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Essentially big tech is under the jurisdiction of the mad king, which means all users of big tech are also under that same jurisdiction, including any and all p

Essentially big tech is under the jurisdiction of the mad king, which means all users of big tech are also under that same jurisdiction, including any and all private and public organisations in any country. This is one of the reasons I think the mad king thinks that he can bully the rest of the world - because he can, by proxy, bully the rest of the world. Much like the diving head first first into AI uptake, the whole cloud mania thing coming home to roost. If calling a war criminal a war criminal results in sanctions, could sanctions be the new tariffs? I don't want to give him ideas... This should scare pretty much any organisation outside of the US.

spwa4 1y ago
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- holowoodman 1y ago
  Nero's music seems to have been as bad as Trump's golf skills. But you never ever tell the mad king that he isn't as apt as he thinks, you just let him win, for your own sake...
- _aavaa_ 1y ago
  > credibly accused of being in the Epstein files Is there a source of this other than Elon? Cause he’s anything but credible
  - spwa4 1y ago
    Aside from everything that existed before? Not really, no. But here's a summary of the facts so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuaCuiQmPBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuaCuiQmPBU
  - SAI_Peregrinus 1y ago
    Trump's own admission to knowing Epstein, photos of them together, Trump admiring Epstein saying he was a "terrific guy" and "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
  - riffraff 1y ago
    The fact that Trump and Epstein were friends has always been known, it was always obvious that he would be in the files concerning him. Musk's accusation is relevant because it's a maga personality saying it, and blind supporters see it now, but it was always known.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago
  >Given that he effectively and literally ignited Los Angeles Are we talking about the same LA? Because I only saw LA residents burning down their city. I didn't see Trump or federal law enforcement in LA burning down cars and looting stores. So how do you get to blaming Trump for LA resident trashing their own city?
  - const_cast 1y ago
    Because the obvious intention of sending in Marines was, and is, to further escalate the situation. I, and I suspect no reasonable person, would ever entertain any other interpretation
    - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
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      - const_cast 1y ago
        > "Orange Man Bad" Trump Derangement syndrome See, this is why nobody takes you seriously.
        FirmwareBurner 1y ago
        So what? They don't even take themselves seriously. The main thing you'll observe is nobody provided any arguments that I was wrong. Because I wasn't.
        const_cast 1y ago
        Well nobody proved you wrong because right off the bat your premise was incorrect - I never said that anything justifies rioting. I'm merely pointing out the obvious here. We all want less property damage, both you and me. If we want to do that, then we shouldn't be sending in the Marines. That's not going to help anything, it's explicitly just going to make it worse. Trump isn't stupid, he knows that, which is why he did it. This is media bait, and it's incredibly irresponsible to use actual lives as pawns in some game of owning the libs. This doesn't even touch on the fact that this is all being done at the behest of California leadership. If Governor Newsom thinks that this is unnecessary and the LAPD can handle it, that's something our federal government should respect. And, I suspect Newsom is more than correct - the LAPD is a very large police force. The Marines here are being sent in the stoke the flame, not put it out.
close04 1y ago
> This is one of the reasons I think the mad king thinks that he can bully the rest of the world - because he can, by proxy, bully the rest of the world. He has even bigger levers to pull unfortunately. Sanctions are this giant hammer that can be dropped on anyone and the weight of the US ensures compliance. When the ICC chief prosecutor was sanctioned it wasn't just US companies who gave in, like Microsoft. His UK bank also blocked him. Sooner or later in the chain of dependencies there will be something based in the US or relying on something based in the US. Your MSP, the airline you travel with, anything will be used against you if sanctions are transmitted like a disease to anyone giving you assistance. No company or country wants to risk being buried to fight the US on this.
- BLKNSLVR 1y ago
  > His UK bank also blocked him This is a 'funny' situation, and potentially telling as to who holds more power, given that the UK government has recently sanctioned two Israeli ministers: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-britain-settlements-sanctions-e9ab86f5561af8afbdbf34709efe504e https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-britain-settl... Are UK Banks (maybe only this UK Bank) more beholden to the US than the UK? Is / Would this UK Bank also block(ing) those two Israeli ministers?
Gravityloss 1y ago
One theory about developing countries was that if oil is found, it's naturally easier for a dictator to control, since it's a concentrated source of revenue. Just a small amount of mercenaries is enough. So there will be a series of dictators. If there's no concentrated source of revenue, the people need to be involved and thus a more democratic path is likely. With the internet and software, especially with platforms, you see this concentration of power effect. That then easily leads to certain kind of power dynamics. Ie just as a hypothetical example, if there's only a few closed conversation platforms, government can control them relatively easily.
- dvfjsdhgfv 1y ago
  And yet, we haven't found a good solution to that yet, and everybody uses smartphones controlled by Apple and Google, communicate via channels controlled by Meta and so on.
  - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
    It's ok, European Union will enact another regulation saying that starting tomorrow we'll all be more innovative than the US.
- raxxorraxor 1y ago
  Europe needs a whole new engineering culture if it wants to stay relevant in this field. It still is focused on outsourcing problems, people are too lazy for details and demand ready to use products. I believe engineering in growing countries have completely different mindsets. They put the enterprise in enterprise and the results speak for themselves. Of course you have to stay pragmatic here and not every battle is in the interest of a company. But engineers with the ability to pursue their craft, sensible knowledge management and training have become a rare sight. So R&D is just plainly better in other countries. Problem is that this laziness of course empowers other players to grow to insane dimensions, like Microsoft did. Microsoft has many competent developers, but their success isn't due to software quality. Especially if you look at the latest cloud offerings. They are so large that they don't have to be good anymore.
hulitu 1y ago
> Essentially big tech is under the jurisdiction of the mad king, and of the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the SEC etc.

