Space Opera is still pretty damn huge in the scifi novel world. Whether it’s involving nanomachines, psychics, or just straight up saying “yeah the space ships run on magic” there are tons and tons of Space Opera series out there.

Yeah, no.

And honestly that also shows how to do it.

But that’s not the story of Frankstein.

I suspect he learned his lesson from being turfed out of early PayPal and built in greater safeguards against hostile takeovers into his corporate frameworks. Maybe something similar to what Zuckerberg did with the tiered voting shares if facebook to ensure that he always controls over 51% of the voting shares even…

Same reason we cast British actors to play Germans. Or Swedish to play French. Or literally any other combination of “generic white European dude”.

No bras in the future, eh?

What about decals? Or license plate holders?

Too bad it’s Disney.

Except, Ford isn’t actually pulling in $25 billion in profit.

Except, historical evidence and multiple bankruptcies by the major US automakers kind of indicates that’s not how it works. At all. Note, after each bankruptcy they mostly recovered by ruthlessly slashing their labor costs to regain profitability.

They have no problem getting credit *while they are profitable*. If they stop being profitable, that credit dries up. Fast. Tech companies and startups can get away with not being profitable for years, established car makers can't.

Tech companies are special. They are essentially borrowing money to stay afloat while being unprofitable. And that works because people expect that they are opening up a new market and thus have a capability to be wildly profitable in the future.

No, I know. I specifically mentioned the risk of loss as part of the equation.

“Someone getting 9x profit on a project is far more ready to survive inflation than someone making 4x profit.”

Because things always change. Inflation is inevitable. Risk is inevitable.

They can’t do that, probably because they’ll go bankrupt if they do.

Pussy Facing the World feels like either a great band name or the best title for a best selling memoir.

Because she’s the one putting the dirty laundry out there.

Yeah, it’s kind of telling that in a criminal prosecution of one person for their negligent handling of a firearm that was under their care, the prosecutors are more interested in digging up dirt on the person who hired them.