Here lunch is our biggest meal of the day and usually around 2 or 3 pm. Most people will have lunch at home, even if they have to go back to work later and many eat a small meal between “breakfast” and lunch. But most people either won’t eat anything for what you’d call breakfast or just have some coffee and toast/pastries. I really don’t know anybody who wakes up and immediately starts cooking.

I’m southern european and some of these answers are giving me culture shock… Normally, a coffee would get me through the day until lunch and, if I’m especially hungry, I’ll eat some pastries too. But the thought of having to eat plenty of eggs or anything that involves cooking so soon after waking up is giving me upset stomach. I realize this may not be healthiest option tho

If I’m sitting at home, I can sing whatever song I want.

Yeah, I think if that wasn’t the case, we’d have bigger issues to discuss in this thread.

Thanks for the insight though. Really interesting to learn as someone who consumes and enjoys tons of music.

Yeah, I don’t care whose pockets it hurts, but no one should have to worry about not being able to access a life-saving medication that already exits. Sorry you have to go through this

Thanks for explaining.

However, someone was trying to claim they owned the copyright to that song

Whoa, that’s insane to me as a non-American. I mean, the song is even sung all around the world in different languages. Did they claim the rights to the melody, lyrics, or… 😭?

It’s simply not right that children couldnt (up to 2015) sing Happy Birthday at a party without paying the rights holder for the tune.

what ??!?

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I’m clearly not an expert in the matter and perhaps this is just my wishful? thinking.

I feel like any type of scientific knowledge humanity has acquired shouldn’t be “owned” by any individual / entity and subsequently only benefit an -often small- portion of society. For example, it baffles me how some medications take years and years -usually until the patents expire- to become available to the majority of the patients that need them. I get that companies need a return on their investments. But imo that should never come at the cost of any person’s life or health. Like, aside from production costs, the costs of researching a given drug are fixed. So, it’s not like the more people that use it takes money out of their pockets somehow. Logically, it should be the other way around.

Idk, it just doesn’t make sense to me when the knowledge already exists and people aren’t able to make use of it until much later because apparently that’s the only way someone’s able to make a profit in this current system? Maybe copyright sucks?

What do y’all think?

Edit: I was just made aware from reading the other comments that patents / copyright are actually two distinct forms of IP that serve different purposes. So yeah, definitely not an expert. Not deleting bc I still stand by what I said, but my comment doesn’t really answer the question at hand.

And yet they didn’t manage to turn a profit…

Yup, other instances feel much more disorganized. It’s hard to find communities.

Literally one of the reasons why I decided to join this instance. I think other servers should take a similar approach.