From my stupid understanding of Korean customs and law, the judgement must’ve been like this:

Lawyer: “Your honor, my client, the tobacco companies, generate a revenue of 10 billion won and spend 5 on advertising. The NHIS can only ever spend 1 billion against us.” Judge: “Since you have more money, tobacco companies, you are more correct. NHIS, go get fucked for not being rich enough.”

The lower court said the NHIS’s payments to medical institutions were the fulfillment of its legal obligations under the National Health Insurance Act and the execution of funds collected or supported under that law — meaning the benefit payments were a duty, not a compensable loss.

It also held that the smokers themselves did not have valid claims for damages against the tobacco companies, citing difficulty in finding defects in the cigarettes and a lack of proof of individual causation between smoking and lung cancer.

But the court said epidemiological research has limits, noting that it does not, in fact, provide precise information about what caused a particular individual’s disease.

To be fair, the argument is scientifically valid, there are many things that increase the risk of cancer, so it’s hard to pinpoint “the cause”. HOWEVER, a judge deciding that “you can’t really prove it was the smoking that caused the cancer” sounds like someone “paying” for the “free gifts” he received from his tobacco friends.

What’s the size difference when you remove the porn stuff from the torrent?

For a moment, I thought the Just Cause 2 island was real

Not to mention that while the oil will be sold at market price, Venezuelans will be at the mercy of asshole-in-chief as he’ll control “when” they get to spend it, and only on 'murican goods

Filament printer? I’d print a couple of microSD card holders, USB stick holders, those thingamabobs that help you organize your million loose USB cables, organizing cases for card games or specific boardgames, some hexagonal organizing shelves because they look neat

Because the point was to curb population growth AND fuck future generations. Makes one wonder why such policies were viewed favorably by the west at large.

Portuguese^[1] doesn’t have that. People will use a variety of alternatives, like elu/eli/el@/elx, which frankly sound super dumb. It doesn’t help that almost everything in the language is gendered.

Related Real Life Lore video from 3y ago but still relevant, that explains the “deadline” of around 2030 for mainland China to attempt an invasion (around 21:00 on video) and the escalation happening then - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6sCsOdqXQw

Invest on Apple first, their profit curve and stock price gets absurdly higher after 2010

Then trump became a parody of Tannen. Go figure

Nothing, no one would listen to me and I doubt I could get away with killing billionaires or destroying their property

That was roughly a month before he caved

I don’t consider myself a gooner or coomer or whatever, but there are days where I really feel like a fucking waste of a person due to how much I beat it. Sometimes I’m doing something else, but if I’m not focused, sometimes horny will just happen and that gets focus quite easily.

I know the best way for me to get rid of that is to block sites via hosts file, as it’s a slight annoyance to edit it in Windows (gotta open notepad as admin, then make it open c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts), which is already enough to make me give up and do something else. I have added a bunch, but there are many that aren’t blocked and it’s so damn easy to find them…

My silver lining is that I don’t use the phone for porn, so I only need to step away from my computer to avoid porn altogether, but the PC is my main addiction that I’m not even trying to break.

Off the top of my head, I can immediately think of “civitt” as a better alternative - civilians instead of corpo overlords. Personitt. Hell, even “netizen” or some variation of that would be better. Zennet?

So, if I’m on programming.dev and you’re the owner/manager of lemmy.world, I can post on lemmy.world but you can’t block me at all, is that right?

No sane person wants to run anything on the internet where they can’t delete or block comments/users/other instances

it can scale infinitely because there are no historical ledger like a blockchain or hub, it’s like bittorrent, if a community no longer has any seeds, it stops existing.

Sounds like freenet, though the obvious downside of freenet is that you have to have it running as a program before you access its sites.

I guess they missed the memo on how their monarchs aren’t actually divine, or maybe they really, really, REALLY want to keep that tradition alive. Could be both, too, or other reasons.

Live action Porco Rosso is looking rather different

I can think of several reasons:

• get information on Russian forces
• lower Russian morale
• let Ukrainians die first because it’s more profitable
• make Ukraine a debt-slave state to its NATO sponsors
• go in guns blazing in order to save Ukraine so NATO gets good press
• force Ukraine to sign all sorts of deals that will leave the country at the complete mercy of big western corpos

Glad to see that you lack an understanding of scale, that explains a lot.

Should the single parent who had a dream to make art who is getting crushed by capitalism, works 3 jobs to make ends meet and literally doesnt have time to learn there passion without starving not also deserve to be able to express themselves?

They’re not expressing themselves if all they’re doing is the equivalent of a boss telling a worker to do something. This is also called “commissioning an artist”

Oh no poor people might be able to make money off of art instead of only massive corporations that effectively already killed the human spirit in art already. Oh no someone who may have gone to school for art so they can express themselves may no longer be able to get a job at an ad company where their love for art gets extinguished as they have to constantly make soulless logos for mega corps based on advise from advertising psychologist who define what will tingle peoples brain more to make them want to consume more.

This whole paragraph is such a display of bad faith that I can’t even figure what’s your position. My best guess: a lot of words to dodge the problem.

The problem your scared about already happens but is dressed up as human expression today by pr departments because people do it. If anything AI art would counter that because now more people will be producing things for the sole reason of expressing themselves instead of needing to take a soul crushing job eroding the expression of their craft for a corporation to make up for the years of debt they incurred by going to school to follow their passion only to find out the field they went into is a farce.

Yeah, nothing like getting a soul crushing job that doesn’t involve art, so that my artistic spirit can remain unfulfilled forever while I pretend to boss around a prompt and think I did something. Refer back to my first point of this reply.

People believe anything already, people believed random hearsay in the past. The only counter for any type of manipulation like this whether being based in deep fakes or just someone spewing nonsense on a pod cast is critical thinking skills. AI doesnt change that one bit, if someone doesnt want to think critically about something they wont, they don’t need AI today to practice cognitive dissonance and blocking AI wont stop that behavior only focusing on education and critical thinking skills will.

It’s a matter of scale. That you failed to grasp something so simple says a lot.