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(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Pretty sure these two lines cover most of the examples OP mentioned. Using a sound effect or VO line from a videogame for noncommercial means is both a tiny portion of the totality of the work, and will likely have no effect on the market or value for that work.

Meanwhile my in-laws voted for Trump in 2016 because Biden was going to outlaw Catholicism…

Sixty days from Feb 28 is April 29. If we’re pretending Congress is absolutely incapable of doing anything until 60 days have elapsed, Chucklefuck is actually planning on being two weeks early.

Ah, Chuck, you useless dumpster of a man. You’re only five weeks late on this one.

New York State gave them a contract to be in every rest stop on our main highway. I was opposed on moral grounds initially, but when I found out about the Sunday thing, I was flabbergasted at how boneheaded a move it was. Literally travelers can’t get food on the highway one day per week.

Yeah, I almost wrote a whole counterpoint on how horrible the current child welfare system is and how nearly every trained professional agrees that breaking up families should only be the last resort in the most extreme circumstances, but I had a feeling this thread wasn’t the target audience for that particular reality.

One: that’s not what was suggested. OP said parental verification/authorization before birth.

Two: you’re proposing something like residential schools instead. Which, even if you don’t agree constituted genocide, was still pretty bad.

I’m not advocating for our government’s insane privacy-violating measures. Just pointing out that OP’s proposal is worse. There’s got to be better ways to protect children than “police state” or “genocide.”

Ah, the classic dichotomy: privacy vs eugenics

Who is getting charged? By whom? When do you think this would happen?

Nothing inherently wrong with taxation. The problems are how taxes are determined, how they’re collected, and how that money is distributed.

No, they’re going to be adequately desperate. The job market is tanking. Food and housing costs are rising. People getting laid off, trying to find a new career, and drowning in the rising costs may well see appeal in a guaranteed job with guaranteed housing.

D.D. Palmer “received chiropractic from the other world” from a deceased physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson.

You can be cis-het and wear a sundress if you want to. Once you buy one, it stops being “women’s clothes” and becomes your clothes.

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Sounds like Trump is just trying to make sure Lincoln’s portent comes to pass.

Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. Any time he got frustrated with our manager, he’d mutter to himself, “Everyone gets one.”

The way he explained it to me is, everyone is allowed to murder one person. You might suffer some real bad consequences as a result, but if you can stomach those consequences, no one can really stop you from doing just one murder.

School is not about socialization. Socialization absolutely happens there, but it’s not the primary purpose, and it does not exclude predatory adults. See: the rampant rates of bullying and violence that occur, and get further enabled by faculty who either ignore complaints or both-sides it into victim-blaming.

Kids are not just naturally nice to one-another.Lord of the Flies is still taught in schools for a reason.

people who think “If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide."

I think these people should live in a world without bathroom doors.

The US government isn’t making them do it.

The Feds aren’t making them do it, but plenty of states are working on it.

I think the “blowing up Venezuelan fishermen” part is what the Nobel Committee worries about more than what names the US uses.

The big jumps in spending on that graph started in 2012. Occupy Wallstreet protests were in the autumn of 2011.