Yeah pretty much, they’re basically, at their core, private contractors, whose nearly sole customer is governments.

Governments outsourced the management and operations of the Torment Nexus, not because they were forced to or didn’t want or didn’t have the resources…

… They were just too incompotent to do it themselves.

So… yeah, now they’re now functionally part of the government, of multiple governments actually.

This is how we … get to? Or have arrived at? … just actual cyberpunk dystopia, where the Corps just are, in every meaningful way, on top.

I mean, Thiel is part of the ‘basically an actual vampire irl’ club, right?

Gets infusions?

Fentanyl.

Fentanyl laced urine.

That’s what he said.

Its basically a modern update on how the CIA would just dose their coworkers with LSD, but much more overtly weaponized.

… I am fairly sure that that would count as a war crime, if done on a battlefield.

Confusing and bad UI/UX is… confusing and bad.

We’re all glad you’re a poweruser, anyway, can we maybe have an operating system that doesn’t actively hate and fight the user?