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Now imagine if you voted for a good candidate and that vote didn’t go directly in the trash …

This is so far from the top of the list of reasons your system is fucked you could cross the finish line without addressing it at all.

'A business should never buy idiot proof systems they should just stop hiring idiots"

approaching literally any ideology from first principals

no idea how to check block list, it’s mostly just people who think personal attacks are acceptable. I have zero tolerance for idiots in my old age and it makes life so much better.

“You ever fuck that guys wife?”

No, Pop defaults to X

Blizzard has QA? is this the Onion?

AI doesn’t even exist so I’ll go with … No

Knowledge is understanding Frankenstein isn’t the monster

Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein is the monster

I do, but also nothing

you can’t just say Perchance

A great diagnostic tool and a terrible psychologist

how much was all this audio equipment? literally nothing compared to the cost of the cables to hook it all up with.

yep. anyone that doesn’t say recuperate already has enough free time to do whatever it is they’re responding to this thread with.

I think 3d printers would be the best example.

patents where invented to protect trade secrets with the result of making them public being an unavoidable consequence. I didn’t mean to make it sound like I agree with intellectual property of any kind just to say there are good reasons and good outcomes. The internet doesn’t tend to be the place to discuss nuance however.

there can be a very good case made for putting private innovation into the public realm after a period of legal protections, (typically 20 years for most places)

but anything that is public by it’s very nature should never be subject to patents

you can’t be bigoted against cis-het-white-males, idiot.

So it goes

the horrors persist