Vance is the most cringe here. I swear if old age gets to Trump in the next four years Vance will do more damage to the American reputation that can be salvageable in the next decade or more.

Definitely true. We had a German professor with an essentially incomprehensible accent teaching calculus at our college. Basically everyone had to learn it from the textbook.

US compartmentalizes based on race. It’s apparent in essentially all of the media they export to the rest of the world.

Historically American society operated based on a race based caste system and the consequences of that echo into the present day.

Is there a guide you’d recommend following?

The father still lives in Russia though.

The reality is that it was a mistake to give boomers unfettered access to the internet. Just like we dont hand Ipads to 5 year olds and let them click anything on YouTube.

US is in a state of slow implosion. Rest of the world needs to look at collaborating while excluding the US.

My guess is China will fill the void left by the disintegration of USAID in order to boost its global standing.

I strongly encourage all nations to begin violating US intellectual property rights. Nations like India already do so with pharmaceuticals.

Eventually other nations will need to take on the mantle of tech and pharmaceutical research and development and we don’t want to live in a world where all this progress is lost.

Americans have chosen to nuke their own democracy and we need to minimize the damage done to the rest of the world as much as possible.

Eh you can achieve similar or greater privacy on a Android phone simply because it’s not locked down in the way an iPhone is.

Surely that’s not a uniquely American phenomenon.

They used to innovate, no doubt. But their products provide absolutely terrible value now. Great resale, sure. But you’re overpaying 20% for the hardware you’re getting which is not the case on the Android side. The only thing iPhone universally does better is 1) video and 2) ecosystem (if all your products are Apple). The rest is a tomaeto vs tomahto situation.

Not relevant to most basic users but I could not use a phone where I did not have the freedom to sideload apps, especially if I’m overpaying for the hardware.

I think we all know Japan has been neutered and/or spayed since WW2 but I don’t think anyone sees it as an anti Nazi nation.

Hitler’s original plan was to escape to Japan once the war was lost.

Modern Japan is more centered on Western Ball gobbling and animated tentacle porn but I don’t see it being anti Nazi per se.

Looking like a Nazi youth doesn’t help his case.

He was about to go mainstream and lost that oppurtunity because of dabbling in “for the lulz”

I know he’s doing more than fine for himself with YouTube revenue but he basically blew his shot at getting closer to being a household name.

Now he is and will forever be that guy my teenager watches and will eventually grow out of watching