[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

But it isn’t a thing. These valuations are not based on reality anyway. It’s not about cash, it’s about power. Cash is fungible with power but it’s not exactly synonymous.

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What the constitution has to say about will affect the formalities but at the end of the day this is a political question rather than a legal one.

If the USA wants to take Greenland, Denmark and Europe won’t actually be able to stop them which means a political settlement that gives it away.

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

AI generated legislation gets upheld in court

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

never logging off and posting at all hours of the day and night is an opsec strategy to hide your timezone

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago

Too bad the tribute got denied health care or else it wouldn’t be so fucking sick.

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago

Send the princes.

What’s the point of having princes if you don’t send them to conquer the holy land.

If you’re gonna crusade fucking crusade and send the princes.

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago

Russian air defenses shot down five of the missiles and another was damaged. Fragments from the damaged missile fell on the territory of a military facility, causing a fire that has since been extinguished. There were no casualties or damage.

It sounds like they actually did shoot down all of them but one crash landed instead of exploding

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/19/europe/ukraine-russia-atacms-biden-strike-intl/index.html

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

The Gauls are not paying tribute which undermines our ability to defend the Gauls from our legions.

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A side effect of the Varoufakis idea that we are in fact ceasing to be public governments, replacing the actual functions of government with private corporations and vesting actual power in corporate offices, a side effect of that means government is less coordinated and effort is duplicated.

Instead of NASA plowing billions into the Saturn rocket program, now SpaceX and whatever Bezos’ space company is called and Boeing are all duplicating effort.

Which runs counter to the consolidation argument. Like, I think both arguments are true to different extents. Part of the problem is of course consolidation and the direction of effort to extracting rents rather than competing absolutely that’s a huge possibly even bigger part of it. An economy that’s being strangled by all these rents being collected by monopolists and the highest achieving maths whizzes going into finance and tech instead of science. 100% true.

But another part is ironically the decentralization of research effort as it is privatized.

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago

So these days $60bn only buys you 6 F16s and a 1000km2 push into farmland. Inflation really bites hard.

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago
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