As others have kind of pointed out her trademarking it doesn’t mean she’s holding a monopoly on it or anything, shes just keeping people and companies from using her stuff to sell their products....which is totally valid.

This is a good post

The NBA putting mics in the rim was a long overdue move. Love it.

I always learned that the invention of the cotton gin made it much more profitable and feasible to buy slaves for cotton farming. This led to a boom in the slave trade and indirectly played a role in the civil war. Incidentally Eli also invented replaceable gun parts which played a large role in making the civil war…