@brotherofmen@SportsPatriotUS The law considers Caitlin an adult. the others are permanent youthful offenders or mental incapacitents who cannot be held responsible for their own actions.
@SportsPatriotUS Its just a caricature of modern society. Certain classes are mostly above the law, theyve become aware of it, and lack the morality to behave civilly while that awareness exists.
@cowincrisis Isn't the fact that grass looks greener from the side but is in actuality the same color when compared from the same viewing angle, the whole point of that old saying?
@therealmissjo Way to take a fun internet faux argument and turn it into something seriously damaging your state of mind. Now explain to me how Australia can't be fake and anyone saying otherwise is ignorant.
Getty Images might be the biggest legal scam operating in plain sight and almost nobody talks about it.
Here is how it works. They take photos they do NOT own. Public domain images. Work that legally belongs to every single one of us. They slap their watermark on it, throw it in their catalog, and charge you hundreds of dollars to use a picture they had no right to sell in the first place.
It gets worse.
A photographer named Carol Highsmith spent years documenting America and then GAVE over 18,000 of her photos to the Library of Congress. For free. For everyone. No strings attached. Her gift to the public.
Getty took those free photos, watermarked them, and started selling licenses. Then they had the nerve to send Highsmith a bill for $120 for using HER OWN photograph on HER OWN website.
Read that again. They charged the artist for her own work that she gave away for free.
She sued them for $1 billion.
And here is the part that should make your blood boil. This is not a one time mistake. This is the business model. Take what is free, claim it as yours, intimidate people with legal threats, and cash the check. They are betting that you will be too scared or too confused to fight back.
How is this legal? How have we let a company get rich selling things that belong to all of us? How many small creators got threatening letters and just paid up because they did not know any better?
We put up with it because they count on us not paying attention.
Start paying attention.
@NotTheSame_Cord@MattCrivelli@AmusedToDeath1 Logic will not work they are too dehydrated. I just sit back amused at the mental picture of a miserable, reeking, sweat drenched limey smugly "owning" the Americans. Ha