Dejected Warp Core

And that sentiment will come from the same people that just removed reverse-engineering from the common folk, reserving that power for specific companies and government entities. https://tbreak.com/claude-opus-5-5-reverse-engineering-restricted/

“That time I was reincarnated as a crash-test dummy” Now streaming on Crunchyroll.

Assuming that I’m not immortal in that new place? Probably something like Animal Crossing.

A TV Show presents an interesting loophole: you can warp into an alternate timeline of the real world in the past. Consider something like Mythbusters: now you’re just hanging out with some super cool people in San Francisco, decades ago.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh…

Yikes. On the one hand, curated lists sound like a breath of fresh air right now. On the other, that’s AI setting us back 30 years.

I cannot emphasize this enough. This is the entire modus operandi when it comes to venture capital and “entrepreneurs” in industry.

They have a singular talent: exploitation. Be it a mineral rich vein under a mountain, an oil/gas field, middle-class folks with spending cash, gig workers, or information economy workers (e.g. programmers), it’s just one more resource to convert into wealth. Left unchecked, all the social evils we see from this thinking come into play: inequality, slavery, usury, fascism, and so on. The above even applies to their own employees, as there is no distinction in class of human being outside of the status of “owner”. There is no higher calling, no alternative focus. There are only resources and money.

The instant you make “keeping the company alive”, “make a product people actually want”, or even "employ people"a focus, the goal is no longer exploitative. It’s arguably more socialist, even if the overall goal is to continue to thrive as a for-profit business. As a result, it’s not useful to these jackals as-is. It must first be converted into parts to be exploited.

Such a thing is also a pariah in capitalist circles. They fucking hate it. The bigger Valve gets, the more hit-pieces we see in the media. Also, the more we see CEOs circle the wagons when the likes of Epic attempts to topple their market dominance somehow, and it always fails. Socialist corporate ju-jitsu appears to be a winning strategy, and thank goodness.

She probably “extracted value” for shareholders of a dying company. This usually means picking the company apart, selling things, firing people, and offshoring labor.

IMO, every time a CEO, bigshot capitalist, or industrialist is cited as a “hero”, I try to keep in mind they are not our hero.

I agree on the sponsorship part. Unless you’re willing to take a hit on your standard of living, immigration within STEM or an information economy field requires moving somewhere that will employ you first. It’s not impossible, but I imagine there’s quite a lot of competition these days.

Anon missed the biggest sin of all:

Monetizable, but only at two or three orders of magnitude less than automobiles.

TL;DR: “He’s cheating because he’s not spending as much as I am.”

They’re cheaper in every conceivable way than cars, and that’s why the worst people out there hate them. Once you see the systems in place to equate personal validity and social values with what wealth may be extracted, it’s impossible to look back. Bikes are effectively a form of protest by way of scaling back one’s economic interaction, because of this.