empireOfLove2

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[–] empireOfLove2 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Damn. All it took was a 5-4 majority vote to completely destroy the bill of rights and any due process that might have existed. America is now a full blown dictatorship and there is NO way out of this without bloodshed.

[–] empireOfLove2 51 points 5 months ago

Pants pulled up high enough to cover the line of the adult diaper tapes.

[–] empireOfLove2 6 points 5 months ago

One of the gates to getting a patent approved is proving that you are attempting to patent it in a timely manner. You're supposed to file a patent within one year of first public disclosure to prove that you're actively protecting your IP and plan to develop it, and if you don't it's grounds for denial.

Palworld alone has been out over a year now, let alone how long most of the Pokemon stuff Nintendo has been patenting. Nintendo has zero grounds for applying these patents, and the fact that they are able to obtain them just because they have more lawyer money means the patent system is completely pointless and laws don't matter.

[–] empireOfLove2 15 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I limited the losses in my (relatively small) 401k by rebalancing it about three weeks ago into mostly bonds and a few small cap/international funds... So far I'm only down about 4% instead of the total market's 14%. Still losing, yippee

[–] empireOfLove2 7 points 5 months ago

Oops farmers don't have anyone to run harvest equipment anymore because they're all hiding from ICE.

[–] empireOfLove2 202 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Tinder is a hellhole intentionally designed to keep people lonely and depressed so they'll pay up for the "gold" features. The gender split is well past 80/20 male/female so good luck with straight matches, and the number of bots they leave up to waste your swipes is incredibly high, so even that ratio is probably worse.

[–] empireOfLove2 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Quake 1 was released in 1996. Hardware T&L didn't even exist, I don't think that's the driver's fault that a 90s game can't launch. Unless you're talking about the remaster.

[–] empireOfLove2 134 points 5 months ago (14 children)

So, if you have enough money, you can just fire off a shitload of ex-post-facto patents after a competitor releases a prior-art product, sue them, and win using patents that didn't exist when the competitor's product was created????

Might as well just close the whole patent system and leave, there's quite literally no point to obeying it if you can so blatantly steal anything and everything.

[–] empireOfLove2 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yup. I guess the medical term is "Vasovagal syncope" when you pass out from it being overstimulated. but the vagus nerve does a lot of stuff..

[–] empireOfLove2 64 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Hey that's me!

Vagus nerve overstimulation or something, whenever I get needle poked or blood drawn I tend to pass out to varying degrees of badness.

[–] empireOfLove2 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Or what? blows raspberry"

[–] empireOfLove2 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You could keep flying any plane, but they would be capped at a 20,000ish feet flight ceiling while in Florida airspace. Which would make traffic a lot worse and the flights significantly more expensive.

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