The problem is, nobody in this administration gives two shits if they get ‘condemned’. It only matters if someone actually steps in and does something about it.

The agents that arrested her were masked and had no visible badges or identification. There’s nothing stopping any random group of people from doing that and claiming to be ICE agents… I’d like to think that if I saw something like that happening, I’d step in and try to physically stop them; in reality, though, it’s easy to sit in my house and think that, but I don’t know if I’d be able to do it in the moment. I think we’re well past the point of physically resisting this bullshit by force, though.

Another great example of this is Bandi Namco’s loading screen minigame patent, which expired in 2015. The patent was incredibly broad.

“thousands of hours of video.”

more than 15,000 pages of information and 800 GB of data

What the heck, did they just submit every piece of surveillance footage, every news article, every Reddit post talking about it, just every piece of media in the world that had the words ‘Luigi Mangione’ in it anywhere?

I’d argue that the indie scene is already providing that; it’s really just the AAA studios that’re churning out cookie cutter garbage. However, if everyone had patented game mechanics, those indie studios wouldn’t be able to make those games. I’d challenge you to find a game that hasn’t borrowed something from another. I certainly can’t think of one.

Fair enough; game mechanics really shouldn’t be patentable. Specifically / particularly video game mechanics; every video game uses concepts and ideas from other games - there’s nothing completely original anymore. Imagine if every game had patented all of its mechanics - there would be no new games, it’d be impossible to make something. Imagine if ID had patented the concept of a first person shooter, for instance.

This is a whole separate discussion; game mechanics really should not be copyrightable at all, IMO.

Yeah, this is a really shitty, clickbait title.

“They were only getting paid for the first copy sold,” Fryer explained. “They lost millions of dollars.” Sure, multiplayer games were growing in popularity at the time, but as Fryer put it, “How do we create a single-player game that is so compelling, that people keep the disc in their library forever?”

Really, they finally found that one simple trick to maximize profits: Make a good product that people want to play longer. Go figure?

I look forward to watching people finally reach their breaking point and start firebombing government buildings. Preferably while Trump is in them.

With Activision Blizzard, anyone can say “Yeah, fuck those guys!” then buy the latest game when it releases, and nobody is the wiser.

With Tesla, they’re getting vandalized on the streets. Insurance rates are hiking. It has social stigma attached. You can’t buy a Tesla and hide the fact that you have it. It comes with social backlash.

Even the folks who had no intention of buying one can contribute to that public sentiment, and as long as that social backlash remains, it’ll be effective at dissuading people from buying them.

Is he implying that he secretly hates Jews? Or placating to the haters in his voterbase that are anti-semitic?

I strongly suspect that it’s not because it was a genocide against jews, but rather that it was perpetrated by Nazis, and he doesn’t want to paint them in a bad light.

Nothing at all. DEI is just being used like a catch-all media buzzword to justify racism. To Trump, DEI means “Anything at all about anyone who isn’t a cis white male that I don’t like”.

If he resigned and divested, maybe. He won’t, but maybe.

His Wikipedia page which details the events that led to his being awarded the Medal of Honor.

I hope this absolutely enrages every military member, but especially every non-white military member. This is a slap in the face.

Best thing to come out of the Trump presidency thusfar. Glad our Canadian neighbors are resisting the conservative takeover, even though we aren’t.

the least you can do is give me a boatload of cash so I can spend several years or even the rest of my life (depending on how long you fucked me over, some of these people get fucked for decades) not working and like traveling the world or whatever to make up for it.

The amount of money that’s paid out for this is pitiful in comparison to how much you’d need to actually feel compensated. It’s $50k-$100k per year of imprisonment (depending on state and length of imprisonment), so for 20 years you’re getting (in most states) $2 million or so, but then you’re charged for services rendered while you were imprisoned in most states - for example, health insurance, room and board, etc., which severely reduce that value. Even if you got the full $2 million, you’ve lost 20 years - and the career development you would have had during that time - not to mention technology has likely completely moved on from what you remember. Good luck getting anything more than a minimum wage job at that point, and $2 million is not going to last you for the rest of your life unless you were already 50 or so when you were convicted.

To be clear, I agree with you that people falsely convicted should be monetarily compensated. Just pointing out that current compensation is embarrassingly low.

With the measles outbreak, he’s probably doing those countries a favor.

Simple to think about… extremely difficult to accomplish.

Ooh, this is rad - thanks for the link!

Pretty easy to find, just search the title.

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Meta will suffer “immediate and irreparable loss” in the absence of an emergency relief

Well, I didn’t know nor care about this book before, but now I want to read it.