darkcalling

Well doubtless they hope the work makes some of them strong slaves because they were just faking it to be lazy because that's a real thing that definitely happens. And those it breaks and leaves disabled beyond the point of doing anything like this they leave to die in the gutter, having extracted some value from them for capital in the process and disposed of them successfully. But while they're dying they'll be desperately fighting existing workers for jobs thus allowing worsening conditions, crackdowns on unions, pay kept lower, etc.

I've read several times now from several thinkers the notion that the Samson option is not just firing nukes at Europe and Arab neighbors plus Iran but actually because of the zionist dominance and intertwining with high tech that they have hidden code, bombs to activate on command which will cause the collapse of modern infrastructure. They'll take down power systems, medical devices will stop functioning or malfunction, mapping will fail, just all kinds of chaos from them using their positions intertwined with Microsoft, Google, and a ton of other tech companies with zionist intelligence officers that they will bring down the modern world if the west allows them to fall.

This would be powerful incentive for the western leaders to not move away from the zionists. To do so would require acknowledging this penetration and weakness on a scale far larger than anything they've even accused China of and a decade of work methodically searching for and removing it after kicking all the zionist intelligence collaborators (really any zionist occupation company) out of these positions and praying doing so and obviously searching for and trying to disarm this doesn't make them set it off.

CIA has been doing this type of thing with insects (maybe not bees) for a while supposedly. They even bragged about it in an ad campaign a while back. Something in the vein of "some of our bugs have been real bugs" with a picture of an insect. Still not sure how that works for getting any kind of data back but I suppose it's possible they might be able to tap the optical nerves, broadcast it weakly and use super high-power boosted antennas pointed at the location to pick up vague pictures like outlines of layouts in buildings or maybe something similar with audio reverberations. Not sure.

The CIA near the height of the cold war was able through front companies to buy USSR titanium for their weapons programs such as the B2 and other high performance planes without the USSR detecting this.

Frankly if you're China and you don't control global monetary flows, don't have ins at every bank, every shipping company, every logistic company, don't have a global illegal wiretap network and do have a policy of openness and trade wherever possible there is just no way for them to totally stop this.

I mean the west hasn't been able to completely stop Russian imports of western products through intermediaries and they really want to and have a lot more visibility throughout the supply chain than China.

In the electronics space Macbooks tend to be pretty durable. The downsides are anything recent which is worth buying (M1-4 chips) has soldered on storage, ram, etc so they're not really user upgradeable and there's also the issue of needing an adapter for anything USB-A. I wouldn't buy new for value unless it's on clearance as an old model. But after at most a battery replacement they tend to be pretty solid machines even used as long as they weren't badly mistreated. Older Thinkpads (not E-series, mainly T and P) also tend to be pretty durable and you can buy them cheap used on ebay and are a lot more serviceable than Macbooks. Screens are not as great though, not the clearest or sharpest things but usable if you're not doing graphics work or using it as a high end, high quality media player. Macbooks win on the nice screen front hands down.

why is this so common?!?!

Bourgeois propaganda. They don't want their taxes raised nor those of their top servants (C-suite execs, etc). So they fear-monger that the moment you earn just a bit more money, bam you get hit with losing 50% of it which is horrifying to normal people who just want to make a bit more money and fear this will happen to them. Thus the people who have been indoctrinated with this oppose tax increases. If they understood the amount you need to live on (say $250k) was taxed at one lower rate and you only got hit with 50% tax on the amount over a million you earn they would be much more amenable to higher taxes on the higher brackets.

Not only that but it makes workers content with less. I've literally heard people say they didn't take a raise or a promotion because it would put them just a few thousand over into in a higher tax bracket. I mean this is the dream for the bourgeoisie. They get to blame it on government and convince their worker serfs that they want a lower paying job because of taxes.

So it's a gross simplification for the purposes of getting people to oppose all taxes by fear-mongering brackets as cliffs.

Reminder that DuckDuckGo is far from perfect. They censor and derank or hide Russian news sources since the SMO started as "disinformation" and have admitted as much. They likely censor and derank other anti-empire outlets and sources as well without admitting it. I actually think they may be worse than Google in this particular regard as they did it as a libbed up "ethics" stand as part of the whole Russia-gate nonsense.

Not to say continue using Google but I'd be wary of using DDG for anything anti-empire or politically contentious.

Sadly not practical most likely. They'd need to physically burrow into the FBI's basement and they have tremor sensors that would detect tunneling anywhere near there. Not like they're going to scan all this stuff and put it on the most hackable portion of pentagon dot mil or something. Those boxes have disappeared into a deep hole of the deep state bureaucracy. I'd guess just the threat of release will keep all the blackmailed pedos in-line so having quick access isn't even seen as a need.

He probably crapped that out on a pirated copy of photoshop CS3 and gave himself a pat on the back.

He definitely just used AI. He told Grok to make him some super cool flag logos and picked out the one he liked best.

Because they would prefer to avoid a direct war. They'd prefer a Syria/Libya type situation of engineered moderate rebels and selective strikes to maximize chaos and breakdown. They already have Azerbaijan totally in the zionist/NATO pockets hosting their planes and harassing Russia just across the border which they can use to aid with arming these. They hope to inspire ethnic tensions to create an actual fall of Iran that's durable and removes it as any kind of a power player for decades.

I can hear this in his voice and it's hilarious.

True but also I think in a war with China those won't matter as much as some combination of drone production, missile production capacities, ability to get those through the enemy defenses (counter-jamming, electronic warfare, tactics, etc) AND/OR your ability to take down drones and missiles effectively and not too expensively (resource-wise not cost-wise). The US isn't going to fight a ground war against China in a conventional sense. It's going to be on the high seas, a world war probably across many island chains with naval logistic and control of the seas and air more important. But who knows.

So drones + fighters + other air assets + missiles + naval assets and the ability to leverage them, use electronic warfare, dirty tricks, secret weapons, combined arms, etc to overcome the enemy and strike deep and hard or maintain superiority.