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American military for decades have largely been mercs for hire especially for corps. Recruitments need to consider hiring using mercs incentives (similar to Wagner). Many veterans I talked to come to the conclusions they NEVER fight for the country and often joke they did it for the money and stability....so in a way they are no different than Wagner or any other mercs. They just have better boots and benefits and maybe safer (as long as not deployed to battlefield like Ukraine or Kandahar)...moral or nationalism...not much really.

He did made Twitter less affordable.

NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! Cybertruck is coming. Tesla needs that subsidy!

People into EV dont read statistics. I their worldview everyone bought EVs. Everyone lives in Bay area and drives EVs without touching the steering wheel. Meanwhile thousands pay for 2nd or 3rd hand cheap ICE car. A lot of my friends were shock when they lookup how small EV sales is in the world market. Even in USA, EVs is around maybe at best 5%-10% sales. And that is NEW car sales (with government subsidies). You add in used market, that numbers drop less than 1%. Even even today, Tesla is not even world biggest EV makers.

For Apple, yes incremental increase but not for Huawei and recent Elite X.

That is your perspective driving like shit. A lot of people I know still uses the manual gearbox to give them the "car feel". Some dknt even want power steering because they like to wrestle with the car during turn.

Guys. Since YT doing that...why not just pay his GrayJay app and actively promote it. YT clearly wants a Streissand effect. We cannot let down YT expectation!

Just a reminder in case got misconstrue that Ukraine is fighting Russians with drones. China supplied truck loads of drones to Russians easily at a ratio 1:500. You need to have someone in China (especially near the border) to know this. As for the west, they couldn't even get WMD right. So whatever you got read about how game changer are with new Western weapons, take it with healthy dose of salt. We are now at the 10th or 11th game changer which is ATACMS now. Yes, even Abrahms are now absolutely. Seems like artilleries and Terminators tanks are the future. American elections are nearing. Reminds me how those supported Bush Sr in Iraq, were later gassed exterminated by Saddam. I don't think Hunter gonna make a come back. Let's hope Putin has mercy on those Ukrainians when USA finally abandon them as predictable.

Should add one more maxim...we will work actively against you even if it takes decades like Goujian.

That will go against climate change (aka global warming) narrative. At this point, doing that is considered blasphemy to those hardcore left. I would reckon your take will only happen after carbon AND methane taxations are well in place and regulated like income taxes per business entities and per individuals basis. Total destruction is like economy public goods. No one will value it unless you can "fence" it as private responsebilities. Leonardo in Look Up was a great exposition of that indifference.

People skills arent exactly JUST get along with people. That would make Steve Jobs absolute failure in people skill in that niche criteria. He was genius at people skill in area like motivation and business negotiations. Vast majority grads have terrible people skill (40yrs in HR attest to that). Things like ghosting and quiet quitting and ultra job hopping are a thing with gen z and gen millenium. It is extremely rare in gen x and earlier.

Elon Musk famous for sacking entire department or even close down factory PERMANENTLY. Europeans will find out their current unemployment will be doubling in coming months with no money to pay for American expensive oil and gas replacement to Russian. Swede will learn they arent that special and even influential. Their train schedules really under perform if you ever experienced the Japanese one.

Evn if they fall to 800mil people, that is still more than 2x more than USA. The level of education in China far exceed USA. Scientific output also exceed USA right now. Then just niched output in AI already surpassed USA just a week ago. You go to any mart in USA, easily 60% stuff come from China. You look in ANY American colleges, you will find "East Asians" a lot even more so in Ivy Leagues. By 2050, we will all acknowledge China is the new USA even if their population drop by half. Look at Japan, their 100m dwindling to 80m still so dominant. You multiply that by 10x and with added ruthlessness in business competition. Hard not to see China gdp NOT exceeding USA in 5-10yrs time. As for economic free fall, USA is due for a super motherload big one. Since it has bigger economy, the fall would be bigger as well. I put my money on China especially now since things it is way cheaper there. Even Tesla look like dwarf when you compare to BYD in China (and they havnt largely tackle market outside China).

That is a brilliant move from China. As these investment money will get floodef back into western world e.g. USA and Germany which will prompt huge inflations. Already USA and Europe no longer has access to cheap Chinese manufacturing, cheap Russian fuels and cheap clever labors (Chinese students), you can see severe crippling of Western innovations in the last 18mths (research paper outputs dropping, Tesla couldnt build Cybertruck, no self drivings, university graduates output drops). This is all in place to target 2025-2026 invasion. Guess Xi is learning from Putin on preparations.

Whether Toyota will pivot to EV or not doesnt matter. This is solar all over again. The Chinese EV market absolutely dominates any EV markets in the world. BYD alone would make Tesla look like just Porche vs Toyota. I forsee Tesla will just fizzled out. Their solar already gone. Their cybertruck is a joke. Their sales in China after so many years with advantage of tech and factory still dwarfed by almost every other EVs in China. Now imagine those Chinese EVs are Huawei and let loose.

