs a wealth class, and they are leeching from society without doing anything productive for civilization.

Are there many country governments that don’t subsidize their transportation industry?

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Set the bush on fire, toss a bucket of water on it, drink the hot bush broth drippings

Thanks that’s very insightful and I’ll amend my position to 15 years 5 may be just a little zealous. 100 year US copyrights have been choking innovation due to things like Disney led trade group lobbyists, 15 years would be a huge boost to many creators being able to leverage more IPs and advancements being held in limbo unused or poorly used by corpo entities.

You don’t have to stop selling when it becomes public domain, people sell books, movies, music, etc that are all in the public domain and people choose it over free versions all the time because of convenience, patroning arts, etc.

You don’t have to stop selling when a book becomes public domain, publishers and authors sell public domain/commons books frequently, it’s just you won’t have a monopoly on the contents after the copyright expires.

Copyrights should have never been extended longer than 5 years in the first place, either remove draconian copyright laws or outlaw LLM style models using copyrighted material, corpos can’t have both.

There’s really not much left to go back to. All the mods with integrity left when they effectively banned third party apps, top posts are almost entirely image or video posts recycled with time stamps/dates removed, and corporate owners are choking it by preventing organic changes via subreddits dying and being replaced over time because it doesn’t get them more ad revenue in the short term like boosting controversial and rage bait topics.

Some of my favorites

Disney’s animated Robin Hood - some amazing folk songs, o brother where art thou has a lot of great old timey/folksy songs too

The Third Man - the zither to end all zithers

anything by John Williams or Hans Zimmer for that big epic sound with recurring motifs- star wars, Indiana Jones, interstellar, etc

Baby Driver - lots of variety, the chase sequence with Hocus Pocus by Focus is amazing

The Blues Brothers - not just great blues, tons of soul, motown, etc with a lot of energy

The Guest - parody of '80s action/thriller style movies, soundtrack is lots of electronic & synth, feels a little like a darker version of the Drive soundtrack which is also great

A couple directors that have a very specific sound direction/profiles to them too are Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, and John Carpenter.

I think it’s down there let me take another look

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