Bobby_2021

This is harmful rhetoric. AI is putting power in the hands of people. The only way anyone make money in the free market is if they deliver value to people en masse. I do not care about some shameless billionaire adding an extra few billion into his pocket. It doesn't affect any of us except for climate change by their mammoth size emissions from private jets and yachts. Even capitalism is solving climate change by mass producing solar, wind and even nuclear infrastructure. Nobody is stopping us from solving the problems for solutions is right Infront of us. Also, they shouldn't use money & power to break or bend the laws. For e.g. stock buy backs is bad. All is well apart from that. We need to avoid such obvious breaking of rules. Apart from that all is well to be really honest. Now you can start many businesses without having a huge capital by levering the power of AI. You can start a business with 1k or 5k when that number used to be 10 times larger 20 years ago. That is only because of the tools that were produced by capitalism. You can use AI to help you assist in gathering information, doing small tasks, content writing, virtual assistant etc. You do not need to employ people to slave away in this kind of dead-end jobs. So, I am I supposed to be pissed off that the OpenAI board is getting billions from AI? I do not really care. I get more free stuff. We should be celebrating all of these. Only very tiny portion of stage orange include those "soulless corpos". That is why laws exist. If the government is not enforcing those laws, it is upon them. They shouldn't be taking bribes.

How much if this "late stage capitalism" is real? I don't see anything significant happening to capitalism as a whole and I don't see why we have to. Are we all going to shift to the Nordic model after capitalism? We would need a lot of resources for that, for which you need capitalism. The only way out of capitalism is through.

There is plenty of OpenAI's bias baked into AI long before the public can access it.

America is a work of art.

AGI isn't going to come anytime soon and I don't even see why we would need it. We could simply use Agents to do specific tasks. That's a much better case for AI. Also AI isn't going to such in real world tasks like driving cars or bees. But it's going to excel in digital work. Very interesting

Subhuman living conditions in a Russian shithole. What else is needed? It was only a matter of time.

Agreed. It was pretty dumb from Navalny to move to Russia, when he could have strategically made more of an impact if he simply didn't walk straight into them. He could have operated from outside, possibly bringing more international attention to the corruption within Russia. Afterall what do you expect from a society that was plagued by the worst ideology ever made by humans. Communism. They are suffering because of all the bullshit they have bought on themselves. You don't know the psychopathic manipulations that communists can pull off unless you have seen them directly or atleast hear it from someone who experienced it. Communism is degrading to the human soul. Which is why Russia/China simply cannot move on. Despite being a decently powerful & relatively big economy. They will crumble and they should.

They did the same to Assange and would do to Snowden of they could.

@zurew All these are massive oversimplifications of a complex geopolitical situation. It's not a country can simply "feel" threatened and use it as a justification to attack. There are serious people investing all their time and life assessing the geopolitical climate to arrive at the correct move. No country will go to war unless they are forced to. The cost of fighting a war is too damn high to do it on feelings. Your feelings are not backed by research or data, or merely supported by biased western reporting of the situation. There are plenty of people on YT giving insights into the complicated nature of the situation. I am forming my analysis only after watching all that.

Absolutely. As a leader, you should be able to make sure that the citizens of your country can sleep peacefully. I respect united states for threatening to invade Cuba when USSR tried to bring missiles in Cuba. It is giving them a strong reminder that "I do not take any shit from you, Back off". Being a leader is about having balls to say that. National security is everything. That is what Putin did. As a leader I respect his decision. Although war is despicable. The war happened because of geopolitical reasons which should be more than enough to convince America. Not because he is a war mongerer. He took a calculated decision to protect the integrity of Russia. You can criticize him for the merit of his decision. But not for the very decision itself. At least not as an American. Latvia & Estonia are surrounded by Russia on all sides and the Baltic Sea. And they are much weaker countries and there are many more geographic advantages to that favor Russia in the event of an invasion. He can invade it right now and NATO couldn't do shit. It is under their control. in other words, it is not a threat to Russia. Which further goes on to show how Russia took a calculated approach in invading Ukraine, since it was indeed a threat to Russia, even though it was not a part of NATO. But if Ukraine joins NATO, they will not remain under the Russian control like Estonia and Latvia. Written agreements are good enough to be followed as long as it suits their interest. You can always claim the agreement was not done in your favor and violate it. The fact that it is written or not doesn't hold much value. it is their intention that matters. Also, who is supposed to enforce such an agreement? If there is a written agreement between two people, then you can ask the government to enforce it? who is the enforcer here? Nobody. Governments are notorious for ditching agreements when it does not suit them, on a whim, because there is no one to stop them anyway.

