I never thought I’d say this, but can we channel a little Andrew Jackson energy in regard to the courts?

Fuji or Pink Lady for red apples, Mutsu (aka. Crispin) for green apples. Jonagolds split the difference.

I’d like to see a world more like that, but it feels like something that would require a society much different than the one we currently have.

Even your simplified mention of freeing IP not being marketed, in the Internet age, does having an item listed as for sale but out of stock or for an unreasonable price counted as being marketed? It’s technically advertised for sale at no real cost, and can be done so in perpetuity. Or they could sell themselves product to show legal sales.

Simple rules and judgement operating under the intentof the law makes sense to rational individuals like us, but with scammy business and individuals, that’s why we end up with a complex legal system. If we hate when legal loopholes are taken advantage of, we can’t outright hate when laws get more complex.

Did some more digging to get us some more helpful info here. I assembled quotes from 3 articles to make you guys a more cohesive story. Take that AI, I’m coming for your jobs! 😆

First quote is from OP’s PBS article. The rest is assembled from this BBC article, and this other article that the BBC referred to for their info.

Deaths from illegally brewed alcohol are common in India, where the poor cannot afford licensed brands from government-run shops. The illicit liquor, which is often spiked with chemicals such as pesticides to increase potency, has also become a hugely profitable industry as bootleggers pay no taxes and sell enormous quantities of their product to the poor at a cheap rate.

The district police had arrested one person on Wednesday, June 19, identified as Kannukutty (49). He is accused of peddling the liquor. The police had also seized 200 litres of liquor from his possession. According to the police, Kannukutty had mixed methanol in the country liquor and had sold it in packets.

Family members of the deceased, however, told TNM that the police are complicit. “Illicit liquor is regularly sold in this area. The police know. If someone complains, they will stop for 10 days but resume again. If a person complains, the police will tip the peddler off on who raised the complaint and immediately, that person is threatened by the peddlers. That’s why people have refrained from complaining. The peddlers definitely pay a sum of money to the police to continue selling illicit liquor,” a family member of a victim said.

Another family member of the victim added that Karunapuram’s Dalit Colony has seen the most number of deaths. “The sale of illicit liquor is so rampant here that even 13 and 15-year-old boys are being sold packets by peddlers. These peddlers are now also selling Marijuana. Today, despite so many deaths, no one apart from the Tahsildar and a few police have come to this Dalit Colony. We want the officials to initiate strict action and put an end to the sale of drugs and illicit liquor,” she added.

A day earlier, Chief Minister MK Stalin expressed his shock over the tragic incident and announced actions against officials who failed to prevent it. In a post on X, MK Stalin said, “I was shocked and saddened to hear the news of the deaths of people who had consumed adulterated liquor in Kallakurichi. Those involved in the crime have been arrested in this matter. Action has also been taken against the officials who failed to prevent it.

Authorities have also suspended a senior police official and ten members of the state’s prohibition enforcement wing - which overseas the smuggling of illicit alcohol in the state - for negligence.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has announced a compensation of 1m rupees ($12,000; £9,425) to families of those who have died and 50,000 rupees each to those who are hospitalised.

It may be noted that earlier, in May 2023 as well, 22 persons lost their lives after consuming illicit liquor in Villupuram and Chengalpattu districts of Tamil Nadu. The Villupuram police had confirmed that the fatalities were due to the presence of methanol in the spurious alcohol consumed.

“The deaths caused by illicit liquor in the past two years under the DMK [Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam] regime have decelerated Tamil Nadu by four decades, taking us back to the 1980s,” said K Annamalai, the state chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

He demanded that the minister in charge of overseeing the sale of alcohol should resign immediately.

I largely agree. I don’t know the best solution for copyright. On one hand, I don’t think that necessarily the creators’ kids deserve rights forever. They didn’t make the stuff. But on the other hand, who does get the money after the creators are gone? The publisher in this case should get something for publishing physical materials or for marketing their wares that sell, but again, they didn’t create it so someone should get something.

I do think that if nobody does anything with a work for x amount of time (maybe 10 years) then it should be fair game for anyone that does.

Even things like old games, if I download a Contra NES ROM, how am I hurting Nintendo or Konami?

If I download LotR, how am I ripping off Tolkien? I’m not stealing a hard copy. I could borrow it from a physical library. Why can’t I borrow it from an electronic library? The person that deserves the rights to the literal story is dead. He doesn’t care.

True, but it is the manga that’s the artists’ work. Anime is (usually) an adaptation by someone else. I always appreciate when they put in similar effort, but I’m appreciative when they just adapt things faithfully. Looking at you, Promised Neverland!

