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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Damn right. And the solution isn’t to substitute another unreliable trading partner like China. By all means, make deals that make sense, and I think for the most part China will keep them, until they don’t. They will always look to gain an advantage and wield the hammer when it suits them, including hostage diplomacy. I have more confidence in Europe, Indo-Pacific, and expanding new markets in Africa and South America.

    But strengthening self-reliance and removing internal barriers can only pay dividends. And working with reliable partners that keep their agreements is the only way forward. The only thing that has long term value in trade is trust.












  • If somebody with too much money pays more for a speeding ticket in Sweden, everyone here would be getting justice boners.

    Maybe one person paying more means another person gets to afford it because the average price is the same or higher for the company to be happy with increased profits overall. Yah, yah, companies are never happy… but overall, if line goes up, there might be something to be said for those that can pay bearing the brunt of the profit motive.







  • Because that’s the only way that information gets accessed, right? Jesus, Flock has sales reps and the BD vice president accessing school gymnasium cameras in some US town.

    Not to mention companies the size of Equifax get popped constantly, and with LLMs like gpt5.4 building zero days like it’s a todo app, I don’t think it’s hard to find reasons to just not have something we don’t need anyway.

    I always think about the cartoon where they’re about to wrap some shitty legislation at the store for a gift, and the two wrapping papers are “Think of the children” and “law and order”.