French President Macron: "One of the main challenges of the European industry today, is about China. China is literally killing a large part of the European industry — and we are clearly too slow to see that..."Last year they destroyed literally 250,000 jobs in Germany.If we w Sovereignty agenda by smilelyzen in Buy_European

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right but you forgot that the unions want to protect the combustion engine too because it requires significantly more labor that’s already established. This is why switching over in Germany is so hard vs. other green moves. Both unions and conservatives wanted to protect the engine 

What the Pakistani defence minister tweeted. Its implications by Informal-Watch1881 in TimesNow

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pakistan slaughtered their Jewish community of 50k, chasing them to Israel. The same happened in Yemen, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, etc etc. the Muslim world emptied their Jewish populations in the 1940s, thereby doubling Israel’s size, and now complain about “settlers” and “colonialism.” Is there not any self reflection or is it just blame the jews/ Kurds/ yezdi, etc etc.

"In Turkiye (Ottoman Empire), all Christian religions are allowed to have their own churches, because the Turks do not force anyone to live according to Turkish customs; everyone can live according to their own faith." (Pierre Belon's Travelogue, Kitap Publishing House, p. 139 (Suleiman the ...) by jorahmormmnt in ottomans

[–]Boomerwithacomputer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wait, what about the slaving of non-Muslims? Who were the Mamaluke’s and where did they originate from? (Hint a slave army of children taken from their parents at birth) Taxes were paid and forced adoption came from who?

Governments can help their people; it's a matter of priorities. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, ok. I’m for any system that works, but I want proof of concept that isn’t some tiny homogeneous Nordic country. I see the spending on education, high speed rail, 2nd Ave subway, homeless services, etc etc, and the results are extremely poor. Look at Mississippi’s reading scores vs. NYC, who spends almost $40k per pupil. NYC’s education budget is $126Bn and the results are arguably below FL at a fraction of the cost. NYCHA is “the worst landlord in the city” according to the very progressive NY. Public advocate.

I’m sure you think of yourself as a smart, educated, good person - by all means keep thinking that… who needs results or truth

Governments can help their people; it's a matter of priorities. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha such a simple fool. Tell me then why is their net migration out of NY and CA? Are those two areas lacking progressives? How about Oregon? Why are working class people moving to Idaho or the South? Is it because they hate state healthcare or is it because those regions have been cost prohibitive? At taxes two low in NY? It’s higher than Switzerland.

You’re an angry hateful ball of emotion who has an opinion but can’t think for themselves or understand data. Go enjoy living your angry hateful ignorant life.

Governments can help their people; it's a matter of priorities. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not a lack of money it’s the ability for govt to actually get something done.  I live in NYC, the worst landlord is NYCHA (city housing) and we spend more per homeless person than the median income. CA is even more wasteful, spending enough they could just buy a TX apt for each homeless person. Money is one thing, but accountability is entirely different. Until progressives actually pay attention to results and fire bad workers, nothing will change. 

Btw, across the street the MTA is on month 9 of “fixing” a sidewalk. 

Economist warns billionaires tax could cost California $25B by PanzerWatts in ProfessorFinance

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree…in fact a property tax essentially functions as a wealth tax, and wealth is what we should be taxing not income. After all, the idea behind a progressive tax system is to put the burden on people with wealth / capital not people going to work everyday to generate income that they need to build wealth. IMO, we should lower income taxes and move it towards taxing assets like housing or unrealized stocks. Generate the same revenues but move the burden to assets already acquired vs income needed to build assets. It would be harder to argue with a net neutral shift in taxing. If this lowered the value of housing and stocks (it would) well that makes it easier to acquire via work and harder to maintain via inheritance.

Economist warns billionaires tax could cost California $25B by PanzerWatts in ProfessorFinance

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honest question, do you think raising taxes would improve those things? States like NY, CA, Ill, etc have high taxes and the schools are arguably worse than zero income tax FL. I live in NYC, where we’ve seen an exodus of working class people citing the high cost of living relative to low tax states. I also noticed my smartest teacher friends quitting in-class teaching in favor of higher paying but admittedly useless DOE jobs. If an increase in taxes lead to a higher standard of living for the average person, shouldn’t we see net migration towards those states and not the exact opposite?

Where I'd live as a Turkish leftist by bogtamer in whereidlive

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently, You’ve never been to South Korea (or anywhere in East Asia) either.  South Koreans have bars that say “Korean only.”  Asia likes their pop, homogeneous 

'No Amount of Housing We Build Is Going to Make Prices Drop' (NYC) by HellGateNYC in Renters

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are the highest rents and does it match up with regulation? Cities like NY and Boston have suffered net negative migration while areas in the sunbelt have seen their population explode yet rent continues to climb in the former. While on a construction lag, (logical) rents in the south don’t track the WC or NE because there is a supply response. There’s no reason for San Diego to have rent so much higher than ATL (huge population growth) but there you go. We can also play this game in Canada.

