How about the truth that most communities are built around some kind of nonsense, and maybe you can deal with a bit of nonsense to enjoy the benefits of community?
Those landscape photos are a crappy hypnotic effort meant to try and dissociate Microsoft from the feeling most people have when they have to login on a Monday Morning.
Autononous weapons capable of ending the world are old, yes.
Autonomous weapons capable of securing territory and resources, and personnel, that's on the way.
How do we ever hope to differentiate between useful evangelism and stockholm syndrome? Either way, I'm probably learning a lot of postgresql this year.
I do really wish we had at least settled on one data format instead of having enough differences between PL data and DB data to start building ORMs.