ByteJunk @ ByteJunk @lemmy.world

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Do I need to change my name to name-name-3digits to join your trollfarm?

Prisons are always paid for by taxes. The difference is that in America someone is profiting from that...

I love how its head is like 100% static while the neck and body wobble about.

Lucky bastard.

I heard so much Bon Jovi, my teeth are rotten.

Damn, I felt my heart thaw a bit. Gotta be more careful around this neck of the interwoods.

Single use is outright banned in many palces.

Which I kinda don't mind, because several times in recent years I ended up with groceries all over the parking lot because of how flimsy they were made. Now you have to pay for them, but at least they're sturdy.

Cool story bro.

I do this frequently. In many places the cashier has to print it, so instead if handing it over to me they just throw it in the trash...

You're utterly delusional. If this system has done anything is to stiffle small, independent producers and consolidate power in megacorporations.

This is the kind of crap you're defending: https://patents.justia.com/patent/12268585

This is a random, recent patent from P&G. Read that bullshit, and then tell if if what they're describing isn't the most generic design for a diaper or sanitary napkin ever?

"One permeable layer facing the wearer, then a semipermeable layer that tries to only allow liquid to move away from the wearer, then an absorbing layer, then an outer impermeable layer"

Oh boy, if it wasn't for that patent, I'd be pumping 500 million dollars into building a factory so I can flood the market with my cheap fake products! - said nobody when they read that.

It's hilarious how far removed from reality your ideal of patents is...

it costs millions of dollars to get a manufacturing process up and running and in a good enough state to where it can actually work out financially. Without patents, your competitor can just take all of that work and investment and just copy it with the benefit of doing it right the first time, so they're able to undercut you on cost.

This argument makes no sense. Manufacturing lines are built all that time for unpatented products, plus a competitor can't just "take all of that work and investment", they will need to put in money to create their own product, even if it's a copy they still need to make it work, as well as build their own production capacity.

They'll be second to market, and presumably need to undercut price to get market share... This is a very risky endeavour, unless the profit margins are huge, and in which case, good thing that there's no patents...

If the research is so costly and complex (pharmaceutical, aeronautical,...), then it should be at least partly funded by the government, through partnerships between universities and companies.

Patents are not a solution.

In what world is assembly more readable or easier to understand?

Companies already issue digital boarding passes. I have a government issued digital ID in a phone app. These are convenient.

But facial recognition? Hell no, f that.

This is definitely the norm in many, many countries. This is the first generation, at least in a long while, where buying a home is looking completely impossible for many...

Isnt that like all phone makers recently?

she took a hammer to the car’s bonnet as Britney Spears’s Hit Me Baby One More Time blared from a speaker.

Ahaha I can just picture that.

And I love impotent people.

Governments can and do target individuals, see sanctions on russian oligarchs. How is your memory so bad?

Plus, new tax rules are drafted every single year, to encourage or slap down specific stuff, why you acting like it's impossible when it's not even rare?

I swear I thought this answer was about as accurate as the one that said "dragons".

How steampunk for probably the largest city in the world to use steam in this day and age? I love it...

As China boosts its internal consumption and increases standards of living, along with a growing highly educated population, I can see their values very much aligning with the EU. That sounds like a very decent world order...

They are subsidiaries of US companies. You draft a list of wholly or majority US owned tech subsidiaries, and you tax them out of the wazoo, done.

I'm sure tax and trade experts can come up with better approaches.

Oh I've had this happen, and the staff were attentive and asked me if I needed them to validate my parking.

It really depends where this is coming from, if its a global policy for all stores even if they don't need it, it's a dick move. If they apply it to only the stores where parking is a big issue, I can understand.