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Owners of capital who engage in wage theft and taxation schemes to a much higher degree love that you've been hoodwinked into focusing on welfare fraud. It's "mission accomplished" for them.

While I have always opposed capital punishment on principle, I will make an exception for whomever is responsible for that cookie consent form. Pretty sure it is illegal too.

I'm pretty sure "Obamacare" was coined by the Republicans, to deride it. At least that's how I remember it.

Yet another scam[1], just like "no tax on overtime".

[1]: https://newrepublic.com/post/206265/trump-prescription-drug-...

Is it really a dog whistle? Dog megaphone. Or maybe dog stadium PA.

Anyone else doing this would be instant political suicide. For Trump, it's just another regular weekday.

The Model 2 vehicle program was killed[1].

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

> Optimus is already very well tele-operated

It can't even serve popcorn in a diner.

What does Gwynne Shotwell think of this. She seemed level-headed, but is she also batshit insane now by osmosis?

This is great and about time. I hope the rest of the world will align on this too. There are some things that do not need reinventing, and car door handles is one of them.

Why go to all those lengths? There is 0 value in reading the output.

Is it the eyeliner?

Me neither, man. How might one describe people who find this fascinating? Slopmoths?

They should have discontinued the phantom braking instead.

What if they're private property though? Historically, the state has always valued private property over human lives, so the response could be even more brutal.

> if people on mass [sic] stopped buying

Ah, the "vote with your dollar" argument. How's that been working out.

Whatever happens, I hope it'll result in being able to finally run Kontakt on Linux... I have so many instruments. I do have Komplete but could live with all those other things going away. Kontakt is the important one.

But I'm not holding my breath.

They wrestled with it for about 5 minutes, then got the memo, shrugged and resumed to deep-throat the boot.

Pathetic collaborator.

That was some rumor that was circulating for a short while, but it's unsubstantiated. Polestar just got a 600 million dollar loan from Geely too.

Some people have even speculated that it's Volvo that wants to go independent, but comments from the returning, unretired CEO that they want to do more sharing of tech makes that less likely.

No the problem is bootlickers with less self-preservation skills than animals who bend over backwards to reject actual reality because they think they're in the billionaire pedophilic ruling class in-group when they're not.

I actually like hand-crafting code... Not physically typing out every single character per se, but wrangling the syntax.

Hottest country in the world! Tremendous respect!

Also Swedish fund Alecta at 8 billion dollars (some reports say USD 7.7 - 8.8)

https://scanx.trade/stock-market-news/global/swedish-pension...

It's OK, Satya. Sometimes you do a bad bet and make something people don't want, but you kill it and try something else. What you don't do is to beg people to use it just because you've spent billions on it.

> Despite Trump, the US (and rivals of China like South Korea and Japan) have continued to supply the Ukrainian armed forces and their allies like Poland.

Military supplies have not slowed, that's true, the major difference since Biden is that European nations are now paying for it, but diplomacy and sanctions-wise, interest is waning for every month, it seems. Trump is even derailing the Davos summit. That was supposed to be primarily about Ukraine, but now it's about Greenland.

> A protracted Russia-Ukraine War with the balance of power in favor of Russia means the US, SK, and JP remain bogged supplying Ukraine and it's allies like Poland and Romania, instead of diverting stock to the Asian front.

I'll confess I didn't consider ROK and JP. That's a fair point. Poland and Romania are supply hubs, so I would've worded that "via Poland and Romania" and not made it seem like they are supplied for their own benefit.

> The issue is both the US and China view the EU as a regional power that can be pushed around - not as an entity that can retain strategic autonomy. > [...] neither the US nor China view the EU as an equal, but rather, as a junior partner.

There's no disagreement from me there, and I don't think I claimed that. Europe trying to improve relations with China would be with cap in hand.

> [...] the issue is Europeans view themselves as deserving of being on the same table as the Americans and Chinese. Neither the Americans or Chinese see it that way now.

Certainly many (not all) Europeans have been arrogant and babied with blinders on, and pretended not to have been glorified vassal states to the US via Pax Americana. I think that view is quickly changing. What irks me the most is that I still hear people talk about kicking out the US from NATO, not understanding that without the US, there is no NATO.

What "prized industries" are still there other than automakers? They're already boned, they just haven't accepted it.

China now leads the world on R&D and hard science, and is already making strides in chip design and chip making. How far off do you think a Chinese ASML is? Two decades at most? Or more like one?

And what would be the solution? I think we've all learned that protectionism doesn't work.

Well then us Europeans are fucked regardless I guess.

> Beijing did not want to see a Russian loss in Ukraine because it feared the United States would then shift its whole focus to Beijing

How does this statement make sense though? I don't see the A -> B. The US pretty clearly does not want to see a Russian loss either, and seems more fine with Ukraine losing.

It should depends on how much the US wants Europe?

If the US does not want more of Europe, and Russia wins, the US could let Russia take over Europe -> focus shifts to China.

If the US wants more of Europe, and Russia wins -> focus would be off China.

If the US does not want more of Europe, and Russia loses -> it's mostly whatever, but perhaps focus shifts to China.

If the US wants more of Europe, and Russia loses -> focus would be off China.

Perhaps I'm just really daft.

In a "might makes right" world, Europe clearly needs more might, and then it makes sense to improve relations with China; not a lot of options.

This comes off like "I never understood why not everyone still uses landlines".