Because a human can understand the situation, and the person they're talking to, and reply with wisdom, rather than just parroting what seems like what they heard before.
Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.
=> Nobility is fashionable, but it's healthier to be a peasant.
Also, from this table I learn that Europeans of ages past were ruled by octopodes.
Black, the dark of ages past.
Golly, it looks a bit big to fit on your wrist, don't you think!
if he had a warehouse full of tshirts with his name or face on them and decides after filing bankruptcy that he doesn't want to sell them anymore, should he just get to keep it? Should it all be destroyed?
It's more like, should be be forced to sell them to someone else who will put their own messages on the t-shirt with his face.
As to the cattle brand (and less so the t-shirts), the cattle are valuable property regardless of his branding. The social media account is the branding. To forceably sell the cattle is quite different from forceably selling the brand with his name.
It goes further: the real value of his social media handle, I imagine, is the number of subscribers it has. Are subscribers an asset to be bought and sold? Capitalism thinks so. But I think they're not 'his' assets, they're the choices of those subscribers. To 'buy' them seems like defrauding the people who chose to listen to him.
If someone was already selling porn before, do you think if they continued to that they shouldn't have to give any of that money they earned to the people they owe money to?
The money they earned - exactly! Not forcing them to keep doing porn. Of course this case isn't extreme like that.
how much of his 'likeness' is being sold is debatable to begin with
No it's not. The value is that it is (was) his Alex Jones account, presumably with his subscribers too. Or are there a bunch of other Alex Jonses clamouring to have the handle freed so they can have the name fresh for themselves? I'm sure they'd like it; but that's not the value in this case.
Wipe his Twitter account - if you think deplatforming is an appropriate action. Let another person buy the name fresh (and be sued if they use it to pretend they are him). Take his real assets and sell them. But taking his Twitter account as is and selling it seems, IMHO, the wrong sort of capitalism.
I think it means, like, get your camera out and watch them crash!
LPT: instead of throwing your playstation away after each game, try turning it off and on again to choose a new game.
Make your MIT-licensed library big enough that the corpos use it, then switch it to AGPL just before you add a really important and tricky feature they've been waiting for.
There's an old joke about two mathematicians in a cafe. They're arguing about whether ordinary people understand basic mathematics. The first mathematician says yes, of course they do! And the second disagrees.
The second mathematician goes to the toilet, and the first calls over their blonde waitress. He says to her, "in a minute my friend is going to come back from the toilet, and I'm going to ask you a question. I want you to reply, "one third x cubed.'"
"One ther desque," she repeats.
"One third x cubed," the mathematician tries again.
"One thir dek scubed."
"That'll do," he says, and she heads off. The second mathematician returns from the toilet and the first lays him a challenge. "I'll prove it. I'll call over that blonde waitress and ask her a simple integration question, and see if she can answer." The second mathematician agrees, and they call her over.
"My friend and I have a question," the first mathematician asks the waitress. "Do you know what is the integral of x squared?"
"One thir dek scubed," she answers and the second mathematician is impressed and concedes the point.
And as she walks away, the waitress calls over her shoulder,
"Plus a constant."
https://xkcd.com/963/ (October 2011)
[Mouseover text] Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.
I'll be the old stodger voice and mention that taking 5 minutes from time to time to not be stimulated is good for mental health, and apparently creativity too.
... And then I'll put in my vote for Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. (In F-droid as Puzzles, app by Chris Boyle)
Malloc
That's a good cat name!