Oh but you are interested, especially now. You are trying so very hard. That is why you are still throwing cash into the dumpster fire that is Tesla. You got blindsided. You exploited the cheap Chinese labour, thinking they can never be as smart as you. Your designs will forever be Greek to them. And that was your fatal flaw, and will continue to be as long as you refuse to admit your shortcomings.
America is the undisputed King of software. That is subject to change, especially with your tech leaders pushing hard to create a technocracy. You have successfully spooked your greatest ally, Europe into building for themselves and they already have a lot in place. Good for them.
The US is even losing software ground with your own people who trust your less and less (scandal after scandal will do that)
What you are left with is selling your software to the Third World, but that is not very lucrative, obviously.
As far as chips are concerned ,I pessimistically give it 5 years for China to equal you in that space. They will not be buying from you anymore, and they have football fields of the smartest people now, in all major field. And they are united in the fact that you don't want to share your toys, so they will use their number one manufacturing and research capacity to upend you.
You are going to rue the day. Enjoy your temporary comforts. You got so used to speaking of other people that are not in your demographic (especially Africans) as almost human that Africa will also not shed a tear should America be gone tomorrow And yes, we will survive your abscence, like we had since the beginning of time Tick tock (Or Tik Tok:-), more aptly)
You are an NPC, just like me. They created this world, plugged it in and now here we are in this "hard drive" with its set storage.
If only we can get to the other side and meet them. But that would mean going through one of these black holes and coming out whole on the other side.
Wouldn't it be cool if an NPC actually escaped the game? :-)
I wonder how many other "games" are out there?
In any case, I am thankful for the game I'm in. Just don't want to take a chance and go to another game and die there. Apparently you don't respawn should that happen. Ralph got lucky.
Agreed. You did not say "Only in America". Everybody wants to be free. Some just believe they are more free then others, until proven otherwise.
This is not a fault of the average American,but more an indictment of an insular education system which does not address much of the world.
And that is why college educated Americans have strikingly different world views from the ones who just finished high school. The highschoolers have been "taught", and there was nothing in their personal experience or further education to change their minds, until they are exposed to places that are less insulated of course, because TV and social media can only do so much.
You can't serious believe that this is an America only phenomenon. People have been "fighting for what they believe in" in all countries. A lot of them with higher stakes. This is not "exceptional".
This article is looking in all the wrong places,whereas the truth is much simpler and was always screaming from the outside, but America was deafened by it's "specialness".
Both parties veered right - one just more obvious then the other. That is what the people wanted. That is what the people chose. And that is what the people will pay for.
It doesn't help that Americans are trying left, right and center to find excuses for their rapid decline. Talking about how it was 30% who brought this on everyone else.
If that ws the case then Kamala would be president.