Look, of the people collecting my blood are turning around and selling it for a lot of moeny, shouldn’t I get some of the money? That’s all folks are saying. I agree people should want to do it to be a good citizen to their fellow humans, but the people getting the blood should also not be making money off of it in that case.

So if the answer to “How much is blood worth?” is “Nothing!” Then awesome! If the answer is “A lot, actually…” Then something is wrong.

I debated on what it would be like before I posted and I think you’re right. It would be more like being “in the mirror” sort of. Everyone would look different to you and you’d look different from what people remember. You’d need to learn to read and write in reverse.

Like an Aboleth or something. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_2nd_edition_monsters&diffonly=true

Okay, sure, but the question still remains, how do you know that there isn’t some 5th dimension for some random objects.

No, being rotated in the 4th dimension and plopped back down into the third dimension would be horrible and it wouldn’t surprise me if it killed you. For one, it would absolutely feel like a Lovecraftian nightmare. Your right arm is now your left. Your heart is in a different side of your chest. The “you” you see in the mirror will be the “you” you’ve seen in photographs. But look into chirality in chemistry. Your body would suddenly have tons of molecules that are a mirror image of what they should be and work with the mirror images of molecules they used to. Everything already in you would get flipped, but you might be on a ticking clock if you aren’t able to get the chiral opposites of necessary amino acids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)

Everyone complaining about timezones is truly missing the forests for the trees.

Go play EVE Online. The servers used to have (still, do I think, but shorter) daily downtime that was scheduled using UTC and it led to everyone using UTC since the game server itself used that time.

Proleptic Gregorian Calendar enjoyers

I see ads pretty much everyday in Windows. They’re not as attention grabbing as traditional ads and I think this is part of why some people don’t see them.

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Just because it might be legal to violate copyrights in other countries doesn’t make the code considered open source though lol.

Like I give a shit, I knew what the fuck they meant.

oubilete of agony

Amazing word smithing. 💖

YFW the part about “to see how men and women react differently to pain” was a ruse. They are actually studying how men rate their pain differently when told they’re being compared to women versus when they’re not.

You’re being obtuse. I get the point you’re trying to make – you’ve been heard. I’m just saying those aren’t the terms you should be using to make it. Open source has a very distinct definition and it has to do with the licenses covering the code. It has nothing to do with whether different countries have differing laws. Code cannot be open source in one country and not open source in another because the definition has nothing to do with countries. In fact, that would specifically not be open source because it gives rights to some and not others.

If someone infringes on a copyright that doesn’t mean the work isn’t copyrighted. You can’t just say things that are source available are open source. Even if someone is infringing on the rights holders they’re still only source available.

Open source doesn’t mean source available. You simply aren’t using the term correctly.

Please don’t muddy the water with terms like this. Something is open source if and only if it has an open source license.

Don’t forget that “open source” has a different definition than “source available”.

while nearly no one is complaining about MS using github to train their copilot LLM,

Lots of people complained about that. I’ve only seen this single thread complaining about this.