I was always peaceful until the left forced me to become murderous. -Trump

There is a lot to unpack here honestly. Let me say first that I support the Iranian people in their quest for reforms. For me the second thing is history.

The US has had its hand in regime change in Iran for a long time going back to the 1950s. They helped install a dictator and remove an elected democratic leader. This arguably lead to the revolution.

So people who know history are a little bit bitter with the US and allies bombing the fuck out of Iran while calling their people to rise up.

As I said in my original statement being most people are confused by what is really going on. They have been led astray not just about communism but a whole lot more than that.

You probably should have see this as complimentary, but I suppose I could see you personalizing this so my apologies.

We can disagree that communism was always a window decoration. I see actions and I don’t really give much weight to obvious propaganda.

China is just another fascist nation at this point as reliant on the US as US is on it. Both are intertwined economically and it shows. Our “enemy” the number one trading partner of the US and our other “enemy”.

The propaganda never ends and reality is harder than ever with thousands of bullshit excuses and reasonings given for all the garbage governments do.

There are no major nations that deserve humanity at this point. I am under no illusion that there are no good guys especially with the US.

I was just saying most people don’t know. You clearly know.

It is not very common, even on Lemmy, to have people think that China is not actually practicing communism. Even though, for instance, they produced more billionaires than the US this year.

Everything you said seems pretty accurate. Communism is just propaganda as it always was in China.

Communist China producing more billionaires than the US this year. Clearly most people are confused about what is really going on. I suppose years of anti-China propaganda has lead to some of this confusion.

There is a difference between confusion/lack of knowledge and willful ignorance though.

It is okay, I can speak the truth because you can’t.

More billionaires than the US this year.

At some point reality has to come home to roost.

Please, China is great because of the US not despite it. People are so confused about what is going on it isn’t even funny.

Got a good family but we are struggling like everyone. What we get paid is nowhere enough to keep up with things like deferred maintenance and retirement. This is a problem with most people who chose to have families unless they have a very lucrative career/business.

I went to college in my twenties to get a job so that I could afford to insure my family. I worked for twenty-two years before I finally got one that I could. I just bought my first house but I am pushing fifty now. Things aren’t not bad, but we have struggled for decades to get here.

So it is a mixed bag for sure. I am grateful I have my family and we can live together and have at least the basics to survive. Joking aside, our future being determined by wealthy people like Musk is a dreadful prospect.

That is where you are wrong, he is the hardest working man in history. I suppose you are just overwhelmed by his magnitude and your lack of equivalent achievements.

He may have accomplished more in a year than your entire lifetime. It is humbling really. A true testament to the meritocracy of capitalism.

The question was how much do you get done in a week good sir.

He is SO amazing. The average CEO spends 60 hours a week on their business. He is CEO of Telsa, SpaceX, and X Corp. That is only 180 hours a week. But don’t forget he is on the board or holds some high positions in at least 4 other business. Let’s say he spends 20 hours a week on each of those. We are up to 260 hours a week now.

Elon also has 14 children who he loves and cares about. He spends a minimum of ten hours a week with each of his kids so that is only 140 more hours a week. We are up to 500 hours per week, but wait there is more.

Elon is constantly making the sickest memes and posts on X. He spends a lot of his free time doing this for fun, but it is also about upholding his amazing image. He spends forty hours a week making memes and posting/responding on Zombie Twitter.

Elon is also an avid computer gamer and spends at least 20 hours a week kicking back smoking weed and just playing computer games for the fun of it. Don’t forget he also loves his Ketamine. He also spends at least another 20 in a khole every week. We are at 580 hours a week.

We haven’t even gotten into the amazing marketing, engineering, and programming whiz he is. He spends countless hours on these activities, troubleshooting code, doing advanced calculations, and coming up with the best marketing plans for his companies. He spends another 80 hours per week on these.

We are up to 660 hours per week but we haven’t even talked about his romantic side. He spends another 40 hours a week pursuing/trying to fuck his female employees. He is a lover and not a fighter so we are up to 700 hours per week now.

He accomplishes almost half a years work every week. Compare that to yourself. How much do YOU get done in a week!? Do you waste a half of it sleeping, eating, and going to the restroom. If only we all were so productive.

This is a great list. You have to accept the premise that White House’s agenda is literally techno feudalism though. As crazy as it sounds, I think it may be.

Business has spoken, consumers have spoken. No one wants AI right now. Large companies trying to out compete each other on LLM is stupid. Time for the bubble to pop before more people get hurt.

They don’t even have a fucking reason. Oh, it is an important strategic location? Good thing we already have a base there!

The propaganda is working!

Soon everyone can cower to this demented administration.

It is a cold dark night at Microsoft Headquarters. The moon is blacked out by the clouds and rain and thunder beat relentlessly against the office windows.

The head UX engineer stares at the prompt nervously. He hesitates, his whole life has been building up to this point. He is going to control where windows is going and shape the lives of billions of people.

“You got this,” He mumbles to himself, “you know what to do.”

He grabs a screenshot of his desktop and types the fateful words. Make this desktop make more money

The AI says processing…

Yeah I think the whole monoculture for computing was a very bad thing at the time and we were all deprived of the diversity that could have been. I remember OS/2 rather fondly as it was way better than Windows at the time.

Things change, and now the Linux and XNU kernel run the majority of the computing devices people use. Between being the backbone of the Internet and used in the majority of consumer faced internet devices, Linux has truly dominated.

I suppose it would also be dominate on the desktop if it wasn’t for Windows. Not that MS isn’t doing everything in their power to make it happen with their current anti-user agenda.

That texting would be so popular. Coming from pagers to actual cell phones and being able to hear people talk anywhere was amazing. Going back to text messages seemed counterintuitive.