(Un)licensed here can be only with respect to copyright. Trademark doesn't come in play because there's no sales. Therefore no trademark specific rules can be in effect.

Free mods aren't merchandise.

There's no trademark infringement. If there is no trademark infringement then they have neither ability nor obligation to pursue it.

Trademark applies only if you actually use it to promote your business under it. Not to some people just reusing characters from your work without pretending to be you. Even if it could indirectly cause dilution, there's no trademark violation.

It looks more like government approved theft in order to let some US company get all the income from the platform instead of those pesky orientals. Probably Biden got his kickback too.

Why not just split the bills into fees per watt/hour and set monthly maintenance cost?

"indigenous population" is a relative thing. Although many of them are descendants of Jews and Philistines living there since antiquity, there are also lot of descendants and influence from Roman/Byzantine empire and Arab settlers from Caliphate. On the other hand, Ashkenazi from Germany can hardly be considered related to this locale since they're more German than middle-eastern now both culturally and genetically.

Hamas itself enjoyed some EU and Israel help to win over more moderate Palestinian factions. Kinda makes me think maybe that was always the point so they could have a justification to terminate everything Palestine autonomy related for good?

Most MMOs go free-to-play eventually. They tend to have optional cosmetic and not-so-cosmetic stores. So basically they're whale-supported :P

Then price should reflect that. Anything more than $1 is a scam for such a "service".

Also, if some civilization gets supplanted by AGIs then I don't see why it wouldn't expand to the stars. So the alleged great filter would have to apply before the civilization in question develops AGIs. Otherwise we'd encounter machine empires already.

Schleswig-Holstein wants a discount too it seems. It's matter of time before everyone start dabbling with linux in search of a discount.

JSON isn't that bad and there's eventually possibility of using CBOR instead of JSON.

There are multiple ways to define superiority. There is no such thing as free lunch. For each kind of improvement that is traditionally associated with becoming "superior" beings there definitely will be drawbacks, like some gene trait would come at cost of loss in some other area, for example some genetic disease or just inferiority in some other abilities. Also, people DO evolve even without gene-editing. So I don't see much conceptual difference between naturally evolved phenotypes and gene-edited ones. In any case I think there would be needed centuries of gene-editing before we could achieve truly superhuman forms, if it is even achievable.

Given modern tastes they'll start using hentai instead Lenna.