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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Telltale game (I haven't played it yet) seems to be based on Drummer from the TV show. TV Drummer is radically different from Book Drummer. Book Drummer, certainly in the first six books, is a very minor presence, as the security chief on Tycho Station. TV Drummer is a composite of several book characters.

IIRC, there's a bit of minor head cannon involving Book Drummer and "The Butcher of Anderson Station". That might be referenced in the Telltale game, since it's a prequel for TV Drummer.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But someone recently said he revived the NFT market single-handedly, with people making a bigly 1000% return!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"anyone who tried to harm the robot would be identified and arrested."

But what if you sneak up and dress it like a Dalek, maybe with a speaker that yells out, "IT IS THE DOCTOR! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" That cannot possibly be a crime.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The loophole seems to be having an app pinned to the screen (I've never done this, but it presumably keeps the phone from locking) while requiring you to have an unlocked phone to use NFC payments. This doesn't seem to be a common scenario (I can imagine doing this in some sort of kiosk mode, or giving the phone to a kid and locking the app so he can't wander around).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe all his companies are like this, it’s just the first one that’s been so public and shown his true colours.

I'm not going to look for it now, but there was a Twitter thread from last year that kind of talks about this.

Basically, SpaceX and Tesla are companies that grew up with Elon as an early investor, and have learned early on how to contain him. They institutionally have firewalls in place to keep him from wrecking the real work they're doing, like dedicated Musk-handlers that slow walk his bad ideas until he changes his mind a few days later.

Twitter basically had none of those institutional firewalls, and could not container him with company culture.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, you have the Elon fanboys still pretending Twitter is doing better than it ever has.
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Well, it is, if you're a Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And he's on a H1B visa and can't leave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been working through The Expanse books, and have just started Leviathan Falls.