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by fakedang 9mo ago
You give too much credit to Apple in the AI age. Especially since they've already partnered with Google to power Siri with Gemini now. Apple is a has-been. Anthropic is best positioned to take up the privacy mantle, and may even be for
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by fakedang 9mo ago
You can buy with RMB in a lot of countries outside the West, if they have integrated UnionPay or AliPay into their payment processors. But more importantly, you can buy a lot of stuff from the factory of the world. Which is why a lot of cou
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Saudi Arabia was privately discussing de-dollarization way back in summer last year, when the irrational tariffs were imposed, followed by the Israeli-US strikes on Iran. Make of that what you will.
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by fakedang 9mo ago
But that was my point - in spite of the best efforts of the other companies and the other industries, they are continually failing to raise additional (largely American) capital because everyone is just looking at the buffed 7 and maybe som
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by fakedang 9mo ago
I think Henry Cavill was a big part of why it grew in popularity. As Henry Cavill's career and profile grew, he did not shy away from putting his favorite nerdy interests in front of the media spotlight, which included Warhammer. That
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by fakedang 9mo ago
But a non-performant one. Kinda like a bodybuilder who looks buffed AF from the outside but the doctor knows he's completely roided out.
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Remove the top 7 companies in the S&P 500 (which are all extremely overvalued anyways), and you'll find a very unhealthy S&P. Take into account American dollar devaluation and even the most laggardly of these markets (Europe) o
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Yes and in this case, it's not even that much an arbitrary judgement. I don't like the man but Musk has far more standing to go against Microsoft and OpenAI because the shenanigans they pulled were just that much more brazen.
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Except, apart from tech, there is no good place to invest in the US, especially given the headwinds in the current macro environment. And tech is super overvalued now. There's a lot of investor capital moving to traditional industries
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by fakedang 9mo ago
To be fair, Europe is tired of its farmers rioting and the general public welcomes the trade deal. If the farmers are crying about struggling against competition, I have a tiny violin to play for them.
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Reminds me of Russia post-Soviet collapse when all of the SSRs rushed to form their own blocs or align with the West, while the Russians thought they would continue to align with their former overlords in Moscow. USA will definitely turn in
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Reminds me of the allies backstabbing us so easily in Shogun 2 Total War. Aggressive expansion be damned.
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Actually, it seems China has given up on the feasibility of BRI because they don't control all the variables in their partner countries. Which is why Xi has been super focused on creating an autarkic economy dependent on domestic deman
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Well the Trumps, Thiel, etc are all invested heavily in a bunch of publicly traded nuclear fusion and nuclear fission companies, so those presidentially-backed firms are seeing outsized funding gains.
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by fakedang 9mo ago
I know that China's actively researching Nuclear fission, fusion and even have the world's first thorium reactor pilot - in fact, they might even be having a lot more effort and investment being put into nuclear than the rest of t
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by fakedang 9mo ago
China's betting on renewables while Republicans are betting on nuclear fusion and gutting the NRC.
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Denmark already came off the meeting with Vance, openly stating that the US wants Greenland, and are prepared to invade it if needed. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greenland-tr... Europe onl
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Y'all got any of those bilateral trade deals yet? Brexit was done and dusted by 2019, it's been 7 years now. Where are those deals you're talking about? Where's your trade deal with English-speaking economies like the US
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Curtail immigration to pre-Brexit levels (with a strong focus on repatriating criminals and net tax non-contributing immigrant households), focus on the working class and devise a route for the UK to get back into the EU. Also refocus polic
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by fakedang 9mo ago
> So many vehicles, especially in the truck space, are almost indistinguishable and lack any kind of imagination. Kudos to Tesla for trying to break the mold and push the category somewhere new. You haven't seen enough trucks and pi
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by fakedang 9mo ago
US invading Greenland means all US troops in Europe risk getting captured/foxholed in their own military bases. That's 65k permanent staff and 20-35k on rotation. Or 10% of the US military, simply turning PoW (and a huge bargainin
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by fakedang 9mo ago
The more Corbyn performs, the more the Labour vote will get divided. The same balkanization happened with the Tories and Reform/UKIP.
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Unfortunately, if an election were to be held today, the morons at Reform would have the greatest chance of winning, thanks to Starmer's ostrich syndrome, Corbyn dividing the Labour vote and the Tories being absolutely irrelevant after
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by fakedang 9mo ago
Well it's already declining. Remove the AI and tech industry and the US economy is in literal decline. Invading Greenland ensures NATO is crippled, Taiwan is left undefended and China finds a great excuse to impose sanctions on the US
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by fakedang 9mo ago
A world war and a socialist-minded president could correct that for a good couple of decades but this time the US is going to be on the wrong side of history. As an outsider, it's interesting to watch Nero play the fiddle while the res
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by fakedang 9mo ago
This is missing the forest for the trees. Coal plants alone accounted for 20% of emissions back in 2018, so I assume the fraction is only slightly lower now. Like so badly - coal is 5% of energy generation worldwide, yet the entire emission
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by fakedang 10mo ago
Insert Palpatine meme Let the stupidity and corruption flow through you....
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by fakedang 10mo ago
And people say Linux is hard to work with....
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by fakedang 10mo ago
The expectation is that their close-to-Trump investors will push for the dismantling of the NRC, which is something Republicans wholly support, which will of course make their rejection moot.
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by fakedang 10mo ago
Judging by the facilities mentioned in the Wikipedia article, it was very much planned as a (relatively) modern-day Orient Express. Not everyone back then had the luxury to not work for 50 days (one-way), so it was very much a rich people s

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