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It’s an outdated legalism. 250 years ago, the patent office operated as an incentive to record and register ideas to the public in exchange for exclusive commercial license.

Now that simply isn’t an issue

quietly

Stop putting “quietly” in your fucking headlines, you hacks. This wasn’t “quiet”, it was very publicly announced.

That said, there sure are a lot of Teslas and Rivians driving around today.

Toyota outsells Tesla 10:1.

You notice Teslas because they look bizarre, while Toyotas fade into the crowd. Same with Rivians. Ford fully outstrips them by volume, but damn if that chasis doesn’t pop.

If you have an electric car that can recharge in the same amount of time that it takes to fill the tank with gas

You don’t. Even the highest end Chinese EVs need a solid 5 minutes to get to 70% charge.

I’m stick stuck on hybrids for the off instance I need to make a 400 mile drive.

Damn shame they cancelled that HSR through Texas. Would love to not drive at all.

one president signed a bill to move chip production to the US then the next president raided the chip-making facility and arrested all those chip-making people for trying to show the locals how to make chips

Chip making production has begun to migrate largely as a consequence of the Trump tariffs. The Biden plan to send Intel a few billion in kickbacks in exchange for a chip fab industry that wasn’t the laughing stock of the planet only enriched shareholders and executives.

I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Maybe Operation Low Voltage, which was a raid on a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia? I can’t find anything about a raid on a chip fab plant.

In fairness to Trump leadership, a bunch of these workers were, in fact, overstayed on their visas. Although, as usual, Trump sent guys in with shotguns to do what a sternly worded letter would have just as easily accomplished.

But these are the two faces of Western Capital. The bailout and the beat down. Liberals throw money at the problem. Conservatives slap you around on the thinnest pretexts. Neither president seems to have benefited the US domestic consumer.

It’s debt stacked on debt. The money isn’t real, just the consequences of decades of credit expansion.

Now we either deal with a cascading wave of defaults (a la '29, '73, '86, '08, and '23) or we rush in with state credit to bail out all the private lenders.

But there’s very little real money in real pockets. At the end of the day, it’s borrowing power that makes you a billionaire.

But he will be gone soon enough.

The fossil fuel lobby is older than Trump and far more influential, digging its roots deep into both major parties back to the Cleveland administration.

Censorship is never the answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Formally banning certain forms of vulgar and bigoted expression establish a code of conduct for the community, even if they aren’t strictly enforced.

Teaching values and the corresponding ethics and morals that come with it is closer to the answer.

Morality is as much about proactive and affirmative pursuit of justice as internalized codes of conduct.

If there is no social consequence for immoral behavior, there is no reason to believe the act is immoral.

No endless clones of the same idea.

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In the 70s and 80s, video games were so simple and straightforward, usually due to limited computing power, that it was trivial to create clones of games for other systems. Many of the most popular games of the early years of gaming such as Pong, Frogger, Arkanoid, Centepede, etc. were cloned heavily or were clones themselves.

Case in point, six different Tetris knock offs released between 1989 and 1997.

Another notorious instance was The Simpsons: Road Rage, which was a simple reskin of the then-popular Crazy Taxi.

I’ll admit to having done a simple reskin myself, for a high school English project, that involved swapping out PacMan for a boat and the ghosts for angry natives. I christened it “Heart of Darkness: The Video Game” and got an easy A for my trouble.

Staring at my phone, wishing I had something to read on the ride home

How’s that working out for Cuba right now?

How would you feel if Canada

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Okay, what about Mexico

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Yeah, but paganism, animism, and Pastafarianism are all valid end points, too.

There’s no social infrastructure behind Pastafarianism. If you’re in the clink for possession, the judge won’t remand you into the custody of a Pastafarian rehab program or grant hours of community service for organizing with Pastafarian social groups. Pastafarians don’t evangelize at local prisons and there’s no benefit to subscribing to Pastafarianism while incarcerated.

The reason people end up “finding religion” is because religious people are finding them. Church groups love scavenging drink tanks and prisons for recruits. It’s the bargain basement for human labor

The American social safety net is increasingly a series of MLMs and affinity scams.

Oh hey, you’re homeless? You need health care? You’re looking for child care or food aid?

Become Catholic, join SeaOrg, or get fucked

Love a vague call to meet up at a location by an anonymous pamphleter in one of the most surveilled cities on earth.

Fully expect to see a crowd full of roided up middle aged men in steel toe boots and Yankees fitted caps at the event.

Apropos of Nothing…

Obviously fake, but kinda funny

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People are just so obsessed with cars

It’s hardly an obsession among the vox populi. Highway construction is dogma produced by the Church of the Petrochemical Company. We continue to cling to low density, high cost cement roadways because that’s why billionaires and their lobbyists tell elected officials to pay for.

Where rail exists, people flock to it. But you have to build before people can come.

I’ve been losing money on Dragonfly for months. Unfortunately, the market can be irrational longer than you can be solvent.

In that time, ive taken up muay thai, gratitude practices, doestevesky, and started a new business.

I mean, congratulations, I guess. I’m in Houston, so all of that just sounds like a ton of driving.

From what little ive read, X/Twitter has never been for debate…but instead existed as a warzone.

I’ve yet to hear of any bridges getting blown up because of a Tweet