John Edward Yancy (Associate of Science)

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John Edward Yancy (Associate of Science)

John Edward Yancy (Associate of Science)

@johnyancy84

Lyme Disease Survivor 🎗️ https://t.co/t3XrgLhHGR

Pittsburgh, PA Katılım Nisan 2018
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Melian Refugee
Melian Refugee@escapefrommelos·
@boneGPT why are foreigners who say stuff like “we have to work with the chinese, american empire is over” allowed to live and make money in america?
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bone@boneGPT·
"We loved America, but the empire is over. China disrupted the Republicans and the Internet disrupted the Democrats. So the next phase is China and the Internet." Are you out of your goddamn mind?
Balaji@balajis

You were extremely focused on the security piece, which is why we needed to discuss the emerging world order. (1) I am glad we agree the Internet will outlast the American Empire. You seem to also have implicitly conceded the Iran war is a disastrous loss, as you haven’t contested that. (2) On the rest, my view is: no, the US military is not actually hegemonic anymore. No, US manufacturing is unfortunately not going to return anytime soon. No, it’s not a question of “if China becomes so dominant.” That is already the current reality, and American Empire is getting rapidly wound down, and Trump’s Taiwan comments signal there isn’t going to be a war with China. (3) So what comes next? We loved America, but the empire is over. China disrupted the Republicans and the Internet disrupted the Democrats. So the next phase is China and the Internet. (4) What you seem to focus on is the question of whether new startup societies will instantly become full military sovereigns, able to fight and win wars with hostile powers bent on their destruction. (5) Of course they won’t, so they won’t even try. They will just operate peacefully within the limits of their host countries. The thing to emphasize is that you can get very far while doing that. (6) All the tech companies got to millions of user and billions of dollars without firing a shot. Cryptocurrencies did too. And the Internet is only getting stronger; no modern country can operate without drones, phones, robotics, AI, social. Not to mention other sectors like biotech and space. Tech is becoming the entire economy, every communication and transaction, every self-driving car and factory robot. (7) China will sell some tech to them, and the free Internet will build other parts. Tech talent will be a scarce resource for most countries not named China, which is why so many digital nomad programs are opening up. (8) And how will those countries attract tech talent? Like Chinatowns and Little Indias, but for tech. The Silicon Valley of Kazakhstan and the Silicon Valley of Poland and so on. Already a thing, but will become more of a thing. Tech as valued guests. We don’t need to fight a war to negotiate a network of special economic zones, tech parks, and nomad visas. And can get very far with nonviolence. (9) Just to give you a sense, here’s a map of some of the special economic zones in the world. We don’t need to fight for territory, because so many countries are already inviting the Internet in. openzonemap.com

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Moongazer
Moongazer@joeybeastmarket·
Sydney Sweeney did that interview where she brutally Whitemogged that dumb ugly libtard bitch and then proceeded to star in 9 different roles that demeaned her which is proof that even when a woman is on your side she still will act against her own interests when given the chance
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bumbadum@bumbadum14·
I’m sympathetic to Balaji on many issues and the sort of Singaporean/Salvadorean model of these tech states but there is a key blind spot in this analysis. It’s not that America can’t wage war anymore, we simply choose not to. The last time a battle was waged on contiguous American soil was in 1865. All of our wars were because we wanted to and “win or lose” whatever the outcome it was on our terms. Even Iran. We didn’t wage war on Iran, you know how I know? Because Tehran didn’t get the Dresden or Hiroshima treatments. Iran was a series of calculated and careful air strikes. That’s been every war America has waged for the past 30 years. Nobody knows what our capacity for war actually is anymore because there has been nothing we actually lose here. If losing to Iran meant we lost territory, or land, or anything here domestically, do you really think we would “lose” like you claim we have or do you think the entire region would be wiped off earth and turned to irradiated glass.
Balaji@balajis

You were extremely focused on the security piece, which is why we needed to discuss the emerging world order. (1) I am glad we agree the Internet will outlast the American Empire. You seem to also have implicitly conceded the Iran war is a disastrous loss, as you haven’t contested that. (2) On the rest, my view is: no, the US military is not actually hegemonic anymore. No, US manufacturing is unfortunately not going to return anytime soon. No, it’s not a question of “if China becomes so dominant.” That is already the current reality, and American Empire is getting rapidly wound down, and Trump’s Taiwan comments signal there isn’t going to be a war with China. (3) So what comes next? We loved America, but the empire is over. China disrupted the Republicans and the Internet disrupted the Democrats. So the next phase is China and the Internet. (4) What you seem to focus on is the question of whether new startup societies will instantly become full military sovereigns, able to fight and win wars with hostile powers bent on their destruction. (5) Of course they won’t, so they won’t even try. They will just operate peacefully within the limits of their host countries. The thing to emphasize is that you can get very far while doing that. (6) All the tech companies got to millions of user and billions of dollars without firing a shot. Cryptocurrencies did too. And the Internet is only getting stronger; no modern country can operate without drones, phones, robotics, AI, social. Not to mention other sectors like biotech and space. Tech is becoming the entire economy, every communication and transaction, every self-driving car and factory robot. (7) China will sell some tech to them, and the free Internet will build other parts. Tech talent will be a scarce resource for most countries not named China, which is why so many digital nomad programs are opening up. (8) And how will those countries attract tech talent? Like Chinatowns and Little Indias, but for tech. The Silicon Valley of Kazakhstan and the Silicon Valley of Poland and so on. Already a thing, but will become more of a thing. Tech as valued guests. We don’t need to fight a war to negotiate a network of special economic zones, tech parks, and nomad visas. And can get very far with nonviolence. (9) Just to give you a sense, here’s a map of some of the special economic zones in the world. We don’t need to fight for territory, because so many countries are already inviting the Internet in. openzonemap.com

