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Lido pimienta - eso que tu haces

The whole song is pretty, but the chorus is incredible.

you’re going to make god angry with this comic, too.

god Is very sensitive.

it’s that first thing you said.

“China is catching up, but still behind in defense and aerospace technology”

this is a fiction, according to US defense officials, but if we pretended it was true, it doesn’t change the original point, that the US is falling behind in most technological fields.

you’ll notice that I didn’t mention aerospace in my original top of the dome list.

it looks like you’re agreeing with all my other points though, so I don’t have much else to say except that the important American fiction to dispel is this:

“other countries are catching up steadily overall and are ahead in some areas, especially China.”

10 years ago? you could argue that other countries were playing catch up in most technological fields.

now?

The US is behind in nearly every technological field and especially now is uninterested in catching up to the rest of the world.

The US population cannot afford to live and is critically undereducated, and are about to have four more years of withheld R&D funding and catastrophic isolationist policy.

That’s the reality on the ground now.

any “we’re not doing so bad” mentality simply is not correct anymore, and it’s important to recognize the reason behind and the rate at which the US is failing to advance in critical fields.

You’re not going to be able to swerve back onto the road by pretending the guardrails you’re grinding against aren’t there.

you first claimed that the US is still leading in most technological fields.

this is false, as I pointed out in my previous comment.

your new tack is the US “is still doing very good, though”

this is also incorrect, largely a belief based on past achievements and cultural stories.

“aerospace”:

a private company innovated aerospace technology despite the US government’s reluctance to invest in aerospace technology.

China has been investing in space, and are planning to build space stations and moon bases, and have been having regular launches.

“defense”: We are not ahead of the game anymore. US dod officials have been very clearly saying for Over a decade that the US might already be behind China in key areas of defense, AI weapons systems among those, despite spending 4 to 10 times as much on their defense budget.

“All the biggest and leading companies in that area are still based in the US.”

biggest? okay.

leading? in what world is Microsoft a leading technological innovator?

they cannot even compete with a free operating system despite decades of a head start and hundreds of billions more capital.

Apple? they haven’t been innovative in 15 years, depend on slave labor, and their newest phones aren’t even playing catch up with East Asian phones anymore, hardware or software.

“You’re also missing biotechnology…”

I wasn’t listing literally every field the US was failing in, I was refuting your false notion that the US was still leading in most technological fields.

“The possibly most disruptive technology AI is also firmly in the hands of the USA.”

not according to AI researchers, AI CEOs, computer scientists, and the US DOD.

and again, any prowess US companies had in AI was due to the mass exploitation of workers abroad.

“The amount of money spent on R&D is still huge in the USA”

it sure isn’t now, grants and federal funding have been cut by more than half since dumps took office.

“it attracts top minds from across the globe.”

this was true 20 years ago, as most of you are above assumptions were.

they are not true today.

The US is not leading in most, if any, technological fields, it’s not leading in manufacturing, it’s not leading in most sciences, and it has one of the most awful education systems in the world, not to mention the living affordability crisis going on.

If people can’t afford groceries or a simple apartment to live in, let alone education, none of which they can afford in the US anymore, and have not been able to for the last generation, innovation falls by the wayside.

as it has been for a long time.

and now, US “dominance” will continue to freefall for at least the next 4 years.

you can’t do science without funding and support, and dumps has taken that funding away, and importantly does not believe in science or the benefits of research and development.

The US population has not been invested in, and your industries are suffering for that.

meanwhile, other countries are investing record amounts and setting technological records in innovative technologies like solar that the US has no hope of catching up to in the near future.

I want to note that this is a good thing, this sort of disillusionment.

The US is not leading in fields that you recognize as critical.

it’s important to recognize how The US fell behind in these fields and what the US can do to catch up to other countries, or more hopefully, work with other countries to progress together, which may be their only practical choice anyway.

The US does not have a dominant position in:

microchips.

batteries.

solar.

material science.

fusion.

energy.

computer science.

automotive.

displays.

The list goes on.

