Inner reflection? :-)

In reality, the hookers and blow are part of steps 1-3 (and 5+) too

No. Just no. As someone who has suffered HP products on the past, couldn't people just hit themselves in the head with a piece of wood in preference to the nightmare that is their:
  * DRM in unusual places
  * Complete inability to make a cohesive website
  * Price gouging

Fatigue is the signal that you're approaching a plateau of greater energy release.

Kidnapper demands payment in donkeys - donkeys are destabilising the dollar - ban donkeys.

Everyone? It's gonna be big

Even an AI hallucination couldn't explain the reasoning leading to this choice.

I wonder if they'll deliver before the bubble pops

Wow, truly creative - perhaps this aspect could be spun off into it's own sport as ski-jumping is stupid, unnecessary and boring - it's at the anti-sweet spot of sport.

So, like humans then?

and threatened to find a new accountant if it did not agree

They sound like douchebags - was the intention to encourage the rejection?

The main Olympic swimming pool in Manchester double-dips - pay for access to the pool - pay more to exclude others who've paid.

It's a great business model - unless you're not a douchebag.

Only if you're retarded enough to try watching whilst driving. Anyone who really wants 'TV'/YouTube on their Android Auto device can make it happen but they didn't provide this arguably-decent feature out of the box due to control issues.

I add them to a mental blocklist so the best they're getting is a guarantee of a non-customer plus the satisfaction of showing the same stupid ad 150,000 times to someone who just isn't interested - I'm thinking of some ad with green and a bull but have redacted the details other than they're assholes who can't take a hint.

Everyone aboard the "Let's fuck people over" train.

Is this an explicit mechanism to curry favour with industries which aren't destroyed by the AI bros or just a happy accident (unless you don't want to be gouged because AI investor-greed) ?