I am deeply offended by someone associating Thiel with vampires. That idea is completely absurd. Vampires are famous for being handsome, interesting, elegant, well educated, and having impeccable taste for fashion. Thiel has none of these traits.
As a member of a prominent Transylvanian family, I am appalled, and profoundly offended, by the idea of someone even as much as suspecting Peter Thiel could be a vampire. He might be an evil bloodsucking parasite, but he lacks the sophistication mortals have come to associate with vampires over the centuries. It's shocking, really, that some people might confuse him with one.
Vampires are parasites. They're only as polite as they need to be to extract resources from potential hosts. The facade of sophistication only lasts as long as it needs to
Which is ironic, given his recent preoccupation with the Antichrist, as the vampire is an antichrist archetype. Christ gives his blood so that others may live; the vampire takes the blood of others so that he may live.
A lot of the features of these applications, be it Discord, or Slack, or Teams, exist because they want to lock their clients to their platforms.
Ideally, a Discord alternative server would be self-hostable and focused on providing messaging. A client could connect to multiple servers at the same time.
I still don't get Discord. It's difficult to understand and use, and this from a tech guy. I kind of miss Teamspeak. You could chat or use voice. It worked great... Discord seems way too complicated to me.
My biggest concern is the apparent lack of testing and validation. After the Apollo 1 accident uncrewed flight of Apollo, we had half-a-dozen flights, 3 of which uncrewed, before they did an end-to-end validation on Apollo 10, to finally land with Apollo 11. Is NASA that confident SLS and Orion will perform adequately that they will add astronauts to SLS's second (and Orion 3rd) flight?
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