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> So it's not really the labor that's being stolen, but the future value of the deliverable.

the choice was stolen as well.

the agency was stolen as well.


When we sing, draw, speak, play, we are not attacking the soul of someone else!

Culture has always had a kind of violence to it, but not FROM the THIEF: you HAVE to speak the language that was already made; you have to understand and participate in their song-structures, their plot devices, their ways of attesting.

The "IP owners" should be paying ME!!!


i think the only solution to this is to force a company to rebrand when they purchase a brand.

otherwise we end up exactly where we are, private equity buying out a brand, obfuscating that it’s no longer the same company, slowly sucking the life out of the product and screwing the public over.

if we make them always rebrand, we would at least be more aware when purchasing.

it’s kind of funny how certain people will tell us to vote with our wallets on a product, but they intentionally obfuscate everything about the product so we can’t make informed purchases.

could you imagine if we had to “do your own research” on every single thing you purchase? just think of how many items you purchase from the grocery store alone every month. it’s unreal we allow them to get away with hiding what they’re doing.

a great example is the sibling poster who talked about the dogfood being changed and messing up their dogs stomach… just trash behavior by these companies.


I'd be for forcing companies to list the top-level "owning" entity on all product labels

i hear you, however:

> …but Stripe is a big backer for climate solutions…

his post reads pretty clearly as funding “solutions” to adapt to coming climate change rather than “how do we mitigate climate change”

this is why i’m skeptical of people who work for an economic org.

it’s like some these companies are salivating at the idea of Disaster Capitalism.

“it’s going to open up so many chances to make trillions!”

i recognize how jaded i am, but this just feels slimey “there’s much more money to be made if we exacerbate the disaster rather than slow it!”


Which post is that?

Let's say I take it that whatever post you're referencing is slimy, built on disaster capitalism, and downright bad. And your being jaded is totally understandable.

To that I remind you: "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing"

What could you do to do drive the world in a different direction? (see my other posts for projects if you want help out with our El Niño Ready dashboard)


does hn quickly down rank other subjects?

if i’m not mistaken they might with political subjects, if so, there’s already precedent and so the tech pieces are in place.

i would be against entirely removing it, but limiting it to like 10-20% of the front page would honestly be kind of nice.

it feels like it’s been an ai sausage fest for months and months.


i hope blackmagic pays attention to what steam is doing with steamos.

steam has put so much into making gaming on linux so good, one of the last pieces remaining for a ton of people to make the switch is editing.

don’t get me wrong, i run davinci on my non-rocky linux desktop and it’s almost entirely painless, but, what steam is doing with their distro of linux is incredible.

if they were to consider migrating to steamos rather than rocky, between the masses switching to linux since gaming is good enough for so many, if davinci was mostly solid, i think blackmagic could pull millions away from the adobe hell they’re stuck in on windows.

particularly since davinci’s new photo tab is fucking incredible and will so soon be a perfect replacement for lightroom.


i honestly don’t believe i’m being jaded when i say this: there will be no consequences. in this current moment, companies can treat us however they like.

again, i don’t think that’s hyperbolic or jaded, i think it’s much more based in reality than the opposite.


almost all new cars have cellular modems reporting all kinds of shit, something like over 90% of new cars. what makes you think tv companies aren’t?

even the ones that aren’t yet, we’d be incredibly incredibly naive to think it’s not on their radar.


Cars having 5G connectivity is something that consumers actually want, it’s well documented on the spec sheets and marketing material, and obviously in a car WiFi is not going to work in most places. None of those things apply to TVs.

For one, you can take apart your TV and see that it doesn't have a SIM card

Can you spot a device like this : https://www.intersign.dk/cdn/shop/products/868e2a0dce897d05a...

The linked image shows a module meant for easy integration, but it could also simply be a part of the main board of the TV. They could "hide" the GSM antenna alongside the wifi antenna.


after everything we’ve seen factually that companies do, why would this, of all things, seem far-fetched to you?

i think it would be significantly more far-fetched that cable companies don’t sell them access. i would be shocked if they didn’t.


> which brands still respect user privacy?

does anyone know of a reputable site which rates companies by things such as trustworthiness?

are any companies at all trustworthy anymore? like literally any?


rtings is starting to cover some of this stuff now.

i don’t mind this at all.

tbh im fatigued of the general public being beta testers for companies.


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