That's why he already said he's teaching his kids about avoiding the cops. ICE and other LEO's abduct people all the time, quite often extrajudiciously.

Non cop kidnappers arguably might do it less but are inarguably less successful at it than LEO's.

Is the impression I'm in a minority and a lot of folks aren't fans, but I've been absolutely satisfied with Tuta for email and calendaring, and with a private domain attached I have virtually unlimited email accounts. I choose to pay 36 Euros per year to that vendor, over the alternatives.

I get the impression this means per specific build of the game submitted to steam, not just the game.

Fun fact, early scripts for the original film had Humanity plugged in to share computational processing Power for the Machines, but the studios didn't believe audiences could grasp that so it was changed to providing electricity.

Which is impossible, the whole feeding cycle for harvesting us as batteries would yield less power than just using the feed source for power.

Killing the entire species is absolutely less of a concern for investors than copyright violations.

I mean, to be fair many/most of those projects predated Reddit, and would survive without Reddit.

While I wouldn't ban solo projects if I were king of the world, I fully expect you'll continue to see folks 'take sides' on AI Holy Wars, in exactly the same fashion many orgs have had to terminate their bug bounties due to the sheer unending volume of shoddy "MONEY PLEASE" submissions that AI delivered into their inboxes and ticket systems.

They want to become another forever platform. The cosplay is a nonprofit, when in reality they are a for-profit company that has a non-profit org in their leadership.

I don't think they can help but institify into a smaller version of Google at this point, and I don't want anyone vendor to own my entire Tech stack. Never again.

Please. You're giving me a headache. /s

Thank you! I'm quite proud of holding to my convictions, to the degree that I divested from every ETF in my retirement portfolio which was obligated to load up on the spacegrift stock, and to minimize my exposure in my taxable holdings wherever I could afford to.

I want to make sure that I don't grow my wealth in a sleazy way.

Oh, you perhaps misunderstand me, friend. I'm saying their revenues are a momentary mirage, the liabilities aren't.

They need income that substantiates the growth game and justifies the outlandish, impossible tidal wave of debt they are raising. Their competitors nipping at their heels and stealing all of their progress, and making it run on commodity hardware to boot, only narrows that field of play for justifying their market growth.

If you're Tesla and unmasking your customer base revealed it was all just BYD all the way down (or, say, something TRULY absurd like everyone found out all of the cybertrucks were bought by SpaceX) then it would cast serious doubt about their viability with the next generation of customers targeted for that product.

Check out what portion of Anthropic revenues turned out to be processing distillation for others, namely Chinese market players.

A huge portion of their revenue basically came from their competitors using their horsepower against them to build the next, better mouse trap

Spacex really changed the game, forcing the markets to load up that ish in our 401(k)'s.

Next, when Musk threatens to "gift" every child spacex stock in their Trump accounts, it's another form of using the general public as an exit , well artificially propping up the moonshot companies stock values.

It is a Master Class in forcing volatility into the financial lives of not just retail investors but Main Street people.