Democracy is when you elect a dictator to serve 5 years until another comes up. The dude you elect does what the corporate overlords tell him to do. Basically, corporate dictatorship with extra steps. I have noticed it in India. The amount of vile corruption that were rampant a few years ago have gone and infrastructure have substantially improved. The existing corruption cases are more strictly investigated, although I wonder they will actually be convicted. But I should say it is a massive improvement compared to the shit show that happened 20 years ago. At some places the roads and parks are seemingly at western level that I wonder if I am lost in Canada or something. Electricity outages are rare and water is abundant. Not to say all is fine, but it is hard to ignore all the developments that are happening. I personally do not care about corruption as long as it does not affect the standard of the living too much. Which I why I do not think it is wise to orchestrate coups or radical acts to undo the corruption. Corruption should take itself out soon enough. But I do hope US can do something about North Korea though. Even in China, with record levels of corruption, the standard of living in some places are too damn high that they do not receive enough credit for it. But they might have to work 996. That is a serious downside. But not having democracy is self crippling in the long run no matter how good the standard of living gets.

The people of Ukraine do not want to fight and die leaving women and children at home. They are being conscripted beyond their will. Some of them are breaking their legs to not get conscripted. You are making it look like they are eager to feed themselves into the meat grinder. Let democracy prevail. If the people do not want to fight, they should not have to fight.

The "nonsense" excuse that you are talking about is the west not keeping its own word on not expanding the NATO borders which was vital to not cause needless wars. You are admitting that Putin was right in starting this war. There is no need for Putin to give a free ticket to the US to control the political landscape. There are lines that need to be drawn. Exactly my point. Those lines where the NATO borders agreed upon by the USSR. NATO clearly crossed it. The reason was clearly put on the table. To have national security for east and the west. And the west has crossed their lines by expanding beyond their border and there is no reason for Putin to sit and watch. ---- You should also consider the possibility of this kind of war strengthening Putin's stronghold on power. Dictators thrive on war and unstable political climate that can justify them holding onto power for as long as possible. Which is what Putin is doing. This war also helped Putin eliminate that Wagner group leader who were one of the strong challengers to Putin out there. So he is getting stronger and not weaker.

Democracy is necessary for doing business with tertiary level industries like tourism and IT. Not Primary and secondary level industries. There are three different types of Industries: 1) Natural resources oil, coal, agriculture etc.(primary) 2) Manufacturing goods(secondary) 3) Services. (tertiary) Do you think a stable democratically elected government will allow their underage kids to work in mines to make batteries for iPhones and Tesla superchargers for people in the west? No. That's why if your intention is to exploit cheap labor and natural resources, then it is in your best interest to have dictators that would silence these organic movements that people raise. The whole economic model of the US lies in exploiting cheap labor in undemocratic countries. There would not be any iphones or Teslas or green energy without it. Does the US care about human rights and democracy for people who work in sweat shops? The US benefits from not being democracy in these places. That is why US funds and overthrows democratically elected governments especially, after they nationalized their oil industry. 1) Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala in 1954 2) Mohammad Mossadegh, democratically elected in 1951, overthrew by operation ajax in 1953. 3) Salvador Allende democratically elected in 1971 aimed to nationalize certain industries (not even oil) that would hurt US business interest. Project FUBELT funded and orchestrated by US destabilized the government. So do not make it look like democracy is necessary for all sorts of business. Cold hard dictators are good business dealers for exploiting cheap natural resources. Both of them are looking forward to advancing their corporate interests. That's the crux. Putin is the corporate Lord of Russia. He is the deep state of Russia. Power, Money, Business, reign supreme. All of those are orange values. The only difference is that US has to justify what they are doing to their people and Russia do not. So, the US spreads propaganda about human rights violations and lack of democracy in these nations as a reason why they orchestrated the coup to mask their business interests.

