"Beloved Minecraft character birch tree"

Unomelon, the developer of Minecraft-inspired sandbox game Allumeria, says a DMCA from Microsoft, evidently related to Minecraft, got the game removed from Steam.

“The Allumeria Steam page is currently down because Microsoft has filed a false DMCA claim on it,” Unomelon said on Bluesky on Tuesday. “They sent an email earlier today claiming that this screenshot infringes on their copyright. I am taking a moment to figure out what my path is going forward, will update soon.”

The screenshot in question (above) is a simple wide shot of a forest filled with birch trees, what look to be oak trees with green and autumnal leaves, and a few pumpkins and weeds checkering the grassy dirt. There are definitely some similarities to Minecraft; if you told me this was a screenshot of a Minecraft mod, I’d probably believe you, but that’s true of many voxel-based games, including Hytale.

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Why “can’t you”? Why would academic research be impossible?

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Ok sure, we can completely fund all medical research by the public, but I’m not so sure how this would work out. This would be a bit too much communism for my taste.

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This would be a bit too much communism for my taste.

I recommend ignoring the ideologies of communism/capitalism.

Focus on real solutions to real problems, pragmatism.

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People assign words to ideas in order to communicate efficiently. I’m not from the US, I don’t suffer from hurr durr party this, party that. “Communisum” is just the term, which most accurately depicted what I meant.

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At least in the US, government policy has meant that getting a drug to market is an extremely high bar. This means that funding the wrong drug can waste a billion dollars or more of time, material, trained researchers and lab space, etc.

Funding drugs by popular attention, private donation, kickstarter, or anything like that is likely to produce a bunch of scams and even more waste.

Funding drugs by having the government select which ones to study is likely to produce several gigantic financial boondoggles that are dragged on because some Senator wants the jobs wasting the money creates to remain in his state, or something.

If we want more drugs to come out, the best thing to do would be to reduce the cost of making a drug legal to sell, like by lowering the proof required for efficacy, or by alleviating the doctor shortage by permanently increasing the number of medicare funded residency slots.

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Senator wants the jobs wasting the money creates to remain in his state, or something.

I guess make term limits. You can’t sit more than 2 terms. That would solve a whole shitton of other problems too, but it would make the people in the position of power actually be there for what the job is, and not what the job gives.

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The way it seems to work in Canada is that the government decides on a set of topics they want to fund that are fairly high level, and as long as your work falls in one of those categories, the grant gets approved. So the government doesn’t choose the specific drug to study. They choose which medical condition we want to try to treat, then they let the PIs tell them what they want to do and how it relates to those priorities.

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Funding medical research is “too much communism”???

Ladies and Gentlemen, the human race is cooked.

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Try actually reading what I wrote. But you’re right: Not reading properly anything indeed means we quite cooked.

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