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We can use verification mountain dew cans. No big deal.

Sadly, the Sicilians and Marians definitely did not regain power after Pompey said that to them. They did get purged though.

He’s just retooling to manufacture his fighting Uruk-hai.

So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real statlink sats. Are these different than regular sats? It sounds like they’re able to handle more bandwidth but I don’t know.

Maybe during electronic countermeasures? Only way to transmit information is through sound when the EM bandwidth is being disrupted.

Is this a bit? Are you channeling your inner Jeff Albertson? I don’t feel like this is even real. Almost like a response from Gemini itself to give a parody anecdote about itself.

I sort of get it I guess.

Struggle builds character or whatever.

The things I enjoy aren’t because I’m the best at them. I don’t care that software could crush me at reading or playing games. Or a robot can lift more weight than I can or hike a trail faster than me. A robot could surely crush me at laying out on the beach and snorkeling.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Enjoy what you want without thinking about how much worse you are than someone or something else.

Cook because you like it or have to do it for financial reasons. Write because you enjoy it (or have to for financial reasons). You get the point.

Tech is special! Think about the margins, the gains, the $$$!

I bet on greed. It always wins.

I’m not sure. Is Elysium style healthcare an inevitable eventuality? Maybe.

I suppose humanless healthcare is better than nothing for the poors.

But as a HENRY - I want a human with AI and robotic assist, not just some LLM driving a scalpel and claw around.

Elysium here we come! Humans for the rich and robots for the poors.

Are you shadow banned? I can only upvote and comment on this single edited comment from you.

Are edited comments unflagged somehow? Weird.

Is that from the protocols? What would you know about society and empire? You’re just some dork on the internet too much.

I think sir, you need to “touch grass” as the kid’s say.

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Trump/Musk.

Trump is a catastrophic disaster. Just wait for Q1 and Q2, little boy. Go watch some YouTube.

The country’s citizens who aren’t part of the two personality cults are becoming violently opposed to the extra legally acting billionaire who is high on ketamine cutting up the 80 year old system that made him extraordinarily wealthy?

Greed brings Americans together. That’s what makes America great. Only a small market correction and no official Q1 data and swing suburbia is starting to notice. Any further erosion of wealth or actual recession and Republicans are fucked.

US giving up its place after 80 years so the gerontocracy can still feel relevant and in charge is a black swan event. We’ll correct to 30% of current value and trade sideways for 20 years.

Regular people talking about making money while giving up the world order? Rofl. You’re not in the club! Carlin already told you that.

What I’m saying is - permanently changing the world order and inducing a recession is not going to be politically popular in the US over 4 years. Republicans will lose the mid terms and the presidential election. Their plan will be blocked because it’s going to take a long time to unwind the current order. How will they protect their incomplete plan and maintain it over the long term? If they are not successful over the short term then over the long term it will unravel. So what’s the plan?

Elon will be uplifted into the next level of the simulation? Is that the plan?

So you think this greater good is going to happen in less than 2 years?

Inducing a recession to change the world order back to mercantilism isn’t going to be popular in practice. Drunks in a pub might think it sounds great over their back of the napkin math - but that’s just talk. When the rubber meets the road and the Republican party fails here, which it will, what happens? They either have a perfectly executed plan and everything is miraculously wonderful or they lose the midterms and that’s it. So either the plan is to suppress or prevent elections or just transfer wealth and lose while the world order gets overturned.

It’s easy to talk about stagflation and have this little academic discussion. However when this political motivated recession drops your party’s popularity drastically - which will happen - what will you do? How will you keep the ball moving? Do you think it be done before mid term elections? Or are elections irrelevant now?

Hey you woke up!

I’m actually American, former military, and a physician. As a “middle aged” person myself I can tell you’re not “very highly educated”. You’re an idiot. And you’ll die on idiot hill. Good luck.

You really want me to acknowledge that $2T so I will. The Republican Party started 2 wars and spent trillions of dollars. The democrats spent billions in dollars in military aid. Neither party achieved their objectives, both parties had their positions reversed after they were electorally defeated. Hundreds of thousands of people have died because of these mistakes.

And now you think the US should default on the debt so money is worth money again? Is that not tautological?

And the argument is that war should be expensive? If the US can default on this old debt and create dollar 3.0 what would stop it from defaulting on this new “real” money in the future? New money, new wars, new debts, new defaults.

“Printing of funny money”? Are you referring to the Fed purchasing mortgaged backed securities after the financial crisis of 2008?

What do you mean when you refer to “real” money? A gold backed currency? Currency is an abstraction of value. “Real” money doesn’t make that much sense. Who is going to decide what is real?

Great Britain after WW2 is not analogous to the US now. The US has 300+ million people, a vast military, a huge land mass with enormous natural resources, the world reserve currency, and a leader who has followers who don’t understand the US rules based world order.

GB didn’t collapse all on its own. The US with its strength after WW2 coerced them and the French into following its lead. Eisenhower sided with the Soviets regarding the Suez for example. The Breton Woods agreement strengthened the US currency at the expense of everyone other signatory.

Reinventing the world into a multipolar mercantilist patchwork of competing powers is not going to be some brilliant strategic maneuver. It’s creating a power vacuum.

I really want to be wrong but this is more like the Asimov Foundation series. The empire didn’t forget how their technology worked, it forgot how their system worked. Otho is not going to save the US or make it great. He’s destroying the current system and replacing it with an older inferior one. Strength through contraction requires intelligence and sophistication. Not blundering oafish incompetence.

The US made poor judgement in the invasion of Afghanistan and then leaving. Then with the invasion of Iraq and leaving. Now we make the same mistake with wartime support of Ukraine and abruptly cutting it off. US foreign policy is schizophrenic and we are wholly unreliable.

Now we are moving toward a multipolar world where regional powers with nuclear weapons can engage in conventional war. Perhaps moving back in time to great power struggles of the 19th and 20th century.

Nuclear non-proliferation is dead. As Pakistan’s leader so pragmatically said decades ago - “we will eat grass but we will have our bomb”. It is insane to not be armed at this point.

With Pax Americana now ended a more brutal world is going to emerge.

And MAGA supporters aren’t going to be some unshakable disciples. Once the economic reality sets in and there is enough fear, uncertainty, and doubt - they will tear themselves apart. Blame will be thrown and they will deny even knowing their messiah. The only way to stop an absolute electoral obliteration will be to suspend elections or completely suppress them.

Putin played his big Diplomacy game very well - but he might think Americans are a bit like Russians. They are not. Greed and prosperity hold this country together, not bonds of shared suffering. MAGA is doomed, the world is a more unsafe place, and we are all poorer for it.

More like we had Galba, this is Otho, now who is next? Will it be Vespasian a little early?

Why on earth would Russia reign in China? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read today.

Nuclear holocaust? lol

Yea, China would never pick on minorities! China #1!!

What happens if I ingest 0 calories for 3 months?

I also did from some American Olympic athlete. I still don’t go running though.

I remember lots of things! Like Nile burning some random thing. Or that British physicist talking to the British shit poster lady.

I think you might have a point..

I’ll care - for money.