Um coz they do not have oil reserves? Now I have to explain why US do not overthrow governments lol. Most of the cases, it is to advance their business interests and exploit their natural resources. Democracy and human rights are the mask they use to cover their business interests. They would do a calculation. How much resources they have or how much is the threat this country is to the US? Then how much resources are needed to overthrow them. Then based on this calculation, including a whole other bunch of factors they would go forward. US is acting as stage orange while Leo thinks they act as stage Green/Yellow. That is the whole confusion. A few notable examples: 1) Do you think that US gives a shit about China invading Taiwan is it wasn't for high end chips? lol no. But US would make the whole thing about how they are protecting the democracy in Taiwan, potentially risking a war with China. That is not the case at all. 2) Likewise, US would fund Pakistan to keep the tensions with India high so that they can sell more weapons to both states. Does the US care about the corruption and blatant military funded terrorism in Pakistan? Nope. Getting India to high tensions with Pakistan will always mean western weapons will be in high demand. And NATO expansion, breaking pacts made with the USSR, is how you destroy Russian corruption? Then you are basically asserting that waging a proxy war with Russia is how you combat the Russian corruption. Which is totally fine. But that implies that you value the destruction of Russian corruption more than the lives of the families of the soldiers that die in the war. I would rather keep the Russian corruption rather than sacrificing hundreds and thousands of lives and hundreds of billions in damage to property. I thought that you should do whatever it takes to avoid the war at all costs. And it is yet to see if this war is making Russia/Putin more powerful than it/he already it. I have been seeing thousands of predictions of how Russia is going to collapse the next month and nothing of that sort is happening quite yet. Russia is selling oil at prices much higher than the imposed price cap, western tech finding its way to Russian markets through alternate routes, and Ukraine economy is wrecked beyond repair. nice pun.

You should be doing something about it. Take action right fucking now. But you have wrecked your psychology and convinced yourself that you are a victim. Nothing good will ever happen with this kind of thinking. Watch videos on how to get out of the victim mindset. Take small action for the moment. Whatever it takes to get out of the rut that you are in right now. Find the video on watch it.

Even bigger threat is a dissenter backed by foreign powers, that you cannot imprison or kill. The self-bias of the western world view is so shockingly obvious here. And that is what caused a war that caused needless destruction to millions of lives. The correct course of action is to not go near people with lots of weapons, or you move away from them, or make them move away from you. Either of these possibilities can avoid war. But if you and your Neighbour stack up lethal weapons over mounting tensions, then it is only a matter of time before a boldly war breaks out. In this case, a full-on nuclear war. There are no western missiles based in Ukraine at the moment. But that is the direction they were going in. So Putin had to do something without sitting and watch the slow demise of the empire. US is a threat to Russia as much as Russia is a threat to the US. I think you can see that. I do not see anything wrong with anything happening so far. Russia- Ukraine war, Israel-Gaza war, etc. Idealism does not fly here.

As much as I hate to acknowledge it, organic movements wouldn't make any real change. People in power make all the decisions. People in power can choose to side with the organic movements or choose not to. The side they pick will be the side that you see happen in reality. Organic movements on its own is good as nothing. There is a great organic movement in the US to not send any more aid and weapons to Ukraine. So what? Not all of those movements are in the best interests of the people. Will the US acknowledge these movements at home and stop the sending aid? Nah. People of Ukraine wanting democracy is not enough to have democracy. They surely want democracy, but they need the help of US to make it happen. CIA are masters of Coups. And CIA pulls of coups not to being democracy, but to make more money and expand their geopolitical power. That is where the problem is. Putin is right in accusing the US of meddling in their internal matters and the matters of Ukraine. US did not want USSR near their home. Just apply that same logic to NATO expansion as well. It really isn't complicated. Infact they even signed a treaty that they wouldn't expand eastward. They couldn't even adhere to that.