Suppose to. But USA isn't exactly practicising free market. Coming back from doing business in China, their market is truly competitive and free as long as you factor out some specific "Government guanxi thing" and "central government policy" (e.g. clamping down on private tuition and enrichment classes). Their EVs have no restriction like in USA where Tesla cannot sell in some region because of existing car dealership. Insurance too are consider "costless" to high risk group and must never deny pre-existing. All this extra government intervention in USA really not helping "free market". In USA the last 3 presidents, things get so anti-competitive and almost like centralized planning to some extend (solyndra) especially Bush-Obama time. The only unrestricted "free market" now is people. You see that Cali moving to Texas over the last decade. Expect similar things to happen to Florida as well in this decade.

Probably reverse will happen where look-alike people will cosplay those generated porns. So we can't really say it will be 100% fake.

The Day After Tomorrow by Roland Emmerich is one of the postulated scenario. It was very entertaining though a bit over the top. Part 2 sequel is very meh.

It is. Basically EPIC is testing the water whether laying off via asset sale will be exempt. The layoff team need to have grit to fight thru supreme court to inflict huge damage to EPIC.

I don't it will crash. Democratic party tends to go socialism...in this case they are bailout-ish them Rep. In this case they will quietly bail large properties and banks to ensure it wont crash...just drag and stagnant like Evergrande and others in China. It seems to work over there. As long as people willing to go thru a wasted decade like Japanese did, it won't crash.

Oh all, our military probably shouldn't get that kind high priority. They have their own planes. Plus they don't really fight for USA (at least the last 40 years wars have nothing to do with defending America) but serve more as corporate mercs. We over glorified their services. Non actually volunteered for free to fight in Iraq war which sadly nothing to do with OBL. In fact a lot actually served as mercs under blackwater. Then there is also bonus to do 2nd or 3rd Iraq tour. Just prioritised according ticket price. It is a simple and very fair transparent metrics over anything else. This is commercial service not some kind of public civics events.

Mainly because recessions start to pinch USA and in force in China. EU themselves start to see lacking of cheap energy is biting into their gdps.

3rd party isn't answer. Founding fathers already hinted public unalivement is the way to go. That is why public can get fire power and conduct operations to wipe clean disobedient politician similar nature to sicario. I have seen terminally ill veterans who are very patriotic but just gave up with a sigh and let USA runs its course like Rome.

Probably can't for EU side.

Your free speech probably is closer to what CCP has in mind which is what is allowed by government and acceptable by majority. Anything else is considered hate speech. Germans practiced that in the 1920s to 40s. It didn't end well. French did that in the pre-Napolean era. Same, didn't end well. Chinese practiced for millenia though current government is less vicious than in the past (read what is nine generation punishment in Chinese culture). There is only 1 kind of free speech. Anything that is being censored is basically not free speech but some form of 1984 dystopian implementation. This is why USA is greatest nation on earth for discovering 1st and protected by 2nd. UK has no such thing even though literally origin of USA.

The major issue here is why no one in CIA getting punished? There need to out the names and let the public do their justice as how Asian side done for millenia - unalivement of the whole family clans for decades or centuries to come as inspired by true event King Goujian.

People praised Apple for doing that. Apple basically impose MacOS subscription via hardware deprecation every 6-7 years. Judge sided with Apple over Epic for the store payment too. Microsoft is basically mimicking Apple from afar with more direct approach of direvt fee charging instead of hiding it in so.e kind of "premium Apple tax". You want they dont do that, then as consumers, trash Apple behavior. Force them to be fully accountable for and open up their OS to multi-platform hardware. You dont do that. You praise Apple. Then domt fault others to immitate that success route of laughing to the banks.

It is also likely Google themselves has been compromised. Those reviewer accounts could have been hacked and thus this kind of spurious behavior. Think of it similar to website defacing, instead of deface, you get random suspension or termination of random app developers. You don't always hear about Google being hacked, but it had happened in the past way more frequently then what were reported. Google biggest issue they have near non existence of customers support engineers there (probably not a glamorous job / career). They rely too much on automated responses with a bunch of if-else like their Diagflow (perhaps now upgraded with Bard). Don't depend on Google store. Support HarmonyOS and Samsung store. Give alternative a stronger support to force Google from monopolistic behavior to market competition. Microsoft over the years demonstrate this is possible. Rely on market and not some dont-do-evil mantra.

Founder pride issue. Started another MySQL once out of Oracle. He should have focus on improving MySQL+PostGreSQL+whatever NoSQL out there. Instead, he wasted resources to build another instance of MySQL. But to his credit though, his action forced Oracle to behave well with MySQL and not decimate it like OpenOffice, once upon a time.

2nd hand laptops like those X and T series easily beat this server with some RAM and SSD upgrades. I got T430 i3 and i5 for around 150 dollars a piece. I dont see the needs of Zima unless you really prefer new crippled compute. Even using Zulu or Rp5 or Op5 make more sense than Zima.