It reads like the cyberpunk 2077 source material of the first corporate war, but with different names.

They saw “V for Vendetta” and figured it was all a bloody good idea.

John Spartan, you are fined one credit for violating the upvote morality statute.

these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.

And are perfectly willing and sometimes even capable to burn the world down for the position

In terms of Mars

• Client wants a robot to go to Mars
• Project is budgeted and sold to send a Mars Rover
• Work starts and after successful test the robot is shown to customer. Customer states he wants to send a Mechwarriors in a drop ship, not a little Pathfinder.
• Panic, change requests, money being discussed, rockets are being strapped together with duct tape and the rover is bolted on an old Asimo that is being rebuilt into the smallest Mechwarrior ever the day before launch
• Mech Asimo lands successfully, stumbles and falls on a rock after three steps
• Customer disappointed

They’re real. I also encounted one.

“It’s already in the demo you guys just did so why do you need weeks to make it?”

Government needs money to buy all the Cybertrucks and Teslas because sales are falling.

It’s a feature in all superhero media. They don’t touch the status quo, or the systems we live in. It’s always the fault of a few rotten apples and they’re taken care of. Normal people don’t need to apply, it’s up to a few people with special power to fix it. And in reality, people with money see themselves as more special and empowered than normal people.

For conservatives, their team is morally good so can do no bad. The other team is morally bad so can do no good. And the law is there to punish the bad people. The end result is selective enforcement of rules and laws against certain minorities.

And World War 2 began because of how things were mismanaged after World War 1

It results in a lot of performance theater. If being at your desk, key presses, mouse clicks and eye movements are the most important then you can expect a lot of long winded lists, reports and mails. There’ll be people doing thousands of things manually instead of thinking about it and automate things. So much productivity measured and nothing gets done.

Worker productivity is like holding sand. It you grab it and squeeze it hard, it just runs through your fingers and falls to the ground. But if you cup your hands and support it carefully you can hold on to much larger amounts of it.

And the things that are perfectly okay today might be the things you want to hide tomorrow. Abortions and pregnancies, thoughts about labor rights or climate, sexual orientation, …

Much of his money depends on loans with Tesla stock as collateral, including the money used to buy Twitter. If the stock loses value, no new loans.

We’re in trouble when it learns to debug.

Why no standard office drone? Also, with the red accents going on in the picture I’m seriously missing a red Swingline stapler drone, known for its incendiary power.

Now start adding the “Well yes, but if” demands until the system inevitably breaks.

And preferably a bit harder to use to keep the script kiddies out.

Yes, in the new “might is right” world Trump is pushing for, it’s better to start pushing back or get pushed over. In his “make a deal” world view, better to say to ban everything outright in two weeks. In his typical fashion, some compromises might appears the next day. Losing a few hundred million customers and large amounts of influence will sting him and his supporters.