Yes, point taken.

Canadian Club is owned by Suntory, if that means anything to you. Still not American, I guess.

Well, one, I suppose.

Nope. No string, no cello tape. They’ve gotta have a steering wheel. There’s a minimum crew requirement.

Such as?

I assure you, these new vessels are built using the strictest maritime standards.

So you don’t think either ad is racist. Got it.

Why did you reply here? To convince us that the ad really isn’t that bad?

REALLY important to distinguish between a country wrapping itself in a religion and the religion itself.

Israel is responsible for the violence, and is a Jewish state. However, not all Jews are Israeli.

Hey, that’s our word.

I don’t think anyone is arguing your opinion, it’s just this is not the right venue for an opinion.

I don’t want any more fossil fuels either, but I’d rather be exporting in LNG/LPG than in crude or bitumen through pipelines.

This thinking is so dangerous… Help others when they need it, it makes the world better.

The problem with NOT helping a racist jerk in distress:

1. Not all USA residents are racist jerks.
2. Racism and being a jerk are generally learned behaviours, not innate.
3. How do you tell a racist jerk from a non-racist, non-jerk?
4. Sometimes being a good example encourages a person to not be a racist jerk.
5. A racist jerk might help you one day.
6. Etc

The lesson is that we’re all people.

Wave after wave of my own men until the killbots reached their preset kill limit.

They aren’t “doubling down”, this follows that very testimony from Dr. Lee.

Whether nurse Letby was responsible or not, the hospital allowed the deaths to continue, despite multiple nurses and doctors bringing their concerns to management.

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Copyright protects attribution for the purposes of gain from reproduction, sale, adaptation and presentation. All of the cases of licensing likeness currently upheld are in place to protect gain (or prevent use for gain) from that likeness.

I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to imagine people will find creative ways to make money on such a huge and presently mostly untapped resource. Especially from vulnerable people.

It shouldn’t be.

This kind of reframing of the words (by Denmark, not you) has led in the past to the abuse of what something is called to reshape slavery in modern times.

On the surface, this seems like a great idea: give the people autonomy on their likeness and its use.

What if you’re in debt? Sell your likeness? Should companies be allowed to lure ppl with commercials about making money by selling their likeness? Should we create laws about extortion and coercion that include forcibly making someone give up their likeness? Short-term likeness “rental farms”? What if the terms of the likeness are a different financial mechanism like a reverse mortgage or a lease? International laws agree on all these terms?

We also collectively determined that slavery is illegal, but it still happens by exactly manipulating the mechanisms to get at the resource: come work in the Arab Emirates. Come to Canada, send money back to your family. If you pay me $5k, I will get you out of this hellhole to a country where you can have a job, money, freedom… But you have to spend 6 weeks in a shipping container and give us 6 months of work when you get there.

The only way to make a person’s likeness an inviolable right is to make it an inviolable right… With no monetary value.

This is going to lead to folks licensing their features for money.

Yeah, I get your meaning. I forgot to acknowledge that.