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Robert J. Berger

“Look, I know that Eisenhower didn't trade cow-lips for alien technology - but our political and commercial elites really *did* trade national resiliency away for IP laws, and it's a bargain that screwed everyone, except the one percenters whose power and wealth have metastasized into a deadly cancer that threatens the country and the planet.” - @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2024/02/07/far

pluralistic.netPluralistic: The CHIPS Act treats the symptoms, but not the causes (07 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@rberger @pluralistic I don't like myself for having read that and immediately wondered how much that alien technology would be worth in cow lips. All I found was a NY Times article from 1996 that priced cow lips at 58 cents a pound in an article titled "It Ain't Just for Meat; It's for Lotion"