Yeah, the part a lot of people miss with the China story is thar reverse engineering is still engineering.

How hard do you think it would be to get him to convert?

By becoming even poorer.

Not really, since all three are still the one, unique god.

I, for one, hope for new and better REEVs

“Fascism is the frontier coming home”

No need for Stockholm syndrome if she’s the same as he is.

The way the system autodeletes the exploit trigger makes it sound like it was less a bug and more a backdoor.

I mean, the cartoonish evil was making the backdoor in the first place. This is just inept.

From what I’ve heard, the POC worked.

Don’t worry, soon the folks in charge will come to the inevitable conclusion that the government systems are all compromised, so clearly the only solution is to privatise them and have thevNSA run by Palantir.

TBF that seems to be their MO in general.

It’s fun to see the stock market itself reach the ultimate phase of enshitification

I do like the idea of locking them up with Ted and letting him handle them.

I’d guess part of the plan is that it wouldn’t.

Those are not contrary, but complementary things.

Alternatively, if it suddenly starts working, we know they aren’t writing it.

…Is the implication here that Americans consider salt a spice, or pork a spice?

The username is the cherry on top, really

Maybe we need to start running actual super far left parties in the world to centralize regular leftist parties to get these people to finally behave lol

Yes, entirely unironically. It’s a negotiation technique called “anchoring”.