But then we'll get conquered by Russia or China! Just imagine what that would look like. We'd toil our lives away for a handful of oligarchs, get executed in the streets, and be shipped off to death camps. We'd have sham elections with no impact on public policy. Your ability to obtain nice things would depend on an arcane and opaque scoring system run by nefarious unseen overlords. There would be literal slavery.

IMHO all of our advertising talent died in 9/11. Ads used to be a lot cooler, funnier, and higher effort during the days of antenna broadcast television.

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There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.

Brave is also associated with the BAT crypto scam and its CEO donates his money to fight against gay rights.

Then I look forward to future LLMs.

That doesn't fly everywhere in Europe

Need to abolish the corporate veil too. Those parasitic fucks can buy liability insurance.

I just assumed that's not how life works in their world.

I recently learned that The Man Who Sold the World was actually a David Bowie song. Naturally, since it's in the lyrics.

I just carried around the chain, waving it around for fun. In hindsight it may have been menacing neurodivergence. I got really good at chain tricks!

Adult man here, I'm just happy my favorite band is still in the zeitgeist whatsoever.

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