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Billionaires gonna billionaire.

I didn’t expect the consequences of defunding science to hit that fast.

Don’t look at me. I have nothing to do with AI.

The problem is fossil fuels have way deeper pockets to pay bribes, and generally speaking, bribery is legal in the US.

That’s because they were in fact trying to kill all of you so no one would be left to tell their side of the story.

Question. How do I apply this to a mutually assured destruction scenario?

Russia and China watch US pull a Ukraine and now have an extremely cost-effective way of harming or outright destroying US assets similar to US dumping its spare power into the Ukraine conflict.

They’d be fools not to take advantage of the opportunity, but not nearly as foolish as we were for entering this pointless war in the first place.

Surprised because of the flip-flopping or because of the war? Or because of the insider trading?

It also kills American troops, which I’m sure Russia is happy for and honestly receiving an excellent deal for their investment.

If I could teleport I would get so fat so fast.

Sounds like we’re trying to export our own broken healthcare.

Sounds like the system is working as intended.

Exactly. They own the US and are not subject to laws. Only you are.

You really have to squint to see it. It looks similar because it’s merely a shift from one corruption brand to another

It’s not gambling for insiders.

Why, checking the skin color with their phone wasn’t enough for them?

Even in terms of story, the content is no longer optimized for quality. It’s optimized for watchability which generally refers to the ease of viewing even when you’re not completely paying attention.

They somehow found a way to even further commercialize and mass produce the moving picture.

I think optical media is a dead platform. Hence, there is an apparent lack of interest I think in implementing alternative solutions. I’ve had success with MakeMKV using the docker container approach, but never tried to rip UHD.

The Corpo-inspired future is that you should not get to own any of your media outright. They will decide when you can stream it and to which devices. Piracy is quickly becoming the only viable option if you value your freedom, and it’s a very unfortunate state of things.

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