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Yeah, even of the companies don’t pocket the difference, he’s an idiot to suggest that this will cut inflation.

This guy is just not very smart, I think.

It’s like they have in charge some nerd who’s only experience with planning and development is 4X games.

It’s an incel mindset.

Anything made by Samsung.

I think everyone could be rehabilitated to a decent person. But sometimes a guillotine is a more expedient and humane solution.

Not necessarily. Trademark infringement usually comes down to consumer confusion.

If a character in a book incidentally eats at McDonalds, that’s probably fine.

If your video game has McDonalds logos everywhere to the point that it looks like McDonalds paid for placement or sponsored the game in some way, that’s probably infringement.

The question a judge is going to ask is: “Were consumers led to believe that McDonalds endorsed this product?”

Trademarks protections exist to protect consumers as much as companies. They are they so you can trust that something labeled McDonalds is actually from the McDonalds you know.

Things like parody are considered fair use because people are assumed to be smart enough to understand that it’s parody and not the company doing something out of character.

GOP might fund him and Stein to split right-center, black and left votes off from the Dems.

I’m sure the Oath Keepers group will speak out and act on this. Right? Right? ^*crickets*

They exist in significant numbers. Think incels, weebs, tech-bro wannabes, stoner rednecks, suburbanites with money and kinks… there’s quite a lot of types for whom MAGA is anti-establishment.

Sounds like slavery.

To all managers out there: if a University of Alabama alum’s résumé crosses your desk, file it in the trash right away.

Working on sign ideas:

“Remember Your Oath”

“Your Oath is to the Constitution”

“Is this the same Army that defeated the Nazis?”

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Bring back asbestos, Florida! And leaded gasoline!

There are at least some Duolingo courses that use AI voices exclusively and they are shit.

On the one hand, having an AI to talk to sounds like something that could be good. Getting a real person to talk to every user would be impossible. I just don’t think the technology is going to meet expectations any time soon.

It’s possible I know a guy from Ireland who lived in the US illegally for decades. He never went home for fear of not being allowed back in.

If you run into an asshole in the morning one instance, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day in every instance, you’re the asshole

Soothing the egos of some very insecure, very rich people.

Does ChatGPT incorrectly put spaces around the em dash, too? There should be no spaces around an em dash—that’s a clue that implies a human writer.

And, em dashes and en dashes are great—they should be used more often.