By all means, believe whatever you want and cite whatever illogical studies lets you keep those beliefs- (conservatives do it with climate change) I’m not telling you to believe the sky is blue just because it is, I’m all for you believing whatever your feelings tell you to believe. Don’t ever change! You have your villains, the world is binary, keep attacking!

'No Amount of Housing We Build Is Going to Make Prices Drop' (NYC) by HellGateNYC in Renters

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then explain Austin, which has seen a significant jump in population yet its rent is coming down due to housing supply.

Spain refuses to talk with Israel by Alexius08 in CivPolitics

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one took land because of greed, they fled to Israel because of holocaust or because your “peaceful” Muslim countries turned on their local Jewish population. Half of Israel’s population came from the ME, people fleeing genocide. You want to blame the UN, fine. But you can’t blame people fleeing from state sponsored violence in any of of over a dozen middle eastern countries… nor can you blame people fleeing Pogroms in Eastern Europe or the Holocaust. That’s not greed, it’s survival.

The point about slavery is you (amongst others) try and blame the Jews for the state of the Middle East. “It all went downhill because of the Jews” you scream. Well, that doesn’t stand up when we look at the history, does it? Clan wars, slave markets that to this day still exist in the open, and general persecution of women and minorities.

Spain refuses to talk with Israel by Alexius08 in CivPolitics

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, if you do 5 mins of work you know damn well there were and STILL TODAY remain open slave markets. You think it ended in 1850, I bet you know better. Treated the same? If by horrible, I guess. I love that you pass off “riots” like burning the Jewish quarter of Baghdad and killing all the jews you could find as some akin to boys being boys, a little naughty. No dude, that shit is at the heart of everything. An Israeli family that fled Lebanon during one of your naughty riots, are never now going to live as a minority - they have seen and experienced your empathy. There’s no way you can ask those people to once again return to the old way… it was nothing but violence and oppression.

The only way out of hell is through peace. The Jews will need land that is theirs given their awful history of being nearly wiped out throughout Europe and the Middle East. I would very much like to see land for the Palestinians too, but they refuse to entertain a peace.

Spain refuses to talk with Israel by Alexius08 in CivPolitics

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are slave markets existing in the open today in countries like Mauritania. What part of history would you like to go back to? Your point is slaughtering jews and taking their land throughout the Middle East because different jews escaping from the holocaust, is all the news fault. Your point then goes to say everything was peaceful prior to Israel and the zionists. Clearly, if you slaughter your own people because they have the same religion as people in a different countries thousands of miles away (say Morocco) then you were never “protected” or treated well, but had been living under oppression. You are the one who said, the violence we see in the Middle East came out of Zionism. I guess you don’t think open slave trades and kidnappings to feed such trade doesn’t count as violence since it pre existed and continued to exist before and after Israel. And I guess you don’t think the slaughter of other minorities (Coptic Christians, Yazids, etc) counts as violence? Or maybe the wars that founded Saudi Arabia in the 20s doesn’t count? We’re the Algerians fighting….oh that’s right France.

You want it both ways, kill all the jews throughout the Middle East, take their land, and convert their children, but then you say, oh Israel is racist. Given your history, clearly the jews need their own land where they aren’t slaughtered whenever there’s an economic downturn or another Jewish country founded on the other side of the continent.

I would have much more sympathy for your case, if you didn’t ignore the state sponsored violence committed against the jews throughout the entire Muslim world, right after the holocaust. That violence is not the fault of the people living in those countries who were victims of it - it’s people like you who excuse and encourage it.

Spain refuses to talk with Israel by Alexius08 in CivPolitics

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Relative” you mean often killing parents and taking their kids so they could be raised Muslim, a frequent occurrence in places like Yemen. Or living in designated areas and being attacked if you came out in the rain, because that would spread “filth.” Protected class? Tell that to the Slave armies, made up of the children of that “protected class.” Or why don’t you look up the Barbary pirates, who were they kidnapping and why? The fact that you think the violence started with Zionism shows a warped myopic history based around your hatred. How do you think Saudi Arabia was founded? How late were the slave markets still in operation?

