I wouldn’t.

These survivalist fantasies where people paint themselves as capable and not fodder…

Hell, you outlast the outbreak/bomb you’ll probably die of sepsis the first time you get a bad cut or a tooth that goes rotten.

If it is truly the apocalypse, you are best just letting go, because what follows after is like the end of night out at a club when they turn the lights on.

Hell, if only they made Linux open source so that we could change anything we didn’t like about the age verification stuff.

And yet another piece of software I have to abandon because of this dioshit cult behaviour.

Thanks guys. You really just went ahead and put your dick in it.

Go back and read the comment thread.

We are talking about the origin of the divergence of an English term. That’s what we are talking about.

Yes, you are right, it happened a long time ago. Well done. That’s the point. It’s what we were talking about.

Stop framing your poor comprehension skills as conversation.

In the mid-1800s aluminium was more expensive than gold.

Here is an article about it

I didn’t know that about King Louis (n) … That’s a great fact!

In part it was because it was named out of standard through a misunderstanding but then it wasn’t corrected…

You spell it differently so that you can pronounce it differently, as I say, to make it sound like a rare and valuable metal.

It is pure marketing.

Aluminium used to be hard to obtain. It was a rare metal and then some smart bastard worked out how to extract it using electrolysis and it became as common as dirt.

Some people had invested heavily in it as a precious metal and overnight their investment was worthless, so hence the reluctance to rebrand.

Possibly because Americans were so keen to call themselves billionaires they lowered the requirement.

Similar to how they pronounce “Aluminium” the same as “Platinum” to make it sound like a precious metal.

This isn’t a criticism. If I’m being kind the real reason is that less separation between “million” and “billion” is functionally more useful, as well as aspirational.

Your account is 2 months old.

You called me “dense”.

Not really in a position to opine there.

Ok chief. Because it really reads like you just said that in the comment above.

How’s that working out for you, chief?

… But more sensibly, the argument you are using enables corporations to steal the work and labour of individuals.

It is the argument that means only middle class wealthy individuals get to make art.

It’s a shite argument, and it’s been debunked a ton of times.

I don’t think pithy means what you think it means.

So, something is only theft if it is profitable?

That’s a wonderfully liberating new definition.

I guarantee we are but months away from a senior labour politician resigning because they are found to have incest porn on one of their devices.

This isn’t piracy though.

They aren’t consuming media. They are reselling it.

They aren’t downloading a film to watch or “illegally” accessing a text.

They are using the unpaid labour of other humans as their product and will gouge the rest of society for it through entertainment media, civil infrastructure and healthcare.

Whilst your pithy, cliched statement is fun to throw around when we talk about torrenting a marvel movie, it’s completely useless in this context.

The most interesting thing about this is the fact that step siblings can have legal relationships and even marry under UK law, but depictions of their very legal sex lives are now illegal.

I think someone might challenge this as a human right to expression infringement.

For instance, you and your partner happen to be step siblings, but want to generate income on onlyfans. Now you can’t. Not because you are defacto doing anything illegal.

Also, and here’s where it gets fun…

Imagine you and your partner do make sexy videos but then your respective parents hook up.

The videos were made when you were not step siblings, but now you are.

Where does the law stand there? No one knows.

That’s probably because Google are deliberately nerfing your viewing because you are using an ad blocker.

They tell you as much in the little pop up.

Aside from the visual cues. The context is clearly bullshit too.

Fringe.

Not for everyone, but if it is for you, you’ll adore it.

You can chose to hide posts.

That might be based on a keyword, for example, “Trump”, or based on tages such as NSFW.

You can always chose to see these posts again.