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Kremmen
Kremmen@Kremmen101·
@bumbadum14 Even then they're still very reserved. They're trying to prevent civilian casualties as best they can.
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Total NIMBY Death
Total NIMBY Death@BarneyFlames·
@romanhelmetguy @balajis > Spain ruled South America for 300 years without becoming Mayan the avg representative of Spanish culture on here is probably 90% genetically Mayan
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Balaji
Balaji@balajis·
PRINT OUT THE INTERNET Ok. Let me make it extremely concrete. Where did this giant sprawling datacenter come from? It was printed out from the Internet. Specifically, Zuck used the Internet to gather men, make money, organize materials, purchase territory, and shape it to advance Meta's goals. The principal such goal is, ultimately, the replication of Meta itself. This datacenter makes money in the cloud, which enables Zuck to purchase more land, which he repeats all over the earth. Think of it as viral growth, but in the physical world. Now extend that beyond Meta, towards any Internet tribe...such as your following. After all, where was your following built? Was it built one handshake at a time? No, it was built on the Internet. And where do you spend your time? Do you spend it convincing people in a small town? No, you probably spend it on the Internet. And where do you make your money, use your money, find your information, talk to your ideologically aligned friends? Again and again, the Internet. As Orwell said, to see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. The Internet is, right this moment, in front of your nose, as you're looking at your screen. Yet despite being the single most important force in the world, the thing that billions personally engage with for hours per day, the driving force that essentially didn't even exist in daily life just a few decades ago, perhaps the most popular thing humans have ever created...the Internet is still somehow underestimated. After all, the Internet is now much larger than America, with billions of users. The Internet is actually much wealthier too, as it's the only thing with global economic scale comparable to China. The Internet also now drives every single political and military event, from the initial Twitter-driven election of Trump and Brexit, to crypto and AI, to the advent of drone warfare. In fact, the Internet was in part built by America to outlive America. That's why Paul Baran of RAND proposed a packet-switched network, so that the Internet could resist a nuclear attack. ARPA eventually adopted the same blueprint on efficiency grounds. But Baran's initial idea remains important: even if the American state went down, the Internet's network would stay up. Concretely, what it means is that brilliant Americans designed a communications system that could survive even as everything else went down. So that we could restore America from cloud backup. We might need to draw on that property. We might need to print out the Internet, to organize social networks in the physical world, to gather peers together online to start building the societies we believe in offline. Because if we can print out a datacenter, we can also print out a new city.
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Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy

You should read this just to understand how silly these tech guys are when it comes to politics. Balaji thinks that if shit hits the fan in the USA, tech people can save themselves by fleeing to…the internet.

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John Doe
John Doe@reclaimingmemph·
@CovfefeAnon There was no indication that HL abused Becca. It's only the CIA (iirc) that told Billy. It would have been much more interesting to find out it was consensual.
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Covfefe Anon
Covfefe Anon@CovfefeAnon·
The funniest thing is that he couldn't even bring himself to read the actual tweet as written because it violates the crimestop in his head Mutant "he would engage in homosexual activity to save his own life which is the worst thing a man could do" became "he would engage in homosexuality to save his own life"
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Fredster
Fredster@asteroidsfred·
@johnyancy84 Awwh. The participation trophy generation has finally grown up. How sweet.
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Gregg
Gregg@pupsandpinot·
@johnyancy84 It’s ok to not be happy but blame the government who caused this not the previous generations who had nothing to do with it. The government loves people blaming anyone but them.
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Maks
Maks@FingzWotAppened·
@johnyancy84 And it's not just "poorer". We don't have communities anymore. The country is filled with paper americans who don't even speak our language. The only thing holding it all together is the (declining) value of the dollar
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Pontus
Pontus@Pontus4Pope·
@RefinedPopulist The Simpsons had multiple episodes, back in the 90s, laughing at how unrealistic their house was. E.g. Frank Grimes says "Good heavens, this is a palace." And they were always broke. It was a cartoon not a slice-of-life.
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Paul
Paul@WomanDefiner·
This is why Chelsea is actually mad at Shane Gillis by the way. It's because he tied her directly to Epstein which is funny because she's a sex pest herself.
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JayJay
JayJay@JJ_fr33willfuL·
@TheRhetorRick Definitely disagree. Slavery was an insanely authoritarian system that was always unconstitutional. Lincoln was unorthodox, but when constitutional rights are violated, extreme measures are necessary to punch back against tyrants and restore freedom.
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Rick Davis
Rick Davis@TheRhetorRick·
Lincoln put a bullet in the founding fathers' vision for the United States. He transferred the basis of union from compact to conquest and reduced the USA from a federation of sovereign states to an empire with various administrative provinces.
Rick Davis@TheRhetorRick

Here's the correct list.

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Fast Ape Groyper
Fast Ape Groyper@thatgroyper2·
You ever hear people say something like "BRO, every time I'm out and see couples walking together, it's an ugly dude with a HOT chick!" and it turns out they're referring to a skinny, average looking guy with a slightly overweight girlfriend with a plain face
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