If you could make self driving reliable you’d have a good point. Currently that tech isn’t good enough, and may never be.

The problem is that ground travel is uncontrolled space, and there is very little room for error.

USPTO changed its rules in 2013; prior art only counts if it was patented first. This is why Nintendo has been trying to patent stuff other companies are doing that is similar to their games (eg PalWorld).

Part of me wishes Nintendo was doing this to lose on purpose so there is precedent to not use this against them in the future, but I’ve become far too pessimistic for a “good-guy Nintendo” arc…

Thumbnails are missing on lemmy so much it wouldn’t have occurred to me

Stop trying to make Tilly Norwood happen, it isn’t going to happen

Tossing self-powering rogue access points onto roofs to get around fascistic legal censorship by proxy of VPNs through McDonalds is one of the most we-have-entered-the-Matrix sentences ever.

Someone should submit this technique as an article to 2600

Make those illegal too probably

This means if we get fusion working, we could have enough energy to scrub the atmosphere of carbon and turn it back into gasoline.

Could literally have our cake and eat it too but that would mean that oil execs would be too poor to molest kids without repercussions

Don’t forget logging every Bluetooth and WiFi device (mobile and hardwired) with location and timestamp and sending it all to meta for “tailoring ads”

This is exactly the scenario that Obamacare was trying to avoid, and through hard work and greed, we made it inevitable anyway.