Musk and Napoleon aren’t nowhere near close enough for comparison. Napoleon had done more good.

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I think the answer is pretty simple: immigration and the cultures and behaviour that come with impoverished people.

Bingo. I wish more people would realise this instead of calling people stupid, hillbilly, racist, ignorant etc. The problem is not immigration itself, but pitting the poor against fellow poor who happen to be of foreign origin. With austerity going on since the financial crisis, there has been little to no public investment. Housing in particular has been put under private equity and NIMBYs kicking down the property ladder making it harder for nearly everyone to put roof over their heads. The nature of employment has changed, turning from traditional manual labour to either knowledge-based or automation, which not everyone has the knack for or that less people are needed.

So, less housing and less jobs are available. This puts family in poverty. As we speak, record number of children are in poverty and emergency accommodations. Guess what effect will this experience have on these children growing up in shaping their world view…

All the more reason to use Signal.

Bear in mind that the riot in Nepal only started after the peaceful student protests was shot at by the police first. The No Kings protest hasn’t been tried to be violently quelled to warrant a public riot, yet.

I have yet to see anyone day if these SK workers were even here under false visas or something?

Umm… Trump regime already removed their hoods off about supposedly removing illegal immigrants. It is pogrom towards any foreigners.

Yeah, honestly, Trumpian fascism will only make China look good in the eyes of many. Recent surveys in Europe already showed more favourable view towards China than US as Trump regime unravels. South Korea and Europe might invest on China instead.

I have already said it months ago that China will use the Trump shenanigans as PR coup. Beijing is already offering itself as the more reliable free trade partner than the US.

I wonder what the right wing media tell voters to convince them to support rich people and their cronies. I get that Trump made people feel special during campaign, but he’s a billionaire, why would people think he’s going to help the plebs? Is scapegoating minorities been addled too much into people’s brain that they forget they don’t like rich people? If you ask a lot of ordinary people, they don’t like the rich, but somehow they see Trump as the exception.

I think the obsession with hard work only came much more recently in history. I’d say we can blame the North European Protestant work ethic for that one.

I skim read the article but I tried to look if the marriage is arranged although it did not mention it. Because I am thinking, if the man is not even attracted to the wife, why marry her? It is likely that their marriage was arranged.

Two reasons:

1. Internalised oppression. Because of European colonisation, white skin has been equated to beauty and higher status in former colonies.

2. However, even before European colonisation, fairer skin has always been seen as a status symbol. Fairer skin means someone wealthy enough not to work outside being exposed to the sun.

It is not one or the other explanation by the way, these two coalesced. But in some countries that were never colonised by Europeans, the answer for obsession with lighter skin is number 2.

Edit: I should also mention, Europeans used to be obsessed with light skin for the precise reason as number 2. European nobility powdered themselves white. The obsession with getting tanned only came much more recently, because getting tanned implies one can afford holidays and thus a sign of status symbol, at least in Europe.

Lol beat me to it!

I use DuckDuckGo. I use its AI features mainly for stock projections and to search for information on company earnings release. Because when I try to search for earnings schedule by myself, I get conflicting information. DDG AI is actually pretty useful to read troves of webpages and find the relevant information for me in that regard.

Meanwhile, Trump and co. offered asylum to white Afrikaners who aren’t even asking for one, while brown Palestinians who are being massacred are refused.

The mask is off.

Because billionaires fleeing or stop investing after taxing them is mostly a myth. Warren Buffet even argued this. And even if they are serious about fleeing, impose a capital flight tax like Norway did to deter the rich from fleeing with their wealth.

We think changes happen overnight but rise and fall of a power is typically a slowburn.

I don’t work in IT, but I do know you need creativity to work in the industry, something which the current LLM/AI doesn’t possess.

Linguists also dismiss LLMs in similar vein because LLMs can’t grasp context. It is always funny to be sarcastic and ironic on an LLM.

Soft skills and culture are what that the current iteration of LLMs lack. However, I do think there is still huge potential for AI development in dacades to come, but I want this AI bubble to burst as “in your face” to companies.

My only issue with Libre Office is that they are not available on mobile phones. I want to use spread sheets to make calculations and projections on my finances if I can’t use my computer at a given moment.

No shit. Unless the Internet becomes democratised and publicly funded like other media in other countries like the BBC or France24, social media will always be toxic. They thrive in provocations and there are studies to prove it, and social media moguls know this. Hell, there are people who make a living triggering people to gain attention and maintain engagement, which leads to advertising revenue and promotions.

As long as profit motive exists, the social media as we know it can never truly be fixed.

We are all Somalian pirates.