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Businesses were innovative long before patents and copyright became a thing. In fact, evidence shows that society was more innovative without patents and copyright than with.

For your reading pleasure:

• Against Intellectual Monopoly

IME the vast majority of women have no clue how to react to being rejected, because it almost never happens to them. As such, nearly all react badly or maladaptively regardless of conditions.

Conversely, for most men they have to endure rejection hundreds if not thousands of times before they strike it lucky. The small cohort that become maladaptive do so due to other social/societal reasons associated with the rejection, but vanishingly few react maladaptively purely because of the rejection.

ACAB.

As someone with deep roots in the sciences, and good access to the latest data and evidence surrounding anthropogenic climate change, I seriously doubt that there will be much civilization left by the time I shuffle off this mortal coil. All indications used to point towards widespread economic, societal, and ecological collapse in the latter half of this century, well past my effective lifespan, but recent (and strong!) evidence has moved that up considerably to not much past 2035. So no, I am not worried in the least about “burdening” anyone with my collection. I seriously doubt that there will be anyone left who will care. The few who remain will be too obsessed with surviving another day to give two shits about books. I just want to live long enough to read most of them in relative comfort.

My mother

…WAT…

or sees a visible map of time in their head

Like how a day or a year is like a rollercoaster, coming down in the first half to rise back up in the second? It’s like a really odd sine wave for me.

eating hamburgers and hot dogs with flatware instead of on buns.

That sounds so German. I know the bun-less burgers as “frickadellen”, my own parents (both German immigrants who met each other over here) used to make them fairly frequently.

My goodness, I am so much like you.

I’ve been using a book tracker app since the iPhone 4s (2011) just to keep track of what I buy - I don’t track anything else - because even way back then I had trouble remembering if I had a book or if I had just browsed it elsewhere.

In 2018, various functions (search, sort, stats, etc.) took a permanent dirt nap just as I was nearing the 3K number of entries. And these are just the books I own.

The size of the DB backup file has nearly doubled since then.

Now granted, a number of books I get need to go straight into storage before I can even read them, as I have not yet built my library. It’s already gone through several redesigns to stay ahead of the size of my collection, and right now I’m looking at movable library storage stacks - the kind that roll on miniature railway tracks and have wheel-like dogs at their ends that a person turns to easily move them back and forth (opening and closing an access corridor between the stacks for access to the books). I’m hoping to eventually have almost half a linear kilometre of shelving in my library once it’s built.

I cannot imagine the horror of being even semi-illiterate, much less fully illiterate. I absolutely love reading.

The company’s “base case,” the report said, was that the world was moving toward a temperature increase of 3 degrees Celsius.

What many people might not fully understand is that a world at +3℃ is one in which BILLIONS will die within a few short years.

There are two major things that will cause this:

1. Lethally high wet bulb temperatures, to the point where modern consumer-grade air conditioning ceases to effectively function. These high wet-bulb temperatures will strike roughly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, and even a spell of as little as a week can kill most people in a region. About 4 Billion will have no choice but to migrate to the temperate regions or die.
2. Chaotic weather making any significant agriculture impossible. Even backyard gardens will be rendered useless. A warmer planet means a dryer planet, as hotter air pulls vastly more moisture out of the soil than before, and prevents rain from condensing out far more effectively. But when the rain does fall, it will also fall that much more severely, damaging or even killing off crops that cannot handle those deluges. And when 80+% of all crops are either directly or indirectly dependent on timely and predictable rain, neither too much nor too little…

And with the acceleration of warming in the last few years, +3℃ appears to be most likely to be reached shortly after 2035.

Yes, we have only about a decade before billions begin to die of the heat directly, or via starvation.

Fun times. Here I thought I was lucky, in that most of this shite was forecast for 2050 and beyond, well past my expected lifespan… looks like I’ll be in the trenches just like everyone else.

And once again, stuff is happening “much sooner than expected”.

Certain parts of America tried this. It’s what put record numbers of non-violent “criminals” permanently in prison for such things like stealing a loaf of bread.

Tens of thousands spend per prisoner for having stolen a loaf of bread.

If that same money were spent in giving low-income people more economic opportunities, none of those crimes would happen and the country as a whole would be far wealthier.

#YES, PLEASE.

I have been fighting advertising in my own way since the early 2000s:

• I abandoned broadcast radio in the mid-1990s. I can’t recall the last time I turned on a car radio.
• I abandoned broadcast TV in 2001
• I jumped on board with Adblock the moment it was released for Phoenix (now Firefox) back in 2004
• The lone streaming service I actually subscribe to is the cheapest non-advertising tier available
• Torrenting covers many of the remaining gaps
• Even my Internet Radio stations are chosen primarily through lack of advertising.

It’s gotten to the point where stumbling across an ad is the mental equivalent to nails on a chalkboard.

I always found him to be slimy AF, always worshipping the wealthy purely because of their wealth. Anyone not rich seemed to be a waste of space in his eyes.