I know many of you are ghey, and some are r-slurred, but in all seriousness, how many of you are both? Just wondering in a non-judgmental manner and continuing to hold space for you all. 🙏🏻

Skeb Thank you!🐝
マルハナ/Maruhana pic.twitter.com/p2pCEKKcxW

— るてこ/Ruteko (@ruko220) January 10, 2025

Footage of a Russian fighter reporting from a recently captured Ukrainian stronghold position. pic.twitter.com/vi91DultBM

— Blackrussian (@Blackrussiantv) January 19, 2025

and appointing the featured guest of this documentary as our ambassador was one of the few good things JFK ever did:

Reischauer was appointed US Ambassador to Japan by President John F. Kennedy in the spring of 1961, at a time when US-Japan relations were at a low point following the massive 1960 protests in Japan against the US-Japan Security Treaty.[8] In the immediate aftermath of the protests, Reischauer had traveled to Japan and spoken with various Japanese friends and associates to get a Japanese point of view on the protests.[9] After returning to the United States, Reischauer attracted the attention of Kennedy's transition team when he wrote an article about the protests in the prominent policy journal Foreign Affairs called "The Broken Dialogue with Japan." In this article Reischauer rejected the notion, put forth by the Eisenhower administration, that the protests had been a communist plot. Instead, he argued that the protests reflected real grievances on the part of the Japanese in relation to US, and were exacerbated by a failure by American leaders to reach out to Japanese opinion leaders and try to understand Japanese concerns. Reischauer argued forcefully that only skillful and nuanced diplomacy could repair this "broken dialogue."[9]

On the advice of his advisors, Kennedy decided that Reischauer himself would be the best candidate for the job, and nominated Reischauer to be his first (and only) ambassador to Japan. This was a break with precedent, because previous ambassadors to Japan had been career State Department officials who had no special connection with Japan.[8] In fact, State Department officials viewed strong connections with an ambassador's host country with suspicion and opposed Reischauer's nomination on these grounds.[8] However, Kennedy prevailed and Reischauer became the first US ambassador to Japan who actually knew the local language.

As Ambassador, Reischauer worked to repair the recent rift in US-Japan relations. Reischauer made "equal partnership" the watchword of his time as ambassador, and constantly pushed for more equal treatment of Japan.[10] He advocated and helped arrange a summit meeting between Kennedy and new Japanese prime minister Hayato Ikeda in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1961. Historian Nick Kapur has argued that this summit was a success, and led to a substantial realignment of the US-Japan alliance in the direction of greater mutuality.[11] Reischauer hoped to return the favor by having Kennedy become the first sitting US president to visit Japan. Kennedy was agreeable, and initial preparations were made, but Kennedy was assassinated before he could make the visit and Secretary of State Dean Rusk went in his place in early 1964.[12] Reischauer also embarked on a nationwide listening tour in Japan; although he did not reach his goal of visiting all 47 prefectures by the end of his time in office, he did manage to visit 39 of them.[13] Reischauer's great efforts to charm the Japanese people were jocularly nicknamed the "Reischauer Offensive" (Raishawā rosen) by the Japanese press (sometimes alternatively, the "Kennedy-Reischauer Offensive").[13]

Elon Musk's net worth has gotten stuck in the 400 billions. If it was going to go up higher it would have done so by now, taking into account that his team is in the white house right now.

SpaceX has also clearly peaked as they got their reusable rocket working, but beyond that there is not much else to be done in terms of technological revolution for SpaceX, and moon mining is still many decades away.

Tesla has also peaked as their vehicles aren't getting any cheaper, and they are now facing global competition in the electric vehicle market from BYD, significantly limiting their future expansion outside of the US.

The social media company X also appears to be holding on to its market share when it comes to users, and does not really have any further scope for growth, unless Elon were to actually buy tiktok.

This leaves Grok the AI, which is left attached to Tesla products and to be used on twitter. Which limits the number of users to the number of people already using Elon Musk's products and services. That is, Grok AI itself is less a product, and more an accessory to Tesla products.

Elon Musk has also been talking of opening up a video game company, but by the looks of it, it is pretty much apparent that the video gaming industry is going to be far more competitive than it was when Amazon tried to get into it.

