Iwishiwasntthisway [none/use name]

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Cake day: March 20th, 2024

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  • Our company hires a decent amount of tech subcontractors from there. They make like 30/hr vs 100/hr, they avail themselves as much as cucked Americans and speak English with American accents better than global south hires.

    There seems to be this weird perception there that every American firm is desperate for their genius or some such. My guess is when Europe is further vassalized and people there get into cucked American mode a lot more remote work will get passed there. The time difference is better and I think it'll take longer for mainland Europe to privatize healthcare and pass that cost to employers.











  • You think that maybe there is this grift where oligarchs are being sold on AI that will somehow solve all the problems that go along with having peasants but it's all a scam that's coincidentally imbued them with the false confidence that there will never be any pushback.

    Like they ask it how to best extract resources or suppress dissent but they never bothered to give it the "your subjects will revolt eventually" or "there are other powerful people who are competing with you" patch.

    Which is, essentially what the problem has always been but they can't even be bothered to do their own failing.



  • https://youtu.be/5eIADs7Ct-Q?si=U0yXcn6F9Yv2tjwp

    Time lapse map of the Middle East. I'm a spatial person so this is one of the easiest ways for me to understand history.

    The area from Tehran through Beruit has been one contiguous empire for most of the last 3000 years.

    The US inherited a Balkanized Middle East and West Asia and most of its geopolitical strategy is about maintaining that status quo. Even in the absence of fossil fuels this place would be a world power if left alone due to it's location along trade routes and the natural defensibility of much of it.

    The notion of an independent cohesive Israel spanning any real space and time is an ahistorical and compensatory fantasy. Ethnorelgions were a primitive concept even in the time of King David. When you are required to ethnically cleanse every place you conquer and maintain higher birth rates in order to occupy that space your success is bound to be limited and temporary. A small blip allowed by the Bronze Age collapse and little more than that.





  • Typical price for something like this around me is almost 20 bucks on grub hub or door dash. If it was one of those Katz deli types that is basically 4x the meat of a regular sandwich and needs to be served open faced since it isn't even really a sandwich at that point, it would make a little sense.