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At this stage, it’s chosing between the old global power that you know will die soon but is still strong enough to hurt you, the most likely new global power that’s rising fast, or putting in enough me money, effort and discomfort into becoming an independent power and explain that to a population that likes to vote for more purchasing power and pensions, not less.

we have in-person in a cubical video calls because our team and department is scattered across multiple physical locations.

You’ve got to insist everybody be at the same location for collaboration. Demand management to arrange conference room, flights or travel and hotel rooms. It might cost a pretty penny and effort but think of the synergy created.

Many freaked out when Antropic reported they were going to watermark AI generated text because they’ll be caught quickly.

Who hates muslim and is good at these kinds of electronic warfare games? Could be Israel.

You can just skip a few welds, don’t measure lubricant exactly but do it quickly ±20%, or don’t bother smoothly apply sealant. Reduce time to let paint dry. Don’t bother with exact alignment. Sure, the car might rattle, rust, break in a small accident and the engine doesn’t last long but you’re cranking them out fast.

Yes, they like the ideas. Those ideas feel right to them. And consequences of those ideas, because most don’t work in practice, get blamed on the implementation, ideally blamed on some scape goat. Then they’ll vote for the next one promising those ideas.

Don’t count on wheat from Russia, as farmers there can’t afford diesel to harvest due to the war. And the heatwaves in Europe did a number on the potatoes and corn there.

It’s just widening the gap a bit more. It also widens the gap between the 0.1% and the 1%.

The guy was being investigated for corruption so dropped his seat and triggered this circus. And they voted for him again.

Not completely fucked yet, but being fucked a bit more every year. But fixing things means doing unpopular stuff and not being elected next time.

The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours and actually human creators give up, meaning YouTube becomes even more sloppified.

If USA gives a bunch of patriot defense to Ukraine, I’m sure Ukraine will listen. If USA comes empty handed, not much reason to do anything Vance asks.

Yes, it’s moving in the direction of Crimea. The “let him have this and it’ll be over” attitude will absolutely backfire as it will just embolden them to take more.

Yes, but usually spineless local politicians don’t want to cause an international incident, what is exactly what USA is counting on so they’ll salami slice more and more until there is a big blow-up with violence and things deteriorate from there.

Hopefully Greenland is less spineless.

It would be hilarious to have a white and gold catering truck waiting when Trump does his next state visit.

Did Trump lost weight?

^ th*s

Reminds me of the Lying Flat movment in China. People saying F it to careers and just live as basic as possible.

The old corporate raiders, now working under the name of private equity.