I mean, I think “improperly obtained OpenAI’s data” with reference to China, probably means internal trade secrets were stolen. Wouldn’t be the first time China hacked a US corporation and stole all their IP, lol.

Do they still make Warheads? Those were the sour candy when I was growing up, lol.

In addition to the other listed reasons, going open source is an extra step.

The code has to be compiled to run on your system (if it’s written in a non-interpreted language, which a huge portion of software is).

You can’t just run the source code on your computer. And getting your customer’s computer to compile the source code itself would require a massive amount of overhead.

So, to distribute your software, you’re always almost always going to distribute an already compiled version, and you’d have to choose to give the customer the uncompiled version as just a separate thing on the side. And there’s no real reason to do that for most companies.

To be clear, you can. Being in their presence for half a day wouldn’t cause you to fall over dead. You aren’t incapable of doing it.

What you mean is that you won’t. You are refusing to do it. You aren’t incapable, you just really don’t want to.

And look, I get it. It’s easier to tell yourself that spending a few hours with someone you don’t like is literally impossible. That way, you can’t be faulted for not doing it. You wouldn’t be responsible for your own faults or failures if the things that would fix it were literally impossible. It’s a comforting lie.

But just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it so. You are, in fact, capable of spending a small handful of hours with someone you don’t like. Your world won’t end, and afterwards you can go back to sitting on your bed, playing vidya and jerking off. But you’ll go back to that one step closer to self improvement.

The question is, what choice are you going to make. And make no mistake, it is a choice. Your hand isn’t forced. And whichever way you go, that was your decision. Not something the world forced on you.

Okay, there’s a lot there to examine, but let’s go with the drivers license.

Why would you rather hang yourself than go back to that instructor? Just because they have a BMW? Because they annoyed you on a personal level?

It’s not like you’re going to marry them. They’re someone you’ll see for maybe a dozen hours in your entire life. After which, you’ll have a drivers license that has the potential to vastly improve your life.

Can you not withstand a dozen hours discomfort? That’s not that many in the grand scheme to achieve a goal you set for yourself.

Your comment about people being obnoxious, dumb, and too old is, at the most charitable, hyper local. This is something that you can work towards changing. There are clear, easily defined steps that will work you to that goal.

It will be hard, but it’s clearly accomplishable if you put in the work.

You say you do enough, and I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

What hard things are you currently doing? And about how many hours a week does it represent?

Platypus, my brother in Christ, do you hear how you talk out of both sides of your mouth?

You’d be sad if you had to hang out with people, because you hate that, but you’d be sad if you are alone because you hate that.

It’s not your circumstances making you sad. It’s you. It’s your refusal to engage with your problems because you’d rather languish in your depression.

There’s nothing on earth that could fall into your lap that would make you happy. The world could bend to your will in every way, and you’d still be miserable because the thing making you miserable isn’t external.

You have the power to make 2025 better than 2024. It won’t be easy, and you’ll have to do a lot of things you don’t like doing. That’s life. That’s being an adult. Doing the hard things you don’t want to do to make life better for yourself and the people around you.

And you can do it. But you never will so long as you keep lying to yourself by saying there’s “nothing you can do about it.” There is. You just have to take the first step.