ha ha, pathetic.

Don’t delete your comments big boy, say it with your chest.

No, sorry.

From an economic angle, that level of control is hard power, as removing it, or worse, putting behind an opponent, can be as damaging, and coersive

That’s just objectively untrue. It only becomes hard power when they lean on that influence coercively. The implication that it could be taken away is the literal definition of soft power. A direct threat to take it away as leverage would be hard power.

When China builds a port in Djibouti, the implication is that if Djibouti doesn’t conform largely to China’s geopolitical goals in the region the port could be shut down or funding pulled. That’s soft power, even though it carries conditions, because of the ambiguous and uncertain nature of the consequences. China in this example wouldn’t be exercising “hard power” unless they actively threatened to pull all Chinese shipping to and from the port or change the parameters of the loan structure to get the country to fall in line.

They have influence over it, they don’t control it. Elon can’t threaten Sam Altman with a hellfire missile strike over their ongoing lawsuit.

I mean, it’s definitely part of the reason. That kind of data is valuable to more than just governments and intelligence agencies.

Sorry, no. Sponsoring a ballroom or paying for an inauguration are examples of soft power. Hard power is when you use coercive means to achieve your goals, in a geopolitical sense (where the terms come from) hard power is military action or the threat thereof, or economic sanctions. Funding things, building things and paying for things are examples of soft power. A billionaires version of hard power would be blackmail or a hostile takeover.

This is why I advocate for the anti-surveillance method of “hit camera with big stick”

Ya corndogs are the wild wild West of toppings do it however the fuck you please. I think it’s because they’re a fair food and not a street food per se. No rules about fair food other than “how much can you eat without puking”

I’m not saying it’s not worth the price, just that it’s not a ready made replacement for the average consumer.

“request a quote”

Ya I’m gonna say that’s a $2500+ printer

The marketing department decided on “assisted suicide” because euthanasia is an icky word. Didn’t you get the memo?

Hospice is not the same thing as assisted suicide though

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Oh a tankie! It can write! Now draw shapes tankie. Fuckwad.

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In the US though he’s absolutely correct. It’s just not a term anyone but MAGAts use. This rule really is only gonna censor the people trying to fear monger, and not any actual “antifa members” because they don’t exist.

Nobody thinks it’s based to not read, because once again, he’s joking. I’m just gonna block you so I can stop listening to your antisocial circling back onto not understanding what a joke is.