El Barto

edit: actually I misremembered. The OP said that “we” needed to organize better. I guess meaning to say organize better to stop this war on its tracks.

I guess I can agree with that.

Maria Corina is not far right. C’mon.

Traditional right, yes.

Far right, nah.

Sure. That slogan is as true as North Korea’s offical name: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Uh, the current Venezuelan government is marxist. They borrowed Cuba and Russia’s playbook.

I guess that’s how my point came across, but that’s not what I meant. No, I wish no war on Venezuela because of what you just said.

I was replying to the poster who said “Venezuelan people! Fight!” Fight?! For the government that maimed them in the first place? No. Let the two governments fight if they want. Regular Venezuelans should flee if they can.

Who are you replying to?

Whatever dude. I know what I’m talking about because I lived in Venezuela at a time when they tried to oust Chávez, and failed miserably.

Of course I’m aware! And that invalidates my point how?

Venezuelans unfortunately don’t stand a chance against the U.S. They couldn’t oust Maduro, for crying out loud.

I hope Venezuelans, the people, don’t suffer much. I hate that there is war looming on them.

But the two governments involved? Fuck them.

Can it get any more American this?

Yes. Yes, it can.

No. Fuck that. Let’s put it this way: American people should fight against this illegal war, regardless of whether they support Trump or not. They’re 10X the size of the Venezuelan population.

Now tell me. Is that fair now?

Organize against what, exactly?

The way I see it, it’s two assholes fighting. (Edit: two asshole governments, I meant. The Venezuelan people are innocent and shouldn’t be involved in that conflict. That was my point).

Both suck and are responsible of crisis and death of their own country people. Let them fight, then. Though I know Venezuela doesn’t stand a chance, unfortunately.

You are both right.

even shit music takes effort and talent.

Hm, not really unless you consider effort anything that’s non-zero.

I just shat my pants.

I just shat my pants.

Shit got so itchy,

I just shat my pants.

There you go. It took me 10 seconds of effort to come up with that masterpiece. Where’s my Grammy?

The last one is the most obvious one. But they’re getting better at concealing it.

I once read an article that answered my question as “yes” in the first paragraph, then as a “no” in the following paragraph. And I was mad for having fallen for AI-made bullshit.

I don’t mind if the work is generated by AI. A dude could randomly pour some ink on a paper and try and sell it to me. If I like it, I’ll buy it.

My issue with AI is the fact that it harms people, and I wish I was exaggerating.

I dreamed of a future like this one when I was a kid. But not at the expense of mass layoffs and the benefits going to a few folks.

Why? Is it because it’s considered a masterpiece or a bad song?

Thats where the problem lies it is assumed that open source software has be free.

But the article is not talking about this scenario. They’re specifically talking about open source software that’s also free software:

Your favorite apps run on code maintained by exhausted volunteers.

So it’s perfectly fine for some users to expect the software to be free.

The real problem is that some project owners have a sense of duty to maintain their creations no matter what, leading to burnout, which is the point of the article. The article also details ways to fix it. Some of those involve the users being proactive (e.g. taking the initiative to donate consistently), but ultimately it’s up to the owner to take some action. Like I mentioned, if I publish some code for free, I don’t mind my users to expect that my software will always be free. But if they think I’m going to lose sleep trying to meet their demands without compensation, welp, they are dreaming.

Oh for sure!

I’m sorry, but I can’t agree with this. If the software is free, then it’s free. It’s up to the authors how they want to license it.

Personally, I write code and publish it in the hopes that it will help someone. If someone comes in and says “there’s this bug, fix it!” I will only do so if it will benefit me, or if I feel like it.