xerxes

What a loss. How will I ever move on with my life.

This is a great point and matches my experience as well.

From what I’ve read, the initial strike not only killed the new leader’s father, but also his wife and child. I’m pretty sure he will not be willing to easily negotiate with the United States after something like that.

It’s pretty crazy to me that zuck let an actual academic like Yann LeCun go for a kid like Alex Wang. Seems like some very short term thinking.

Crazy how much of the world suffers because of the desires of one tiny county of 9 million. Would we really be doing any of this if not for Israel?

I’ve lived in both and while the similarities are there, it’s a bit different. Singapore still has a majority non expat population while Dubai has only about a 10% local population. Singapore also invests heavily in local education with one of the highest densities of PhDs in the world.

Except a lot less fun. That one at least had cool lights, cool buildings, and flying cars. We got rotting infrastructure and Teslas.

Dubai was always an economy built on a bubble. As much as I hate how they treat foreign laborers and as much as I hate their current leaders, I have some respect for how far they were able to get with this model.

But ultimately, they are a country with little land, little water, terrible weather, and surviving on a vast expat population that has no path to citizenship and will always just see it as a destination to milk for as much money as possible.

I don’t see how such a model could ever be seen as sustainable in the long run.

Death and destruction from the sky all day long

• Pete Hegseth

Someone who uses such psychotic language would not have cared what the probe found, I assure you.