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The Ethereum Foundation is officially a corporate suicide cult
Now with Nazis!
by Amy Castor and David Gerard
CONTENT WARNING: this edition discusses corporate inducements to suicide, Nazis, and cryptocurrency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJSiilcSjpY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261109-the-ethereum-foundation-is-officially-a-corporate-suicide-cult - podcast
time: 11 min 26 sec
@davidgerard Could be Germaner: we need training from our manager including demonstration
@Laventeot how much are the Swiss like this? i'm sure they have similar
Ethereum was a stupendously successful tech startup and now they're all rich
but nobody cares about them any more (and nobody actually ever cared about the esoteric ambitions) and they are completely failing to cope with that
so with no brakes, they're going esoteric incel anime nazi
@davidgerard Ethereum was the greatest and most-respectable thing to come out of the crypto-ledger boom. And yet…
I've Heard Of Proof Of Stake, But,
Where's Buffy when you need her?
@davidgerard btw, any recommended writeup on how the switch to POS has affected eth and the greater cinematic crypto universe? Wikipedia is disappointingly thin
@davidgerard "Going" seems charitable. Even when I was still giving Buterin an undeserved doubt, thinking of him as some naïve kid who got caught up in the Thielosphere, Ethereum itself always struck me as Urbit: The Next Generation.
@davidgerard Who would have thought a Peter Thiel backed project would turn into a weirdo cult? It's almost as if he groom's people with a certain mindset and pulls them away from environments where they may experience other ways of thinking and doing things, producing stunted 4chan grade adults with access to money but little sense.
@davidgerard It's what the kids want these days.
@davidgerard I think one of those Hollywood knives, with a sprung blade that retracts when pressed should be made available as an option for those that have a religious objection to suicide.
@davidgerard it doesn' t happen often that i want read licensing terms.
@davidgerard I really hope Kayleen Fulton wins that lawsuit. I also hope someone's alerted the authorities in Switzerland because I can say with certainty that you can't demand that employees sign some crazy shit or be fired in the EU.
@chaekyung Switzerland is not the EU, but i guess it depends how conformant they are.
@davidgerard I actually didn't know that Switzerland isn't in the EU. It's right there in the middle of Europe so idk wtf is up with that.
@chaekyung yeah Switzerland is obessed with independent fortress neutrality, so they are not *in* the EU but have a lot of *conformance* with EU and are even part of the Schengen area
@davidgerard I do not, for the life of me, understand how this shit does not get sued into oblivion by either a class action or a governement prosecutor. How is this shit legal?
@davidgerard Bloody hell. What’s wrong with people?!
@aral @davidgerard This Milady thing is quite influential in the crapto space. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re involved with The Com.
@davidgerard I don't understand the seppuku mandate, if they want the code to stay open and available forever they could just put it on the blockchain?
It can’t be that stupid.
But is there another sentence on the bottom half?
Inquiring minds need to know
![IT CAN'T BE THAT STUPID
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youtube comment:
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Let me go full German employee on this:
I have reviewed the Source Seppuku License clause and, as a diligent employee, I raise the following points:
1) specification of the sword. The clause states that the Foundation shall "fall on its own sword," but does not specify which part of the sword. Please clarify in writing whether this refers to the blade, the hilt, or the sword's roadmap. Ambiguity in critical clauses is how we ended up with forks.
2) Equipment provision. Since all employees are bound by this clause, the Foundation must supply each employee with a properly sized sword, covered under the standard equipment budget. Please note that a letter opener cannot be considered an acceptable substitute, and "bring your own sword" would be a conflict of interest above the $500,000 threshold.
Also, please confirm that sword maintenance counts as work time, and that a failed mainnet upgrade does not trigger the clause retroactively.
Respectfully yours,
A Concerned Contributor