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  • Also, it’s very difficult to get daycare to stick it out with you and once a child is in the 3-4 range, it becomes exponentially more difficult to modify bathroom habits. They will literally shit themselves just because you ask them to use a toilet at this stage.

    When our kid had just turned 3, we had started making really solid progress finally. He was good with pee, starting to (slowly) get the hang of pooping, and would actually request to go to the bathroom before bedtime if he felt he needed to. Then daycare basically said they wouldn’t deal with poopy training underwear anymore and bring him back with diapers, and all progress was lost. Now, nearly a year later, it feels like we’re still clawing our way back to where we were.




  • LUCE absolutely does not support folks open carrying, or carrying at all, as backdrop to ICE events. Hell, as a policy, they do not even want people using whistles because it “escalates” and creates “chaos.” That said, what LUCE DOES do is extraordinarily important and why I still organize with them even if I think their timidity wrt the above items is totally misguided.








  • I would have to look into the actual patent and file wrapper, but presumably it didn’t cover just any rounding of rectangular corners, but as you said, a defined range.

    Where bad patents get through prosecution, they are problematic, be they design patents or utility patents, but design patents in general are not even a blip on the radar of what needs to be fixed in our IP system imo. As a general rule of thumb, they are in fact fairly narrow. Meanwhile, pharma patents very much need focused and thoughtful revisions, and IP around software needs to be reworked from the ground up basically, creating special rules for patents and dropping the legislatively declared copyright framework entirely. The problem is that reporting on IP is fucking awful so people say things like “ohmyglob this design patents doesn’t even have real claims” even though that’s literally how they are structured and enforcing the right requires a pretty intensive investigation of the drawings and line patterns therein.

    But, sure, I’ll give that maybe Apple’s design patent in this case was overly broad. I’m not particularly interested in defending Apple’s IP.