homura1650

That's not a linear extrapolation...

The biggest reform I want to see to copyright is a use-it-or-loose-it provision. Either you make the work available under "reasonable" terms, or you loose the copyright protection. Preferably this should be combined with a requirement of all copyrighted works past a certain size to be registered with the library of Congress.

This would still allow them to double the price, and move streaming from Netflix to their crappy homebrew streaming service. The idea is just that if you aren't selling it at all, you clearly don't need copyright protections to save you from others undercutting you. This would also solve the abandonware problem; where it is simply not clear who has the rights in the first place.

My second wish would be a mandatory licensing scheme; similar to what we have for music (although updated for the internet age)

The establishment is all in on anti genders now. The real anti establishment thinking is in the sgenders: sup, sdown, scharm, sstrange, stop, sbottom.

And, of course, the anti-sgenders as well.

Because they don't want to deal with a refuge crisis.

Feminist and women are not synonyms. Feminism is a political movement. Every political movement needs to advocate for itself. That is the way politics works.

This is not merely a matter of demographics.

Official Israeli policy for the past 75 years is that any Jew [0] from anywhere in the world has the right to migrate to Israel and gain Israeli citizenship.

In 2018, Israel passed a "basic law", which is the closest thing they have to a constitutional amendment, clarifying that it views itself as a Jewish state.

Even without getting into any of Israel's unofficial policies, it is no secret what they are trying to do.

[0] Almost any. The law does allow them to deny citizenship ship for various security and public safty reasons; although it is rarely invoked.

The problem is not a lack of food. The problem is a lack of logistics to get the food to the people. And the cause of the problem is not farmers. It is the regions most powerful military activly blocking aid. Soon it will also be because the government of said country successfully lobbied to defund the aid organization with established networks with Gaza.

The solution is simple. Don't activly block food from Gaza, and food will appear in Gaza. Almost like magic. If magic was the result of decades of hard work in building a new world order after world war 2.

From the bill (track changes removed):

"Vaginal sexual contact" means conduct between persons consisting of contact between the penis and the vagina or vulva

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S3161

No. But it is also not rape under this law for a man to forcibly use his hand to jerk off a woman.

If a woman makes non consensual contact with a mans penis using her vagina, mouth, or anus, that is rape under this law.

Perhaps the law should cover it. But the absense of hand-genital contact in the law is gender neutral.

Forced kissing, no matter how ambigous or clear the consent or lack thereof is; is not prohibited by this law.

Yes. The bill itself is here: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S3161

It defines sexual contact as an act between 2 people, then separately defines rape as engaging in such an act without the consent of the other person.

So, if a penis makes contact with a vagina, that is always vaginal sexual contact under this law. If someone engages in vaginal sexual contact without the consent of the other person, that is rape under this law; without reference which gender is the victim.

The specific wording is even less ambigous, because it says "he or she engages in vaginal sexual contact". As defined by this law, there is no way for a women to engage in vaginal sexual contact with anyone other than a man [0]. Note that for this provision, all that changed was a broadening from sexual intercourse. The gender neutrality of the rape definition had always been there.

This does mean that contact between a hand or toy and a genital is not any type of sexual contact (as defined by this law), but that oversight applies to both penises and vaginas, so is not a gendered decision.

The law also defines anal and oral sexual contact, and puts them everywhere it puts vaginal sexual contact

[0] Or at least, no way for a vagina owner to engage in it without a penis owner. Since the law doesn't really talk about gender, there was no need for special provisions to cover trans folk.

Don't worry, Israel has a strong law of return. Once the infastructure is rebuilt; everyone with at least 1 Jewish grandparent will be allowed to return to Gaza.

Of course, calling for a right of return for the people who were literally just forced out will be a complete non starter.