I suspect most people will consider that a bad take still and I agree rationally but I’m emotionally there with you. In the face of powerlessness (at least at the individual level: organize if you can!), schadenfreude is the next best thing (actually the next best thing would be deleted and investigated)

Fascism and business always go hand in hand, did we all forget? This isn’t any different than at other times in history

yes and no, ray tracing still requires decisions about fidelity, the same poor decisions can be made in either rendering system