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Imo all safety studies should be duplicated, with one run by someone that wants the study to give a safe and effective conclusion and another run by someone who wants the study to give a dangerous or ineffective conclusion. Both studies monitored by neutral parties that are rewarded based on how long the studies stand up for. And no NDAs (or at least no NDAs that don’t expire once the product hits the market) so that all three can be vocal about any issues they had with how the others wanted things run.

And criminal charges for any kind of corruption.

It’s both sad and hilarious that it’s hard to tell if this is legit or just some fun trolling.

Black eyes, and I’m getting a sense of dread… Darth Vader?

I used to have the FF7 battle music as my ring tone. Because phone calls were random encounters. Certain ones got the boss battle music instead.

Hearing that randomly in public from someone else’s phone would have made me excited to see a kindred spirit. Closest I ever did see was someone using the victory music, but that would have been more appropriate as a hang up tone.

I should do that again. It’s funny because I think it was moving to a new phone and not wanting to figure out how to set custom ring tones that made me put it off until I forgot it, even though the phone that had it was a flip phone that I had to use a special connector to even hook it up to my PC and had to find a program to encode the song in the arcane format used by dumb phones and the phone that replaced it probably just needed me to drop the songs into the right folder or find out how to browse the file system when setting ring tone.

Edit: Just checked, out of curiosity.

On my graphene os phone, they have a list of ring tones it comes with and at the bottom of the list is a plus that opens up the file system browser.

On my Samsung phone, it’s just a list. There’s a plus at the top but that opens up some Samsung music app or something that I’ve never used. It looks like I can add songs to that by putting them in a samsung music folder, though I did have to look twice to see that and wouldn’t be surprised if it only shows approved files that came from them, knowing what Samsung is like with software.

Separate rant but the other day I looked in the bixby settings and noticed there was a button to remove it entirely, so I did so, thinking I might finally get full control of that button. Nope, even less control now, it just launches a “install Bixby” screen instead of letting me set some other action for some of the presses (as long as one of them still opens the voice assistant I don’t want and never asked for).

His face looks old enough to make his hair look unnatural.

Funny thing is, they’d be right but not realize that Trump is a part of it rather than the solution to it.

Not sure where anything in that link contradicts what I said. A character used in a logo is one of those cases where a character is used as a trademark, but it only applies to that logo. Having a trademark of a Mario logo wouldn’t mean that Mario couldn’t show up in works that aren’t by Nintendo, it’s purely the copyright that prevents that.

The part where it gets complicated is more about, for example, a video of Mario playing Palworld and saying “This is-a better than-a pokemon!” was used to try to imply Nintendo themselves recommended Palworld over Pokemon, since Mario is a trademark of Nintendo and strongly associated with them.

Trademarks are about marketing and the origin and/or endorsement of something. Copyrights are about the presentation and creative use of the copyrighted works.

That said, if trademarks are used in the creative work, it seems as though they would need to be removed for someone else to sell that work. So if steamboat Willie has the Disney logo as a part of its opening credits and someone else tries to show it without removing that logo, Disney world likely have a trademark infringement case. But they wouldn’t have a case simply because Mickey mouse could be considered they spokesman and is a character in it.

For the Nintendo ones, once super Mario Bros’ copyright lapses, “Super Mario” might need to be removed from the title for others to sell it to avoid infringing on Nintendo’s trademark. But the characters of Mario, Luigi, Mushroom Man, King Koopa, and the Princess would be fair game, either in the game’s original format or derivative works.

A trademark is just a symbol used to show something was made by a certain entity. They aren’t about the things themselves.

Eg the Nintendo logo is a trademark but the characters like Mario, Link, and Sonic aren’t.

Though it can get a bit fuzzy when characters are used as trademarks, Nintendo couldn’t just say “Mario is our spokesman” to gain indefinite protection on him. But, even if Mario wasn’t covered by copyright, someone else couldn’t use him to act as if Nintendo endorsed their product.

I prefer reusable glass containers, though they lose some space efficiency.

Every accusation is a confession.

Edit: Ah should have read down before replying, but fuck it, it bears repeating.

I wonder what portion of her “support” is thinking “stfu already and gtf back to the kitchen and let the men handle this shit”.

But he’s not Donald Trump old.

Are there really that many people lonely enough to put up with being married to a Trump supporter when they don’t also drink that trad wife koolaid?

I mean, just because the people who hired you want you to help one campaign doesn’t mean you can’t instead tell people what you really think when you knock on their door.

Or just say you’ll do it but instead go off and look for a different job.

Or do what they want but lean into it way more than they want people to admit. “Now just be aware that soon there will be a night where you’re going to need a very long knife so we can purge the undesirables from our own ranks. You know, once we no longer need their disgusting support.”

You take that back! I’ll have you know he voted three times and would have voted even more times if his friend group had known the location of any other polling stations!

Oh but some do create very helpful content like “repost!” comments to help people seeing old content from getting embarrassed by not realizing all discussion about that content has been done already.

Some try to improve stories by adding claims of applause or a famous person offering a sum of money, probably because it’s silly to imagine such embellishments and they like joining in on the fun.

Add Musk and Zuckerberg to that list, too, along with the various funds/groups that own Reddit. Trump could be on the list, too, though only his cult takes his seriously.

Social media works a bit differently but the end result is similar. Or worse, given how much things have accelerated in the couple of decades since social media made it to the main stream.

Also shouldn’t be in charge of a popular social media site. Even ignoring that he can probably read private messages as easily as the public ones, the moderation power alone is too much for IMO any private entity to have.

And yeah, I would also apply that to legacy media and other popular media sites.

Not just withholding rent, punitive judgements on anything less than best effort on dealing with it as soon as it’s known and inspection schedules that keep the longest duration it can be unknown for short enough to avoid most health issues.