I agree people can and do create without IP as a motivation, and would continue to in its absence. I believe in a perfect world where everyone’s needs are met, IP may not be necessary at all. I would argue, though, that in the world we live in, the economic incentive IP creates has tangibly contributed to many valuable innovations that benefit humanity. Many people and companies rely on that incentive to be able to fund the work needed to create.

What is the incentive to create and innovate FOSS? Altruism? I’m genuinely asking. Maybe I don’t know enough about the movement.

Just because intellectual property can be voluntarily relinquished to great effect doesn’t mean the option to retain it should be abolished.

Women shave their balls.

It’s really only creepy old dudes I get it from. It seems pretty genuine most of the time. These comments are more frequent and more egregious with my women coworkers, though, as one might expect.

I agree with the sentiment, but I, a man, actually have customers tell me to smile more weirdly often working retail.

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It is just a pun on “bat man”.

Adapt and come up with stuff on the fly? If by that you mean TPK when so much as a single dice roll diverges from my meticulously crafted grand plan, then I may just be the single greatest DM of all time.

Rabbits breed like crazy and multiply fast. Rabbits have been associated with fertility for centuries in pagan traditions. The rabbit is the symbol of the germanic pagan goddess of Spring and fertility, Eostre. I suspect there is a connection here.

I’m not a botanist, but I’m like 99% sure those are rosehips.

Lavender syrup is very strongly flavored in my experience.

Acshewally, Oppenheimer is the single greatest work of art known to man. Since you’ve failed to provide even the faintest sliver of evidence as to how you could possibly find such a masterpiece “unenjoyable”, Occam’s Razor leaves us with no option but to assume you are simply so monumentally stupid you couldn’t begin to comprehend even 4th grade level long division, much less the subtle nuances of the mathematics necessary to the creation of the atomic bomb. What other outcome could you possibly have expected posting such baseless, inflammatory drivel? I hope you stub your toe on your couch every morning for the rest of your life, you doddering ignoramus.