Anyone with more than sawdust between their ears knew he was going to do this. It’s his modus operandi: cause chaos and watch the markets plummet - then buy cheap and reverse course. Markets recover, and he (and his cronies) profit!

Poor Texans. They keep electing climate-change-denying GOP goons because… God, guns, and gays.

I guess they’re in the FO part of FAFO now.

Tragic. /s

I know you’re being sarcastic, but if does point out the fact that capitalism is only held in check by government. RockStar obviously waited until they knew they could get away with it given the current attitudes in all branches of the US government.

Yes. Sometimes you’re limited by the hardware you’re controlling. This code is a bit hard to justify with that excuse though. Normally your code would do a read from hardware to see if the value decremented and then repeat the write. (Possibly a sleep/yield in there if required.)

Are we asking questions that we already know the answer to? ;)

For a while it’ll be true. Then the strong German labor unions/laws will be seen as an impediment to profitability. Of course this won’t be spoken aloud. However, the assembly jobs will be moved back to China piecemeal. (Not fast enough to alert lawmakers and cause a commotion.) Until finally the entire operation is in China. The name (which is the valuable thing) will live on - affixed to a fully Chinese designed and manufactured item. Sold on Amazon to people who don’t know better.

Don’t forget! A lot of the slop on those first few pages of results is AI-generated.

Ouroboros is a very apt moniker for this phenomena.

Dude looks like a mini boss from the Borderlands franchise.

Manipulation or maybe hedging that Musk will get a sweet sweet federal contract from his buddy Trump to us Teslas a fleet vehicles for ICE.

Trump and Co. are gambling that they can achieve dictatorship before the violence and other shit starts.

Putin smiles in Moscow. Chaos and violence in America is his win. It’s also his win if the US slides into dictatorship and the US population shrugs and goes along quietly.

Exactly! It’s going to be a flying wiretap with every enemy of the US scrambling to get their electronics in before Qatar closes the deal with Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were eavesdropping circuits baked into the silicon of every system in the plane.

What a fucking nightmare - but on brand for this kleptocracy of an administration.

Anything to diminish California. Trump and MAGA can’t abide California functioning well because it contradicts their message that liberal-run states are implicitly worse off than conservative-run states.

I was there in the 90s for a bachelor party. I can assure you it was skeevy then too. I think I got black lung from the amount of cigarette smoke in the air inside.

Yup. Saw the Bazzite group presentation at SCALE a few weeks ago. Very impressive.

The massive amount of cognitive dissonance is infuriating.

This has the same energy as the Russian cannon fodder in Ukraine who film those videos appealing directly to Putin about their situation. They refuse to believe that he would allow it. If only he knew - he would fix it.

Cult!

Lol, just Ohio?

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The existential dread from the past is the same existential dread of today. We also do not know how things might turn out.

Alcohol must interfere with the anti-dementia cocktail of drugs he has to take every day.