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Post by perihelions »

Muromec wrote: post #208
heurist wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't that anti-corruption agency end up being corrupt too? Hard to follow all this stuff.

Nah, they are fine. They ate head of presidents office alive last week. Add: it's also not one anticorruption agency, but the whole bunch of them -- law enforcement one (think of FBI, but investigating corruption in government), special prosecutors office, another agency monitoring assets of anyone close enough to government (including immigration officers on a country level) and their family and a whole separate cou…

> "Nah, they are fine. They ate head of presidents office alive last week."

That's the same guy who tried to take over that anti-corruption office. He would be controlling it now, if it weren't for the massive country-wide protests about it. I'm not sure that they're doing fine.

Economist, July 2025:

> "On July 22nd the Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed a bill that would place the country’s two main anti-corruption bodies—NABU, which investigates wrongdoing, and SAPO, which prosecutes it—under the control of the presidency. This was not the work of rogue MPs. It was orchestrated from the top by President Volodymyr Zelensky and his all-powerful chief of staff, Andriy Yermak."

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/23/volodymyr-zelen... ( https://archive.is/kYh4w )

BBC, last week: "...was forced to U-turn after mass demonstrations",

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0nljm4y74o ("Andriy Yermak: How Zelensky's right-hand man fell from power" / "Fall of Zelensky's top aide - reboot for Kyiv or costly shake-up?")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_anti-corruption_protests_...

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Post by TiredOfLife »

dboreham wrote: post #280
mike_h wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He’s the largest individual donor to the IDF.

Wait...individuals can donate to a country's army?

There is a huge war in europe (largest since WW2) and both sides rely on donations from individuals

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

renegade-otter wrote: post #305
digitaltrees wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the fact that this is credible should scare every entrepreneur. If you cant compete on an even playing field because some people have direct government involvement in tipping the scales we are neither a free market economy nor a democracy.

Americans do not like when someone uses the words "fascism" and "oligarchy". It's jarring to think that is even possible in the United States but a) we are here and b) the two have traditionally gone hand-in-hand.

The Americans that react most extremely to those words are generally those that don't realize it's actually what they want.

They just know the words as derogatory, without realizing that they represent the world as they think they'd like it to be.

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Post by digitaltrees »

clydethefrog wrote: post #315
digitaltrees wrote: post #296

When did silicon valley shift from "making the world a better place through disintermediation of relational data structures" to "own the means of production, control all government and bring back public hanging for masculine leadership"? Are they immature enough to think that people will just accept this without pushback? This is not the SV I believed in, and it won't end well for anyone.

As an outside observer, hasn't Thiel's Zero to One has been treated like a gospel basically since it's publication in 2012? Aiming for monopolies and total control has been part of the strategy for a decade now.

No. Lots of us founders recognize that ecosystems create wealth and opportunity. Monopoly destroys it.

It works for one person on the short term but erodes society and all future opportunity.

Ecosystems are what built SV dispute a few selfish monopolistic pricks.

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Post by digitaltrees »

cyclecount wrote: post #314
digitaltrees wrote: post #296

When did silicon valley shift from "making the world a better place through disintermediation of relational data structures" to "own the means of production, control all government and bring back public hanging for masculine leadership"? Are they immature enough to think that people will just accept this without pushback? This is not the SV I believed in, and it won't end well for anyone.

Probably sometime around the early 1800s Malcolm Harris wrote a book “Palo Alto” about how this culture took root in SV long before it was called Silicon Valley: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10/palo-alto-book...

I don’t agree with this at all when you look at how much founder reinvestment in other younger founders has driven the ecosystem over generations.

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #250
1970-01-01 wrote: post #225

All I can say is welcome back to torrenting. This perpetual "same shit deal for consumers, different corporation" problem doesn't end until copyright kicks the media into public domain. Until then, you can play their content reindeer games[1] or you can download a copy of Reindeer Games[2] and watch it without worrying about ownership foofaraw. [1] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/reindeer-games [2] predb.me

I don't even care anymore. There have been so few TV shows or movies that I've wanted to watch in the past decade. Books, podcasts, YouTube, music, and older movies for me. I got sick of the Marvel movies somewhere around the first Avengers movie. I don't think anything currently on TV interests me other than Bob's Burgers

+1 for Bob's Burgers. Great show, been great for a long run.

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #76
ngcazz wrote: post #41

No matter who wins, we lose.

I have seen several aspects of entertainment in my life get squeezed for money (Magic The Gathering, movies, TV streaming, video games) and I have decided to basically quit any form of entertainment which is solely controlled by large corporations. People get extremely angry when Magic The Gathering charges more money, for more exclusive products, in more frequently occurring releases. Rage, grief, and sorrow over an…

The great thing about games that are 10+ years old is that they're cheap, you can filter out all but the best rated, and the hardware to run them won't require mortgaging your first born.

I'm building a Steam library for my retirement.

I quit gaming when I had kids, and currently play tennis and do inline skating as my regular active hobbies (which, I believe, count as touching grass), with gaming as my injury / infirmity backup.

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