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

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I think this story may be told by an unreliable narrator.

We have no evidence that the email actually came from their job - that misidentification by Ki might be the problem that IT hopes training will solve.

A quick dive down a wiki hole has left me with the impression that this guy’s contemporary duck-size proto-horses had large canine teeth.

I don’t like my odds either way.

holy shit, its a horse sized duck!

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

Its like Civilization with wizards and dragons.

But why was there a road there?

“other” gets two zeros and your name on all of the lists

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.

who are, ironically, not communist