PearlRiver

Is that not how it always goes? Robbing a bank got you in jail a lot longer than assaulting a woman.

The USSR was selling art to fund the KGB. Stone glass houses.

A tip at McDonald's. Hello I ordered at the kiosk and just spoke literally one word to the young lady over there why am I tipping...

Ultimately the only antidote to US propaganda is nationalism. Anyone in my country who is caught funded with US money may as well hang themselves they are electorally dead as a dodo.

This to be fair is why the CIA had to move suitcases with money instead of bragging about it on Fox News...

To be fair some of those CEOs will have trouble finding golf buddies for a few months.

Also if you have a few hundred million bucks you will still have your mansion if you get it wrong.

The world has gotten more political. Everything is going to shit and we have not even really started the climate change.

I read a book once about doctors who went into the slums to treat cholera in the 19th century- noblesse oblige. We are now WORSE than the Victorians.

I remember this came up during COVID. The government was worried that homeless people and illegals would be afraid to report symptoms. GPs are specifically free and don't have to ask for papers or insurance to combat these health crises.

Tammany Hall did not happen because they were immigrants it happened because someone thought it was a good idea to have people who could not even write their own name vote. Democracy hinges on a well educated populace who actually gives a shit- which as we all know has not and never will happen.

The worst form of government- except for all the others so far tried.

Yes I too was downloading anime in the early 2000s. As someone living in a small provincial town there was effectively no real way to watch Naruto or GitS.

Piracy made the world a digital village.

If everyone wears a smartglass it becomes easier for the creeps to hide. A tree in the forest.

When a minor gets online it is only a matter of when not if before they get questions about their underwear.

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America does not want friends only vassals. Which arguably is what Canada became after the British left.

I am starting to notice a pattern here: all these datacenters are located in places with cheap land and lots of poor people.

Odd for something that I am assured is the bright future for mankind.

Most people do not have money to invest. There should be a law that forces the rich to go on an annual safari to see how poor people live because we are literally entering "let them eat cake" levels and it will not end well.

The Netherlands prides itself on its coastline and dunes but by the time mass tourism arrived the country was already rich.

The secret ingredient is always money. Spain looks the way it does because that country was desperate for foreign currency and jobs in the 60s and 70s. Economic development is hard and Albania does not have much going for it unfortunately.

LLM is just math. Which is why I do not like AI- it is nothing like in Deus Ex or those Japanese anime were computers are cute little girls who want to blow up the planet. Reality is as always sorely disappointing.

Now of course as an atheist I do not believe in soul and humans are just following evolutionary programming but we will never see chatGPT do standup comedy.

Most soccer players tend to retire in their late 30s so they are better off pursuing an education after their pro athlete career. Of course the best are multi millionaires who never have to work and can live from passive income.

The thing is you cannot just switch sports.

When we are talking about the really TOP elite of football those kids get into it at age 5. From that age on every day consists of hours of football. There are scouts looking at prepubescent kids all over the world ready to sign them.

The only good use case for a credit card is if you are buying something from someone you do not trust. I have a CC and it use it a few times a year. But using them to pay for groceries or ordering something from Amazon is just moronic.

The way I see it: you are either rich and don't care or you are poor and need to spend money that is not in your account (no judging I grew up poor and had to hide from debt collectors when I was a kid).

You too can have no healthcare, no pension and no job security! Sign up to America today.

European powers had taken over shipping in that region since the 17th century because their sailing ships were superior to anything the locals built.

The US can't limit anything beyond their borders. We ae living in the twilight of the white man.

This is why I have two separate browsers. If you want to do official stuff like paying for things you need to get through cloudflare.

You are supposed to take every threat as real. Which is also why calling in a fake threat is considered a big federal crime to deter clowns.

If this means universal basic income the GOP will kill themselves in apoplectic rage!

The people ponying up the cash expect a return on their investment- they are not in it for the religious experience.

I am getting the feeling that Americans don't understand that words have meaning. Trump insulting, threatening and bullying everones is supposed to be one big joke.

But we are talking about sovereign states here that have been around for centuries- they are neither amused nor cowed.