Golden Kamuy is a meme with the bad CG animations that sometimes get put in. The bear is the famous one that looks like a cut n paste hack job.

But it is what it is. For action orientated anime especially, I’m just happy they get animated so I can follow the action better. My brain can fill in the missing bits.

Always looked forward to the color cover art of his! I’ll have to read more Junji Ito. Someone just the other week informed me of Enigma of Amigara Fault and I really liked that.

Komi is on my list, but my brain always confuses it with Aharen-san Is Indecipherable, which I’ve already seen.

Having watched anime from the 80s on, the low quality stuff nowadays I typically don’t notice. As long as the stories are good and the voices aren’t terrible, that’s pretty much all I need.

Dr Stone had some really great moments and I enjoyed it greatly. I finished the manga, and I’ll say at some point most of the science kinda goes out the window as far as them explaining stuff, and people seemed split on if they liked or hated the ending. Was good overall, but kind of lost some of the charm for me when they started building modern tech.

I’m totally caught up on the OP manga. I’m at the end of Dressrosa in the anime.

If you know enough to get those Gintama references, you should be good to go. The first like 40ish episodes (up until the first movie) it’s pretty much a Seinfeld show-about-nothing type of thing, but it sets you up with many of the huge cast of reoccurring characters and sets the baseline for all to come. By the last few seasons though you won’t recognize anyone as you have so much backstory to everything going on and their mundane adventures of trying to afford their next meal have scaled up so slowly to a space epic. You really grow with them all so much along the way, and I feel the world is even more fleshed out than One Piece if you can imagine. If you know some basics of Japanese history in regard to them losing their isolation with outside countries and some basic shogun/samurai/shinsengumi history you will get some of the deeper and IRL cultural references as well. Some 10 minute Youtube videos will give you more than enough. Some characters are historical figures, parodies of course, but knowing that they were real people will make it funnier as well. I wouldn’t call this historical fiction at all, but a very light alternate history wouldn’t be inaccurate.

I watched season 1 of JJK, liked it enough to pick up the manga, but dropped both. I’m in my 40’s now, so it has to be a standout shonen to get me into it at this point. It just felt like it went more teen than adult to me as it went on. I dropped it for Chainsaw Man and I stick by that decision.

That reminded me, I was going to say Steins’ Gate is seinen so it’s directed more to adults, and that reminded me of another awesome and underrated show: Golden Kamuy! It follows and Ainu girl (aboriginal Japanese) and an ex-soldier on a treasure hunt where the map is tattooed on vicious killer escaped prisoners! It is very much historical fiction, but full of gags and comedy, but you learn a lot about the Ainu people which I though was outstanding stuff I had never heard of. The story was awesome too. Lots of alliance shifting and backstabbing and plots, and nice brutal combat scenes and some great villains! If you want something more adult but still with juvenile humor (nudity jokes, poop jokes, penis jokes) this is what you want. English dub is great too IMO, that’s the one I watched. It was the first manga I read because I couldnt wait to find out what happened next. Amazing storytelling and historical research. If you read the manga, each ends with notes going over the real history of the people and places in that chapter. It even earned a museum tour near the end of its run!

When I saw the post title, I was going to say One Piece. I checked out some random episodes years ago, and it was too weird just jumping in the middle (where they met Chopper at the time) so I gave up on it, and then it got too big to get into. My friends finally pressured me into picking it up, and I read the manga in about 6 months and now I’m 3/4 through the anime and love it so much after over 20 years of anime watching. It’s just such a fun world and I love all the characters, good and bad alike. How it’s still so exciting after all this time is amazing and it’s so awesome that all the plotlines keep intersecting like it’s been planned out all along.

Since we’ve already got that one checked off, I love Steins’ Gate as a sci fi fan. Go in blind for the best experience.

Gintama is amazing, but it starts pretty slow and doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere, but then you really get hooked on the characters and the world like with One Piece. Eventually though, it turns into something HUGE and it’s like it’s gradually evolved into something epic. It’s got a ton of anime/manga references, which will make it even funnier once you’ve seen more shonen stuff. I love it, but it’s totally not a show for everyone, but I watched it all through Covid lockdown and it was one of the best rides of my life. It’s One Piece-ish, but in a very smartass way. They break the fourth wall, make fun of you for watching, there’s many disgusting bits, the reuse animation on purpose, the characters are totally insane. Replace One Piece’s pirates with aliens, the MC is a mix of Luffy and Zoro, and instead of searching for a treasure, they’re fighting an epic space war.

Hah, thank you! I just can’t see a question going unanswered! I love learning and researching, so it is usually a fun challenge if it’s something I don’t know.

