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While the possession and cultivation of marijuana are already banned in Japan, the country will prohibit its use as well, setting a prison sentence of up to seven years for violation.

Ok, so that clears that up.

The boomers had cars and flexed being able to drive stick or know what a carburetor is, unlike those feeble Millennials. They had that greaser subculture. Hmm. I guess that makes the movie Grease the equivalent of War Games or Hackers.

So what is the zoomer thing? What eye-rolling help do they give to doddering old gen-Xers? What will they flex in their old age?

Believing that animals are just like us s hardly and outlandish belief, on the facts. We're evolutionarily closely related. We have basically the same skeleton. Skull, spine, rib cage, hips, 4 extremities. Arms and legs go: 1 big bone, 2 smaller bones, and lotsa little bones. It looks to be the same with the brain.

We expect vegans not to blow up slaughterhouses or such. Fair enough. But expecting them to shut up about their beliefs is a bit much, no? Expecting them not to tell people how they feel, not to kiss in public, or hold a pride para... Sorry, wrong prosecuted minority.

I've heard these takes about vegans for literal decades now, and not once has an actual vegan popped up to tell me that I'm a murderer.

Ok, so that's why you're not making any sense. You have no idea what's going on.

Look, it's very simple. Vegans are a small, harmless minority. So some people bully them. Of course, it's their own fault. They wouldn't mind them if they weren't "out and proud". It's always the same story. There's almost no variation.

I thought you were saying that it's ok to bully them because they believe the wrong thing. That's what @redisdead is saying. He compares them to "right wing cunts" when they speak their beliefs. Fascis get bashis. Just like vegans, I guess.

Watch the company you keep.

No, you cannot patent an ingredient. What you can do - under Indian law - is get "protection" for a plant variety. In this case, a potato.

That law is called Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001. The farmer in this case being PepsiCo, which is how they successfully sued these 4 Indian farmers.

Farmers' Rights for PepsiCo against farmers. Does that seem odd?

I've never met an intellectual property freak who didn't lie through his teeth.

Vegans believe that animals have the same rights to live as humans. A nazi believes that the "others" do not have the same right to live as "his people".

I don't think you'll be able to convince me that these are morally or ethically equivalent positions. But I see the point. They both believe the wrong thing. The out-group sucks. Yes, I know how humans tick.

Heh. Funny that this comment is uncontroversial. The Internet Archive supports Fair Use because, of course, it does.

This is from a position paper explicitly endorsed by the IA:

Based on well-established precedent, the ingestion of copyrighted works to create large language models or other AI training databases generally is a fair use.

By

• Library Copyright Alliance
• American Library Association
• Association of Research Libraries

The copyright industry wants money. So, 4 legs good, 2 legs better. It's depressing to see how easily people are led around by the nose.

Ok, I understand. You don't like them because of their beliefs.

At first, I was confused. Isn't the fact that you believe something the only justification for saying something? I mean, otherwise you'd be lying. But you're saying you disagree with the belief in the first place, right?

But that's unethical!