this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
1866 points (99.3% liked)

Microblog Memes

5527 readers
1680 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

I understand the value of a patent system, but patents should expire.

Is there some reason why previous-generation technology, like the tech being used for MRIs in the 90s, can’t be used to manufacture more competitively-priced machines?

Like, is there a law specifying that the new technology must be used for an MRI to be usable as a diagnostic tool?