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Wine to run Office on Linux?

We already live in a Plutonomy. Already 50% of sales in USA is by the top 10%. The top 1% make most of their money selling to the top 10%. The Elites don't need us for consumption to make money. Walmart is reconfiguring their sales model to carry more "luxury” items. And now with AI the Wealthy wont need human labor hardly at all. We are surplus to requirements.

The sad thing is it doesn't have to be like this. AI could be used to reduce peoples working hours and give them more leisure hours.

There's a theory BigTech hired to hoard talent to inhibit competitiveness of rival companies.

Yes! Western states had to ensure that life was better in a Capitalist country. Hence unions were tolerated, along with human rights, rule of law, anti corruption etc etc.

Dont forget those private prisons need customers.

Its a Reichstag fire/Horst Wessel moment all rolled into one. Right out of the play book.

>China is heavily reliant on coal.

Agreed they are. But they want to move away from it, especially for air quality reasons. They've had a huge problem with air pollution. They are big into EVs. This means less reliance on foreign oil and cleaner air.

The Chinese are going all in on electric to get away from oil and gas for geostrategic reasons.

Meanwhile team tRump are all in on oil and gas because non carbon is for libtards.

A classic case of applying the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law.

The number of human beings in the West who can discern the difference and use wisdom and intelligence appears to be declining.

Everything is now either black or white.

What does that tell you about Anglo Western Culture?

Why? Because i don't swallow neocon propaganda?

I used to be just like u. I was outraged when Putin took Crimea in 2014. I watched the Maidan protests live. Then I dove into the history of Ukraine. And i began to learn things the news media doesn't tell you. I began, GASP, to change my mind.

People ALWAYS resort to insults when you say the war is lost for Ukraine. Even if i was to be wrong why always the insults. Cant people disagree without resorting to insults?

>Ukrainian war could be ended anytime

Yes! In March 2022! Who wanted to keep it going? Who went to Ukraine on behalf of USA to scuttle peace talks? Boris Johnson.

USA wanted this war. Putin's mistake was taking the bait.

To wear down Russia to manageable size: get the Ukrainians to pay in blood and the EU to pay for the bombs. Bonus: Germany crippled because cut off cheap gas supplies, and prevents Russia Germany alliance turning into rival superpower to USA. Another bonus is EU crippled with war debt.

This war is about geopolitics. Not morals or ethics. The USA wanted this war to wear down Russian power. Putin took the bait.

Who scuttled the early attempt at a peace deal? Boris Johnson, on behalf of USA. Because the USA wanted this war.

But now Russia and China are allies. That's a bad geopolitical outcome for USA.

I wonder if its just tRump is more blatantly obvious about flexing American power?

What i mean is America has always done what it wants, its just that before tRump they tried to cloak it to maintain the illusion they were "the good guys".

Trump in 2020 was such a shitty candidate that he should've been easily trounced.

So anything a lot kess than that looks to me like ”barely". Perhaps im too harsh?

I get why Michelle Obama wont run but i think she would've trounced trump in 2020 or 2024.

The democrats need to field a candidate that has her kind of appeal to beat trump.

Really?. I argue that if the Democrats could've fielded a candidate voters felt good about voting for, it would've been no contest.

What is wrong with my logic?

It sounds like ur logic is: if u don't want trump then u have to vote for the (shitty) democrat candidate.

My point of view is based on those who DIDN'T vote at all, not people who voted for trump because they didn't like harris.

Oh wait, its entirely their (non voters) fault trump won, is what u would argue, correct?

So the democrats have no responsibility to field a candidate worthy of a vote except their not trump or Republican?

Hah! Try living in Scotland. Its gets dark before 5pm and stays dark until about 8:45am in the winter. So you never see daylight on weekdays.

If you look at a map of Europe, Toronto's latitude is similar to Milan's. So most of Europe has more darkness in winter than Toronto.

I would argue the darkness in winter in Toronto is pretty average compared to most places in "the West". Its the winters that are nasty, although by Canadian standards not too bad. That tells you a lot of about Canada regarding winter weather.

a.k.a. brown snow. And yes it is truly awful.

≥The Democrats did not compel them to vote for Trump.

Perhaps i didn't make my point clear. Indeed ur statement is true. I was referring to those who hated Trump but also hated Harris and so DIDNT VOTE. My point being that if the Democrats had fielded a compelling candidate many of those who didn't vote may have voted for them. Enough to win. The Democrats learned nothing when they fielded Hilary Clinton and lost. Joe Biden barely won. And only because they were sick of Trump and also how he handled Covid. Also don't forget the Democrats tried to run with Joe for a second term when he was clearly unfit. Huge turn off.

So yes, my argument is the Democrat Party is partly at fault for Trump 2.0. They did not field a worthy candidate.

"Vote Blue no matter who" is a failed strategy. And rightly so.

Harris was a terrible candidate. And not chosen by the delegates. The Democrats have to take some of the blame for Trump 2.0, surely?

Trump was a terrible candidate and could've been beaten if a good candidate running against him.

The goal of this administration is a low $US.

I imagine to make American exports cheaper.

It will take years to make America an exporting nation. In the meantime many many businesses will go bankrupt. This administration doesn't care as they just see it as a cost of fulfilling their longer term plan to make America an exporting nation.

Wont Trump just bully the Republican members of Congress to make the tariffs legal?

It didn't work in Canada. The criminals still have guns. Mind you when you share a large border with a nation that has lots of guns how effective could it possibly be? I'm not blaming the USA, I'm blaming the Canadian politicians for failing to take this into account.

Lead poisoning from gasoline near freeways and then crack cocaine played roles in boosting the crime rates too.

Canada has been absolutely ruined by these elites following the path of immigration. Canada is the perfect case study. Not just in immigration but foreign investment too where you allow all the investment to pour into just one sector: housing.

Canada has been so badly managed that it gives the Soviets et al a run for their money in stupidity, short-sightedness and greed.

Also, Canada is not as big a country as it appears on a map. A good deal of it is uninhabitable.

Even though we know its coming, when it does come, the suddenness of it will still take many of us by surprise, despite all the warnings.

Maybe with cost savings from autonomous buses they could allocate resources to dedicated human driven buses for disabled persons?

I think its pretty clear why he was released.

Distributed ledger/blockchain is an interesting idea but far too energy intensive to be of practical use.

And then theres the whole concept of what currency actually is.

Yes, totally agree. LLMs are largely pattern recognition. They cant reason.

>financing/services dominant economies

But these said economies all seem to just focus on asset-buying. Hence the massive house inflation. They don't make anything. No production, only asset-accumulation. Building a Feudal Economy.