No pants, no masters." --Michael W. Lucas History without discomfort is propaganda. "I'd rather gargle broken glass than talk about the OpenAI nonsense, but I hope we are all taking note of this practical demonstration of exactly what feel-good 'we have a higher mission than money' corporate governance structures are worth." --Keith Bolland "People call things like Silent Hill horror games, but nothing is as frightening as the idea of entire continents being rolled up into a katamari at the whims of a capricious god king." --Caranatar "Babies are a scam perpetuated by Big Ear Infection to get you to buy more amoxicillin." --Stefan Thinks "What can be explained by dark conspiracies about Microsoft censoring criticism can also be explained by the OP getting tired of transphobic hate and deleting the post to protect their sanity." --Xe "In our holy economic models, there is no room for ElonBet citizens or members of any community, there is only the self-interested, profit maximizing individual, who is constantly searching for personal gains over others. Quinn Norton "One of the plus sides of high unemployment is that eventually angry people have free time." --Aestetix "The reason I like Bitcoin so much is that it's the first time we've seen a multinational corporation run as it should be run: As software." --John Robb "A fascinating, internally consistent political theory with some good underlying points that, regrettably, makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can only work if we replace real messy human beings with frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density (because it relies on simplifying assumptions about human behaviour which are unfortunately wrong)." --Charles Stross, on Libertarianism "The only things which sicken me are malice and stupidity, and there is no point complaining about the kind of people who epitomize these." --Dr.