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14·6 hours agoIt’s exactly a Trump negotiation tactic. Just state your wishlist as fact, let the other side sputter and deny, then call them names and walk all over them while they look weak and unreliable. Iran watched and learned.
14·12 hours agoWould be funny if the EU’s digital service act applies and basically says “you scan everything, you’re liable for everything”
They were warned. It is the classic disruption model that played out repeatedly over the last century, with Kodak as the often cited example. But innovation gets in the way of short term profit and The Way We Do Things.
“You’re not even the first one to say this today! Why don’t you say something I don’t hear every day, like thank you!” (source)
Infrastructure repair around the gulf, hundred billion range, more if bombing continues.
A few trillion in economic damages around the world probably.
Reputational damages to the USA resulting in less trade, borrowing costs, etc. is up to a trillion per year in the coming years.
The cost is estimated to be 500 mil per day with $31 billion spent on the five weeks of bombing seen so far.
That’s quite the global vote of non confidence.
Making sure there is still something in the vault after every other country pulled back their gold out of the USA.
Soon you get free food when you pay for a delivery
It’s the advertisers they’re worried about.
“Candidate believed to be unable to conform to company standards. Suggest to look for candidates with more ability for casual sales and representing harsh facts in a positive way.”
EU government system moving to the digital Euro. Banks saw that this would cut them out of the picture for a large part and were suddenly really engaged with setting up an EU based system of their own to beat the digital euro timeline.
First everybody needs to get their gold out of the USA, switch over all critical infrastructure and payment to home brew solutions and sell USA treasuries. Then the sanctions can start. But switching away from USA infrastructure in already a form of sanction.
More right wing architecture
It’s to convince others to pay Altman’s bills.
Don’t breathe the air. Trees jizz in it. That’s what pollen is after all.
4·7 days agoIt’s already happening, but it’s in usually a slow disentangling of payment systems, software, tech, … Just cut and run would be very damaging. And like many things in politics it’s often two steps forward one step back.
2·7 days agoThe Epstein class owns the lawmakers.
Trump’s advisers look like that lady with everything going into the square hole.