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Are we still pretending that Elon bought this for some kind of mission instead of a thiel, sachs, musk venture of delivering a highly tuned propaganda platform to the GOP for 2024 in the misguided estimation that this will put them into the inner circle of power ?

You don’t need APAC when the entire play is corporate takeover of government in the US

An omnipotent bumbling enemy, now where have we seen this playbook before

Exactly. Contrary to Thailand for example, the president does not get special privileges from private organsiations.

People who ask for that are beyond the idea of democracy

Why would not wanting to spend your ads on Twitter be political. The place is a brand risk, only Elon wants you to think this is about owning the libs

This is how facists work- they frame anyone’s dissenting speech and actions as politically opposed.

Then Elon increases default Adload by 100% and he makes just as much money and still collects 8$

People are not that stupid

So consistent it took 14 years for them to extend it to ads boosts that existed this long on the platform.

Wait for the screaming if China forbids its nationals to work in AI research in the west.

Not needed. Oppa Ofac Style.

That scenario does not exist.

It’s like with bank cards where everyone in the judicial system for years agreed that they were safe and only when it couldn’t denied anymore suddenly it took another 3 years for the system to reflect that.

A) cryptography is hard. Chances of Sony getting it right are not good. Chances of critical flaws being found later are basically infinite.

B) 99.9% doesn’t exist with technology. Once it’s broken the exploit can be scaled.

Oh you own Apple headphones alright too until they die a year later in forced battery death.

ACs engines are an absolute proprietary convoluted nightmare. You have no idea

They love showing off prototypes, but given that 85% of their military is engaged in Ukraine and doesn’t look like they’re going to be able to replace their losses for about a decade, this is just stupid

Their most modern MBT isn’t usable at the frontline and couldn’t even make it through the latest parade in front of the Kremlin. Their most sophisticated jets are lobbing dumb fire missiles in indirect fire mode. Their tanks universally compete in turret throwing competitions upon contact with 1970s handheld AT technology.

It’s fair to say that it was western and Russian overestimation of Russian capabilities and Russian underestimation of Ukrainian ability and Western willingness to respond that caused this war.

If Putin had adequately understood that Russias Military would be humiliated and shown as outdated and ineffective by his move, he’d not done it.

So maybe we should stop the breathless coverage of supposed Russian wunderwaffen

Japan is much more complicated than that and apply capitalist measures of success isnt doing it justice

- Demographic crunch, as mentioned. The country not descending into uncontrolled decline may already been a decent achievement

- Focus on quality. This is unique to Japan and runs counter capitalist growth stories. Japanese consumers value quality. a lot. But it’s bad for business in the growth sense, you don’t need to buy a new fridge for 10-15 years because it works and isn’t made obsolete artificially, Japanese consumers are happy, growth : consumption metrics are not.

Quality is just not captured as a variable in the western / American way of looking at economic health. Not having train delays, having great customer service, no forced obsolete products, high reliability in services and products are not reflected / incentivized in that model - they don’t exist but that’s not how Japan works.

Japan has issues, quite a few, but it’s not nearly the hellhole American economic publications love to make it out for decades now. It may be a nightmare scenarios for the get rich quick dudes with US MBAs, but quality of life is pretty decent for a country this far down the demographic curve.

We can only really judge how they fared when America enters that demographic slope.

God forbid someone would learn from these events and make necessary changes.

There’s a middle ground, the US approach of putting your head into the ground unless a donor can benefit financially isn’t necessarily true for the entire world.