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Well, if it stays at $5 then it’s probably not a popular idea. If 1000 people like the idea and each put $5, now we’re talking $5k. Still probably not quite enough, but it is producing income via a novel way of getting in touch with the audience.

Random idea: do you think a platform for crowd sourcing / funding ideas could go well for musicians? Like a feature request in software, where users can like a post about a feature to show interest, except it would use dollars instead of likes. Fans could publish an idea for a song they like and donate $5 or whatever. If it’s a popular idea, more people donate to it and the artist takes notice (having now been somewhat paid to produce it).

Size is one matter, but technology is another worth pointing out. China has an economy that complements technological capacity in ways that the average American isn’t ready to comprehend. From what I understand, they were able to convert their phone companies to car companies on command. They can have an idea today, and a production line tomorrow. Who knows what a wartime China economy could produce?

Honestly though, “greatest superpower the planet has seen so far” is already an argument to be had. China is really fucking powerful with their command economy.

I think it has more to do with not enough civil values.

and think "shit, we should have done something"

They already do, regarding watergate. America is like the main character of Momento.

Okay, but what about the data center underneath it?

Like I said, we now have more than we did before. You can look at that from multiple angles: (1) we have more recency to his most heinous activities. This stuff gets to some of his supporters. (2) we have more legal leverage over him now, for what it’s worth now and in the coming years. (3) we have more documents from the Epstein case now. (4) we have ever so slightly forced his hand and thus demonstrated it is possible to do so, even if it wasn’t exactly the outcome we immediately demanded.

Your argument to me feels like it tries to invalidate the only demonstrable progress that has actually occurred, for its size alone. It’s to say no progress is better than little progress, which I whole heartedly disagree with. This is slight positional progress, and I’d ask again: how much progress have your ideas made in resolving the kind of situation America faces? Because “to not be as stupid as Americans seem to be” isn’t actually doing anything except admitting you don’t face the problem yourself and likely have no solutions to offer.

I think this still fails to see the bigger picture. They released something they hadn’t before, which shows that progress was made. Had Trump held all the power, that wouldn’t have happened. Now, what are your ideas and how much progress have they made so far?

Could be that refactoring the code for Windows 11 compatibility, and new features, would have been roughly equivalent in effort to rebuilding. If the code has been poked and probed for years already, still follows old patterns, and have devolved into a tightly coupled mess of scattered system dependancies… maybe it just becomes easier to justify rebuilding it as a way of clearing out technical debt?

As is the goal for flooding the zone. Don’t let them convince you that your efforts have no impact.

Well, we know the next move. The goal now is to slowly disperse heat from Trump. They’re going to release the names of political enemies first—which will tire some folk. If backlash ensues, maybe they’ll release the names of some low ranking followers or foreign leaders. The very last thing they’ll release, if so, will be anything implicating Trump. If that happens, the goal will be to have diluted any possible impact by then. To tire the rioters, to normalize the prior crimes, to get the news cycles following other events (like a potential war with Venezuela). They’re trying to ice us, like in sport.