@brotherpsyche @MarkHoltom It's by design. As long as the education sector teaches Americans the worldview that the most important thing is to believe that money is god, and the second most important thing is to be a consumer, then capitalism will thrive.

#capitalism

@thenewoil Take UK for example, our telecommunications infrastructure is fully dependent on the Chinese firm Huawei. When you own, build and maintain the infrastructure, hacking it is not necessary, you're already in as soon as that infrastructure is deployed.

Something which #uk #gchq has gone on and on about, to no known resolution.

@aburtch In USAID target countries, whole populations of entire countries see USAID as evil. USAID isn't US aid. USAID is a tool of the CIA and US state department for pushing propaganda and forcing regime change operations in foreign countries. As a tool of soft power it hasn't been dismantled at all, just sharpened and made considerably more opaque.

@trs But... if someone wanted in they'd just cut the wire at the bottom with wire cutters and get in anyway. Nobody needs to go over the top.

And the razor wire will have the opposite of the intended effect, it draws attention to itself and makes it look like there's something worth protecting on the other side, which in turn will make it a magnet for thieves and others wanting in.

So, those most likely to get disfigured from its facial height placement aren't thiefs but regular passersby.

@augieray Yes. Listen to AOC in Munich. Then listen to Rubio in Munich. They are saying exactly the same thing. All they do, all they ever do, is spin the narrative differently to their audience, but then do the same. Continuity of agenda.

As for ICE, more migrants were deported under Obama than Trump. Trump's audience responds better to theatre so that's what is provided, Obama's audience wanted this muted so it was. But it's the same thing happening regardless, irrespective of the framing.

@nixCraft Exactly. It's become a mainstream way to scam people or make money from nothing.

Influencer Hype is a marketing strategy for a useless (or easily inflated) product, to create demand where ordinarily there wouldn't be any, so the influencer (and sponsor) can personally profit. It works so well because most consumers are really really dumb. Everyone else who buys at the hyped up price will make a loss, whilst the influencer and sponsor makes a tidy profit for exploiting their audience.

@augieray America would have the same policies no matter who got in. Politicians serve their donors, that's not the American people, it's corporations, special interest groups and the rich, it's a democracy for them not you and theirs is the only "vote" that matters which has any real bearing on government policy

Americans are so focused on the fake left vs. right divide, they fail to notice who is pulling the strings, or why no party delivers for the people or why things get worse year on year

@ErikJonker @geopolitics #Iran has Russia and China in their back pocket. This is America's entry to WW3 (for Israel.)

Take a look at military industrial output of the relevant countries to see the American muscle is theatre, it's a paper tiger. America couldn't even sustain the Ukraine war effort, now it thinks it can sustain WW3 ?!

The "no war" president is going to war for no other reason than to please his funders, namely Miriam Adelson 🤑

@mappingsupport And besides location, pay attention to the geography of #iran and terrain. No way, America (going to war for Israel) will get a short war out of this... #ww3

@otiswhite It's far more fun putting in the effort to complete the climb then reaping the reward of the downhill that follows.

Publicly marketing #ebikes for the elderly and frail and unfit (which they are perfectly designed to help) would go a long way to put a psychological block on teenagers wanting one...

Which in turn saves lives and prevents teenagers behaving like idiots on the roads. No teenager exists that wants toys which seen by everyone as being for grandmas.

#cycling #biketooter

@marijn To be fair, China woke up to this issue long before #eu and has been trying to move away from US tech into #opensource

As a result, US decided to pump everything it has into AI and LLMs - which are themselves an attack on open source

The real target of that attack is every country who tries to move away from US tech and use open source software or develop their own #digitalsovereignty. - It's the digital version of America's Wolfawitz Doctrine, not allowing any competitors to emerge!

@mullvadnet To be fair, Whistleblowers should be using a more secure setup than just a VPN.

@seven_708 Ask any road cyclist would they quit cycling because there's cars on the road... The answer is of course No.

People who don't cycle believe fear mongering propaganda about cycling. "Cycling is dangerous because of cars" could literally be a marketing slogan for oil companies, they perpetuate and fund the propaganda, get to make a tidy profit and keep as many people as possible driving cars. Those that believe the propaganda then perpetuate the problem by sticking to cars themselves 🤑

@robpumphrey Invariably drivers that can't drive straight are either using a mobile phone when driving, or the driver is impaired through alcohol or drugs.

He doesn't need to pull out to the right to pass a cyclist who in a separate cycle lane. He doesn't need to drift into the cycle lane either.

@anon_opin Britain was best at building road and rail throughout the British Empire, they did it to benefit the British Empire.

Britain then collapsed it's own Empire and built the Anglo-American Establishment or "Empire", and now our roads and rail are as bad as Americas.

The best road builders of all time though has to be the Romans, who using ancient technology, managed to build roads, that have lasted thousands of years, and that we still use today.

@anon_opin To be fair, this should be classed as admirable, to some extent, because the majority of politicians have no reverse gear at all. They double down on mistakes and won't correct mistakes or admit if they were wrong.

But, do it too often and it begins to look weak and like the politician is a clueless baboon with no teeth.

@Devorppa To be fair, if you were killed in a stabbing we don't say the knife killed you, we say person X killed you.

If a piano falls out of a top story window and kills you, we don't say the piano killed you, we say the person in apartment X killed you.

So, if you're killed by falling space junk we shouldn't say a Starlink satellite killed you, we should say Musk killed you.

Killing someone through negligence in law is manslaughter. The law never blames the tool, it always blame the person.

@tusharhero @FredPraca And Termux also has an Emacs package for use on Android.

@simontatham It is better seen as personal growth than something "annoying"...

@anon_opin Capitalism will always mean companies/industry relocates for cheaper labour and less regulations. Whatever country they migrate to then gains power and wealth. Eventually that country dominates the world.

The US rust belt exists for exactly this reason, its industry moved to China, that built China up and now China rivals US power.

For Silicon Valley specifically, the whole point of Trump-Gaza is for Silicon Valley and Tech Bros to migrate to, so Israel takes over America's status.