Well, it’s only constitutional this one time. Every other time, it isn’t.

Ah, yes, perfectly normal politics in a perfectly functioning republic, nothing to see here.

MF has a black hole for a head, you’d never escape

Jesus Christ, how fucking dense do you have to be?

This is a great point. I know that some pharmas actually do internally funded research, it’s a thing, it happens, but it’s completely dwarfed by shareholder giveaways and government subsidies ofc.

As a dude, I want to believe that it’s less than it is because that’s just wholly unreasonable that women have to put up with that.

Wait, not everyone can do that?! What the fuck?!

You’re right.

Yes, 100%.

I agree, though I will note that I have often found that there is a non-trivial gap between what is and what ought to be.

That last sentence is it. IP laws are outrageous monstrosities these days, with folks like Disney getting 100-year long exclusive IP rights to characters and stuff like the DMCA.

This is why it’s a mixed bag for me. IP law is kinda important in a capitalist system, which, for better or worse, that’s what we have. If someone comes up with a wonder drug that outright cures addiction or something, you’d want that person to be able to recoup their costs before a bigger organization with more capital swoops in and undercuts them on production costs until they’re the sole supplier of the drug. The hepatitis C cure drug selling for $70,000 is a great example of this quandary; there’s millions of dollars worth of research and clinical trials that went into developing the drug, you’d want the company to be able to recuperate the costs of developing it or else there’s less incentive to do something similar for other diseases down the line. Also, though, $70,000 or go fucking die is an outrageous statement.

Of course, what we have for IP law in practice is a bastardized monster, where corporations exploit the fuck out of it to have monopoly control over important products like insulins and life-saving medications that cost cents to produce and allow them to sell for hundreds a dose. That’s not the intent of IP law, IMO, and that doesn’t really serve anyone.

Tbh this is really frustrating. As many car crashes I ran in my 15 years in EMS, NHTSA has probably saved more lives in the last twenty years than the Dept of Public Health, especially once you consider how for much of America, there really is no alternative to driving.

social losses, private profits

Llama4 don’t say the N word challenge: impossible

Pettiness. I guess some people suffer from such extreme grass deficiency that they’ll go through all the trouble of setting up bots to do fully automated luxury harassment instead of small-batch hand-raised harassment.

A machine can never be held responsible, therefore a machine must ALWAYS make management decisions

Eh. Feelings are facts; I would feel upset if someone shot my dog, that’s a fact. Reacting to inputs is a normal thing to do, and it can be a healthy and important thing to do.

If somebody says something factual and offensive and thinks because they’ve stated something objectively true, that they should be immune to social repercussions, at best they’re tactless, at worst they’re cowards who don’t want the responsibility of how the things they say affect those around them. If it’s important, needful of saying, and likely to upset people, grow a backbone and own it. If it’s not important and likely to upset people, maybe don’t be a dick.

Holy crow I didn’t know that! I doubt Trump did it on purpose. I’m almost certain whoever he paid for Truth social just did the least amount of work possible to cash in, and forking Mastodon was probably it. The right wing is like a fractal grift, so it wouldn’t shock me.

Or x or Facebook or reddit at this point tbh.