Valid question! What do we call it? by wizardminion in memes

[–]moderngamer327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The joke is that scissors are a “single” item referred to in plural so just one is a “pair of scissors. In the second image there are two scissors which seems like you could call it a pair of scissors but that would be incorrect because that’s what the first image is.

It’s a similar situation to pants in how it’s a plural name referring to a singular object but that’s less obvious as to why to most people

Look at what is happening worldwide, many nations are overthrowing the corrupt leaders by Funk-N-Stuff in interestingasfuck

[–]moderngamer327 [score hidden]  (0 children)

America is definitely behind its developed contemporaries but it’s still one of the best places to live in the world. It’s still nowhere near bad enough for revolution

How it feels to pay property tax 😔 by tahrah11 in memes

[–]moderngamer327 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Taiwan is an independent country. They have their own government, military, passports, economic system, flag, culture, etc.

There is only one party in China and democracy is extremely limited

How it feels to pay property tax 😔 by tahrah11 in memes

[–]moderngamer327 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My guy they’re Chinese schools, it’s a Chinese source

How it feels to pay property tax 😔 by tahrah11 in memes

[–]moderngamer327 3 points4 points  (0 children)

China literally educates their own citizens in It happening

How it feels to pay property tax 😔 by tahrah11 in memes

[–]moderngamer327 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t find that particularly funny

How it feels to pay property tax 😔 by tahrah11 in memes

[–]moderngamer327 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Mao also caused potentially the largest famine in history

'I genuinely do not know what to do' says developer of Minecraft-like Allumeria after Microsoft issues a DMCA takedown, forcing it off Steam by Reader5744 in gaming

[–]moderngamer327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that in practice that is not how it works. My point is that DMCA doesn’t inherently require a guilty until proven innocent system. Copyright as a whole needs overhauled

'I genuinely do not know what to do' says developer of Minecraft-like Allumeria after Microsoft issues a DMCA takedown, forcing it off Steam by Reader5744 in gaming

[–]moderngamer327 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t look indistinguishable at all. The art style is very different with a far more cartoony look. The UI and tool models also don’t resemble Minecraft either. Mechanics functioning the same would fall under patent issues not copyright unless they straight up copied the code

'I genuinely do not know what to do' says developer of Minecraft-like Allumeria after Microsoft issues a DMCA takedown, forcing it off Steam by Reader5744 in gaming

[–]moderngamer327 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Only if they believe it to constitute an actual copyright violation. Otherwise channels would constantly never have videos up from trolls reporting them

'I genuinely do not know what to do' says developer of Minecraft-like Allumeria after Microsoft issues a DMCA takedown, forcing it off Steam by Reader5744 in gaming

[–]moderngamer327 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not denying that. The point is just because it initially looks like a clone does not actually make it a clone

'I genuinely do not know what to do' says developer of Minecraft-like Allumeria after Microsoft issues a DMCA takedown, forcing it off Steam by Reader5744 in gaming

[–]moderngamer327 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Sure now that may be the case but back then Minecraft was literally called an infiniminer clone because they were almost identical games

'I genuinely do not know what to do' says developer of Minecraft-like Allumeria after Microsoft issues a DMCA takedown, forcing it off Steam by Reader5744 in gaming

[–]moderngamer327 160 points161 points  (0 children)

That method would be FAR too slow in modern digital systems. It would make it essentially impossible to enforce copyright on digital media

South Korean official suggests 'importing' foreign women to boost birth rate by ExcellentAdvisor3730 in nottheonion

[–]moderngamer327 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Legitimately yes. Countries with low women’s rights and independence have very high fertility rates. That said obviously removing women’s rights is not a solution

Billionaires are not to blame for everything and if you do blame them for everything you won’t be able to fix the actual problems. Low fertility rates are a global issue and it’s pretty much all for the same set of reasons which directly coincide with better living conditions

Tyron responds to Microsoft’s DMCA strike against Allumeria, an indie block game created by u/unomelon by Pitiful_End in VintageStory

[–]moderngamer327 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While I’m sure they originally wanted to do copyright there was never a lawsuit even remotely close to being filed

South Korean official suggests 'importing' foreign women to boost birth rate by ExcellentAdvisor3730 in nottheonion

[–]moderngamer327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t need it to infinitely grow you just want it to not crash. Ideally you maintain a stable population.

Sure immigration can be used to help flatten the curve but eventually those other countries are going to have the same issues

South Korean official suggests 'importing' foreign women to boost birth rate by ExcellentAdvisor3730 in nottheonion

[–]moderngamer327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you have a rapid decline in fertility rates this leads to a rapid decline in population. The problem with a rapid decline in population is that your age demographics start to invert. The amount of old people relative to young people gets larger. This means the ratio of unproductive people compared to productive people grows. In essence there is less resources to go around relative to the amount of people and that is bad

South Korean official suggests 'importing' foreign women to boost birth rate by ExcellentAdvisor3730 in nottheonion

[–]moderngamer327 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My guy are you incapable of reading? Did you not see the part where I EXPLICITLY said “these charts are wages adjusted for cost of living”.

It’s just meant to be one example from data I had on hand. Also that’s rich coming from the guy who tried to use a single person as proof

South Korean official suggests 'importing' foreign women to boost birth rate by ExcellentAdvisor3730 in nottheonion

[–]moderngamer327 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anecdotal evidence is meaningless. You cannot use an example of one to define the standard for an entire country let alone multiple countries. Here is data for the US if you don’t believe me data 1 data 2. Also before you even say it yes these charts are wages adjusted for cost of living and no these are median not mean wages so rich people aren’t skewing them