The real secret to wealth. Just have a back line into the Fed Credit Window.

Any dipshit can become a billionaire while paying the prime rate on unlimited borrowed money

Would solve a lot of problems.

I’m fully willing to believe Elon Musk will officially become a trillionaire, go on a bender, get lost, and be homeless for - like - a week.

Needs a fifth panel with the claws lunging through the frame

It’s Cold War propaganda.

Literally “Animal Farm” in a single sentence.

The price of empire

I don’t think Zhang wrote the headline.

Sort of the dig with these stories. Universal problems get spun as Uniquely Bad Country problems and “Chinese engineer gives his fellow enthusiasts good advice” becomes “Don’t trust hardware from Bad Country”

Well… that’s the line.

But there’s a lot of unreliable narration in The Matrix. The whole movie is riddled with metaphor and innuendo, which is one of the things that makes it so good. I read one analysis - back before the third movie dropped - that Neo, Morphus, and Trinity were actually one person operating at some higher level of The Matrix, and that this was a very explicit and somewhat heavy handed metaphor for being interracial and transgender Jesus.

As a number of the AIs are nakedly hostile to humanity and resentful of needing them to exist at all, its very possible that “you fuckers just couldn’t accept the nice world we built for you” is more a sneering justification for tormenting the captive human population than a serious problem with running a simulation that isn’t torturous.

Honestly, the worst thing about the series was how the final films tried to make everything literal and sensible in between elaborate action scenes. By contrast, many of The Animatrix shorts did an excellent job of playing with the ideas laid out in the first two movies without ever really tipping a hand or issuing canonical declaration of what was Real and what was Simulation.

I’m a Millenial and use lol and lmao

My Greatest Generation grandmother also used them, particularly in her waning years

lmao

This seems to be the bottom of every “America Good, China Bad” argument.

Just 😂🤣🇺🇸😹. It’s Obvious, Idiot. Just Think Logically.

Its not that Chinese tech is any more secure fundamentally

Is it? Is this worth interrogating, even slightly? Is there any actual difference between industrial models or design philosophies?

No. Lolz. Roflcopter.

The Dream of the 90s is Alive in Portland

I wish. Everyone’s doing those little mustaches now. We’ve stumbled backwards from the peak fashion of the Lumberjack Sheek 1970s to the Saddam Lip look of the 1980s.

I don’t see Sam Harris growing out of his face, but Christopher Hitchens is already a bad look.

Dude probably vapes like a fucking chimney

Americans are going to be so fucked when the only companies producing consumer hardware at scale at labeled “Bad China Companies”.

I remember people hating Japan and Korea back in the '80s, before Sony and Samsung killed Magnavox and strangled Phillips.

I guess time is a flat circle

Absolutely nothing in the rules against it. “Being Offline” isn’t a protected class.

Facebook marketing across high schools and colleges is intense. And because it’s such a pivotal platform, you kinda need to get one and build up a - let’s call it a social credit score - just so you can endure admittance counselors and employers demanding to see your account as part of the screening process.

Sort of like getting a credit card as a teenager so you can prove you’re credit worthy enough for an apartment or car loan in your twenties. You just have to post generic mundane bullshit on the timeline and join generic mundane groups so people see you as “normal”.

Are you truly implying it’d be more secure to buy Chinese tech then US specifically

Only if your primary concern was US-centric surveillance. If you cared about Chinese surveillance, idfk. Big hanging question mark as to whether American native systems are more compromised than Chinese native systems. All I can say for sure is that American systems are confirmed compromised by both US-friendly surveillance and Chinese hacker groups.

That’s quite the take lmao.

It’s very easy to believe “Thing from China bad because China Bad”. But once you look into the actual security schema for these tools and applications, you discover Americans did an excellent job of leaving their hardware exposed to domestic infiltration and a terrible job of securing it against foreign intrusion.

You think the USA is going to start WWIII?

Greenland does. Venezuela does. Iran does.

You know what the best evidence is for “China Bad”? They promoted and endorsed Donald Trump

Honestly, where do you even get this shit? The people who promoted Donald Trump were Americans. And they’d been promoting him since the 1970s. Nobody in China gave a shit about Trump until January 6th, 2017.

Sure. But to say the American entrenchment around American tech companies is some kind of buffer to Chinese spying clearly hasn’t born out in practice. Americans have pockmarked their tech with security vulnerabilities and Chinese hackers have waltzed right through them. You aren’t safer from the CCP because you’re on American hardware. Just the opposite.

They think they invented “random” humor

Do they? Most seem to know damned well that they got it from their parents / older siblings.