Immaculate Vibes

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/8-predictions-for-the-world-in-2030/ it’s literally on their site. You’re free to interpret it as you wish.

One of my follows that is involved in mining says it would make very small profit, but like I said it’s symbolic. In other news our friends at the World Economic Forum have co-opted the whole “change the code” campaign. Cite a debunked stat about environmental impact. Talk up Ethereum. It’s plain as day who/what the establishment backs and why. From the group of elites that says you’ll own nothing and be happy…

Great input. Thanks for sharing and you’re a great follow. If you see a tweet I shared earlier there was a breakdown of how a lot of left leaning sites lost followers simultaneously in pretty substantial numbers. I don’t believe that many left leaning accounts quit the day of Elon sale announcement. Maybe it’s some kind of bot rebalancing? I don’t know why you would have bots switch sides though. I hope you keep sharing your view from the side of a highly followed account. I don’t think this is the last strange change we will see happen with Twitter.

They’ll cost more.

Symbolic gesture, but I dig it.

hmmmm Is there any interpretation other than Twitter itself was overstating certain political figures following and understating others? Why would they do that? Knowing almost nothing about these kinds of algorithms my blind guess is that number of followers was one of the inputs involved in determining how much reach your account had. Gotta clean up shop before Elon takes over.

I don’t know who this guy thinks he is, parking his lawnmower like this at the hospital today. Real pic. San Antonio, TX, USA

Oh, the horror

Basically. Another interesting point is I think there will no longer be “ads” for legacy media like WaPo. Used to see them pretty frequently. Pretty sure they were just free, targeted establishment propaganda. Less inane “fact checks” featured.

As a daily user it will be interesting to see how the content changes if bots are brought under control. Imagine thinking only “one side” deployed Twitter bots.

Agree. Nyms are important.

Alex Jones physical appearance is just objectively funny.

We agree on something. It’s always been unreadable to me.

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Seems like Zero Covid policy is hurting as much or more than its Russia stance. Like I said on the inflation thread I’m torn on what’s going to happen in China. A lot of mixed signals, but our more capitalist system should outperform their central planning, all things being equal.

I don’t think people are afraid to compete with China. Most people see it as inevitable. I think escalation will happen sooner than most which is why I really want our other entanglements to wrap up asap. I go back and forth on how this will all end vs China. (Btw I expect it all to be settled in 10 years or less) Incomplete list of advantages as I see them off the top of my head. China- population financial situation (certain sectors do have high debt, but their reserve situation enviable) natural resources esp rare earths (but not energy) Social cohesion (forced or not) USA-military (largest budget in world) large energy and food producer technological innovator/open society (especially in Bitcoin etc that China abandoned) @Brisketexan global influence (waning?) On net looking at those I see us at a pretty significant advantage. What bugs me as I look at it is the historic precedent that exists since the emergence of western capitalism. The ending of a big debt cycle typically ends in a chaotic fashion. There are a lot of unknown unknowns that could affect how it turns out. And financial primacy isn’t retained by one country on both sides of these events. It’s no surprise that I wish were in better financial footing heading into such a turbulent time. That is our Achilles heel and it has mattered historically. One possible outcome that could be different than past resets is we could end up with a multipolar financial system instead one reserve currency due to the lack of transparency and dishonesty that you cited that is built into the CCP.