So the Venice entrance fee was introduced to deny access and make this event possible?

Get some counceling first. Seems like you could use some help communicating your needs.

Or you start being a ‘man’ or rather human, and create the life that you want.

If you see yourself as human resource, you are not worth more than that commodity and that value is all you have. Instead, meet other people and start creating.

Much of it is from Iran and destined for China. They won’t stop those exports.

90 private jets for 250 guests

It means they are not friends. If you have a big jet, why would you not fly with other guests and already have a good time on the way to Venice?

Tells you how much more style the rich used to have. What good are all those billions today if the place where you live is not as pretty as Venice? Nobody is going to visit his house in Florida in 100 years.

Thank you.

After Tiananmen they can’t believe in #1. The party showed that they were in control.

#2 is possible but requires that the elite mistakes money for power. I cannot imagine that old money makes such a rooky mistake.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_production

China is producing so much steel that the USA cannot believe that they can contain the Chinese navy in a prolonged war.

I cannot pin it down but things don’t fully add up.

Downvoters, for #1? Jelzin was corrupt. Was there something similar in China?

South Africa had a nuclear program and gave it up. Left alone.

How do nukes help South Africa? They don’t have rockets. What do they threaten to bomb that is a deterrent?

Where are those informations diskussed? If the information was out in March then Lemmy as a whole is not good at filtering the relevant news.

About one hour in, he is talking about a three front war against China, Russia and Iran that was predicted in the 1990ies.

Why has the USA allowed China to become powerful? That war could have been fought earlier with a much bigger technological lead.

hadn’t been held back by lazy MS et al.

MS is not lazy but working hard to maintain their lead.

edit: Just noticed that my phrasing is bad and could be seen as praise. OP is right, MS is holding everybody back.

I meant to say that they abuse their market domination to maintain their lead.

Look at MS Teams. It was free until Slack was done as a competitor.

MS did things but that’s inevitable. The crucial part are the things that they prevented.

It’s increadible that OP is even downvoted.

However, the only strategically significant rival we have that utilizes those shopping lanes are Russia, whom the administration wants to buddy up too.

If that doesn’t play out, Putin will be dropped like Saddam.

Better than being a hopeless doomer about everything.

How can any change happen if there is only a limited willingness to perveive reality and analyze it?

Only if the summary is included in the training data.

After all, it’d be much easier to press on a button that’d kill 10 000 people living 10 000 km away from you than to stab one person to death.

That could be the result of our training. After all, people die for our way of life and we have to cope.

I know the UK banned women’s orgasms

Why? To prevent British women from having expectations?

If only Musk would use LSD or whichever drug helps to resolve those issues instead of ketamine.

You will get that war. The USA and China will clash and the EU is preparing to take care of Russia when that war starts.

For those attacks the size doesn’t matter but the willingness of breaking the law. My size argument is that the USA and China will clash. Europe will engage Russia when that happens.

Thank you for your insightful feedback. Have a great WE, too.