There are several places that could have actual life. Candidates are Mars, Titan, Europa and Enceladus.

NASA actually have protocols to try to avoid cross contamination to those possible environments.

I imagine there would not be a bigger tragedy that completely destroy an alien ecosystem.

If we define intelligence by the development of the brain’s abilities, memorization is one of those abilities. Then, great memorization would be, per se, a feat of intelligence.

It’s good to be skeptical about vaccines or a round earth. Then you investigate and find out that vaccines work and the earth is a pseudosphere.

Skeptical doesn’t have to mean that you straight up deny everything. It only means that you do not blindly believe it. That’s how science is actually suppose to mean. The best way to prove a scientific theory is trying to disprove it as hard as you can.

Memorization have importance. We, as a species, are as intelligent as primitive cavemen. Our brains haven’t changed that much since those times.

What allows us to be different, to have a prosper civilization, is the information we have stored. Much of that information is stored in our brains.

Critical thinking is of great importance. Of course. But let’s not dismiss the ability to store that critical information.

Presumably google is going to block app installation via a google service. If you do not have google services in your phone there’s nothing to block you.

To anyone liking these kind of fantasy consoles I always recommend TIC-80 as it is a open source alternative. Feature full. And overall more powerful.

I have just set up a normal computer with the specs I wanted, installed debian and docker/podman and I’m golden.

When this game is released the setting is going to be ancient history.

Can you stop insulting people you don’t agree with? Thanks. I’ll do myself a favor and just block you.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/03/business/marketing-firm-spies-on-you-through-your-phones-microphone-report/

This is what I read.

My guess is some android shenanigans. They go to great lengths to track you.

People called me crazy when I said that the phone was listening through the microphone to track your conversations, until they actually admitted they were doing precisely that.

Android may be doing whatever to track you.

Did you notice that lately it’s happen more frequently?

These things happens to me too, and the frequency have measurably increase in this last year.

All the personal attacks were completely out of place. So that person is out of the debate for me.

You were polite so I will answer to you.

First. Pay per access is no-go. Art is publicly release, pay or not pay access for things that are costless to copy is unrestricted. This already happens, piracy exist and cannot made go away. It’s just its legalization.

Second. Once pay per access is abolished. It’s more important to focus in pay for work or pay for release. Focusing more on making the artist a person who is being patronize for doing their art rather than a salesperson.

Once we have this idea of patronizing, instead of private labels we could focus more on cooperative labels, taking out investors and useless middlemen. People could paid for some artist or some label (which will be exclusively conformed by artist) in order for them to keep making their thing. Some labels could be actually public labels, this already exist to some degree when some state pays for art to be made, just expanding it.

Now that we changed the model in a model were people give their money before they get to see the final product we should put some protections in place to avoid scams and then we are golden.

It’s not so complicated really. Many systems already exist. The history is the same as with everything else capitalism and rich capitalists are in a dominant position so they make any change for the better harder.

I think you are arguing against an imaginary group of people here.

So is a world without murder. That doesn’t mean that we should defend murderers doesn’t it?

A world where gay people had equal rights surely was an utopia on the year 1800s, look how far have we come. Thanks to people that though that a better word is, indeed, possible.

Why wouldn’t we strive for a better way of doing things? Why defend faulty systems that we know they are bad just because those are the systems currently in place?

I do believe we can be better.

And if not… Piracy it is.

Any system to evaluate compensation would be better than the actual one, which is a completely mess that does not properly compensate artists for their work.

Currently marketing, frontstore presence and market dominance is far more relevant on a particular artist income than their craft.

Any system that actually would think about what people think about a particular craft, how much time and effort got put into it, how much it was enjoyed, etc, would be better. Currently is just about who can make more sales and get more ad money, the art is secondary and I’m being generous.

Because you will be paid for it?

In the current world I could torrent your music and you’ll be “losing money” and will end up investing more work in anti-piracy and advertisement than in making good music.

If instead you would be paid for the making of the music regardless of how many copies of a digital file you sold by a better system that’s not based on private property and the means of capitalism, it would mean that you could 100% focus on making music and everyone could enjoy the things you made. You couldn’t care less if I torrent your music in this new world. Hell, music would probably be mainly distributed by torrenting.

Everyone will be happy, except investors and people thriving of this inefficient and unfair system.

Meanwhile, I’ll be seeding.

I do believe that.

Intellectual property leads to all kind of unfairness. It should be normalized that artist would be paid for the work done, nor for property ownership.

This adds to some other believes about people shouldn’t be paid just for “property ownership”.

And once the art is done and released is part of human race, that does include terrible human beings, but it also includes absolutely everyone else.

Some other argument for this… For instance, being an artist is one of the jobs with biggest pay disparity, from the poorest of them all to some of the richest. That’s a normal output of basing income on property ownership, things snowball once you have enough property.

I don’t think there’s a way to make private property (physical or intelectual) work in a fair economy. And remember, private property is not the same as personal property, just in case.

I do think the world of art would get much better and more diverse if we got rid of property as a way to measure revenue and put work in the center as a way to measure how much we should pay each artist.

“Only the thing we are searching for will be searched for”

How do you know if a message have that content without scanning all messages to begin with?

The fuck? Do they think we are stupid?

It’s like the police always saying that they find a “passport” in the truck after some terrorist attack. They have inside informers and they don’t want to disclose them.