Oh it’s very much that. Every single study that’s come out on companies adopting AI shows that it makes no meaningful difference to productivity. So, it’s very clearly just an excuse to do layoffs.

even a broken clock is right twice a day

It’s not going to happen overnight, but if they continue to ignore this then people become more and more disillusioned. A lot of people already have lost faith in mainstream outlets, so there could just be a collapse in public trust. And there’s a greater context for this too because the standard of living is collapsing at the same time. So, people see their lives get worse, they see the media talk about how great DOW is doing, and then they start connecting things and realizing they live in a house of mirrors.

I think the fact that these kinds of interviews are happening at all is significant. While they’re doing everything they can to suppress this, the public opinion is not really going along with the narrative. And that creates a dilemma for them. Either they continue to deny the genocide and continue losing credibility or they have to start discussing it however tepidly.

yeah not very subtle

That’s the single best thing about the internet in my opinion as well.

Imagine how much longer they could’ve kept the whole thing going if not for social media. If people were only exposed to the mainstream news narrative, we wouldn’t even know there was a genocide going on right now.

Oh I meant Trump is doing his best to try and alienate Europe, but Europeans cannot imagine the US abandoning them and have been willing to swallow every humiliation so far. Like you said they don’t have the balls to go their own way regardless of what Trump does.

I mean he’s doing his best, but Europeans sure can’t seem to get their collective heads out of his ass.

at some point they’re going to have to realize the US is just using them

It’s also pretty funny how what they’re upset about is the fact that DPRK has the ability to defend itself and has credible deterrent. Nowhere is it even suggested that DPRK has any desire to attack the US.

It’s already gone up over 120, and it’s only going to get worse because there’s a physical shortage now. There’s no way to make oil magically appear out of thin air. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Oil-Rallies-Toward-120-As-Middle-East-Supply-Risks-Spiral.html

I recall somebody said that Tesla is much better understood as a meme stock company, and honestly that’s the best description of it that I’ve heard. The stock value is completely divorced from the actual product, it’s just hype. And as a result the company focuses on ensuring hype persists rather than making decent products.

It’s kind of funny how China was basically preparing their whole economy for exactly this moment. Countries will want solar panels, and then they’re going to need batteries to stabilize the grid, and EVs to get around. All this overcapacity the US has been screeching about is turning out to be very prudent indeed.

indeed

The key part here is that there’s been a huge structural shock due to infrastructure getting destroyed and Hormuz being closed. This isn’t an event countries can just hunker down for a few months to ride out. So, there’s really no other choice now. Either you start building out renewables or your economy is going to unravel.

Well you can see how they’re faring from what Budanov says in the link I provided above. The fact that Ukraine has to resort to using brutal forced mobilization while Russia hasn’t is another indicator of how things are going.

right, casualties are a superset of killed and MIA, but we see that overall casualties on both sides are about even and far lower than mainstream western media pretends

Unfortunately, our glorious leaders seem to think otherwise.

nah you’re just generic fash who talks about importing people like they’re goods, the fact that you don’t even realize what a racist sack of shit you are really is a cherry on top