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If the US suffers severely the rest of the world will collapse. There's no scenario in which that doesn't happen. Everything is interdepedant and many non US countries (like Europe, Japan, China) depend heavily on the US.

The point is is that it just doesn’t matter anymore. Neither party is going to stop it. No matter who is in power It’s going to end badly.

Well all the other administrations were driving 200 or 300 miles over, now we are driving 500 over. It doesn't matter really, if we hit anything (like Japan dumping US treasuries) we may be dead.

The democrats thing was what I had originally replied to. My whole point is that it really doesn't matter who is in the White House really, both sides seem determined to rack up as much debt as possible and it'll probably spiral out of control.

Neither side wants to cut costs (not really), in fact many want to spend more.

There is no practical difference. Both parties are glad to drive the car off a cliff

What's the difference? Everyone involved has been completely reckless with the debt. You think a democrat will somehow stop spending? Both parties are super happy to drive the car off the cliff

I'm going to be downvoted to oblivion I'm sure but... I guess Musk was right when he said they didn't have the money

The whole world is insolvent

I think that’s true for genius is in general. I don’t mean the Einstein type but I mean the child prodigies that graduate high school at 10 years old or whatever I mean if you can read something once and remember virtually everything about it that’s a gigantic leg up on everyone else who has to study drill the stuff into your head, etc.

Even in a debate, if somebody just has the ability to remember tons of facts and figures, the other person will seem unintelligent by comparison, even if the other person is correct

Not profit then at all is it? As I said

It's talking about revenue not profit

Yeah I talk to grok in the car and ill ask it about a topic and it's like it's being short with me, I thought it was upset lol. The old version was a bit too wordy but this is too short now

That's a really bad attitude. "You should work on the thing you dont like instead of the one you like because it might not be successful"

Incredible if a 14 year old did this, the ven with AI

I'm surprised that the solution wasn't to poison the data so they will train on junk data

I've been on the platform for 15 years, I use it for hours everyday and have never once seen CSAM. Idk what type of people you are following or looking up but I dont think your statement is true for many users (if any)

Agree totally. X is pretty open. I like reading the stories her more but it's an extreme group think of only one position

Built an awesome 450k line app with composer 2.5 and grok 4.5. I love it

What a silly statement to make. They'll just be replaced with AI. This is literally the plot of the Terminator

This is far less so in this case because this is thier hot path. Everything runs through it and tens of billions in revenue depends on it. It needs to be as fast and solid as possible

The pictures. They told a thousand words. I loved those times. Made me think about what the artist was thinking. 90s had some great CD and cassette booklets

The fact that the US is more socialist than capitalist. He’s mostly nitpicking about federal vs state dollars (which he’s wrong about as well)

There’s some truth to this but this is true for all governments. They all get bloated, and it ends up being cronyism to some degree

The vast majority of you money goes to the federal level. You are here nitpicking and not dealing with any of the real issue. You are dancing around it for the sake of semantics rather than dealing with the actual issue.

True, but again, if people were free to compete why would the hospital go with a 13k option. If people had any choice in the matter, which many times they don't due to regulations, then they would pick a cheaper option.

First of all I didn't complain. I don't care what happens personally. Secondly it's just a fact that the US has a tremendous amount of regulations compared to the past. Just look at how few regulations existed in the 70s vs today. Apparently you don't like word counts, but the reality is there are a enormous amount today that didn't exist in the past.

That's not a free market economy.

"it doesn't seem like America has anywhere near enough regulations to be considered true capitalism."

You can't regulate your way into capitalism because capitalism by definition means markets free from government interference. The more it interferes the less capitalism you have.

United Healthcare is a great example. The governments enforce these companies being a monopoly be restricting which companies can operate in which states, having an enormous amount of red tape and regulation, documentation laws, etc.

If it was truly "capitalism" the government wouldn't' get involved at all. Part of the reason that doctors are so expensive to see is because there is a board that the US Government certifies to allow them to control which hospitals are allowed to be teaching hospitals for doctors.

If it was true capitalism there would be no regulation there and any college could graduate doctors. This artificially keeps the supply lower than it would be. These are facts.

"since so much of it (and so much of its growth) is for the military"

So clearly you are pretty uninformed as the military spending is only 13% of the federal budget. Social Security (AKA a socialist program, IDK if anyone can deny that) is 22%, Medicare (another socialist program is 14.2%). Interest on our prior spending (a lot of it from SS and Medicare, etc, some military too. is 14%

So, if you add social programs you has (SS = 22.5%, Medicare = 14.2%, not counting education) that is 36% of the budget or nearly 3x miltitary spending.

A capitalist economy would NOT have those things are as they are not free market at all, they are the government forcing your to pay into them.

They said we live under true capitalism right now we I’m clearly showing we do not. Not to mentions the US is far from “self regulating” there are millions of words of regulation in the US.

The United States is far more socialist than capitalist and it’s not close. In the early 1900s the federal tax rate was 0. Now we spend 125% of what we bring in in taxes. That is definitely not capitalism. That’s not a free market, that is the government spending far beyond what’s even feasible

Again, as I keep explaining, if companies were free to compete then even 911 is not going to redirect you to a 13k ambulance service. Why would they unless they are getting payoffs. It doesn't cost anywhere near that to transport you.

The EU can technically do it but they won’t. Starlink dwarfs all the services you mentioned. The EU doesn’t even believe in air conditioning much less making a robust satellite network