When computers became mainstream and all sorts of media got into the open Web, many have seen this as the end of copyright history.

But it wouldn’t be capitalism if it wouldn’t build sophisticated instruments and twist legislation in unprecedented ways only to protect publishers.

It is one thing to acknowledge the positives of a place you’re in, and other to be proud of some arbitrary landmass.

Europe is not worse than America, both have their upsides and downsides. I can say that as a Russian, and I also acknowledge the positives and negatives of living in Russia in general and my city in particular. All are good at something, and bad at something else.

At the same time, I do not want to leave my city. I have people here that I’m warmly related to and I feel safe and comfortable here; I know the city, know its unwritten rules, I feel myself at home. There are places in here I intimately know and adore. Moving cities would be a major pain for me, and at first I wouldn’t feel at my place; moving countries is straight up insane for me.

But I know this is because I’m used to the place and know it deeply, and feel comfy with that arrangement; if I would leave, I would feel nostalgic of times I’ve spent here, and I would always react more to any events that happen here, even when I leave. This is all my bias, and it is something we all have. I guess this is the core of local-level patriotism.

But it doesn’t make me hold special feelings towards the entirety of Russia. I have no ties with Siberia, to which I’ve never been, and to me it would be more foreign than, say, forests of Finland, which are way closer to what I see in my area and are more intimately familiar. Kamchatka is exotic to me, not familiar and warm. And I fail to understand why it should be different, other than for the will of the people in power who want to create some special Russian identity for me to be proud of.

Thanks, will check out! Most of Old Spice falls under “smell like your grandpa” in my opinion :D

Axe - true, though this is an abomination and I would definitely build a restriction zone around people who use it

Sure! I just think that this particular flavor of enthusiasm often serves as a slippery slope towards nationalism, and is often intended that way.

Which is why I see it as a rather toxic kind of mentality. There are many things to be enthusiastic about - people’s unity, new discoveries and achievements, or simply your cat coming for hugs.

None of them have terrible potential outcomes.

Indeed! Marketing in general is evil by itself

Also, as a man generally into gender role reversal, fuck gender stereotypes!

Yes, but I think the (true) point was that male-marketed products are always either:

• Arctic freshness 0°K we’ll make you feel like you’re naked on an iceberg in the middle of the North Pole

Or:

• Now you smell like your grandfather! Some wood, musk, and cedar cones

Why is it so and what does it tell of our society and weird expectations? A great deal of men do NOT appreciate this approach, and sure turn to the products marketed for women.

We should either break that insanely entrenched stereotype about “masculine” scents, or better just ditch product gendering altogether.

Yay for men smelling like vanilla and strawberry yoghurt!

DM is notoriously weird in how they place products to begin with :D

Good prices though!

Which will be the time to ditch planetary-level patriotism as well.

For now, it’s good enough.

Moreover, the entire concept of ownership is really just “you’ll face violence from other people if you try to take that away, one way or another”. That’s it.

Universe doesn’t care who owns what, those are just objects in space.

Sometimes this concept is helpful; you probably want the police to step in if someone breaks into your house (universe couldn’t care less). Sometimes it’s extremely dangerous, like when country leaders threaten others with nuclear war.

In either case, we should seriously revamp our relationships with land and property - that is for certain. Current ways are not sustainable and may lead to a disaster.

At the very least, yes.

Patriotism also sucks, because it implements a bias that can then be exploited, and brings very little to the table.

State-level patriotism also makes you complicit in the division of people by countries and nations, as opposed to classes and other valid groups of people.

And there is no valid reason to have some special relation to your country. It is natural to feel ties with the place you were born or the place you spent a lot of time in, this is human psychology, but your country is nothing but a piece of land that was marked by somebody as belonging to some virtual entity.

We should ditch state-level patriotism as a concept and treat local-level patriotism as a natural bias. We should strive to help people of all places and origins, and come together as one.

I think what people here miss out is that it’s not meant to immediately become a retail choice.

First, some specific industries might be interested, then others, then, maybe, common consumers.

I’d even go as far as to say your data is way less likely to hurt you when abused abroad than domestically.

And we know American hardware does, indeed, have backdoors.

TIL but I don’t know if I’m happy about it

Thanks for the share though!

Nah, it was rather in a context of how cute and nice-smelling babies are, not that it was an immediate new discovery

This is so screwed, too.

Like, I was once tasked to explain to my nephew how to properly clean a penis at, like, age of 7. C’mon, parents, what are you there for?!

Just literally teach it alongside cleaning every other body part, what’s the issue? Why should another man show this in particular to your kid?

I feel.like we generally give women a pass on A LOT of weird behaviors about children.

That does include elevated attention to the genital area (seriously, why? Leave our genitals alone ffs), borderline fetishizing breastfeeding, and also a lot of other stuff.

Like, for example, I had several women independently telling me how baby feces smell nice and milky. Like, what the hell and why do y’all feel it’s appropriate for a casual conversation???

Or that they love to smell baby feet. Huh? Funny thing I first got those stories after seeing a TV ad (was a while ago) with a woman burying her face in baby feet.

I can only assume this is either a result of hormonal shifts throughout pregnancy, or that there’s plenty more female pedophiles than we knew.

Of course, you’re technically very right - what they see is not vagina.

But in the culture, the word often simply refers to female genitals as a whole.

That doesn’t mean anyone using that word is not aware of the words “labia” and “vulva”, they can even differentiate between labia majora and labia minora etc.

But for the sake of brevity and simplicity, people just say “vagina”, even if it’s not necessarily a technically correct term.

Institutuonals like governments and businesses do embrace Linux, too, and I don’t find many regular users running Linux on their machine for anything but IT work