• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 hours ago

    Mobsters (and other organized businessmen) prefer for their goals and means to be impregnable for outside spectators. Meaning we don’t know what’s happening. Also a much better job for their own ends, not yours.

    Computation supply chains cracking are a problem, yes.

    You know what else is a problem? Those who have a lot of reserve resources and reserve supply chains.

    I would expect for USA to start playing Hitler in a decade or so, and it won’t be the “inefficient Hitler” trope usually ascribed to USA. It’ll be the “Hitler having listed all possible targets and eliminated them in under an hour when the global boogaloo starts” trope, the “Hitler having predicted all his possible opponents, as in separate people, down to every decision 10 years forward” kind of trope, the “evil Hari Seldon” kind of trope. The point is clear I hope.

    All delivered to us by computation which most of the world uses inefficiently, but with proper understanding much more powerful. Anyway. I suppose it’s too late to change anything.

    EDIT: And also “when the global boogaloo starts” kinda omits the fact that it has probably already ended.

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      9 hours ago

      Hey, we’re yet to discover whether Hari Seldom would become a villain! With this end of the last season, you’d never know!

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            24 minutes ago

            You may actually be right, I haven’t really watched the show as I don’t have Apple TV. But it annoys me to no end they’d use the namez say it’s based on the books, and do something different rather than an adaptation.

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          I thought about it, and I must admit I haven’t read it (yet). Yet, the TV series adaptation, it looks like the latest episode was like WTAF?! I mean, I won’t be surprised it would be a completely different adaptation.