Certainly the avatar must be more life-like.

Researchers like Timothy Leary felt psychedelics could alter the fundamental personality structure or subjective value-system of an individual to great potential benefit. Beginning in 1961, he conducted experiments with prison inmates in an attempt to reduce recidivism with short, intense psychotherapy sessions. Participants were administered psilocybin during these sessions weeks apart with regular group therapy sessions in between.[24] Psychedelic therapy was also applied in a number of other specific patient populations including individuals with alcoholism, children with autism, and persons with terminal illness.[24]

Studies on medicinal applications of psychedelics ceased entirely in the United States when the Controlled Substances Act was passed in 1970. LSD and many other psychedelics were placed into the most restrictive “Schedule I” category by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. Schedule I compounds are claimed to possess “a high potential for abuse and the potential to create severe psychological and/or physical dependence” and have “no currently accepted medical use”,[28] effectively rendering them illegal to use in the United States for all purposes. Despite objections from the scientific community, authorized research into therapeutic applications of psychedelic drugs had been discontinued worldwide by the 1980s.

Can’t have prisoners being reformed when they can be rented out as ditch-diggers for less than minimum wage. Just don’t call it slavery.

Strictly speaking, copyright applies to a particular expression of an idea — in this case, a recording of a performance. Copyright also applies to the arrangement — you can’t (legally) sell copied sheet music.

As a practical matter, artists seek permission to cover (hah) their bases and because the recording industry is functioning like a cartel. Don’t cover our songs and we won’t cover yours without permission.

But we saw Taylor Swift cover her own songs. She didn’t seek permission (or did and it wasn’t given). She now owns the copyright to the covers, but not the originals. The owner of the originals is mad about it but she doesn’t care about maintaining a good relationship with the owner.

She might be on firmer legal ground since she wrote the songs and was the original recording artist, and will win in the court of public opinion, but labels hate that idea and will fight it anyway.

But you see why artists are much more prone to cover others’ music during live shows. They have a stronger legal defense since it isn’t a recording and would ruffle fewer record label execs’ feathers.

Be sure you don’t call a genocide a genocide. Wouldn’t be proper.

Must be crowded there in Kursk.

Hurry up, Daddy Vladdy! Do something!

They were angry about “single mothers” for decades, but that was a racist dog whistle.

If you’re all white, it’s all right.

Always was.

Strawman. I vote in every election.

But I don’t hold it against those who don’t. They correctly see the two party system as completely uninterested in representing them and delivering any material benefit to voters.

It’s up to Democrats to earn votes. They aren’t owed votes. And if they keep fucking around in primaries (if they even have primaries — cf. Kamala), then they can expect third party candidates.

Like who?

Lots of people? Many people? The bigliest of people?

🙄

Ah yes. The democratic party enthusiastically supported the progressive candidate for mayor in New York.

Right?

Didn’t try to run an “independent” splitter candidate to torpedo their own candidate.

Right?

Didn’t run Andrew “Sex Crimes” Cuomo against the actual democratic nominee?

Right?

Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos!

No one said this. It’s a strawman.

Sigh….

Queues up theme song

Yes, the leader of the Democratic party definitely didn’t want war with Iran.

Training the AI that Apple supposedly doesn’t have? Which is it?

Big “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!” energy.

It may not be profound, but Lemmy has a sense of humor.

It’s when England began colonizing the americas. Which is kind of arbitrary since there were slaves in the Americas before that and the founding of The United States of America was over 100 years later.