If you’d like to see more of me doing my thing, check me out at !superbowl@lemmy.world every day where I research and teach about more types of owl than you could ever imagine.

There’s absolutely a good number of duplicates among the list they shared.

The bigger implication is of the 4 publishers in this lawsuit, 3 of them are in The Big Five publishers, who hold rights to the vast majority of books (60-80-ish % of English language books) from this century and probably a good chunk of the last one. If they win, this is the tip of the iceberg.

It’s more of a warehouse job than a science job, so I’m probably not qualified to help, but I love learning, so I did some reading.

Different mixes of CO² and nitrogen are available for both carbonating/nitrogenizing beer, and further mixes designed to pressurize the lines for dispensing. Replacement beverage o-rings seem to come in a number of materials from polyurethane, silicone, teflon, and others and looking at o-ring compatibility charts, they all seem to both be listed as compatible for nitrogen and CO².

Since you’re not dealing with liquid gas, I don’t think you need to worry so much about material as if you’re using something food safe made for beverages, it doesn’t seem to be an issue what they’re made of or which gas you use as far as I can find. You also shouldn’t need to worry about the nitrogen freezing the CO² and forming dry ice from the amount I could imagine you using at home.

Without knowing more about what exactly you’re working on, that’s the best general help I can dig up. Depending on what exactly you’re doing, finding a good homebrew or scuba shop/forum could probably get you the most reliable answer to what you’re working on since they’ll both be blending those gases in a manner safe for the human body.

I hope that was at least marginally helpful!

I’m glad to see there’s a few of us in the 5 figure salary club here!

I’m scientific support for a major pharma company. I tell people my job is essentially to be Hank Hill, as I’m in charge of compressed and liquid gases. I keep everyone squared away with liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, liquid argon, and any number and size of gas cylinder.

It’s not a bad job. Pay is ok for what I do, people are generally nice, and most days I’m done the bulk of my work in 2-3 hours, so the rest of the time is mine unless someone needs something.

The rest of the day I’ll prep and respond to posts here, study music, read comics or books, and watch cartoons. Nobody seems to care as long as the work gets done.

It’s low stress and a decent environment, so I got no complaints. It’s not as good as my last job, doing data analysis of hazardous chemicals. The place was generally run really well and almost all my work was doing daily reports on inventory. I made macros to do everything, so my work was done in less than half an hour most days and I got to work at home.

Being a nobody in pharma is pretty great as long as your group is cool.

Yes, but one typically enters into a business partnership with people they know and trust. One isn’t supposed to really dive into the deeper characteristics of someone they rent to so as to avoid potential discrimination. Look at this the same way whoever you work for hires people. HR vets them and says, this person is who they say they are, and probably won’t burn the place down or singe-handedly put us out of business. Same for finding a renter for a property basically. Now how thrilled would you be to be forced to co-own a property with monetary and legal liability with your least favorite coworker for the next 20-40 years?

When the time comes to spend $20k to replace the roof on your shared home, you care about the home and want it done right and say, hey so-and-so, you got $10k for your half of the roof? So-and-so says nah, I actually don’t have any money, but me and my buddy can replace that roof ourselves for $5k in materials, so give us the $5k and we’ll do it and our half will be the labor even though neither of us are roofers. Same with landscaping. Painting. Plumbing. Flooring. All things that just need replacing with time, even if you take care of them. And now So-and-so lives in your home for 10 years, trashing it, never helping fix anything right, and making the place liveable, but not as great as it was before he moved in or as good as you wanted to make it. And now since he’s a renter still, he says, you know, this place isn’t as good as it was, I’m out. Now you not only get to pick up the full tab to get it up to snuff for the next renter, but you possibly get to do it all over again.

I bought my ex’s grandmother’s house after she passed that had a rental on it. I lived there for 2 months before we split, and that 2 months was enough landlording for a lifetime to me. That guy took advantage of everything possible, called me the middle of the night when power went out for the whole neighborhood, and after I left he brought home bedbugs. He had an arrangement to fix things around the place with her grandmother. None of that stuff was ever done. We had to threaten legal action for him to finish up what he actually had started. This is what your scenario allows to happen without penalty to the tenant.

Renters don’t all want to be property owners. They don’t want the responsibility of maintaining a property. I live in a condo because I dont want to mow lawns, worry about siding and shingles and fighting grub infestations and maintaining a parking area. Owning a single family home isn’t for me, and I’ve found a happy medium where I don’t rent, but I don’t have full responsibility. If you don’t want to be a property owner, you’re not going to be a good property owner and your neighbors will hate you for having the crappy house on the block. I’m sure you have one of those people in your neighborhood.

