> Are all vampires sociopaths or just some of them?

That’s anti-vampire propaganda. Sociopaths have well above average representation among billionaires, not vampires.

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.

Very impressive engineering on the door switches. On the display, not so much.

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.

None of the options is that great...

Glorious!

Job losses is a more immediate consequence of massive deployment of AI.