By becoming even poorer.

The starter in the mHEVs is about as powerful as the entire engine of the original Fiat 500. It entirely skips the *r-r-r-*revup of a normal engine start.

I, for one, hope for new and better REEVs

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.

You can OD on pretty much anything if you try hard enough. IIRC viagra was originally blood pressure medication, so I guess you can tank your BP with enough of it.

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.

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

IIRC, the habitable region of Era 1 was essentially a radius around the north pole.

…This is just Mistborn.

Or Disco Elysium for the multiple earths option.

I just had a horrific vision of a future in which OF models advertise through hornyposting influencers.

I think you’re mixing him up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

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.

Did you mix up the first and third place? Because if 12:00 is “m”, it makes more sense for 12:30am to be night.

It is. It’s the patriarchy subsuming criticism and repurposing it for it’s own ends.

It’s to make it easier to port them to cloud, for when win12 makes your PC a thin client.