Again, we need people thinking about how to resolve the housing situation in many parts of the world, but forced business relationships aren’t good. UBI, social security, disability, food stamps, housing subsidies. People need the cash to live a life they can find comfortable. Let them buy, let them rent, whatever they feel comfortable doing. Set ordinances how much housing can be owned by people not using them as primary residence. They’re tough fights, but that’s what needs to be examined. I’m all for tenants’ rights, but they don’t have the same skin in the game as the owner. That doesn’t make them inferior in any way. But they don’t shoulder burden beyond making rent. And that can be a valuable thing. I could never see myself renting, but my brother on the other hand doesn’t seem to want to own a house. He does enough work doing construction he doesn’t want to deal with all that crap at home. I don’t blame him.

Home ownership sucks many times, and for someone to take a reasonable fee to bear that responsibility isn’t wrong. I pay a property management company $200/mo to enforce rules on me, but also my neighbors to make sure we don’t get that guy trashing things. They make sure the neighbor’s dryer lint doesn’t burn my house down. They negotiate the rate with the garbage man. They get the sidewalks cleared when it snows. So I pay someone to basically be my landlord even though I own my home. They provide a service, and if you get a crappy one, being a renter you can find a new one. I don’t get a choice, but thankfully my HOA is pretty decent all considered. They earn their money. Sometimes they tick me off, but they overall earn their fees. A good landlord is the same. I’m for having strict rules that they provide safe and clean spaces to live if they’re going to rent to others, but most are not faceless corporations, they’re regular people that have landlord as a day job or side gig. I know the heads of my HOA outside of that role, and they’re good people. As I said, sometimes they annoy me with decisions, but they have more people than just me to keep happy. A landlord is just another service provider and there are good ones and bad ones, and a lot of meh ones. If you rent, you get some choice at least in who it is.

Don’t take this as a criticism, but do you own a home?

How would changing property values be accounted for, and how often is the appraisal done, and who pays for that? Can a landlord sell his rentals to someone else while they are rentals? If no, why not? What incentive does a landlord have to keep a property nice and safe if x% is no longer theirs? If the rent-to-owner decides they want to move or not buy the house, what happens to the money? Is any given to the landlord? Why can’t the landlord increase rent to drive out a tenant? If a new sewer line needs to be run, and it’s $10k, how is the cost split? How are property taxes dealt with if the unit is owned by multiple parties? If a homeowner owns 51% of the property and someone is injured on the property, who’s insurance pays?

I get there is a lot to dislike about slumlord type landlords, but property and home ownership isn’t like buying a toaster. There are a ton of laws and rules and responsibilities that clearly defined parties still have court cases over. There is financial risk in property ownership, and your proposal seems to be having private citizens, even if “rich” by your definition, and it is the government dictating private use of their property.

There are positive aspects to renting, which you don’t seem to consider. I tried to sell my house for over a year, but foreclosures had driven down property prices so much for a time, I literally couldn’t afford to give my house away for below market value and still have any money left to put on a new house. If I was a renter, I could just say I’m done here and go off and do whatever. If something breaks, there’s someone who is supposed to fix it, no cost or effort to you. You don’t need to worry about taxes and setting aside money for maintenance or hire contractors.

I want everyone to have a home, and I hate scumbugs and corporate ownership of residential property, but many of these people do serve important purposes, and many people would not have a place to live if property owners didn’t rent out access to those properties.

Again, I’m not a landlord because of many of these things, but I do own property and wouldn’t like something like this. It is a very complicated issue and this just comes off as someone who’s never had to fight the local zoning board, deal with a utility screwing around with you, or having messed up property records having the government trying to make you pay taxes you don’t owe say property owners have it made. It took me 8 years, 3 title insurance companies, and a judge to get my property records corrected after my divorce.

Expanding construction of affordable housing people would want to live in and expanding housing subsidies and just in general providing adequate social safety nets will get people in homes. Giving people with no means to maintain a home is not a benefit, it’s just another huge thing that brings a pile of never-ending expenses.

Internet Archive post about it

Google Doc List of the books from the IA

Cheerwine is great stuff! The one gas station chain carried it here for a bit, but I haven’t seen it in about a year or so now.

I’ve been enjoying all the random new Coke flavors.

The Rosalia one and Y3000 were both exceptional to me, and the new Coke Spice is nice as well.

I was sad when the Rosalia ended production, that was a great flavor. The limited time thing does make it exciting too.

Summit rocks. Great app and a great dev as well. They’re very active and quick on bug fixes and feature requests.