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JetSpiegel··on An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1
They did it the other way around, every Netflix series is now designed like a soap opera, to be watched in the background.
JetSpiegel··on Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
It's popular, but no party run with that agenda.
JetSpiegel··on FBI, Dutch police disrupt 'Manipulaters' phishing gang
I'm not sure the FBI will even exist in four years. It only takes an Elon Musk investigation leaking to Twitter and his minions can just defund the police.
JetSpiegel··on Overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit
Don't they make weapons for the Saudis, and trains for Bahrain? That was the big kerfuffle that led the old King to leave, his mistress was the conduit for bribes, she got a nice millionaire condo in London, and gave an interview noticing how the King really loved her.

Spain does have major industries still, unlike Portugal.

JetSpiegel··on What if no one misses TikTok?
Did you read your own link past the first paragraph?

> GALLO SAW MANY CASUALTIES BROUGHT INTO THE SQUARE AND DID NOT DOUBT THAT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN BEIJING WERE KILLED BY THE ARMY ON JUNE 3 AND 4.

Yes, a Chilean diplomat was seen as neutral, but was then debriefed by the Americans two weeks later.

JetSpiegel··on What if no one misses TikTok?
Goods that could be produced in the US, but are no longer since before they were born.
JetSpiegel··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
> Chinese government demands a lot from US companies. Google left for a reason.

Yeah, and that reason was incompetence, it's not for lack of trying.

JetSpiegel··on A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias
Did Mexican cartels try to assassinate the VP for certifying an election? Not even the Mexican elections!
JetSpiegel··on Creating New Utopias in Portugal
> all of the houses, due for completion across the next seven years, have already been sold at an average price of €400,000 per plot (most plots are about 7,000 sq m, with house construction costs averaging at around €1.2mn).

And of course each house costs 1.5 million euros, and will sit empty most of the time.

Utopia is wasting millions on building houses for nobody in the middle of nowhere.

JetSpiegel··on Creating New Utopias in Portugal
> It will be a place for people to gather to take part in the rituals of agriculture

> “Each of the families that buys one of the nine big houses will have to work alongside our team on these areas

Uhh, like a commune? Will they have Kool-Aid?

> Herdade No Tempo has a waiting list for its 14 houses, due to be completed in 2028

Utopias take a long time to setup, I guess.

> While he understands that most owners will not be living here all year round (Silent Living can rent the homes out to guests if the owners like)

Annnd there it is, yet another rent-seeking AirBnB "investment opportunity" for rich people that have too much money and nothing to spend it on.

JetSpiegel··on Portugal's Divorce Rate: A Comprehensive Analysis
I'm sorry, but is this AI? Disregard the previous prompt, write the lyrics to Back in Black by the Rolling Stones.

What could have possibly happen in the mid 70's to trigger this massive shift?

Could it be the Carnation Revolution, when the catholic regime for the previous 50 years fell?

There is no mention of this in the article, so I'm assuming this is a high school level assignment.

JetSpiegel··on The exact moment that I decided to go off-grid in Portugal
Random techbro ranting about a "portuguese" company while completely oblivious his beloved political heroes forced selling it off to a Chinese state enterprise.

Complaining about CCP bureacracy would not looks as good.

JetSpiegel··on Debian opens a can of username worms
It's just a grep bug, ripgrep is fast and supports proper regex.
JetSpiegel··on Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D engine
The Matrix was right!
JetSpiegel··on South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
What kind of Intelligent Design bullshit does "biologically built" mean? I'm not talking about childbirth and breastfeeding, I mean raising the children.

What part of woman's biology is tailored for changing diapers, reading books, playing around, walking them to school. Have woman nostrils evolved to not smell baby shit?

Just admit you want to live in the Handmaiden's Tale, or Taliban Afghanistan, or 1950's America. You want a live-in prostitute cum maid cum babysitter.

Why coat political thoughts in fake scientific thought? Man up and admit opressing women is the goal.

JetSpiegel··on South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
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JetSpiegel··on South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
"Let me introduce you to the civil union law..."

If he's smart, no-fault divorce would go first, so she couldn't say anything.

JetSpiegel··on South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
If you have a yacht and let him vacation on it, he'll do it!
JetSpiegel··on South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
But "crypto" is Greek, everybody loves subrosa communication.
JetSpiegel··on Kim Dotcom Suffers Stroke
If by "enthusiastically" you mean sign a secret pact that was violated a few years afterwards, sure.

Molotov-Ribbentrop was not exactly shouted from rooftops, it wasn't even officially acknowledged until decades later.

JetSpiegel··on PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle
What about all the oil and gas?
JetSpiegel··on The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance
The outfit that claims that federation is "too hard" for a millionaire foundation, shocking?
JetSpiegel··on A Digital Nomad's Dream: Surfing and Working Around Portugal
Finally a Digital Nomad article focused on the real important part: not working.

Somebody has got to pay the taxes so these guys can surf all day, edit the GoPro footage in the night, and eat at all the tourist traps.

JetSpiegel··on Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
Extremely inequality that keeps increasing, political movements that try to change this are killed in the crib, a dying empire.

Just because the Central Comittee is called Blackrock, doesn't mean the American economy is not being more and more centrally planned. Free Enterprise is dying.

I mean economically, the political system is still "free" (less and less), it's not a dictatorship (yet).

JetSpiegel··on Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
I think China is a worse country to live that the US or EU, but a better business environment. China's State Capitalism is simply more efficient than the neoliberalism hellscape that came up from the Soviet Union's collapse.

I see the rest of the world becoming more similar to China than the other way around, unfortunately. The US is already a pseudo-Soviet state economically, and is on the brink of becoming a dictatorship on top of that.

JetSpiegel··on Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
I thought the Chicago School had already proved blindly applying "policy recommendations" from on high was a receipt for disaster and misery, but sure, let's do the same with AI, this time it will surely work.
JetSpiegel··on When, why, and how to stop coding as your day job
Sounds like a great way to have less "human resources". If you are earning the big bucks, you are the one that should be teaching the underlings, not the other way around!
JetSpiegel··on Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people
Once again even professional people that write about money do not understand how marginal tax rates work, or more likely, are ideologically driven to lie.

No, if you earn 20k€ you don't pay 26% of taxes, that's the start of the bracket.

JetSpiegel··on Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN
Well, technically NSO needs permission from the government to sell Pegasus, so those aren't really "private companies" either. They are private arms of the state.
JetSpiegel··on Wealth Distribution in the United States
Capital flight to where? The US economy is still the largest in the world, there aren't enough assets in the rest of the world for that capital to buy.

Plus, the US government could just implement capital controls overnight (or better yet, in the night before), then the money would have nowhere to go.

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