Maybe this invention revolutionised how we clean our butts, or maybe it was utterly trivial and 20 different ways of cutting paper rolls were patented that same year (note that present day rolls don’t even use this method).

But that’s irrelevant to the point that seems to be implied here that patents somehow contributed to it’s success. They don’t, an invention will be useful or not based on its own merits, not on the fact they’re patented.

They exist to ensure whoever registered it makes a profit, which is why they’re being exploited way past the point of making up for any good they were supposed to bring…

I understand very well the implications of the negative price, which is why I advocated NOT to spend trillions in nuclear, when issues of balancing demand and production can be solved for a fraction of what nuclear costs.

This.

Also, tie together more countries’ power grids to even out production and demand of renewables, and reduce the need for other backup sources.

For a fraction of the cost of nuclear, increase the storage capacity as well. We’ve had days where the price per MWh was negative in many hours, because of excess production.

The barriers to carbon free energy aren’t technical, they’re purely political.

So the innovation that was patented is literally “cut it partway through”.

Patents are inherently stupid and only serve to stifle progress. Change my mind or otherwise just downvote away, works as well.

People here be discussing the wrong thing, or am I the only one thinking that patenting a roll of paper is incredibly stupid?

It’s a damn roll of paper. How much of a genius do you have to be to come up with that? People have been doing it for millennia, the only difference is that it used to be so expensive that no one would think of whipping their butts with it.

Data privacy AND not having to deal with more bullshit AI? Oh my, how will we ever cope with this… /s

We’ve come full circle

This is what they want you to believe…

Not the companies. But some anonymous whistleblower? Sure

Sounds good to me. When are we starting?

You’re just hunkering down inside your bubble, while offering nothing to the conversation.

There’s a BYD stand close to where I work, I was looking at a “Dolphin” that has around 500 miles of range and costs 30k€.

That’s still twice as what’s in the meme, but they keep getting closer.

If you have some sort of grudge against China automakers, Dacia has its Spring. It costs about what’s in the meme, but with half the range though.

It’s not hard to see a future where 350 miles for 15k is a reality, but the market needs competition.

My point is that coming to terms with who you are isn’t the destination, but the first step in a road of self improvement.

You’re only garbage if you stop there. Do better, one little bit at a time.

This is such a bullshit moral for stories, and it’s so overused that it boggles my brain. It’s just an outright lie - accepting oneself will NOT magically solve all of one’s problems, that’s not how reality works.

Can you at least wait for me to die before taking me to hell, Satan?

Not sure if I’m just missing a reference here, but if you choose the pizza you can have both.

I’m so impressed that this is a thing

Because they didn’t come out saying they won’t enable ads. They just quietly renamed the toggle to say something else, and that is shady AF. Why are you trying to spin it positively?

You couldn’t be making a bigger idiot of yourself right now.

You clearly underestimate me. I could be sucking Sony’s cock, for example.

So the only way to ban dicks is for them to have a PSN account? That ain’t it my brother.

Sony servers, sure, just release a server binary, let others host it and offload all infrastructure costs! Massive savings!

Don’t suck corporate ass man, cmon.

Nah brother. Because it’s in the TOS doesn’t make it OK, and in some cases, even legally enforceable.

Why are you sticking up for some arbitrary shitty corporate decision and feel the need to shift the blame to people who bought, and now supposedly OWN, the game?

I can respect it if you’re doing it for money, we all gotta eat. But if it’s for free, you’re just an ass