Honestly, I think they're a troll account. In general Lemmy took a bit more effort for me personally to sign up to vs Reddit, I had to figure out an instance and roughly how it worked before signing up and the political stance of the devs came up. I mostly assumed most people went through a similar process.
The annual cycle is quite nice from a buyer's perspective too, when I need a new phone I've got a reasonable idea that Google aren't going to release a new device in a couple of months and leave me feeling shafted.
There must be something to their judicial system, taking Voyager as the example, clearly as soon as they are beyond the reach of Federation justice captains turn into genocidal war criminals in very short order.
Certainly it could be, I would like to see some proper study done into it, but it's probably borderline impossible.
Conversely patents are somewhat unobtainable by the average Joe, I think I saw it costing somewhere in the region of 25-50k to patent something by the time you factor in the cost of a decent patent lawyer.
Maybe a 10-15 year patent period with lower barrier to entry would be a good thing.
Isn't that pretty much how parents work already? They're extensible, sure, but only up to 20 years total. Not only that but you're forced to document it too.
A Polish colleague of mine once accidentally picked Czech in an online work training exercise and then spent the next 30 minutes giggling to himself. I asked him afterwards what was up "Czech sounds like baby talk"
If I'm not having a whoosh moment, the fact they have bases in Ireland and the Netherlands very much sounds like they're operating a Double Irish Dutch Sandwich.
I thought so too, then I discovered lego