Sadly ironic, considering that I think I’ve already seen this meme before. :(

Because they want an excuse to implement martial law that their base will accept. An “enemy within” that turns violent is exactly the pretense they’re stoking for this, even if it’s obvious they invented everything that caused it.

Personally, I’m just kind of surprised that there was a motorcade in the damn thing to begin with. Nobody even puts boats in that, let alone cars.

so responsibility part was skipped.

The article mentions that the datacenter is run by a 3rd party. I’m not arguing to absolve Meta here, but I think this is a classic case of diffusion of responsibility. The more contractors and subcontractors that get involved in stuff like this, the more these kinds of problems crop up.

because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.

Oh, it’s worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.

In summary, they‘ve developed incredible killing machines that are able to act autonomously, which is very good for them right now but probably not very good for humanity in the long run.

It’s possible that this becomes the new “mutually assured destruction” we had back in the 20th. Basically, a cold war brought on by drones instead of nukes. It could mean a near-future of peace, however uneasy. I can’t say that living with the looming propagandized threat of the USSR was good, but I think it was a far sight better than being in an active shooting war with them.

Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?

I’ve seen, firsthand, how Icelanders group up and solve problems together as a unit. They have a cultural tradition of outdoing other cultures, because of this.

Further failure domain segmentaion.

If we add unstable governments or government interference to that list of possible disasters, it starts to make a little sense.

Maybe? Probably? For all I know, a solar-sail effect might help it stay in orbit.

Those only solve for gravity, or not having to pay for fuel to keep things in orbit. Other heavenly bodies are further away, so latency becomes a big problem, followed by exponentially more power to transmit (radio) in order to maintain the same bandwidth. That and cooling: the possible candidates range from as bad as orbit to worse and much worse, all with increasing latency and power needs to boot.

Overall, even the in-orbit version is a bad idea.

What’s sad is that Stanley did a remarkable job of putting a vacuum flask in the literal hands of millions of Americans. It shouldn’t be hard at all for everyone to figure out why this is the case, but here we are.

That or they read Neuromancer and came away with all the wrong lessons in their head.

No need for a full pizza. I drink that. Pickled jalapeno, and the brine it comes in, is an amazing when added to pineapple juice.

they just pretend eords mean whatever they want them to.

This is beautifully ironic. Please, do not correct the spelling of this. I think it helps make your point.

Yes, but keep in mind that a lot of us remember that company in its first year or two before it was slurped back into the GM mothership. That was the tipping point, where enshitification ruined the brand shortly after.

Exactly. It’s like watching the gas station across the street and quietly setting your prices to the same thing. The moment you set it one cent lower than the other guy, it’s a race to the bottom and everyone makes less money.

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Yup, the way this works for restaurant table servers is something like this:

A. Declare your tips and come in under the minimum wage. Employer pays the difference.

B. Don’t declare your tips, and employer pays minimum wage. Employer (and potentially IRS) also calls bullshit on this.

C. Employer looks the other way on B.

D. Employer is a freaking unicorn and pays a livable wage.

Most of the time, the only viable answer is A, but never declare all your tips. That and you make sure that nobody spots you doing this.

My initial reaction: “Al(ex) sounds like a know-it-all, but I really need more context here.”