The actual rules aren’t too terrible, plenty of these garbage patents would be invalidated with any real scrutiny applied to them. The problem is that it’s often cheaper to pay the settlement than the legal bill to fight, which is a more widespread problem that the legal system is too expensive and slow to be accessible to the vast majority of people. There’s also a secondary issue that patent officers are too generous in granting patents, and reform would be great. The problem is they are overworked so they can’t properly evaluate and research applications, and are encouraged to be overly permissive in granting patents.

That chemical is a calorie.

1. Ancient people were as intelligent as we are.
2. It didn’t have to start at a massive scale, it was likely a smaller start that spread and expanded.
3. Finding and making food was the thing everyone spent all their time on until the agricultural revolution, even then is was still almost everyone. It wasn’t until the industrial revolution that a majority of people weren’t focused exclusively on food production.

Investing is great for retirement funds, over the 30 years or so it’s great for returns. It’s terrible to invest principle you need in scope of months or 1-2 years even.

If you have 20k and a 20k loan, putting that money in the stock market is stupid if you need that money to pay the loan. If you have 20k, a 20k loan, and income to cover loan payments in addition to living, it may be beneficial to invest that 20k, but it’s still relatively high risk.

It’s gone down moth over month many times though. If you are dependant on that principle month to month it’s insane to trust the market.

Having 20k plus the cash flow to pay a 20k loan is a totally different scenario than buying a car for cash. If you need that 20k to pay the 333/month, it’s stupid to trust the market isn’t going to go down, and simple savings would net you maybe $500.

It really sucks looking for a job right now without having a profile, so many applications are asking for or even requiring one. I suppose it also prevents me from working for any company that uses LinkedIn as a major factor in hiring decisions.

The average cost of a car is wildly skewed by luxury models and the absurd prices of new cars. The market has gotten more expensive, so it is more difficult to find reliable cars in the sub 5k range, but under 10k is possible. It’s possible to save a few hundred bucks a month and get progressively better cars without financing them, because depreciation isn’t significant at the low end of the market.

Pay cash for a car that runs. You aren’t getting a loan without income in the first place.

A car is absolutely doable without financing l. It’s a poverty trap to finance a car. What you can’t do is have a brand new car.

For the vast majority of people the only debt they should ever get is a house.

So far just dlc for games I already own. Maybe I’ll get Slime Rancher.

It does seem like there’s an inverse correlation of general intelligence/common sense and specialized study.

This is clearly wrong. It only takes 36 days, since the boy and girl nut alternate their maturity cycles.

You missed what they meant. It means gpt5 is really good at one arbitrary and extremely specific topic. Anything else it’s comparable with a random person on the street.

It’s more the hierarchy of having super bad that can get bonuses based on your actions.

I’d expect it to be ok, but a second game coming out before the first ever really got fully fixed.

WB hasn’t used the nemesis system since 2017, and likely won’t use it again at this point. By the time the patent expires it might be a lost system.

It might be surprising to people who don’t realize the sheer scale McDonald’s operates at. The McDonald’s division of coke is probably bigger than a lot of entire manufacturing companies.

There’s also a huge difference between beef cows and dairy cows.