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The alternative to relying on those sources is having the budget to do the legwork yourself, or to pay a third party to do it for you. While I do think that’s the better option, media outlets just don’t have the spare budget for that sort of thing anymore.

Because the entire country profited from coal mining, and the resulting free energy. Most places saw better returns from that than wear Virginians did. Socializing the gains and privatizing the losses to just the citizens of West Virginia is equivalent to saying "we know you paid for our stuff, but now you can fuck off and clean up the mess we asked you to make. Maybe if you're really nice we'll give you some superfund money for the worst bits."

Four years from now is not really “about to run out”. As I recall, four years out is more time than they had when they started their last push to extend copyright.

American Christian values and labor organizing,

Wait, what? That’s not a set of things I normally see together, could you expand on that a bit?

I can come up with much worse plans, assuming the AI can actually manage the distribution and apply it across the upper crust as well as the rest of society. The world could use a bit of leveling.