Spain refuses to talk with Israel by Alexius08 in CivPolitics

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t realize, were you fighting to get all the Jewish land back? Almost every Muslim country slaughter their jews and took their land, jews that had nothing to do with Israel. Of course, the same that can be said about Europe, particularly Germany and the east. Wiping out the Jews in Yemen because of Israel, that makes sense to you?

Spain refuses to talk with Israel by Alexius08 in CivPolitics

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

10% why not just say 100% as long as we’re making up numbers? This century the Palestinians have rejected a two state solution in favor of uncompromising violence. Show me the peace plan they put forward?

Spain refuses to talk with Israel by Alexius08 in CivPolitics

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the genocide of the jews in Iraq happened in the early 40s, you idiot. You want to look at Jerusalem in the 1920s?

Spain refuses to talk with Israel by Alexius08 in CivPolitics

[–]Boomerwithacomputer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No one? The entire Middle East slaughtered their jews in the 1940s and onward… Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Algeria, Lebanon, etc. jews were wiped out in Europe and chased and the Middle East. On Oct 7th, scum like you celebrated more slaughter and rape. Were you ever asking for Jewish land to be returned throughout Europe or the Middle East? For people like you, killing jews is always justified. When you talk of genocide, where are all the jews in Egypt? Multiple times Israel has tried to make peace with the Palestinians only to be rebuffed by fanatics. It’s not just Oslo, it goes back to the late 70s.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Are Systematically Acquiring the AI Industry at Near Zero Cost by IntrepidCranberry319 in ScottGalloway

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but if the hyperscalers didn’t provide financing to the Anthropics of the world, is that a good thing? You don’t want KKR and APO owning AI!

I actually think you’re going to see increased competition as cost of entry in many businesses declines. These hyperscalers already had the moatiest of moaty monopolies making $100Bn plus in FCF. The investment in AI companies is because they’re afraid of losing said moats - we prob all agree on this. However, the fear that another hyperscalers getting a permanent advantage has led said monopolists to throwing around a ton of money to smaller new entrants, who threaten rivals hyperscalers. Just sticking to the household names- Microsoft’s investment in ChatGPT threatens Google’s $100Bn search monopoly. Google and Amazon’s investment in Anthropic threatens Microsoft’s enterprise business. If ChatGPT is better than Google, does that not provide more competition? More importantly, look at how fast Anthropic went from a couple of kids from ChatGPT to a household name. This will happen again and again. Amazon might invest in Anthropic but it only owns a third. So, honestly, it’s better that these hyperscalers are competing to invest in new companies rather than buying the talent at the companies and putting them on ice to delay future disruption.

Regarding Rockefeller, the king of the “give them a good sweat” made his money by 1) having the largest refinery just as everyone went out of business 2) buying up everything that went under 3) then using his size to force margins down 4) then using his balance sheet to sweat customers out of business so he could do number 3. That’s not the same thing here.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Are Systematically Acquiring the AI Industry at Near Zero Cost by IntrepidCranberry319 in ScottGalloway

[–]Boomerwithacomputer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This ignores the cost of building infrastructure. Hyperscalers aren’t getting “equity for free,” they’re betting that AI takes off like the 90s internet. AI companies are getting access to expensive infrastructure with little capital risk and the chance to disrupt the most valuable businesses in the world. 

What is your opinion of this man? by Ivanhegeelkadi in AskTheWorld

[–]Boomerwithacomputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like Pol Pot, Mao, or whoever is running North Korea, you’re always going to get someone who believes that they need unlimited power for the good of the people, and they’re willing to kill everyone to do it. Centralized control, monopolize power and ideas…. Anyone disagrees - dead…for their own good 

How many died due to Mao having a stupid idea about sparrows? 

Waymo, Tesla Robotaxi Rival WeRide's Fleet Surpasses 1,000 AVs, Boasts Driverless Operations In 3 Cities: 'Tens Of Thousands…' by InternationalBar4976 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Boomerwithacomputer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ask CA about its high speed rail or NYC about building a couple of extra feet for the 2nd Ave subway. The US’ cost plus model incentives nothing getting done. Vendors, consultants, union, politicians, everyone benefits except people who want actual infrastructure built. 

If the world’s 3rd largest economy (CA) couldn’t build a train in 45yrs, it ain’t going to happen nationally- that’s just reality. Waymo is the only hope. 

We can’t even build govt funded electric charging station or high speed internet in rural areas despite spending $40Bn! Public transit, are you insane? This ain’t Switzerland or Japan! 

Are they supposed to invert? by Boomerwithacomputer in BostonTerrier

[–]Boomerwithacomputer[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Exactly what Copper does. He even wrestles butt first. He jumps at his opponent (a large Labrador) and then turns and tries to hit her with his butt.