I hope something comes out of this other than a cease and desist order or worse a lawsuit.

It was generated using copilot, for the added irony.

This is patent troll right? If I am to trust wikipedia, Nokia had nothing to do with the development of HEVC.

The HEVC format was jointly developed by more than a dozen organisations across the world. The majority of active patent contributions towards the development of the HEVC format came from five organizations: Samsung Electronics (4,249 patents), General Electric (1,127 patents),[10] M&K Holdings (907 patents), NTT (878 patents), and JVC Kenwood (628 patents).[11] Other patent holders include Fujitsu, Apple, Canon, Columbia University, KAIST, Kwangwoon University, MIT, Sungkyunkwan University, Funai, Hikvision, KBS, KT and NEC.[12]

Also:

When the MPEG LA terms were announced, commenters noted that a number of prominent patent holders were not part of the group. Among these were AT&T, Microsoft, Nokia, and Motorola. Speculation at the time was that these companies would form their own licensing pool to compete with or add to the MPEG LA pool

Something doesn't seem right.

Growing up in rural Nepal, my grandfather had 6 cows(Bos taurus) and 4 buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) and a few goats. We owned a big forested land and the cattle and goats roamed there all day and came back in the evening. I think they also maintained the local football field sometimes. We (our cattle) were pretty much the majority milk supplier in our village.

My memory could be decieving me, and english is like my 4th language, but none of our cows had testicles.

Oh wow, this is much simpler explanation than the obtuse one I use: "1st chicken ever definitely came from an egg but the creature that laid that egg wasn't a chicken."

Man here. It took me a lot of therapy and help to understand that my (or someone's) suffering doesn't mean less just because there are a lot of others who are suffering more.

I used to say crap like this too, if someone said 'X group of people have this problem'. I'd be like 'but Y has the same problem but to higher extent'. I didn't say it out of malice, at least I don't think so. lt was natural to think 'how can you be complaning about X when Y has the same problem but more'. Maybe I just believed that first you address the problem with bigger statistical number, then we do the smaller one after that and so on, but I dont know. I know now, that is a shitty way to think about things.

I guess it has something to do with how I was raised, 'your problems aren't that great, there are people with bigger problems and in comparison your life is a luxury. So chin up and carry on'. And I lived by it and parroted the same rhetoric for a long time. I believe most people (men?) do the same not out of malice but because of this shitty view of life and the world, because how they were raised, because how people told them how their problem can be ignored because someone else has a bigger problem. and they don't know any better. At least I didn't for a long time.

Cool it over there. I look like that but I don't call women females. That was very unwarranted.

Do you mean Unilever?

Was the image generated with copilot?

Wait is this stat for real or a hyperbole? Assuming this represents the demogrpahcis of US. With a population of 333 million, there are 1.6 million trans people and 830 000 prople are shot everyday?

The German word would be exactly that but in German and without space.

starvingbutwouldratherdiethaneatfoodinthekitchen

This is how German have a word for everything.

As an foreigner and outsider. Does USA not have a system of designated opposition? Isn't it their duty to keep the government in check? Am I missing something? I don't even know who is the opposition leader no more. I assume the president nominee who didn't win is the opposition leader? Haven't seen or heard anything major since the election.

Wait. Youre telling me that guy from the memes was telling the truth?

So what else is also true?

Was the pandemic and the lockdown really orchestrated by the government to change the batteries of all the pigeons too?

Do you have a moment to talk about LaTeX?

175 lbs of Tannerite. Boris, the house and some part of the neighborhood will attempt a space voyage, if Boris gets shot.

"Scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should"

Micheal on his fictional book about sex changing lizards in an unconventional zoo.

Ayy fuck you. I look like that but I don't go around calling people "females".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this only applies public flights not private flights.

I read pedesterians often camp these choke points. I was picturing hobo joe sitting there to catch a passing rabbit or deer for a good meal.

I recently purchased a small apartment. According to calculations, it was cheaper to pay the mortgage than rent a similar size apartment. Now meta thinks I am into collecting apartments in the same postcode. On the other hand, I do find it somewhat useful to see what is happening to the apartment prices around.