It totally works for media. Just need a law that says, if a work is published, anyone can distribute it for the same fair licensing fee. That’s the way “cover” music works - any cover band can play any other musician’s work. Nobody can refuse them that right. Then the venue where they perform pays a flat fee to an agency for the license. This doesn’t work great in music, but we could create a better model for streaming. it’s not impossible.

Lemme just dust this off and leave it here

http://www.tatesongs.com/songs/pirates-cheer

from 2006

“why the heck does it always travel east?”

I mean, come on. This one is pretty obvious.

The driver injecting energy in this system is heating from the Sun. The boundary on the surface between where the heating is happening and where it isn’t is constantly moving West.

Other than that, there may be some interesting connection between quantum topology and Kelvin waves, but I doubt it is of practical use.

So far on Lemmy I had never looked for the option to block a single user. You have changed that.

but unless they are federated we won’t see the ads that they are going to disguise as legitimate user content.