spwa4 1y ago

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holowoodman 1y ago
Nero's music seems to have been as bad as Trump's golf skills. But you never ever tell the mad king that he isn't as apt as he thinks, you just let him win, for your own sake...
_aavaa_ 1y ago
> credibly accused of being in the Epstein files Is there a source of this other than Elon? Cause he’s anything but credible
- spwa4 1y ago
  Aside from everything that existed before? Not really, no. But here's a summary of the facts so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuaCuiQmPBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuaCuiQmPBU
- SAI_Peregrinus 1y ago
  Trump's own admission to knowing Epstein, photos of them together, Trump admiring Epstein saying he was a "terrific guy" and "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
- riffraff 1y ago
  The fact that Trump and Epstein were friends has always been known, it was always obvious that he would be in the files concerning him. Musk's accusation is relevant because it's a maga personality saying it, and blind supporters see it now, but it was always known.
FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>Given that he effectively and literally ignited Los Angeles Are we talking about the same LA? Because I only saw LA residents burning down their city. I didn't see Trump or federal law enforcement in LA burning down cars and looting stores. So how do you get to blaming Trump for LA resident trashing their own city?
- const_cast 1y ago
  Because the obvious intention of sending in Marines was, and is, to further escalate the situation. I, and I suspect no reasonable person, would ever entertain any other interpretation
  - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
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    - const_cast 1y ago
      > "Orange Man Bad" Trump Derangement syndrome See, this is why nobody takes you seriously.
      - FirmwareBurner 1y ago
        So what? They don't even take themselves seriously. The main thing you'll observe is nobody provided any arguments that I was wrong. Because I wasn't.
        const_cast 1y ago
        Well nobody proved you wrong because right off the bat your premise was incorrect - I never said that anything justifies rioting. I'm merely pointing out the obvious here. We all want less property damage, both you and me. If we want to do that, then we shouldn't be sending in the Marines. That's not going to help anything, it's explicitly just going to make it worse. Trump isn't stupid, he knows that, which is why he did it. This is media bait, and it's incredibly irresponsible to use actual lives as pawns in some game of owning the libs. This doesn't even touch on the fact that this is all being done at the behest of California leadership. If Governor Newsom thinks that this is unnecessary and the LAPD can handle it, that's something our federal government should respect. And, I suspect Newsom is more than correct - the LAPD is a very large police force. The Marines here are being sent in the stoke the flame, not put it out.

close04 1y ago

> This is one of the reasons I think the mad king thinks that he can bully the rest of the world - because he can, by proxy, bully the rest of the world. He has even bigger levers to pull unfortunately. Sanctions are this giant hammer that can be dropped on anyone and the weight of the US ensures compliance. When the ICC chief prosecutor was sanctioned it wasn't just US companies who gave in, like Microsoft. His UK bank also blocked him. Sooner or later in the chain of dependencies there will be something based in the US or relying on something based in the US. Your MSP, the airline you travel with, anything will be used against you if sanctions are transmitted like a disease to anyone giving you assistance. No company or country wants to risk being buried to fight the US on this.

BLKNSLVR 1y ago
> His UK bank also blocked him This is a 'funny' situation, and potentially telling as to who holds more power, given that the UK government has recently sanctioned two Israeli ministers: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-britain-settlements-sanctions-e9ab86f5561af8afbdbf34709efe504e https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-britain-settl... Are UK Banks (maybe only this UK Bank) more beholden to the US than the UK? Is / Would this UK Bank also block(ing) those two Israeli ministers?

Gravityloss 1y ago

One theory about developing countries was that if oil is found, it's naturally easier for a dictator to control, since it's a concentrated source of revenue. Just a small amount of mercenaries is enough. So there will be a series of dictators. If there's no concentrated source of revenue, the people need to be involved and thus a more democratic path is likely. With the internet and software, especially with platforms, you see this concentration of power effect. That then easily leads to certain kind of power dynamics. Ie just as a hypothetical example, if there's only a few closed conversation platforms, government can control them relatively easily.

dvfjsdhgfv 1y ago
And yet, we haven't found a good solution to that yet, and everybody uses smartphones controlled by Apple and Google, communicate via channels controlled by Meta and so on.
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago
  It's ok, European Union will enact another regulation saying that starting tomorrow we'll all be more innovative than the US.
raxxorraxor 1y ago
Europe needs a whole new engineering culture if it wants to stay relevant in this field. It still is focused on outsourcing problems, people are too lazy for details and demand ready to use products. I believe engineering in growing countries have completely different mindsets. They put the enterprise in enterprise and the results speak for themselves. Of course you have to stay pragmatic here and not every battle is in the interest of a company. But engineers with the ability to pursue their craft, sensible knowledge management and training have become a rare sight. So R&D is just plainly better in other countries. Problem is that this laziness of course empowers other players to grow to insane dimensions, like Microsoft did. Microsoft has many competent developers, but their success isn't due to software quality. Especially if you look at the latest cloud offerings. They are so large that they don't have to be good anymore.

hulitu 1y ago

> Essentially big tech is under the jurisdiction of the mad king, and of the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the SEC etc.