Sounds like the investigation started under Biden. If they shut it down now, they’ll look (even more) like they cover for pedos.

Benthic Life needs to be band/album/movie title.

On second thought, do wear any/all of those and be sure to wax your mustache. Leave a hat or box for tips, I’ll throw some in.

Just don’t wear a vest, bowler/tophat or wingtips.

In the USA they definitely cannot be copyrighted. They can try to add on a license agreement but those have not been tested in court.

https://library.osu.edu/site/copyright/2014/07/14/patterns-and-copyright-protections/

Does that make people with solar panels “bottom powers” or “power bottoms”?

You can’t even copyright the pattern in the same way you can’t copyright recipes.

The web page or printed page the pattern is on can be copyrighted. Photos or drawings accompanying the pattern can be copyrighted. But, patterns cannot be copyrighted.

You know what would actually make parents more present in their children’s lives? Fewer hours at work and more money.

The only people helped by robotics will be people who already have the luxury of: working from home; regular hours; high wage; and good PTO benefits. So, well-off to wealthy people.

Poor people in low-paying jobs won’t be able to afford the robots for a couple generations, anyway. His perspective on this is self-centered. Which, I suppose, is typical of him.

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.

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.

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?”

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.

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.