• Sims@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    BUT, we have an enormous production… …no wait… we don’t. We have an enormous technical and intellectua… …hm, nope… …enormous resources of ener… arg, also no! …economy, no… …military, lol no! …‘self-confidence’ …could be ?..

    DEBT ! They have an enormous debt - I knew there was one !!

    …yeah, okay, but it’s something

  • Routhinator@startrek.website
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    4 days ago

    Lol, lost the internet because they have less DCs?

    Meanwhile most of America is still on dialup or early 2000s broadband speeds.

    This is a fucking shallow definition of winning.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      Europe is pretty much entirely dependent on US platforms having failed to develop their own the way China and Russia did. There’s no European Yandex or Baidu equivalent, no European Alibaba, and so on.