How convenient of you? What if the people of US can't sleep knowing their enemy is right beside them with ready to strike missiles. The problem is that USSR would place missiles in Cuba that could wipe off US cities. It is a matter of security and not sovereignty. You need to have security first before even thinking of sovereignty. People of US have the right to sleep well at night without having the threat of smoked in sleep. How would you feel if a psychopathic criminal becomes comes to live next door in possession of lethal weapons and drugs? You will be shit scared and do something about it instead of wasting time worrying about his sovereignty. Geopolitics has nothing to do with ideals like Freedom, Democracy, sovereignty. What moves the pieces are security, money, business, and cold hard power. Can you imagine looking like a complete loser after your neighbor robbed your house and stabbed you when you have all the reasons to suspect that it would happen, did nothing about it because muh sovereignty. Survival and life is on the line. All idealism flies out of the window. Security & safety is the peak value.

No leader of any nation is insane enough to be driven ideologically and risk a global war for their own beliefs. Putin simply won't invade another country because he feels like it or because he fundamentally believes some other country is his own country. This is an oversimplification of the compex geopolitical situation of the area. Sanctions would ruin their economy and destabilize their political hold. So he is aware of all the shit he has to take because of his decisions and wouldn't do so unless in the interest of Russia. Putin invaded Ukraine simply because he calculated that not invading Ukraine would lead to a slow demise of Russia by US/NATO forces in Ukraine. Invading then would risk a full on nuclear war. Nah it's a systemic problem. If you make those few random agents disappear overnight, it would solve nothing. Democracy is a distraction when it comes to the decisions of supreme importance. There are minor differences between red and blue when it comes to such decisions. They are made by the deep state in US and corporate interests. Those bad agents are people who are coping to survive the system.

To begin with, no country, least of all US, really believes in sovereignty for other nations. When they become powerful enough they will begin to meddle in the affairs of smaller states. You already know n number of examples of how US and CIA did this. Likewise Ukraine would have turned into a puppet state of Russia If 1) CIA didn't meddle in Ukraine elections. 2) NATO didn't expand eastward. Ukraine wouldn't need to be invaded. They would be under the control of Russia anyway that you wouldn't need force to control them. Putin values the sovereignty of his own state. He also knows that NATO will never stop their expansion until they have their nuclear base in Ukraine which would eventually kill the sovereignty of Russia in the long run. They have the right to take precautionary measures to protect Russian Sovereignity. US should have listened when Putin was reasonable. They outright dismissed him which is why Ukraine is turning into a graveyard.

Buy all of them if they are cheap. Then redirect it to the main one. Many boomers and old folks will definitely mess up on this one. You don't want to drive traffic to your competitors this way.

Your last post was 7 years ago and you came all the way now to post this?

Listen, you need to stop this negative self talk right now. You are shaping your identity by talking like this and such kind of identity will never make anything happen in this world. And you need to put in even more work to undo the damage that you are doing to yourself right now. STOP THE NEGATIVE SELF TALK. Think of yourself as an autonomous individual capable of changing the world. You simply took a break to relax. That's okay. Now you have to get back to work. Think of yourself as capable of making an impact in this world. Them act from that. Take action. You can take action only as far as your identity allows you to. You can choose to have an identity of your choosing. Make wise decisions Sabth

1. I don't think going to college is really worth it. I suggest you strike off this possibility. Most likely it going to take you further back and the opportunity cost of the time you put in will not be worth it. 2. Get some job if you can for the short while to stack some cash and get out of the comfort zone. It doesn't have to be the best job. And don't spend away all that money. You need some capital for your business. I assume you are from America. There are plenty of jobs out there if you are willing to work as far as I have heard. Actively look for it. Also get your drivers licence in the meantime. 3. Build a business. Preferably online business. Sell something. Build something. Search for possibilities online. Monetize any skills you have. Don't worry if you don't have skills. You will learn it along the way. That's how everyone does it. --- There is no easy way or fast way. Wanting everything to happen fast will only mean that it will take even more time than usual. If you are diligent enough, you could turn your life around in 4 years. (Almost the same time req for a college degree) If you need some guidance feel free to DM. I am no expert. I am struggling in my own journey. But if you are persistent and make the right decisions, you will be rewarded.