They’re basically Swedes under occupation by Moomin trolls

It’s a mystery to me why so many apparently serious investors are treating it like anything other than a scam.

Enter the assumption that serious investors basically consider the entire bubble/market a scam, and it becomes less of a mystery.

Reminder that, when I say that I’m technically not fucking any supermodels right now, it doesn’t imply that I actually am.

This gets glossed over too often, the US lacks any credibility, across the board. They’ve skipped right past the marrying your horse phase of civic collapse.

It’s plain as day and nobody gives a shit. Stunning.

To my mind, Russia is just ahead of the curve — it’s a country that underwent wholesale collapse in the 90’s and was ultimately stabilized by Putin and his oligarchs molding the ruins of the Soviet empire to their benefit.

Now the US is teetering on collapse as well, with dollar hegemony drawing to an end and global financial markets in some kind of a hissy fit to reshuffle wealth before the music stops for the AI bubble (and ultimately the real economy crumbling from climate destabilization).

Elon Musk soon becoming a trillionaire is the fourth horseman of the capitalist apocalypse. I have very little faith in the reasoning of anybody who cannot see that a failed car salesman and notorious lunatic being the richest person in the world – by a wide margin – is a sign of an economic system that is profoundly unwell.

Sadly, I think Trump and Putin may be previews for what’s to come when the oligarchs of world use the chaos to impose a new economic order, based on AI surveillance and severe policing of those not ”loyal” to the nebulous interests of the government(s). To my mind, it’s unlikely to be harmonious or pleasant to those in the ever expanding, bottom rung of societies like that.

I mean, they kinda already did a decade ago.

Some people have multiple personalities, debilitating gambling compulsions or think that the third Godfather movie was the best in the series. We draw different lines for what is crazy all the time.

Going deep in debt to, willfully, be in an exploitative relationship with a predatory mega corporation that regurgitates your childhood memories over and over, strikes me as clinically bat shit.

Disney adults don’t even have to leave the house to fully commune with their favorite corporation in the flesh because they can live full-time in a branded city. For a million dollars or two, you can buy a sprawling house at Cotino, a 618-acre gated community in Rancho Mirage, California — the first in Disney’s Storyliving venture, which is developing master-planned suburban developments throughout the United States.

But yeah, different strokes, I guess.

krasnov only gets you basic access. For admin privileges you need to sign in with putin.

Thanks!

So “apt-dist-upgrade” then? Sorry if obtuse.

Super hot take time: giving the bull a chance to go out swining isn’t that much worse than having it put down ”humanely” in a factory, spending it’s last time in a line that reeks of blood.

The real crime is against entertainment. Who am I supposed do be rooting for here? Apparently not the underdog that’s outnumbered and surrounded by a bunch of dirty spaniards with swords and near zero chance of winning.

Who watches this? Seriously!

Not sure if it will make a difference to you if I say that I’m not from USA.

Yes, in the sense that I find it mindboggling that anyone outside the US would be impressed with Trump’s domestic opposition.

Dude, your governement is verbatim (!) talking about killing whole civilzations.

The ratio of Americans that would take the risk of imporisonment or individual harm VS Americans that will risk their lives and die for killing babies (for no apparent reason) basically remains 0 : ∞.

It’s the most armed and violent country in the civilzed world and still it remains perfectly safe to be an operative of the fucking apocalypse.

What recent months have thaught us is that there are only two types of Americans: those that will actively fuck over the world and those that will them.

Trump cannot be undone by Americans, because they all either actively or passively support and enable him. The only possible solution is foreign intervention. Since European leaders are just as useless as the Americans and the Chinese have their own insane imperialist ambitions, I guess we’re all shit out of luck.

Yeah, but the “human shield” thing is still trying to spin it though, no? At most, Pete Hegseth would dismiss any questions of civilian deaths as “woke media shit”.

I’m open to the argument that there are many precedents for the US going into many illegal wars of aggression, but it’s a wild take to not recognize that the American rhetoric has… taken a bit of a turn lately.

The difference being that, in the past, they would at least try to dress civilian deaths up as a regretable necessity or the fault of evil individuals gone rogue. Now they’re cause for celebratory emojis and American flags in the team’s Signal chat.

I would have been in the market for one, but they were already a terrible value proposition.

Meanwhile, Mac Mini prices have held stable at an already good price/performance ratio…

Finally, I see this referenced in the wild