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mapt wrote: post #333
twixfel wrote: post #329

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We ought to avoid repeating your mistakes, no? Maybe unlimited campaign donations and so on, all this wonderful "American free speech (money = speech)" is a fundamentally bad idea. Worked exceedingly well for ~225 years, now it has lead to the implosion of the empire by electing a sociopathic retard to the presidency. Yes to free speech, no to whatever fucked up shit the US, its billionaire "libertarians" and Christi…

The American political system didn't implode until its system of capitalism had the conditions necessary to escape its popular control. That wasn't necessarily an eventuality. We had a semi-functional campaign finance system in living memory. Without the protections the Americans tried to shove into the First Amendment (which did not include anything about corporations at the time, as they did not exist) being enshri…

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Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by tomaskafka »

aebtebeten wrote: post #259
ta9000 wrote: post #214

Americans aren’t your enemy. We’re just as upset by these idiots running our government as you are.

> We’re just as upset by these idiots The former soviets were upset with their empire, and got rid of it themselves. Is there any reason you all would not be capable of doing what they did?

Oh no, they did not. USSR collapse was precipitated by decades of economic war, where trying to keep up with US advancements depleted more and more of russian budget, finally plunging the country into collapse deep enough for elites to accept formal change of regime (of course while ensuring they stay on top).

The actual soviet people were bystanders.

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by ChoGGi »

b40d-48b2-979e wrote: post #318
ChoGGi wrote: post #270

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How do I get to d:\apps from c:\

It depends on your shell. I think MINGW bash has `/mnt`? maybe it's just `/c`, `/d`, etc.? but for cmd, it's the command `cd D:\apps && D:` and powershell handles it gracefully with one command for drive changing `cd D:\apps`

So cd /path/to/ and cd /d c:\path\to\d:\path\?

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Post by soco »

axus wrote: post #407
soco wrote: post #281

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Isn't that highly suspicious? Or are you preparing burners with years of alternate social profiles activity? Because blatantly lying to the authorities is not something I'd take easily...

Fortunately you can still tell the US border authorities you have a new phone, without consequences.

A new phone yes all fine. But new number, new whatsapp, new signal, new facebook, new xtter, new linkedin, new instagram, new tumblr, new...?

Re: The Post-American Internet

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Post by aebtebeten »

tomaskafka wrote: post #442
aebtebeten wrote: post #259

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> We’re just as upset by these idiots The former soviets were upset with their empire, and got rid of it themselves. Is there any reason you all would not be capable of doing what they did?

Oh no, they did not. USSR collapse was precipitated by decades of economic war, where trying to keep up with US advancements depleted more and more of russian budget, finally plunging the country into collapse deep enough for elites to accept formal change of regime (of course while ensuring they stay on top). The actual soviet people were bystanders.

Unfortunately, that makes a great deal of sense to me.

This explanation kind of implies the whole planet winds up sunk into the banana republic attractor?

(might Fahd have had more to do with the final collapse than Reagan? By opening his spigots to keep the nomenklatura from earning much hard currency with their principal export, could he have pulled a classic "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" trillionaires' poker move?)

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Post by JCattheATM »

blell wrote: post #105
silvestrov wrote: post #83

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The easy part of a smartphone to create for EU is the part that is done in the US. The difficult part is the hardware. That is also why the iPhone is produced in Asia. Replacing TSMC is much more difficult than the software.

Creating good smartphone software is not easy. Only Apple has achieved it. Google is close. The rest are so far behind in the race they think they are leading.

Apple was behind Google for the longest time, lacking very basic features they didn't get until years later. Don't let the blue bubbles cult fool you.

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Post by immibis »

iamnothere wrote: post #404
mk89 wrote: post #388

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We should not mix random unknown person being bullied online with VIPs or politicians being made fun of. Even during the Roman Republic people could make fun of or heavily insult politicians, and also with ugly things that we could never say today. Even Julius Caesar was mocked heavily (the famous "every woman's man and every man's woman") ...unsurprisingly, this changed when the Republic ended and the Empire started…

Exactly, the right to mock one’s rulers should be considered fundamental in a modern society. It’s part of the price of power and an important release valve for social tensions.

In a lot of European countries you don't have the right to mock or insult anyone.

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Post by ljsprague »

zwnow wrote: post #130
ljsprague wrote: post #106

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My country (Germany) still consists out of 72.65% Germans (Wikipedia/Destatis Sept. 2025). Every other ethnic doesn't surpass 4%. Being an open and multicultural country kinda implies that other ethnics have a place here, and that's a good thing. Nationalism is the last thing my country needs.

I am flabbergasted that you can say Germany is 72% German and not see that you're being replaced. Are you not able to extrapolate a trend?

>Being an open and multicultural country

This is begging the question.

>Nationalism is the last thing my country needs.

Whatever genes made you say that are maladaptive.

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Post by ljsprague »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #136
ljsprague wrote: post #106

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They're clearly not being replaced, as a look at the numbers indicates, but what is true for most European countries is that if the low birth rates stay far below 2.1 their populations will continue to decline and their economies will shrink, if they don't manage to offset that trend with controlled yearly immigration. To clarify: Although it follows mathematically with constantly low birth rate, dying out is, of cou…

They are clearly being replaced.
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