If you still think the USA is leading in tech, you are sorely misinformed about the state of the technological world(to be fair, it Is startling how rapidly the US has fallen out of grace in many of these technological fields).

The US is either barely clinging to previous legacies of prowess in tech fields to match other countries or falling behind rapidly, and without innovative latitude, federal grants or funding for research, they’re falling behind even further.

the US does not have the technological edge it once did; scientists, officials from the department of defense, everybody in the know agrees and have been making public statements about how quickly the US is falling behind in critical scientific and technological fields.

you didn’t cite any statistics to me, but I can drop some knowledge on you.

State level politics has been affected nationwide, civil rights have been affected nationwide down to the personal level.

The executive branch eliminating the other two branches of government is in no way hyperbole.

Trump just signed an executive order declaring that he has the final say on legal matters, overriding any judicial power.

he has also claimed the right to unilaterally disperse or withhold funds, overriding any legislative power.

One branch of the US government (The executive) has taken over the other two branches(The judicial and legislative).

Trump is a convicted felon and a rapist.

none of this is hyperbole.

security is guaranteed by the police? not in the US.

US police rape and murder civilians and children in the US regularly.

US Police can legally abuse, lie to and manipulate civilians without consequence, and enjoy judicial legal immunity for their actions(known as qualified immunity).

The US has a mass shooting every 16 hours.

women in the US literally don’t have control over their own bodies and are denied access to hospitals and healthcare.

The US has by far the highest prison population in the world, run by for-profit corporations who benefit from imprisoning you and your neighbors.

these are not localized problems in DC, the entire US is unstable, exploitative and abusive towards its citizens.

Is guatemal more functional than the US’ recent attempted violent coup and literal ongoing executive coup of the government?

Yes. Guatemala is more functional than the US government run by a felon rapist who is literally violating the US Constitution, has frozen or defunded critical government operations and is actively erasing the function of its legislative and judicial branches via executive orders.

safe?

last time I was in the states, somebody shot someone else in the head over a parking spot outside the burger place I was eating lunch at.

I’m pretty happy

Guatemala.

Good food, good people, good mountains, laid-back fun culture.

incidentally, I am from the states but have chosen not to live in the US for the past decade for reasons that have now become obvious to everyone.

I’m not too worried if the US collapses, there are 200 other countries to live in.

it doesn’t seem like it will collapse entirely, maybe, since that wouldn’t benefit the rich people in charge of it? good luck.

has anyone asked what Luigi thinks about this?

The silver lining here is that with now 8 years of abolishing civil/workers rights, technology and social development being suppressed and Americans falling so objectively behind in most measurable fields, hopefully Americans can get over their blatantly false sense of exceptionalism and become comfortable just being another part of the world.

China and Saudi Arabia still pay 3 to 6K US a month, and it’s even easier to get a teaching job in those countries than japan(taught for a while myself, so I like checking the salaries every now and then)

I agree, he should get out there.

hey, the commenter Snowstorm Is the only comment I see here that is accurate. following those steps is the best way to show romantic interest in someone.

traveling to Asia is like 300 bucks, and hostels are $4 a day. food is a dollar a dish, and you can hang out in parks at the beach or at home and watch movies all day.

living abroad is much cheaper than what you’re paying now.

you said you save most of your paycheck.

If you have a few thousand saved, you can easily live abroad for a year and figure out something you like to do more than a job that sucks around a bunch of people that you don’t like in a situation that’s making you depressed.

I’m still using jerboa, I really like how simple it is.

but I haven’t tried the others because when I joined there weren’t really any others, so I’m not sure if I can call it my favorite?

jerboa is my favorite so far.

fingers twirled.

haha, yeah that pretty much covers it.

nope, that’s incorrect.

you asked if Andrew Tate is a “transright activist”

I explained exactly how he is not a trans rights activist, since he seeks to abolish rights for the trans community rather than establish and expand trans community rights.

you are now asking if Andrew Tate is an activist for specifically alpha males, his chosen gender identity.

that is correct, he is an alpha male zealot.

2,000 meters, yea. why?

I know that.

those cis men are declaring their new gender identity.

as is their right.