Maybe Monsanto is as forgiving as you say, but I don’t believe it. I think it is a lot more likely that the type of farmers insist on regrowing from their own seed are small independents who are too far in debt to even think about fighting. I think they took the first offer given to them because it was just a smidge under the quote given to them by the lawyer they went to see where they first got a letter from Monsanto.
Monsanto is not stupid, if they ask for too much the people will fight it and go even deeper into debt to pay the lawyer and by the time Monsanto gets their cut of the remaining carcass, they won’t even make enough to cover the cost of their own lawyers. But if they make the price just a bit cheaper than the cost of fighting, the victims will hand over every penny that they can squeeze out and then go off to quietly die the slow death left to them in the NDA they had to sign to get the “deal” Monsanto offered.
Or maybe I am just jaded and a giant multinational corporation is doing the right thing for the right reasons and not taking advantage of anyone.

The key problem is that they started by getting rid of all the people who’s job it is to enforce the laws that are being broken.

"Although the brain stops growing in size by early adolescence, the teen years are all about fine-tuning how the brain works. The brain finishes developing and maturing in the mid-to-late 20s. The part of the brain behind the forehead, called the prefrontal cortex, is one of the last parts to mature. "

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-7-things-to-know#%3A~%3Atext=Although+the+brain+stops+growing%2Cthe+last+parts+to+mature.

I have read these receipts and literally the first story is about Percy Schmeiser, a farmer who used seed from plants grown on his own land that had been “contaminated” with genes from a neighboring farm. He had never signed any contract with Mansanto and didn’t take the seeds from his neighbor. Plants on his property were “contaminated” through natural means.
It then ends with a brief note about 700 farmers who settled out of court and lumps them under the guilty umbrella because they settled.
But worst of all, this site that this article is posted on is a propaganda mouth piece for Monsanto. It is owned and funded by the same guy owns and funds Monsanto’s PR company.

I know that you feel that you are correct because by the strict definition of the word suing, there may never have been a lawsuit, but most laymen are going to understand suing to also include being threatened with a lawsuit and settling out of court.

I started there, but I eventually got to the heart of it now and just say I’m an asshole.

This reboot of The Odd Couple is really weird.

Personally, I’m holding out for the Tesla minivan.

Oh, I’m sorry. I interrupted before you got that far into your wank? I can see why it would leave you feeling frustrated.

This public masturbation thing you’re doing is really weird. “I voted for the fascists because the Democrats were heading towards fascism” is just weird. I mean at least the maga are honest about it, they wanted Nazis, they voted for Nazis, and they’re happy as peaches to get Nazis. But not you. No, the Democrats forced you to choose Nazis and so the Nazis are their fault?
I don’t get what you are doing, but at this point it’s moved past trolling to just feeling weird and gross.

You are getting paid for 40hrs of work per week, but expected to put in 80hrs

Repression and denial. The most toxic person is always the one who is insanely jealous and trying to convince themselves that what they desperately want is bad.
Be wary of people with compulsive phobias. It’s one thing to be scared of something, but something completely different when they can’t stop talking about it.

You quote the prices of the AIs as if the difference in price means something. And the general tone of your post makes it feel like you are saying that being able to do it cheaper is clearly better.
My point is that it’s only cheaper in the short and narrow view. It is cheaper for a select few, but the cost is massively higher for everyone else.

Everything you said is absolutely true. It is massively easier and cheaper to do stuff when there are no rules or regulations. Why do think the .01% are hell bent on crippling education, killing regulation enforcement, and removing any possibility of consequences?

Almost, you forgot the part where the liberal shoots himself in the foot before giving the fascist the gun.

Yes comrade, clearly any pure blooded, land of freedom American, would know that un-ionized is not correct. It is instead union-ized… which is what happens when you cut onions.

While I completely agree with 90% of your comment, that first sentence is gross hyperbole. I have used a number of pieces of open source options that are are clearly better. 7zip is a perfect example. For over a decade it was vastly superior to anything else, open or closed. Even now it may be showing its age a bit, but it is still one of the best options.
But for the rest of your statement, I completely agree. And yes, CAD is a perfect example of the problems faced by open source. I made the mistake of thinking that I should start learning CAD with open source and then I wouldn’t have to worry about getting locked into any of the closed source solutions. But Freecad is such a mess. I admit it has gotten drastically better over the last few years, but it still has serious issues. Don’t get me wrong, I still 100% recommend that people learn it, but I push them towards a number of closed source options to start with. Freecad is for advanced users only.

Ahhh, I get it. So you are saying that I need to eat taco Bell beforehand. Because that is the one sure way I can be sure that I will thoroughly shit myself when I am unconscious.

Ya, I pooped a little and lost consciousness.

The economic impact of the economy collapsing is that normal people will lose everything and the 0.1% will be able to buy it all up on the cheap.