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I remember that one from the PSP but I never played it. I didn't know it was on DS and mobile too! That's actually pretty sick. It looks much more like the original GTA games, which is not what I expected. I bet that was neat for the time with gta 4 having just dropped!

Wait, seriously? That is terrifying lmao

It is the world we should live in though. And it's the one we should be advocating for instead of justifying the current system that privatizes profits of lifesaving medications and vaccines over making them widely available at the lowest possible cost to society and consumers.

We can get to the point you're talking to in your last paragraph, we just have to stop letting the people who benefit from the current system demand the conversation be centered around the impact it has on them. You and I sure as fuck don't benefit from patents. We would benefit from open source medicine. I don't really care if nobody is able to maintain a billion dollar company based off withholding and silo-ing information.

Cool great job

Im saying that the companies who currently own the IP didn't in fact pay for the development. They paid for the exclusive rights. Universities discovered and developed the new drugs, and then, since universities don't run large pharmaceutical factories, they sell that developed drug to a company to manufacture it at scale in exchange for the sole rights to be the manufacturer. The system as it stands is not like taxes, because taxes are FOR something. If we stopped giving patents to Pfizer we wouldn't stop having medicine or even stop having new medical breakthroughs, we would simply no longer have to pay $600 for a Tylenol in the hospital.

I'm glad you added that you aren't advocating for this, but this system isn't ingrained into society. It was created, and shaped this way by the companies which own the ip and benefit from nobody being able to manufacture their own cheaper versions. The result of dismantling the medical ip system would not result in zero medicine being manufactured it would result in hundreds of thousands of individual small pharmacies producing their own drugs for nearly no cost. The IP rights exist to protect entrenched capital at the very top of the market. This does not protect anyone but the rights holders and hurts everyone else by further increasing the barriers to access for the majority of the planet.

A billion dollar company has convinced you that if they don't hold exclusive rights to manufacture lifesaving medications they did not develop then all of medical research would cease. That is hilariously false.

They had gta on the DS??

Im not denying the bugginess of oblivion I'm more concerned about the general unplayability of a lot of Unreal games in this latest gen

Like if the bugs were bad when they wrote the code I can't imagine porting that code into unreal with its famously poor optimizations is anything but the worst case scenario for this remaster lmao

My hope was that they were porting it to creation 2 with upscaled assets and taking some time to squash the most egregious bugs. Hearing it's going to be a ue5 port now I'm almost not even willing to give it a chance. We shall see. For all we know, this could just be industry drivel getting us excited about a fake leak.

Its literally the most toothless request for their college to follow BDS which the student body had already deliberated, voted on, and approved. The university had stated they would go along with the student governments decision if they could hold a vote and then just ignored them; so they wrote this article. I believe it is journalistic malpractice to discuss this case without showing the speech which she is currently imprisoned for.

I will say, even if she had declared material support for hamas and demanded an armed struggle against the united states that is still literally her right to do so and she could not be imprisoned for that speech. It's the whole point of free speech.

Nazis go around saying death to all jews and the supreme court rubber stamps it. Calling this antisemitism as a defense is laughable.

If you lay it on thick enough you can almost sound like a hasbara bot, almost.

Well, you see, the idf is representative of all jews, so when you say the idf are valid military targets what you mean is all jews, obviously

His father, the colonel, was another highly respected man in the region

Theres no way I'm reading this in real life

We're saying the oblivion port to UE5 is going to be less buggy? That makes you hopeful?? What is this place??? Did the gta trilogy not make it to lemmy?

No shit, this is why every time I see her name I post the link to her article so people can see how absolutely disgusting it is to arrest her for it

And here I go again

First of all, governments already do fund all the research.

Even in your hypothetical, thats just one government. It doesn't stop medical advancement entirely just because one dictatorship stops funding research. It moves elsewhere. When nazi germany declared that nobody would receive funding for anything outside of Aryan research ^tm the scientists just left to a country that wasn't barbarically stupid.

Also, everything in your final paragraph is stuff that is happening now, in america, under the capitalist organization of the economy which gives all the rights to a private company after publicly funding the research and development of their drugs. It makes no difference, save the fact that now the authoritarian government in power has consolidated billions of dollars for rich capitalists who will gladly accept the orders to no longer produce those medicines while remaining disgustingly wealthy.

Even if you believe in the delusional idea that private companies are funding the development of novel treatments entirely on their own the fact remains that drugs are currently, as we speak, not for all people. I am pointing out the solution to that problem, and the response was to point out how, if we did what I said, then what's already happening now would be the consequence.

They definitely also ramped up production and ran huge overtime to get those phones delivered before the deadline. I'm pretty sure they're taking a hit for that. The whole point was to get them in before the deadline and then sell them at the inflated post-tariff price. Now that whole idea kinda doesn't work out. It's deliciously hilarious.

I wrote a long winded reply but honestly I'll just say that your second paragraph is entirely based on fiction and your final paragraph is precisely what for profit medicine is designed to do. Profit is a purely ideological drive, medicine and healthcare do not need profits to exist. The post office does not need to make money. It exists because we HAVE to have it.

You can go see for yourself. Moderna did not single handedly make the covid vaccine. They do not and should not have the right to deny anyone the right to produce it as cheaply as necessary to provide it to their populations. I can go deeper if you want but if this doesn't show you that we are saying the same thing I'm going to have doubts about this being in good faith.

The car is a shitbox

Charles has had five years to make demands, instead he just suffers. Lewis had the car for two months and said "I'm not having this."

I think Charles is too consumed with "Ferrari culture" and sucking up to the team that he just let's them do dumbass shit. How many times has Charles just submitted to a terrible strategy call while Carlos straight up said "no, that is stupid" and then got a better result? Take that and multiply it across his entire Ferrari career and that's why you have 20 poles and 5 wins. I think they should listen to whoever is willing to speak up.

Lando really just never had that dawg in him. He's way too concerned with his own safety and life as a billionaire outside f1 to take any risks. It was fun to be the midfield guy, squeaky clean and happy to be on a podium, but now he's got the best car. There's no excuses to be made. Especially after talking shit about winning being easy with the best car his entire career.

I don't think he will be a champion unless McLaren forces Oscar to submit to their whims, which, long term would probably be the worst decision they could make. Mark webber WILL commit high crimes.

Apple supposedly flew 500 tons of new phones from China to import them before the tariffs came in last tuesday lol

I honestly can't get enough of it. All these shitty business owners are finally getting fucked over by their special baby and he's breaking their backs lmaoo

we'll beat the tariffs, I'll bring my inventory over before they go into effect

spends exorbitant fees filling planes full of phones

tariffs are suspended

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tariffs are suspended