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Bulletins and News Discussion from June 24th to June 30th, 2024 - Waiting for War - COTW: Lebanon
  • Saw the same thing. R/politics is a great tool to gauge where they are trying to steer public opinion, and often reveals next moves. My guess there are competing comment farms and that there is some government faction that wants to replace Joe. But others want him to stay put because they fear they won't have as much power under a living president.

  • Elon has another secret child
  • It's become trendy for the 1% to have 3+ kids again. Like rich women hit 35 and then have 4 kids over the next 8 years. Now that the average person can't afford kids, they've become a status symbol.

  • Hot take: The ruling class are ruining the internet on purpose
  • Sometimes I wonder if there is an inflection point where the personal data becomes overwhelming to the point of useless too.

    Like, if I want everybody who has looked up an adjacent product or related product and has the disposable income to purchase my product. Well, how many people is that and how many of those people are high volume Internet users who google whatever thought comes into their head, and how many of those people are fortified behind layers of spam filters or the natural filter of advertisment fatigue?

    I assume the idea these people are jerking themselves off to is that they can get really sophicated predictive profiles of people, and this will somehow be monetizable. But I just don't see it. Tik tok seems to be the best in the biz and it appears to be a slightly more elaborate version of "people who looked at these things you looked at also looked at these things, I bet you'd like to look at this too"

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from June 10th to June 16th, 2024 - Havana Derangement Syndrome - COTW: Cuba
  • Our company hires a decent amount of tech subcontractors from there. They make like 30/hr vs 100/hr, they avail themselves as much as cucked Americans and speak English with American accents better than global south hires.

    There seems to be this weird perception there that every American firm is desperate for their genius or some such. My guess is when Europe is further vassalized and people there get into cucked American mode a lot more remote work will get passed there. The time difference is better and I think it'll take longer for mainland Europe to privatize healthcare and pass that cost to employers.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from June 3rd to June 9th, 2024 - Morena Reigns More - COTW: Mexico
  • You think that maybe there is this grift where oligarchs are being sold on AI that will somehow solve all the problems that go along with having peasants but it's all a scam that's coincidentally imbued them with the false confidence that there will never be any pushback.

    Like they ask it how to best extract resources or suppress dissent but they never bothered to give it the "your subjects will revolt eventually" or "there are other powerful people who are competing with you" patch.

    Which is, essentially what the problem has always been but they can't even be bothered to do their own failing.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from June 3rd to June 9th, 2024 - Morena Reigns More - COTW: Mexico
  • https://youtu.be/5eIADs7Ct-Q?si=U0yXcn6F9Yv2tjwp

    Time lapse map of the Middle East. I'm a spatial person so this is one of the easiest ways for me to understand history.

    The area from Tehran through Beruit has been one contiguous empire for most of the last 3000 years.

    The US inherited a Balkanized Middle East and West Asia and most of its geopolitical strategy is about maintaining that status quo. Even in the absence of fossil fuels this place would be a world power if left alone due to it's location along trade routes and the natural defensibility of much of it.

    The notion of an independent cohesive Israel spanning any real space and time is an ahistorical and compensatory fantasy. Ethnorelgions were a primitive concept even in the time of King David. When you are required to ethnically cleanse every place you conquer and maintain higher birth rates in order to occupy that space your success is bound to be limited and temporary. A small blip allowed by the Bronze Age collapse and little more than that.

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