At my day job I work a lot with copyright permissions. When one of our medical writers wants to use a previous doctor’s research or graphics in a new article, I am responsible for contacting the copyright holder and paying them money so that they will allow this.

Tell me if you think these laws are redonk.

I paid a company $500 to photocopy and article to pass out at a meeting we were holding for our clients to help brief them on some new material. No real transactions going, purely educational, and yet we had to PAY $500 TO MAKE PHOTOCOPIES IN OUR OWN BUILDING.

It gets worse.

Next, the clients that were coming wanted to make our meeting efficient so they requested that we send them the PDFs of the material we will be discussing. Because of this I had to pay ANOTHER $500 to get permission to send the PDFs that we ALREADY PAID $500 for in order to show them this material.

None of this makes sense to me.

What do you think?

Dear World,

People who have a sense of style are not all hipsters. I am providing some images to clear up some misconceptions. I will, for your sake, use the common negative connotation of hipsters.

Example A: Yes A Hipster
Then What?: N/A

Notes: Note the in-style skinny jeans? Well not so fast; there is a very good chance they are covered in stains. And the shoes? A minimum of 10 years old. They claim they love music but they just rave about whatever Pitchfork is promoting at the time. Talk about books but never read.

Example B: Not a Hipster
Then what? A nice dressing barista/art student/photographer/etc.

Notes: See the tie? The nice, pressed, in style shirt and complimenting hat? This is no hipster, though many people group them all together for a style that echoes each other. This style brings to mind a simpler past. Also probably not a douche like Example A. Possibly an art student.

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