It’s called incumbency.

I remember a time when IBM had 95% market share of the PC market.

Then Apple and Microsoft innovated them out of the market, in software.

Blackberry had 80%+ market share of the smartphone segment they popularized. In 4 years it was almost entirely gone.

It happens when the engineers are sidelined and the finance and marketing people take over.

They are blind to any trends that they do not control. They are unable to innovate and unwilling to take risks. It kills gigantic companies slowly at first and then very quickly.

First 3 on the left and all the things on the right are correct, because the USSR as not communist, but Stalinist.

Its also about more than just payment. Treat people like humans.

Do you have your bitlocker recovery key handy? You have to enter it with the toggle on top of the HOTAs.

Those liberals don’t exist. They hate Russia, America and Israel for its imperialism.

Much like the scene this meme is from, it ends with China getting another “cultural revolution” in the form of a mind wipe.

It’s call a shaping operation. Something Russian propaganda is very good at.

Its 2AM, Today is tomorrow already

Nebula does not bring an audience like YouTube can, so its not a solution yet.

I think YouTube should have a free tier with limited watch minutes of low quality, not an advertising tier.

Its much better to pay YouTube so the YouTubers get money based on what the audience wants, and not what the Advertisers want from Youtube.

Its absolutely for political reasons. The US is no longer a reliable partner for anything.

They, however did not cheap out on things like armored storage, fire supression and spall liners to protect the crew.

Thats a lot less than I thought it would be by this stage.

But I also suspect that Iranian military losses are also a lot less than the US is proporting

They want to have more options for children to abuse.

Israel, convincing the USA to attack Iran.

You can remove the words “acting like”

I was mostly referring to the lack of transport electrification.

South Africa dodged a similar problem, our last president sold our 90 day reserve to his Dubai buddies below market rate. Fortunately our new multiparty government has competent people in place that fixed that before this crisis. Thus our fuel price is “only” going up by 15%, rather than tracking the oil price. It will go up more eventually, but some buffer is being provided for to soften the blow.

I am very surprised that australia and new Zeeland did not have bigger reserves, given they are on the end of a long supply chain and conflict in indonesia and china can cut off supply for a long time, not the mention a middle east crisis.

Also the “red hat” motherfuckers in australia that kept australia so dependant on fossil fuels when it has some of the best natural resources for wind and solar power.

And eyes and nose and ears.