DisasterTransport

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[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Company’s that own a patent can release spores causing cross contamination, then sue a farmer at harvest for their crop containing copyrighted genes.

No they cannot. This little bit of common knowledge is bullshit on several levels.

  1. nitpicky, but plants reproduce by pollen and seeds, not by spores. okay, since i'm being nitpicky potatoes and sugarcane don't reproduce with seeds. potatoes are tubers and sugarcane uses cuttings. some plants reproduce with rhizomes but we usually don't eat those. point is spores are for mushrooms and ferns and whatnot.
  2. the big seed producers pledge not to sue for trace contamination
  3. monsanto was preemptively sued by farmers in 2013 because the farmers were afraid of the windblown lawsuits and wanted to get monsanto's patents on genetics struck down. court said no, because Monsanto could not be sued over a threat that did not exist. That is, Monsanto had never actually sued anyone for windblown genetics. But given the above point the court also said monsanto is legally not allowed to sue for windblown genetics. because they promised not to.
  4. copyright and patent law are two different things. seeds and their genetics are covered under patents. that's either better, worse, or sideways depending on your perspective but it is different.

big ag is evil and they fuck farmers over constantly but you don't have to bullshit to make them look bad

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no wait this page is still usable on ADSL, you need MOAR CDNS. MOAR HIGH RES IMAGES. MOAR VIDEOS! MOAR TRACKING PIXELS AND SCRIPTS MOAR MOAR MOAR

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i resent living under a government run by such unserious people. i mean trump himself is circling the drain but the fact that anyone in that room went along with it is just disappointing more than anything. these people respect nothing, least of all themselves.

it would be very funny for Minnesota to stop extraditing to Texas. Zero shot but it would be funny.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well how are you going to get rid of the ghosts if you don't consume them? You pour it drain and now the drain is haunted and you have to hire a plumber who's also a practicing priest. Its a very rare job description and I've only ever heard of one. He doesn't come cheap. You'd think it's a scam if it weren't for the water ghosts.

I wanted to make a cheap joke about getting the ghosts out by boiling the hell out of it but I wound up in a rabbithole about supercritical water. It turns out you can boil the hell into water. With a lot of heat and pressure water can dissolve rock, oil and gas dissolve into the water easily, and if you put organic waste into really angry water that shit will burn. Underwater! It even destroys PFAS and prions!

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Everything Nostradamus wrote was incredibly vague and 3797 was just when he claimed his visions ended, not that the world would end then.

1999, 2000, 2012, 2025, and 2026 have all also been interpreted as the end of the world according to Nostradamus. There's your track record.

The main problem I've observed with zipper merging is nobody can seem to agree on what it is. People get aggressive when you try to use the available space on the road, and in discussions online it seems people think you're trying to queue jump if you don't merge as early as possible.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Tangential but nobody seems to know how to drive in traffic. Pick a lane and stay in it, leave extra following distance, and try to change speed as smoothly as possible. If everyone did these three things, traffic congestion would be significantly less severe.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I am in my mid thirties. Someday age will catch up to me on this front, but it doesn't seem to have noticed me yet. I can still out drink most 25 year olds (which does not make me cool). Some of us are just Built Different, and by that I mean that through a combination of genetics, tolerance, and being, ahem, "big boned," my body is fantastic at absorbing, buffering, and metabolizing ethanol. A blessing and a curse in equal parts. Other people will stop at two drinks because their body tells them to and they have the willpower to listen to that signal. My body never sends the signal. Unless I'm in a situation where I have to drive home, my internal "probably shouldn't do that" doesn't overcome the disinhibition. So on a Friday night at home with nothing to do I can easily knock back enough to still be drunk the next day and still not get hung over. Sounds awesome, except that the ability to process alcohol efficiently doesn't protect me from alcohol being a carcinogen or neurotoxic.

The simple antidote to all this, of course, is to not have the first drink. Which pains me, because alcohol rules.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm not holding my breath but I'm still hoping for a groundswell of electoral opposition that puts someone competent in power so he has to impotently watch P2025 crumble and get reversed. Also, y'know, a fair trial for his crimes and getting sued into oblivion by all the people he's stolen from. If he just has a massive stroke they'll keep him in power as long as he's technically alive. Its like 40k but way dumber

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