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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Call me skeptical, but haven't you guys watched Terminator 2?

These guy will end up exploding their own facility with a hand detonator, when skynet becomes our overlords. You want to join that crowd?

I'm always going to Selfhosted my shit. Tell you that right now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately Terminator 2 is bit childish and naive in its script.

More realistically, these individuals will try and fly away with oligarch Peter Thiel to his end of the world bunker in New Zealand.

If in some fucked up reality this ever happens (IMO there are far more pressing problems in the world), I hope the New Zealanders will have a very long and unpleasant surprise in store for these individuals.