Should Elvis really be vilified for liking blues and rock music and playing it himself? How does that hurt anyone?
Like should we be pissed at Django Reihnhardt? Or R.A The Rugged Man? What about Japanese bagpipe players?
Not anyone. You have to be rich.
Solid puns but this is actually a problem. Beehives are quite valuable, like $500 per hive or so to just straight up sell them, or obviously they can also be incorporated into an apiary for long-term production.
Theft of beehives is really not unheard of. Similar to how people steal cows and shit. Beekeepers will sometimes brand or otherwise mark their hives in an attempt to deter such thievery.
Personally I keep my beehives in huge steel cages, though that is primarily to protect them from bears.
My garden is going awesome. Third year gardening, first time managing a pretty sizeable garden myself. I'm currently eating probably 50-60% of my food from the garden. Right now I'm harvesting eggplant, tomatos, beans, carrots, beets, kale, kohlrabi, basil, oregano, dill, cucumber, a variety of peppers, and a preposterous amount of zucchini. The zuchs are finally starting to chill out but I've got like 7 huge zucchinis taking up all my kitchen space and I eat like 3 a week. I've got a bunch of different types of squash coming in. I'm just finishing eating the last of my summer peas. I need to harvest my potatoes, might do that this weekend. The corn will be ready soon but so far I've been real bad at getting the timing right for corn.
My cauliflower is not looking so hot. Dunno if my climate is good for it or if I just haven't been giving it enough attention. Aphids are starting to make their prescence known on my kale, but I find especially with dyno-kale that they don't really detract too much from the food value, just takes some time to wash them off.
I need to do some work putting down straw mulch around plants and reinforcing the bark mulch pathways I've started putting in. Long term I would like to replace or at least supplement the overhead sprinkler irrigation with a drip or even micro-sprinkler system.
I never pruned my tomatoes and so they are kind of a big mess. Getting lots of fruit from them now and they are so good, I didn't used to like tomatoes but I'm just eating these bitches salad style. Lots of damage from quail and whatnot on the tomatoes but not to an extent that's really bugging me since I'm not selling the things.
Peppers seem to be taking forever but are finally starting to turn colour. Got lots of green bell peppers, lots of what I think are hungarian wax peppers that are just starting to finally turn orange and get flavourful. Got some habaneros finally coming in, and some kind of skinny chillis. I've also got some purple ones that I can't at all tell when to properly pick. A few that I've tried have seen premature.
Got sunflowers all over the place, mostly self-seeded. Garden is also full of self-seeding calendula and dill, which have been filled with pollinators of various types including my own bees.
I really like my garden. Inherited it from my grandmother in law, but she would be really horrified to see how many "weeds" I allow to persist.
It doesn't matter how you recreate an image, if you recreate someone else's work that is a violation of copyright.
Stealing someone's style is a different matter.
Well said. Copyright is whatever, but the disrespect shown here is remarkable.
Indeed.
I'm afraid that even laws aren't the root cause. I'm pretty concerned about the infrastructure we have allowed to be built around us, and what we will continue to allow to be built going forward. Even if we had strong privacy laws, laws are fickle things. The only thing separating us from full on Orwellian dystopia is some bad policy changes, the technology is already in place and we bought it on purpose.
To me it seems the United States is heading towards civil war more than revolution. There's factionalism at play that is deeper than just class antagonisms. I read a book recently where the author was talking about how times when states are transitioning into or out of "democraticness" in when civil wars are most likely to occur. Factionalism and shifting democratic integrity means high risk for civil war. Apparently.
This is why Athenians considered representative electoral systems to be of the oligarchical political type rather than the democratic. It was apparently the understanding then that such a system is one in which the rich and powerful rule by way of money and influence, as opposed to a democracy in which rulership was determined by lottery.
No voting at 70? Wow. That seems so tragically disrespectful towards the people in our community we should be regarding as our elders. I think you are exaggerating the extent of mental decline with age pretty significantly and not appreciating the benefits. One of the most politically active and motivated people I know is in her 70s.
16 year olds may have the most skin in the game, if one can handle such generalized statements, but clearly the thing that teenagers lack is perspective and experience.
Not all elderly people are Mitch McConnell, just like not all young people are George Santos.
Your logic is flawed in that derivative works are not a violation of copyright. Generally, copyright protects a text or piece of art from being reproduced. Specific characters and settings can be protected by copyright, concepts and themes cannot. People take inspiration from the work of others all the time. Lots of TV shows or whatever are heavily informed by previous works, and that's totally fine.
Copyright protects the reproduction of other peoples work, and the reuse of their specific characters. It doesn't protect style, themes, concepts, etc. IE. the things that an AI is trying to derive. So like if you trained your LLM only on Tolkien such that it always told stories about Gandalf and the hobbits, then that would be a problem.
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