@BasedLunatic @beardalaxy @Hephaestic arguably no. i have that academic paper that says the correlation between the publi and congress is basically R=0. i just don't recall its name

@BasedLunatic @Hephaestic @beardalaxy i tend to list more like.. libertarian / cybernetics. which are both extremely obscure and niche things.

also unpopular opinions like we need to cut or suspend all but the most vital foreign relations and go in to bunker mode for a while. it's not so much a permanent thing as we need to perform some deep and painful refactors (like yeeting this absurd shareholder primacy concept)

there are arguments that retraction would weaken the empire. it might, but a smaller empire with renewed strength is better than losing the whole thing because every layer is decalcified and rotted

but this is like

an extremely minority opinion

@BasedLunatic @beardalaxy @Hephaestic i don't really care about china or russia. people have been trying to play up china for 10-20 years and their government is insignificant. if it were not for clintons opening the door for them to steal our shit at unprecedented rates they would be completely unaccomplished.

the problem imo is pretty well explained by Deming (maybe others.) we stopped caring about quality, and innovation, and it just became some harvard retard squad tossing "IP" around and spending more time rebundling corpses than anything.

in the case of Intel it is not failing because of BRICS. Intel is failing because a hedge fund of know-nothings has free money from random retirement account programs to throw around at stock speculation and they've acquired large volume of ownership in companies they don't begin to understand how to operate, do not care, and appoint board members who also do not know anything, who appoint CEOs that just milk the place until the rot causes it to collapse.

they literally fired the CEO that stated his intention was to restart chips, and not maximize quarterly dividends. they hired him knowing full well this was the goal and then fired him because he was doing exactly that.

regardless of whatever else the world is doing, things like shareholder primacy need to die.

@BasedLunatic @Hephaestic @beardalaxy i play around with budget electronics off and on. i see a lot of stupid shit like 300$ JBL headphones and speakers being "western brands" and not supporting anything newer than 2012 bluetooth standards, while anker offers LDAC at a third the cost and 80% of the quality.

they are not doing anything special or magic that we cannot do. its just that nobody here cares and its a big circlejerk of capital and money magic games.