Take me down to PropertyCity

I want to watch smooth-vid.mov

Hopefully this will hurt them up to a point where they go out of business. Just look at their review of the 5800X3D, it's so unreal.

Religion is also the means. Are you an ancient Egyptian ruler, who is fed up with having to deal and align with all the temples? Just introduce monotheism, insist you are sent by god, and voila: almost unlimited power.

…and that’s how you learn about Poe’s Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

For an excellent writeup how Google used this to kill XMPP read this (and an explanation why this is a real concern for Mastadon/Fediverse):

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html