Nah. There are plenty of small businesses whose CEOs are normal people. Same with most nonprofit CEOs. I guarantee you won't find very many local arts organizations whose CEOs are psychopaths, for example.

The real problem, IMO, is that corporations are allowed to grow so big that only lunatics are able to run them.

Replace the word "any" in your post with "some" and it reads much more rationally.

We're already seeing the bottom drop out in code quality, in those organizations that are really trying to apply AI in the way it's been sold (as a magic bullet to kill labor.)

Maybe quality doesn't matter for some people. There are certainly a lot of "too big to fail" companies who bring shit products to market year after year and never have to worry about competition. But that's not everyone who needs computer software.

Yes, that's why they have to specify.

"Microsoft sucks" isn't just something you read in Slashdot comments anymore. This last year or two, the meme has gone fully mainstream. Starting with the Clownstrike thing (blamed on Microsoft, rightly or wrongly) and accelerating with the Windows 11 shitshow and the contemporary Copilot / cloud services force-feeding.

Their patches have gotten so bad in the vibe-coding era that even Susan From Accounting is starting to notice. She's afraid to update anything now. I don't blame her, and I no longer install Windows patches immediately either. (Same goes for nVidia drivers.)

Sure, if we all have a daddy with an emerald mine and a bunch of clueless cucks to line up to suck our cocks we can ALL make 10 trillion!

I was going to buy a new phone last month but then I didn't because of the prices. Moto normally deeply discounts the old model but didn't even do that, their old models stayed fairly expensive, and the new models are very expensive (compared to normal, they still aren't as cracked out as Samsung.)

Nobody is buying a vanilla android phone and using it as delivered to not use any Google services. If they want that they are at least reflashing, if not buying a phone with an alternate android on it... Which moto claims they will soon offer. Not holding my breath though

Well, I'm glad at least someone gets it, unlike the chuds who modded me down for not worshipping their golden ass.

Also, a bunch of Google Apps. Moto bundles those as well. You apparently don't consider them crapware, but other people disagree.

As for Facebook, etc, there's another class of "virtually pre-installed" apps (I forget what the actual term is) which aren't actually part of the system image. Instead, the system image has a list of apps the device will automatically download and install after factory reset, so they're present by default but you actually can remove them. Whether Facebook is really pre-installed, virtually pre-installed or not pre-installed depends, of course, on the OEM and how much Facebook is paying them.

Google's terms mandate, of course, that even pre-installed apps can be disabled. OEMs are not allowed to block that.

It's important to realize that the so-called far-left Democrats idealize Bolshevism while the far-right Republicans idealize Fascism, both of which are forms of Big Government Socialism.

So if the Democrats are in power and they want to increase the size and scope of government the Republicans will go along with it 80% of the time. Because they know they will eventually be back in power and have more tools of power to control.

They will balk the other 20% of the time so they still have something to run on and false promises to make to their voters.

The powerful parasite class is corrupt as hell regardless of jersey and they only care about staying in power. So if it's endless wars to get bribes from the MIC or poisons in the food supply to get bribes from Pharma or Big Chem it doesn't matter, that get passed.

That's why we have two-tiered courts, warrantless spying, usury, rigged elections, poisoned foods, endless wars, completely failed schools, satanic pedophiles getting pardons, crashing wages, nondischargable debt, unaffordable healthcare, food, housing, etc.

The vast majority of voters in any party want the opposite of that but are told to vote for "the lesser of two evils" which admits to an inherently evil system.

The Framers constructed a system of subsidiarity but that's long gone, its vestiges only permitted to prevent a real Revolution.

> Vote accordingly.

The only thing they fear is an election where nobody participate because they know they're screwed regardless of outcome.

After that real change has a chance of happening but it's never comfortable.

Instead they will buy that data as part of an investigation in to who's getting abortions. You forgot who's running this country, they're not interested in catching criminals. That's difficult and expensive compared to declaring victory.

Gemini also says you forgot how to think, which we know because you thought people would be glad to see some slop from the worst LLM there is.

Space exploration, which is *checks notes* much better done by automated systems less fragile than us meatbags. Space manufacturing, same. So he waves around an irrelevant distraction and we're supposed to suck on it? We're not that fucking stupid, Temu Lex Luther.

Oh no! You can't remove... *checks* the app for moto actions, and an app for notifications!

What I'm talking about is bundled apps like Faceboot. They can be removed.

You don't even buy a Moto phone unless you want Moto actions, so yeah it's a judgement call, but if you already made the call to buy Moto, then you've already made the other call as well.

Huh. Now you've got me wondering whether the members of our department's PR team are holding down second jobs in your art department.

Haha I have to admit that, seeing the headline, my first thought was "of course, being Epic, they had to name this after the evil brother..."