Overton-Window

Misprediction? They are simultaneously surveilling everyone in the world and are getting nothing out of it. Confident statements from the administration are no longer worth a dime.

Blinken on July 7: “We are staying, the embassy is staying, our programs are staying. If there is a significant deterioration in security...I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.”

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1427314149319643139

It's not that we left Afghanistan. It's the grossly incompetent way we left it.

The article was published hours before those later Tweets.

It's the side-effect of politicians being chosen for legitimacy (identity), not competency.

The reason for this sudden silence is that in the year 2021, the cream of American society and the flower of its finest universities, can only understand the world as projections of the country’s own domestic neuroses. Our current elites, whether in media or politics, squint at the strange peoples and languages of whatever international conflict and only see who or what they can map to their internal gallery of heroes and villains: Who’s the PoC? Who’s the Nazi?

Not your keys, not your data. These compromises only strengthen the argument for decentralisation and pseudonyms.

As it should. It was an abject failure. Public military defeat cannot be spun away.

Biden would disagree:

Q Mr. President, some Vietnamese veterans see echoes of their experience in this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam, with some people feeling —

THE PRESIDENT: None whatsoever. Zero. What you had is — you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy — six, if I’m not mistaken.

The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...

A theorised benefit at the guaranteed cost of perpetual surveillance. No thanks.

What do you gain from carrying water for tyrants?

but mileage delta over time would be insufficient to collect and disburse road taxes based on what is needed/used/traveled the most.

This is already reality.

Because just like the Apple CSAM fiasco, end-to-end surveillance is the point.

The media exists to program you. The easiest way to distort reality is present the world as a black-and-white dichotomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)

I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone complain about non-plastic straws...even my 83 year-old uncle who lived through WW2...can't stop moaning about the tiniest inconvenience in his life.

Because it is obviously theatre to anyone with an ounce of intelligence and integrity. Another chance for unworldly Westerners to signal their grace without making real, substantial change.

or a average monthly income, during the last year

The US alone is 4.25% of world population: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population...

Focusing on curbing emissions regionally is as futile as instating a "no peeing" section of the pool.

Yes. Repeat every 6 months.

You're twice as likely to be murdered in parts of the San Francisco BA.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/984826/homicide-rate-cos...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Homicides-are-up-3...

Their handlers have them on a tight leash.

“It’s less about making money off that inventory, at least initially, and more about who can get the most inventory the fastest.”

iBuyers have recently shifted “to a free-for-all, acquire at any cost strategy.” At present, both Opendoor and Zillow’s homes division are losing money in the process.

“For some families, it may be difficult to compete, when they are trying to buy a house, with a company like that,” Quercia said, referring to iBuyers. “So if this was a widespread practice in some neighborhoods, it may create some concerns about a lot of the housing stock being owned by investors from outside of the community as opposed to households and residents.”

The company, which is reportedly searching out a new $2 billion revolving credit facility, also announced this week that it is now willing to purchase the majority of homes in every one of its current markets.

That would be welcome news for people like Alex Villacorta, the co-founder and chief data officer of ResiShares, an investment management company focused on residential real estate. “If they can get enough inventory flow, they’ll end up being a marketplace for investors,” said Villacorta. “We would be more than happy to buy in bulk off of them.”

World Economic Forum: Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

https://twitter.com/wef/status/849459333486317568

Package constituents are not.

Hypergamy will necessitate social acceptance of polygamy in countries in which women out-earn men on average.

This is why we immediately knew Asbestos was cancerous... oh wait.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CovidVaccinated/

Within a decade BTC has gone from novelty to the 14th largest currency in the world: https://fiatmarketcap.com

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." ― Philip K. Dick

How do you suppose you mandate vaccination to enter a store without requiring ID?

How do you suppose vaccine mandates are enforced?

Just yesterday at the largest port in the country: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/448887/minister-for-covi...

It's only a matter of time.

This won't happen. NZ keeping Covid out is down to good luck, not competence. On a long enough time scale NZ will face the same fate as those across the ditch.

Unfortunately it falters in every other measure.