I thought you had to prove it was unique concept before patenting something, anyway. These have obvious examples from other places

Fuck Nintendo, and fuck US copyright

Ahab? Is that a biblical character?

!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

Why do people buy this hardware in the first place then if it won’t be theirs?

Ah yes, just block everyone you disagree with. What a perfect way to ensure healthy discussion and not an echo chamber at all! /s

It can be helpful for people to know if their message has been read, or just not received. I appreciate it in others, so I do the courtesy of keeping it on for myself too.

In the ancestral environment we would still work all day to survive, and we wouldn’t have medicine or YouTube for it either. There could obviously be a more equitable system today, and the end goal is that humans don’t have to work any more, but it’s disingenuous to imply that the capitalist division of labour model is an alternative to not working and still getting stuff.

That is indeed the point :)

It’s very clearly a satire of its time and place, rather than an actual prediction of the future, culture not having progressed at all, despite more advanced tech existing. It seems weird to single out professions existing as the example rather than all the other examples - American capitalism is present in all of it, and criticised in several places

Quite. Not sure why you’re being downvoted so much. Hive mind’s gonna hive, I guess

presses the big blue ‘update’ button in GNOME Software in Fedora

People shouldn’t use Cloudflare for everything anyway, it unnecessarily centralises the internet and blocks Tor and VPNs

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Hey, my phone can do a lot just being the size of a phone. Running games, reading, voice synthesis and recognition, image and text generation, etc

But their computers are still the size of a room and everyone smokes

You gotta work, work all day.

I’m guessing this is a reference to a musical, or musicals in general, where large groups of people spontaneously sing songs about how they’re feeling and what they think.

Someone just as bad would have replaced him. The problem isn’t him specifically, it’s all the people who voted for him.

If you hate Teslas that much, why do you own one?