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You don't like patents and/or copyrights because you believe that property can only rightfully be owned collectively and/or that the rightfullness of ownership depends on who you are, and/or by how much you already have (or don't have,) and/or by how high or low your social status might be.

I don't like patents, nor copyrights, because ownership is ethically justified SOLELY and EXCLUSIVELY by the fact that what is claimed as "property" is subject to rivalrous consumption:

Intellectual property is illegitimate because ideas and information are non-rivalrous and non-excludable by nature. Unlike physical goods, which are scarce and rivalrous (e.g., if I take your apple, you no longer have it), ideas can be shared infinitely without diminishing their availability. Intellectual property laws artificially create scarcity by granting monopolies, which distorts markets and restricts the free flow of knowledge.

Here's a comprehensive essay on the topic => https://cdn.mises.org/15_2_1.pdf
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To simply say that the Constitution "permits" the States to make gold and silver "legal tender" is a lie by understatement: It doesn't just "permit" it; it explicitly prohibits making anything else legal tender: Article I, section 10.

Grok confirms => https://x.com/i/grok/share/dAMeciFYfCTMAxtSsTx6rCFTY
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beard :meru_amogus: ひげ

got the black ceiling tiles in place as well as black walls to place behind the outer walls. the level is basically in a black box and the skybox is pure black so it works really well.

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re: gamedev 

@bajax There are no experience points. It's more action-adventure than RPG.

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gamedev 

Improved the pause menu.

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The Free State 🦔

Welcome Home, @realrossu.

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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
Anyone knows of a toaster that's explicitly temperature-based?
(Like part of tech-sheet or verified in like teardowns, not something you'd assume, because I'd assume the opposite)

And it's a pain to search for because of liars calling their time-adjustment feature a "thermostat".
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beard :meru_amogus: ひげ

got the rest of the first floor layout, here's how it is shaping up! gotta get in some furniture and other such objects now.

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nigga has become so irrelevant nobody has even bothered to bring it up here, i really wonder what the thought process is behind humiliating yourself like this
https://drewdevault.com/2025/06/09/2025-06-09-Unionize-or-die.html
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Microsoft appears to have lost nearly a third of their users over the last 3 years
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@beardalaxy
>it is much easier to get the government to force companies to do right by the consumer (which is NOT EVEN THAT HARD BTW) than it is to just let them take away games that people have paid for and provide no alternate solution

Sure, but this assumes that the government cares about you, and that they care about video games. Most video game industry regulations these days only occur because a lot of aspects of the modern game industry like lootboxes can be considered "gambling". I don't know if politicians care about "preserving art".

>even going as far as putting legal on their asses when they try to do stuff like reverse engineering servers and getting money for their efforts

That's not a free market.

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I think in a truly free market where anyone can create any video game using any franchise without being restricted by IP laws, live service games would be harder to sell because they would have to compete with non-live service games of the same franchise.

Why play the online only Diablo 3 by Blizzard when someone else can create their own Diablo that is playable offline?

Granted, it wouldn't be a perfect solution. There would probably still be some games as a service and some of them will pull the plug without providing any means to play offline/with dedicated servers, but a true free market without IP laws would probably make the situation better than it is now.

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djsumdog
Just finish Clair Obscur Expedition 33

Game review: https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/clair-obscur-expedition-33/
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Btw if you are registered as an Organ Donor , remove yourself from the registry immediately, otherwise hospitals will kill you for money and offer substandard care in the event you are in critical condition.

Also worth noting that "brain death" was invented by Harvard doctor's in the 70s to expand organ donation by giving hospitals a way to declare a living person in critical condition deceased, if a hospital declares a loved one brain dead don't trust them, so long as their heart is still beating they're alive and can make a recovery.
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@SSBlackwing guess the cia directives are telling you "do not engage with anyone who has more brains than a down's syndrome patient" because there is risk of someone making you look stupid
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@bonifartius That guy is probably just a troll. His bait reminds me of hachi, but from a different angle.

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@ube
>computer code is not political
It *can* be, but only if you have political motivations for writing such code. For example, if you are an ancap you may write software for some P2P marketplace, but the whole idea that all code in general being political is dumb and it's only there to sabotage projects.

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Maija :4554_Transgender_Heart: Maijčika :latviaParrot:
> - keep politics in free software because it's the only meaningful thing we have
you can have your own politics personally and aside from it, or if its a one person personal project, i guess, but i will never understand this. you have a meaningful thing, the code! the project! hell you could say foss is inherently political sure but that's not the implication here im pretty certain, how hard is it to seperate it from your project you want to have adoption? the project is the neutral zone. computer code is not political, why make it as such then? there's zero to gain here

RT: https://gts.chimera-linux.org/users/chimera/statuses/01JSTAXR6XAV8N462Q96FCNRPV
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@SuperSnekFriend @Seth_Wachhaltamittel Maybe this should be a sign that you should consider using a PLC if your home's electrical wiring supports it.

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@Seth_Wachhaltamittel
This is a thing, and that ISPs are introducing this means they are monitoring your movement regardless if you use this service or not, assuming you own your own network devices an have locked them down.







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