IP law itself is a band-aid over capitalism’s disincentivizing of humanity’s innate tendency toward ingenuity, innovation, and iteration

public domain is the default - its IP law and the artificial scarcity it creates which is useful to the capitalists

Supporting their constituents in the class war is presented as an afterthought, as usual from the corporate Democrats, and this congresscritters proposal is just the standard right-wing, milquetoast, failed Democratic policy that got us into this mess.

There are over 100 million people without a home in USA, and this guy thinks housing 10% of them will be sufficient. He won’t even say a number when it comes to minimum wage. Three fifths of the proposal is just masturbatory lust for power.

The short answer is “no”.

The long answer is “noooooooooooooo.”

Taxes at the Federal level don’t pay for goods or services. Creating new money is how the Feds pay for stuff.

Federal taxes just delete money from target populations.

The Axis Unseen is about hunting (while being hunted by) cryptids from a large variety of mythologies.

What’s Tatars precious?

I wonder if its a result of the topography of spacetime? Like, if we were to assume the universe is toroidial, and then superimpose a coordinate system over the torus where each point on the grid is one Plank-legnth from its neighbors, I wonder if the distance between grid squares would look bigger at the outside edge of the torus than in the central funnel? If Earth were near the center, then when we look outward/backward we’d observe objects apparent acceleration outward even though from the perspective of those objects themselves they are jumping from grid square to grid square at a constant rate.

Not freeware, but currently $2.39 on GOG:
Master of Magic

Its like Civilization with wizards and dragons.

Canada needs a plan in case launching missiles becomes necessary.

US MIC: “I wish the Feds would buy more guns and less butter.”

*monkey paw curls*

Right now, 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for protection from 140 million Russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million Ukrainians for three years.

counterpoint: nobody poops but you

its not like the us wasn’t getting anything in return

Thing is, what the USA was buying with its expensive umbrella over Europe was a disarmed Europe. At the time, the USA felt it was in their interest for EU to be weak.

For a variety of reasons, the rise of China perhaps being at the forefront, the USA no longer believes its in their interest to keep EU toothless.

Juche.

I wish I was kidding.

They’re doing a North Korea. Building a completely isolated war economy.

this sounds like what Google wanted to be since its inception: ask a question, get an answer

somewhere along the journey, the reality of needing to make money drove the enshitification of search results: ask a question, get offers to sell you an answer

this seems like a step in a better direction

Encouraging the automakers to stop outsourcing factory work and bring those jobs back to the States was the silver lining, so naturally the Republicans are going to fuck that up too.

“Let the bus continue to accelerate off the cliff, then the Republican voters will be mad at the driver!” says the corporat Dems sitting on the bus.

Two entertainers making a spectacle. A cynic might think it was staged.

Yes. USA already knows what its going to do. A hypothetical trade agreement isn’t going to change the decision, so Ukraine should make exactly zero concessions in pursuit of influencing a decision which has already been made.

Right wing ideologies are a symptom of brain damage.
Q.E.D.

Tomato, tomato.

Rules that lack consequences for breaking them are just suggestions.