All in all, it becomes apparent that Elon Musk's net wealth has peaked in the 400s of billions and that the market share of his companies is also soon going to peak due to the limited size of the American market, and the amount of competition from other companies in the global market. That is to say, Elon Musk and his companies have peaked, and we are unlikely to see anything else truly revolutionary come out of them. Including the robotics side of things, where the humanoid robots if they make it, would still end up being overpriced in relation to international product prices, and likely even middle income American budgets.

In conclusion:

The US is not going to lead in any further tech revolutions or new era of technological innovation or ideas. What the US is going to lead in at best is iterative improvements so for the next 30-50 years the only thing we can expect from America is improvements in products and ways of doing things that already exist but better.

This would also mean that the global market is going to continue eating up the US share of the global market, as the US market fails to add additional layers of complexity and income brackets to its own economy, due to all wealth accumulating in a few hands.

US market is reaching its peak global market share. It will not expand beyond this point, but will always be at risk of shrinking beyond this point, until one day it finally does. US economic growth will remain slower than the global economic growth, as that is the only way that the US can remain competitive in the market. Cutting costs forever until there are no more costs left to cut.

The last innovative billionaire in the US is done. It is over now. The CEO of Nvidia doesn't count, as he is currently doing more marketing than actual product to match the advertised quality. OpenAI also doesn't count because we do not have AGI yet. They can be counted if they ever manage to actually make smarter than human AI which is very likely to be never.

Inferior island nations should be bombed

We all know USA or Europe will not do anything to India.

Looks like it is not the jews that control the world. It is probably the hindus. And none of us knew it this long.

As long as they don't start wars, should be OK.

We have to impregnate our women. We need to make more…

— Michael Žygimantaitis (@MichaelZygi) January 14, 2025

What's the world coming to, can't even point out facts

It will be even funnier if he doesn't get a pardon.

Redditors seethed very hard about this

https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1holn13/jan_6_rioter_applies_for_asylum_in_canada_after/

Watch the video again. Now try to replicate the movement that he makes. Don't try to consciously hit a sieg heil or a wave pose, just repeat the motion. Watch the video and follow his movements exactly, follow the strength of his arm as he hits his chest then the pose. Give it a little "nngh". Notice the angle of your arm.

If you need help, go to your bathroom and watch yourself hit the pose in the mirror a few times. Although that won't give you the exact image as it's reversed, so maybe set up your phone camera and film yourself hitting the salute a few times. Put some elbow grease in it. Put on a nice suit and slick your hair back a little. Send those videos to me so I can check your progress and see if you're hitting it right. Walk around your house while hitting the pose and see how it affects your movement and tone. Keep filming yourself doing that around your home and send them to me with your name, address, and place of employment so I know you're doing it right and can send some pointers in the mail.

Then maybe you'll understand that he meant to hit that shit.

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We all know that all shipping companies are not equal.

S tier

FedEx

Packages delivered on time, rarely lost, rarely damaged. They deliver before my business is closed. Cost to ship is competitive

A tier

USPS

Cheap, usually good times, packages lost more often but usually arrive undamaged. They deliver late, but before my business closes. Shipping costs are cheaper for small packages but they don't ship everything.

D tier

DHL

Idk if they are cheap or not but they take forever to get to me. I try to avoid people who ship DHL. Hate when I get a DHL package. It's going to take days extra to deliver and who knows when they will be here.

Amazon

Essentially DHL but the packages are a little extra beat up when I get them

F tier

UPS

UPS are a bunch of r-slurred apes posing as delivery people. I'm assuming everything is brown from them throwing their shit against the side. You are lucky if you get your UPS package within a couple of days of the expected day. When you receive it, it will be best up and parts you ordered may be stuck through the sides. There may be missing items due to holes created by aforementioned parts. They have no concept of office hours, if they even come with my package I can only assume it will be at 7, two hours after we close when I'm finishing my workout. The proud pavement ape will then spend 12 minutes playing soccer inside the ups vehicle while blocking the entire parking lot and entrance and making me wait. Then he will say, "sorry bruh, long day," forgetting I can see he didn't even leave to start his route until 2pm I HATE UPS. How are they so bad at this

Thank you for attending my ted talk

She only recently found out she was buying weed cakes and croissants for 8 years

She basically wanted to be more cultural at one point and decided to buy stuff at different places

Where you come from and what brings you here?

Edit: nevermind. This website is just the same people with a different color.

Broken mop.