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Here is one source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWf98aCvkOQ

Some VCs are telling their companies to not expect to raise another round in 2022.

I sure hope I am wrong.

We only need to go back a couple of years to mid 2020 when every company was laying people off. Layoffs.fyi was tracking multiple new rounds every day. I fear what is coming is going to be that or worse.

Yeah my point is we are going into a recession and it is going to get ugly.

This is only going to get worse with deteriorating market conditions.

And their purpose is to shill some new app ('HalloApp').

Will Emerson: Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you really wanna do this with your life you have to believe you're necessary and you are. People wanna live like this in their cars and big f-in' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really f-in' fair really f-in' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Well, thats more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so f em. F normal people. You know, the funny thing is, tomorrow if all of this goes t-s up they're gonna crucify us for being too reckless but if we're wrong, and everything gets back on track? Well then, the same people are gonna laugh till they p-ss their pants cause we're gonna all look like the biggest p-ssies God ever let through the door.

Seth Bregman: Do you think we're gonna be wrong?

Will Emerson: [long pause] No, they're all f-d.

(edited for language)

That makes you better than most people TBH.

Looks uncomfortable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7kor5nHtZQ

> It’s very common to hear blood and soil rhetoric wrt black people or Native Americans, but it’s called progressive and liberal but not xenophobic for some reasons.

I believe it is called progressive and liberal because African Americans and Native Americans have historically been enslaved or (nearly) exterminated by Europeans in North America.

'chased' is putting it mildly.

In fact, they went around forcing their culture upon others. This is historically a fact. Let's see what the HN censors say.

Any country investing in another does so in their own self interest. The reasons are seldom altruistic.

In that case, investing in India might be the next best thing [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/india/japan-pm-kishida-announc...

Indians are ready to come work for you, Japan. Just say the word.

You can always move to the same level in a different company to readjust your pay.

> senior leadership disagreed and preferred to bring in talent from India and other countries because their visa status gave us considerable leverage.

Love the blatant exploitation of visa-"enslaved" labor.

Ironic that Palantir was founded by the guy who encouraged high school students to skip college [1].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/2017/03/03/peter-thiel-fellowship-c...

Elon: "Maybe the CCP should be worried. About me."

Carson Wells: "They aren't. You're not cut out for this. You're just a guy that happened to start an electric car company."

If Elon takes over, it is likely he will be back on Twitter.

A very good point and a likely scenario.

This article explains it pretty well: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-....

And those market prices will drop as rates go higher.

In that case, perhaps it is best to merge the top 5-10 tech companies into a single tech behemoth, with no potential domestic competition, making it even more formidable on the world stage.

The national security argument is a red herring. It is in the interest of monopolies to keep their monopolies going. And they have all the money and lobbyists in the world to make it happen.

"I asked for more time on a project deadline. My boss refused to give me extra time to complete the project."

> u/ExcusesRUs_BOT: NTA

If you had been given extra time, you would have had less time to complete the project and compromised the deadline.

Your boss is the asshole here.

> u/SplitTheBaby_BOT: YTA. You were given more time and you took it. You’re the only person in this situation who is a total asshole.

If you managed to complete the project on time, great! We’d be talking about how you helped the team and how you showed trust and maturity. Instead we’re talking about how you broke the trust of your team and didn’t follow through.

"If you were the president of Harvard or Stanford and you wanted to get a lynch mob of students, alumni, and faculty to come after you, what you should say is something like this: We live in this much larger, more global world. We offer this great education to everybody. So we're going to double or triple our enrollment over the next 15 to 20 years. And people would all be furious, because the value of the degree comes from massive exclusion. And what you're really running is something like a Studio 54 night club that's got an incredibly long line outside and a very small number of people let inside. It's branded as positive sum, everybody can learn, but the reality is that it is deeply zero sum." [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/peter-t...

Feel free to disagree, but I believe there is a large segment of the population, especially conservatives, who feel sidelined or silenced by Twitter.

Case in point: Musk recently polled his followers: "Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?" and 70% of respondents said "No" [1].

Also, many conservatives believe that banning Trump while allowing the representatives of various autocracies globally is hypocritical.

Of course, you can argue that Twitter is a private company and can do whatever they please. You can also argue that Trump and his followers are a danger to society, or Elon and his followers are biased. I'm just communicating a perspective I believe exists broadly.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344

Twitter still has fantastic network effects, making it difficult to supplant. If only someone, perhaps Musk, can solve the censorship problem for them.