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We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

Why has AI psychosis affected primarily high level executives? Is it because they have no easy way to empirically see the limitations?

It's a truth Americans ignored. We told ourselves hatred from Europe wasn't anything special because everyone hated us. Because there was something about us that deserved it. Deserved contempt, vitriol. But no, truth is Europe hates us because there's something wrong with them. Breaking the language barrier with Japan has made it abundantly clear that Americans aren't beholden to a Europe that constantly stabs us in the back. Counts every single favor as some outsized gift that we should count our blessings to have, considers every debt to us as a matter of just what we owe them for being what we are. Consider every interaction you've had with a European, or even Canadian, where they've treated American-ness like it was some sort of disease, a malady, a "thing" that made you inferior. That you owed them some otherwise unspoken apology for. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. You do. We've all encountered it, sometimes daily. None of it was true of course, but that didn't matter to them. Piggish Americans. Stupid Americans. Buffoonish Americans. For the longest time we've treated Europe like that angry friend who constantly says mean spirited cruel things, but really loves you in the end and will always have your back. When, no, Europe just hates us. Europe plays at being our friend because it needs us but then promptly knifes us in the back and twists it just to hear the sucking sound every chance they get. It's time to be honest with ourselves. It's not us, it's them, and they've been telling us how much they hate us for decades. It's time we believed them. It's time we acted accordingly. None of this applies to Poland. You're cool. Also we like Italy's Prime Minister. She's cool. Żadna z tych rzeczy nie dotyczy Polski. Polska jest spoko. Inoltre, ci piace la Prima Ministra dell’Italia. È cool.

French President Macron: “Europe is an extremely attractive continent. For months I’ve been saying this, and thanks to our American friends, I now have an unprecedented selling point: We are predictable.”

Not to disagree re political impotence and cowardice, but European countries as a whole have a much larger industrial base of materials and industries needed for industrial-scale warfare (steel, chemical, electronics, machinery and niche high tech capital goods) than the US , which has more advanced artisinal tech and high-tech production lines, but the deep, civilian use industrial capacity, on which one could built to quickly scale is in a better condition on this side of the Atlantic.

Even at this late hour, European leaders still don't realize the choice. 🇺🇸 or 🇨🇳🇷🇺 There is a 0% chance of the EU being a 3rd major power. Partner with the most powerful, innovative & dynamic part of (your own) western civilization: USA. Or get torn up by China and Russia.

Leavitt: "You always want to be the most well-read person in the room, and I try to be every day. But Donald Trump always is."

Norway isn’t rich because of welfare. It’s rich because of productive industries, capital accumulation, and markets that generate surplus. The welfare state spends that surplus. Wealth is created first. Then it’s redistributed. So the claim flips cause and effect. Social programs don’t create the wealth they rely on. They depend on it.