05.12.21

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The European Campinos Award

Posted in Europe, Patents at 6:41 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

I'm from Portugal!
He’s from Portugal, honest!

Summary: The campinos (peasants) of Europe shall gather around for another ceremony championing farmers and nurses… or not

TYRANNOSAURUS Theranos

Open your thesaurus
Prepare the abacus
Don’t be quite so raucous

Professor Campinos in a tux
The media he has paid $15 million bucks
Because investigative journalism sucks
Corruption evidence filling up trucks

Patents are inventions
Those were the intentions
Of those who live in mansions
Societal aberrations

Inventions are patent monopolies
For those who govern the metropolis
Patents on tomatoes and broccolis
Invented by humans like syphilis

“The media shall be bombarded in May”Everything deemed a patent
For those without a talent

Trolling as a “right”
Creators the trolls must fight
Eternally eager to bite
Even just for spite

A ceremony at stakeholders’ expense
To cover up the mess
Just a bunch of webstreams or less
Can receive an award naked, without a dress

“European” it’s called
But recipients are walled
US tech giants mulled
European programmers appalled

António Campinos said what?!?! Diversity championed aplenty
French, French, English, French presidents all about identity
Blind obedience for legal certainty
Certainty they will shield their immunity

Striking staff escorted away
The camerapeople are here today
Dissent is not OK
The media shall be bombarded in May █

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