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Cake day: October 23rd, 2024

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  • There has been detente last 3 years. BRICS partners. About to get much closer from high US tariffs on US. India’s only pretense of friendship with US was US FDI. China has been willing to do phone manufacturing FDI. India was planning massive solar factories and other manufacturing back when they had a US export market. China has the expertise to accelerate India’s manufacturing for its market. China is certain to dominate all of Asia now, and get better cooperation.

    The nuclear option on chips, is if NL, JPN, Taiwan repudiate US export controls that is inherently a colonial choice.




  • Every piece of land can be useful. US’s current friendship with/lordship over NATO would get any project it wants done, and allow any shipments/trade routes to/from America. Project value is overblown due to high development costs and distance to markets.

    The reason you will hear economics and defense from enemies motives, is that is the sweetest sounding lie. It would increase the purchase price if Denmark citizens knew that Denmark government and its king are selling to US to improve its capabilities to murder all Danes.




  • now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of “just being themselves” for those who appreciate that most

    hmmm… contradicting the corporatist theory that technology/automation/AI has always resulted in more employment, the employment level of horses has decreased significantly… so let us all welcome those who will appreciate our use as glue ingredients.




  • In OP’s perpective, placing NIN where it is is entirely based on Closer, and nothing else. Hurt could be sad without being horny.

    It is possible to view Closer as horny and happy. The infactucation bringing him closer to god, is a successful antidote to the sadness he expresses them curing. Also the horniness infatuation in itself is a pursuit of happiness. IMO, if you see the cure for your sadness right before you, you cannot be/no longer sad. So, as it resonates to me, closer is happy and horny, not sad, despite lyrical evidence of sadness.

    March of pigs live is totally different to the Fragile version. Latter is sad, Live is insane angry.

    The Perfect drug is a bit of remake of closer, lyrically. Cleaner, but same. Drugs make you happy. More of a rhythmic masterpiece. Only is also post 2000 great that could be in the sad tab.




  • follow up on this… xAI appears to have raised $18B in funding rounds. But November 2024 was at $50B, December 2024 was $40B. X’s ownership of xAI, caused its interest expense on high debt levels to rise to $1B/year (debt levels approaching close to $20B estimated)

    It is a major stretch to value xAI higher than the $50B peak. Chinese open source models released have depressed overall US AI stocks, and xAI has major cash burn in implementing its model, and Musk has ever increasing brand hatred culminating in government persecution threats to anyone who could say something negative about him or his companies that becomes propaganda fuel for actual damage to his vehicles/dealerships.