Yeah the grocery is a 10 min walk, but I can’t haul a week’s worth of supplies for my household by foot in one trip, and I really don’t have the time to go every day, so yeah a the car comes in handy for that once a week haul.

Lucky bastard.

I heard so much Bon Jovi, my teeth are rotten.

Damn, I felt my heart thaw a bit. Gotta be more careful around this neck of the interwoods.

Single use is outright banned in many palces.

Which I kinda don’t mind, because several times in recent years I ended up with groceries all over the parking lot because of how flimsy they were made. Now you have to pay for them, but at least they’re sturdy.

Cool story bro.

You’re utterly delusional. If this system has done anything is to stiffle small, independent producers and consolidate power in megacorporations.

This is the kind of crap you’re defending: https://patents.justia.com/patent/12268585

This is a random, recent patent from P&G. Read that bullshit, and then tell if if what they’re describing isn’t the most generic design for a diaper or sanitary napkin ever?

“One permeable layer facing the wearer, then a semipermeable layer that tries to only allow liquid to move away from the wearer, then an absorbing layer, then an outer impermeable layer”

Oh boy, if it wasn’t for that patent, I’d be pumping 500 million dollars into building a factory so I can flood the market with my cheap fake products! - said nobody when they read that.

It’s hilarious how far removed from reality your ideal of patents is…

it costs millions of dollars to get a manufacturing process up and running and in a good enough state to where it can actually work out financially. Without patents, your competitor can just take all of that work and investment and just copy it with the benefit of doing it right the first time, so they’re able to undercut you on cost.

This argument makes no sense. Manufacturing lines are built all that time for unpatented products, plus a competitor can’t just “take all of that work and investment”, they will need to put in money to create their own product, even if it’s a copy they still need to make it work, as well as build their own production capacity.

They’ll be second to market, and presumably need to undercut price to get market share… This is a very risky endeavour, unless the profit margins are huge, and in which case, good thing that there’s no patents…

If the research is so costly and complex (pharmaceutical, aeronautical,…), then it should be at least partly funded by the government, through partnerships between universities and companies.

Patents are not a solution.

Companies already issue digital boarding passes. I have a government issued digital ID in a phone app. These are convenient.

But facial recognition? Hell no, f that.

Isnt that like all phone makers recently?

Usually pedantic grammatical corrections are obnoxious, but somehow this was informative, and respect for translating the meme.