[He/Him]
Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.
I don’t know what that means, but it’s so vile from a human rights perspective. I keep forgetting that the U.S. still does executions. Baffling how the U.S. has posed themselves as the “leader of the free world”, and how many just willingly suck that up for so long when they are brutal, cruel, and inhumane in all aspects of living.
I didn’t doubt you, but fucking ew.
Ultimately, I think that art should be accessible to everyone. Piracy is always ethical when it comes to the question of being able to afford something or not.
Otherwise, the way I view the question of ethics for me personally
Example: The Sims, developed by Electronic Arts.
EA was voted worst company gods know how many years now. They are part of the forefront when it comes to hiring workers for a project, and then firing as many as possible. The video game industry is a hellhole to work in, and job security isn’t a thing at all. If I buy a game from them, I get a license to run it, I have to put up with their DRM, and all the developers, artists, and workers that actually matter have already long since been paid for their work. That’s to say, buying it would be unethical because it further feeds the unethical practises of the company, and the money just go to the board anyway.
And that’s without Trump and the Saudis entering the picture.
Example: Paralives, developed by Alex Massé and team Paralives Studio. This is a small indie company with a dozen or so developers and artists. They’ve been crowd-funding the development for years. At this point, if you buy a license to run it you get an early-access incomplete version of the game, missing features, and loads of bugs. I generally do not buy into early access. That said, buying a license to Paralives supports a small indie studio create their passion project. They don’t have the same abysmal anti-worker practises as Electronic Arts, and I like their project. At this point they’re so successful that me buying the game or not just adds to a stack of money, but they don’t have nearly the funds of EA, and I think they’re managing them better.
Ethical to buy? I don’t know. I’d say it’s less ethical to pirate.
I heard someone say “sewer slide” the other week. In place of suicide.
Yup.
What furries and smart coffee machines have in common; a love for beans. 🐾
Man that must be depressing to read. :(
Terry Pratchett currently. Just finished The Rose Field by Philip Pullman. Love the series, the ending was great. Took an anti-capitalist turn I didn’t expect.
They’re bringing books, not the internet. Some people enjoy reading books in their spare time.
They should throw in some pro-union stuff too.
Is that actually Bezos, or a wax figure of him?
Well no, because now a portion of what you’d be paid needs to go to the billionaires who own the datacentres and the LLMs. :)
Really? In front of my salad?
Seems like good company!
It looks like it’s all about AI slop, so I don’t think you’re meant to do much of anything with it, really? It’s supposed to do shit on its own.
OOH! I was just sitting thinking about this, and thought it was the Russian word too. Wow!
I’d gladly pay 5% of my total wealth once in lieu of taxes. It’d amount to about $50. Granted all of society would grind to a fucking half if us workers weren’t paying taxes because the other leeches fucking aren’t.
People forget that our economic system isn’t a law of nature. It’s a social construct, and can be changed just like any other.