The point is to give Russia the advantage and turn the countries of Europe all into vazal states to rule over them like an emperor. EU really doesn’t like that plan of course.

It used to be a bully you could reason and work with, and that at least understood give and take. Now it’s just a drunk bully, starting fights for whatever.

Big pal Putin didn’t hesitate to use gas and oil as a weapon. Trump tries to do the same with trade and the dollar. Run away fast is the only answer.

China goes wolf warrior diplomacy from time so that’s a given. It’s what made many countries to make sure to not fully commit to trade with China.

Much greater models

It’s Musk, so the new model is simply “the more money you have, the more you receive”

Technically they can be replicated, but the network effect and their current economies of scale are harder.

Certain military hardware doesn’t have an equal. And a number of digital services.

Notice how those French places are not a total ruin.

And it’ll be used to suppress wages, because “you’re not making new stuff, just fixing some problems in existing code.” That you have to rewrite most of it is conveniently not counted.

That’s at least what was tried with movie writers.

So that makes him a classic useful idiot.

Measure once, pay twice?

Lactose for me. No more cheese or ice cream or it’s also back to 6/day. Luckily there is medicine for the occasional treat.

Then twins walk into the airport and the system crashes.

And facial recognition has been known to fail with very dark skin so that’ll turn into a racial issue real quick.

Amazon of the “just walk out” shops powered by AI, that turned out to be s lot of Indian workers in the background.

¨Sir, you are scaring the banks, and if banks get scared they kill presidents. They hire professionals, not some kid on a roof.¨

¨Oh¨

Popular media doesn’t really investigate other ways of organizing society. It’s always the standard job, shop and money with only rare exceptions. It just swaps dollars with credits, uses hovercars instead of normal cars and calls it a day. Hell, they were shoveling coal into a reactor in Rebel Moon to power their space ship. I don’t expect that much from entertainment and can live with the black mirror doom porn. Maybe I give writing my own stuff another try, but I’m not a good writer.

Honestly I’m with black mirror. These days when a new tech appears, the mind immediately wonders how this will be abused it obstructed by other parties. That’s not the show’s fault but of what keeps happening in real life.

Black Mirrors shows the future, extrapolated from current systems and events. It’s not about new paradigms that might be possible.

Unless USA does become a hereditary monarchy and the whole circus continues with Queen Ivanka.