WanderingThoughts

joined 2 weeks ago

The plan was simple enough.

  1. Lie

  2. Do some tariffs

  3. All countries get scared and give him money, attention and trade

  4. Profit

Turns out global retaliation against him was not part of the plan.

Some doubt the potential for growth with satellite internet. It's still expensive for developing countries. It doesn't have enough capacity for handling cities so that leaves rural customers in western countries and they're not the biggest or richest customer base to build on.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are many professionals driving a bit oversized vehicles, like small cargo trucks and large vans. But these people are smart enough to know they don't fit in a standard parking spot.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Notice how those French places are not a total ruin.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And it'll be used to suppress wages, because "you're not making new stuff, just fixing some problems in existing code." That you have to rewrite most of it is conveniently not counted.

That's at least what was tried with movie writers.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 15 points 1 week ago

This'll be closer to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when living in said union.

So that makes him a classic useful idiot.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 13 points 1 week ago

With the way things are going over there, the whole thing falls apart soon enough and this issue can be fixed in the rebuild.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 10 points 1 week ago

Much of the craze is almost religious. You have for example Singularitarianism. Basically "Man creates AI, which will create artificial general intelligence, which will create artificial super intelligence, which will bring us the singularity, release us from drudgery and give us eternal life."

Measure once, pay twice?

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Garbage in, garbage out. These logos represent the latter.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 21 points 1 week ago

Stock markets don't create or destroy money. They just move it around. Mostly from the poor to the rich.

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