PearlRiver

The sad truth is that we were actually winning the fight against smoking. Until the industry invented vapes.

Funny because that is exactly what Edge calls itself...

Everything humans believe is based on vibes- which happen to change with the centuries.

Corruption is not new- in fact looking at US history it appeared to be the norm. Tammany Hall, railroad barons, the Prohibition, Standard Oil. There were just a brief few decades after WW2 when it slipped into the background.

Do you want to live next to one? Or do you think that honor should go to poor people?

Now that I think about it were do all these tech bros live...

The whole point of NATO was always to present a united front. Even the slightest HINT of doubt could embolden the enemy to test resolve.

And at this point NATO has pretty much collapsed. Trump turned his back on Ukraine and nobody wants to join operation Epstein Fury.

In my country they put a mandatory minimum price on books because of "muh culture". Of course they could never enforce this globally so it lead to importing cheap books from America and the UK.

Taylor Swift is an interesting personality.

So many people can probably reach her level of music but have the charisma of a door nail.

One part of being an artist is that you are a clown who entertains people. You cannot just make music you have to be out there being outrageous and weird.

This is exactly what all the successful ones do. No AI can go on television and sing songs about how great Hitler was.

In my country every few years a bunch of people invent some new method to teach kids how to read. Completely ignoring that humans have been doing exactly that for at least 5000 years.

Education is a business.

America does not want to prepare for that kind of conflict. It wants B2 bombers because those look cool when they fly over during the Superbowl.

Ukraine is a real war and it is about men and women crawling in the mud constantly terrified of getting blown up. It is literally battle of the Somme again. How do you recruit college kids for that?

In WW2 the biggest problem was not building aircraft it was training the pilots who flew them.

AI comes from corrupt, megalomaniac batshit insane American billionaires. So good luck with that.

Sport fan clowns always say you have to separate politics from the Olympics. Well guess what my own country is sponsoring athletes because the whole fucking show is just a way for countries to show off. Not sure what we are showing off to be honest- although I did clap for the nice Somali ex refugee lady who is now a professional athlete.

Seeing millionaires praise Dubai was really eye opening to me. Seems that we don't really value democracy and freedom of speech as much as we pretend.

Give up the entire fucking Constitution for order, low taxes and non unionized servants.

In my country PCs did not catch on until the second part of the 90s. Before then computers were found in offices and labs.

Hell the first commercial ISP in the Netherlands only started in 1995.

By the time the digital age arrived for the general population CD ROM and DSL were a thing.

It is easy to forget that for decades computers were basically a sub culture thing that did not touch mainstream society.

It gets even weirder in the Netherlands were the book industry has created a cartel. They have a minimum price that you cannot go under.

Of course what happened is that lots of people just started to import English paperbacks bypassing all the local laws. The price difference was just insane.

Dutch people in general do not have an overinflated view of their own language like in France.

Don't forget all the pesticides and fertilizer that they have been pumping into the ground for the last 100 years.

Farms are industrial estates.

Students in America don't have jobs. You can be motherfucking Einstein but you will still have to be a waiter in a cafe to contribute to society and pay for your student room.

When you are 20 you don't need sleep.

I do not know how it worked in the US but in my country until the 1960s university was for the upper class.

No son or daughter of a butcher could ever hope to study law.

When America lost in Vietnam it was at least an honorable defeat: both the USSR and the PRC invested vast quantities of materiel and military advisors into the war. For decades. It was fought with stuff that was designed for WW3.

You know you have to give Nixon credit he slinked away before it ended in a shoot out between the SS and the FBI on the White House lawn.

Trash collection is not even all that dirty in a developed first world country.

It is actually a pretty good job. Civilization will always need garbage disposal.

So many people are locked in on on temporary contracts constantly in fear of termination.

If the US is allowed to annex Cuba the PRC has a right to take back Taiwan.

I always wondered why China doesn't flood foreign war zones with weapons to field test their fancy new gear against the USAF. Seems like a no-brainer.

The US only has two political parties and they are both, secretly, pro immigration.

The EU is actually clamping down on it because of populist/far right parties. I know someone who runs a Thai restaurant and he cannot fly in a cook from Asia. He has to find someone from Europe.

Things can always get worse!

I use this

https://github.com/Klocman/Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller

The nice thing about Windows is that people have been writing software for it for decades. A very underestimated advantage.

Unfortunately nobody cares about destroying the internet if it gets them a Lambo.

Greed and ignorance have taken over the tech industry.