You’re arguing about brand recognition, not separating the art from the artist. This is a consumerism campaign to tie a commercial product to another business brand, not an artistic endeavour to encourage or appreciate the books directly as if it’s a public reading or a themed event. Nobody had an issue with the fan-generated gathering at King’s Crossing Station a few years ago for the anniversary of the books.

So how does buying these doughnuts show an appreciation for the art more than it enriches the artist? This is what needs to be explained since you believe the concept of separating the art from the artist apparently is the concept at play here.

The question was about how you see buying these doughnuts as appreciating the art more than supporting the artist, not how much you care about giving the artist a penny.

Unfortunately your problem is that I understood your words too well. How else would I be able to tell that you didn’t respond to what I said at all? If I had a poor understanding of words, I’d see all your big words and how many of them there were and think “Wow, this guy must be correct”.

So, since you were the one to fail to respond to what was asked in the first place, the question is which words I used were so incomprehensible that you ended up spending 20 minutes typing up something that didn’t apply? Was it “correctly”? Maybe “doughnuts” since it’s spelled in a regional way?

That’s a lot of words to avoid explaining how buying these doughnuts is appreciating the art and not enriching the artist, and how separating the artist from the art applies here.

Are you sure you’re separating the art from the artist correctly if you believe buying these doughnuts is appreciating the art and not enriching the artist?

No, I’m saying that you’re sharing the same flawed tactic: vaguely referencing something that sounds bad but could be easily explicable with the context provided. It’s especially not a great way to go about it right now after Admiral Patrick used it to make accusations that don’t hold up to scrutiny about more than just the dbzero instance, but also blahaj.zone and its admins.

Like what’s the threshold for “calls of violence and death” here? You also reinforced Admiral Patrick’s idea that it was acceptable only towards people the instance’s admin agreed with. So what are the specific details? Who were these calls for violence and death towards? How intense were they? Are we talking about “Punch Nazis” or “Kill all brown people”? Both are calls for violence and death but are still very different.

This entire accusation revolves around an extreme extrapolation from reading the statement “We’re not pacifists” in response to AdmiralPatrick’s insistence that any acceptance of violence is evil, no matter the context. There is no reasonable way to see that statement and jump to “Therefore they glorify and encourage violence” without filling in a lot of blanks with assumptions.

Curiously, you’re doing it with the exact same language that AdmiralPatrick used, where the exact nature of the targets of the “instance’s views” are.

You’re assuming his apologia is not disingenuous. The notes he added in the commit messages and the extent to which he blocked users who were indirectly implicated in his accusations don’t line up with his explanations.

There’s also the fact that much of it is caught under a very broad net of “promoting violence” without any examples provided of what constitutes such a thing. He used that exact explanation to justify banning blahaj.zone, where he said that some users did so and the admins did not act on it, which prompted him to blacklist the entire instance and the admins specifically.

This isn’t even getting into the intentional inaccuracies about the nature of his “Toxic Mode”, or his entire rant on db0 which is not only dishonest and weirdly personal, but also straight up lying about what happened and why. There’s zero way to say that exposing his blacklist is “going Karen” like he did, and it’s a straight lie to say that nobody had a problem with his blacklisting until db0 complained when the situation is that db0 made the existence of the blocklist known.

The philosophy of federation is that such whims should be openly handled on the federation level, not in a secret blacklist of a front end that was openly available to all.

Considering the phone is out of reach, it’s probably to listen to a podcast or music. Shower radios have existed for decades after all.

Morphe is the way to go these days, the maintainer of Revanced pissed off its main contributors and they went over and made Morphe. Revanced’s significant recent updates have been to catch up with Morphe.

It also supports sourcing patches from other contributors directly so there are patches for apps like Chess.com and TikTok on Morphe that aren’t available on Revanced.

You’ve shown more defense for Elon Musk than I have for the US military lol

You easily could be, he’s very available on Twitter if you were actually so inclined. But instead you’re more inclined to misread the pointing out the shortsightedness of your trolling of an individual as a different statement entirely. Just as you’re more inclined to treat Musk with softer gloves if it means you can attack some random person for something that that doesn’t even apply anymore.

Interesting how you’re more upset this one person was in the military than you are about anything Elon Musk has done, to the point that you’re now mollifying Musk’s actions in order to troll this one person.

There are simpler ways to say that the PS3 was your first experience with gaming.

Then the Mossad’s going to assassinate their first US politician out in the open immediately.

At best, it would take years to even start accomplishing that. He has to build up enough political capital to outweigh decades of copaganda.

He’s been a MAGA chud for years.

I’m confused how many people seem to believe the NYPD will do whatever Mamdani says here with no question.

Do they know anything at all about the NYPD?

It’s not very pro AI, it’s just not rabidly anti AI. There have been too many pitfalls with AI causing major issues in the piracy world to be very pro AI as pirates.

Either way, nothing on this list seems to be for AI acceptance reasons.

I ordered things alphabetically before AI because it made it easier for other people to read the list. It’s a built-in command in a lot of languages too.