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- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
I’d call that a failure of capitalism, not of patents specifically. Any system stops working if you change the rules enough.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
The solution to this is supposed to be the time limit: if your invention builds on a very recent invention, you may have to get permission from that inventor, but older inventions become common property and can be freely built upon.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Patents are supposed to be pretty specific and open to alternative implementations that don’t infringe, but the USPTO has made some pretty awful decisions, especially around early home computers.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
The original idea behind them had some merit: in exchange for showing everyone else exactly how to do a cool new thing, you got to temporarily be the only one to profit from it. They’ve devolved into parenting general ideas (see the shopping cart patent) and fucking over anyone who finds a way to make the idea work though.
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 1 week ago:
Because infants are larger than penises. Hope this helps!
- Comment on What ever happened to Ipecac? Why is it rarely used today, there was some side effects but not to warrant most hospitals to abruptly stop the use of it. 1 week ago:
If you’re already in a hospital, why wouldn’t they just pump your stomach?
- Comment on The horse knows the way home 2 weeks ago:
Horses are smarter than cars or bikes, faster than walking, and more available than public transportation in many places.
- Comment on It was different vibe back then 2 weeks ago:
OP’s was literally called “NXE,” for “New Xbox Experience.”
- Comment on I hate when people call me a "hero," but I get the inclination. 🫡 🇺🇸 2 weeks ago:
And plenty of selection bias. There’s very rarely a pleasant reason to mention your partner’s occupation to a service worker, so anyone who’s going to be normal slips under the radar.
- Comment on Its a circus and we're the clowns 3 weeks ago:
So your technical interview was a regular interview and not a technical one?
- Comment on The Great Ice Ball Earth Theory 3 weeks ago:
So, the Discworld. Yes, it is very cool.
- Comment on When you see someone crying about the Virginia redistricting, show them this. I've used it hundreds of times today. 5 weeks ago:
Communewealth?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Unsigned jumps from 0 to 4,294,967,295. An overflow won’t get you to 2,147,483,647 unless you have a 31-bit uint for some reason.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
-2,147,483,649, actually. A signed int32 can represent -1 just fine.
- Comment on It's been a tough month 5 weeks ago:
I recognize her face, she’s pretty prolific.
- Comment on It's been a tough month 5 weeks ago:
Under the silicone chest-plate with the fake breasts on it.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
Well, yeah, all you have to do is look at Iran under Mossadegh to realize that reactionary forces often stem from colonial oppression. What doesn’t make sense is denying that those forces are reactionary. You can understand why something is happening and still call it what it is.
The US is largely at fault for how reactionary Iran is, but Iran is still reactionary. If you never learned to swim because your parents wouldn’t let you near water, it isn’t your fault that you never learned, but you still shouldn’t jump in the deep end.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
There is no way to be a leftist or progressive dictatorship. There is no leftist or progressive way to have unequal laws for women, or to prevent gay people from marrying, or to deny people medical care. It’s a contradiction in terms. You may believe that Iran or India becoming more powerful is an overall good thing, but it is objectively and definitionally not progressive or leftist.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
India is well to the right of e.g. Norway. Brazil only recently moved to the relative left. Argentina is also very right-wing (and also a lot more settler-colonialist than most of the countries not allowed into the White Countries Club). Iran and Afghanistan are about as far-right as they come, despite being very much opposed to the global order as it stands today. I wasn’t discounting the so-called “Global South,” I just also don’t think that an imperialist past is the only factor in determining whether a country is right-wing.
In fact, I’d potentially go so far as to say that the majority of poorer countries are farther right than wealthier ones. The exceptions that come to mind are Cuba, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Bolivia, and Mexico, but on the other side you have the ones I’ve already mentioned, plus Qatar, Lebanon, El Salvador, Pakistan, and more. Not doing imperialism is good, and refusing to do it is better (as opposed to simply being unable), but it doesn’t singlehandedly make an extremist theocracy leftist. If your country does not interact with others at all but is still an absolute monarchy with laws that explicitly discriminate against marginalized groups, it’s an isolationist right-wing state, not a leftist one.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
The global status quo is liberalism. Social democracy is to the left of liberalism.
And I never said that socialism was fascism, I said that the USSR gave way to fascism. Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation is fascist. The USSR collapsed, and fascism followed, much like the Weimar Republic collapsed and was replaced by the Nazis. That doesn’t mean that the liberals in the Weimar Republic were fascists.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
Anarchist Catalonia, modern Rojava, more than a few pre-Columbian North American societies, the Paris Commune of 1793… Maybe read some theory instead of making arguments from ignorance.
And you can care about results without having historical results. Anti-monarchism in general had basically zero results post-Industrial Revolution until the liberals won in North America in the late 18th century, but that didn’t mean that they didn’t care about results, just that they hadn’t achieved much yet. The American Revolution was pretty quickly followed by the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, several more French revolutions, Brazilian independence, and eventually the October Revolution, the most recent Chinese civil war, the Cuban Revolution, and so on.
Between 1775 and 1925, the general concept of people voting on matters of statewide policy went from a relic of the Classical Era that had ended more than 1800 years earlier to the norm in North America and Europe. 1800 years of obscurity, then 150 years to ubiquity in the world’s wealthiest states and another 50 to expand to most of the rest.
Sure, anarchism has had a longer period out of the spotlight, not having been the norm since roughly the invention of agriculture ~8000 years ago, but you never know when it might return. Having a concrete, achievable plan to get results is good, but you also want to make sure that the results you’re striving for are just, otherwise you end up with liberalism again. And we all know how that ends up.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
Being better at violence doesn’t make you more left, it makes you better at violence. That can be useful, but it isn’t the same thing. Your argument boils down to “might makes right” and could be expanded to classify social democracy as “more left” (after all, it’s left of the global status quo and its citizens are the happiest on average). In fact, you might even be able to use the argument for liberalism; it’s left of monarchy and fascism. Sure, it frequently decays into fascism, but so did the USSR.
- Comment on Not to get political however How did J Epstein die? Usually suicide watch they put you in a specialized suit so it's impossible. So given if they did that like law says how did he commit suicide? 1 month ago:
That’s on top of all but one of the cameras just happening to be out that night, and the last one just happening to have a nightly outage at the same time as Epstein died, and the prison staff not just neglecting him but literally falling asleep when he had already tried to kill himself and was on suicide watch.
Too many coincidences.
- Comment on Always funny to hear the young try to figure out stuff from the past. 1 month ago:
That’s been a joke since at least 2013, so even if it happened, the kid was probably fucking with OOP.
- Comment on What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy? 1 month ago:
That isn’t what socialism is. Socialism is laborer ownership over the means of production. If you don’t labor, you aren’t a laborer.
Communism would be more tolerant of the lifestyle you suggest, but social pressure gets enough people to contribute that the occasional person who legitimately doesn’t want to help anyone with anything won’t destroy the society.
- Comment on Happy Loser Celebration Day! 1 month ago:
The one in the OP should get an exception.
- Comment on I can SHOW you the WORLD 1 month ago:
This is a popular strategy for police brutality.
- Comment on Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death 1 month ago:
Could also get a PS3, depending on how you feel about its settings for displaying on LCDs. That way, you have a console, but it has an HDMI port.
- Comment on How will you celebrate? 1 month ago:
Yeah, it would probably be better if he survives until the midterms.
- Comment on Why does the colour blonde apparently only exist in human hair? 1 month ago:
Another reason, and probably the main reason I would argue, is that cartoons are not meant to be realistic.
See also: black hair being drawn as blue.