opportunists would gather around a piece of shit if it benefited them

Is it really sustainable ? I'm just not sure it's a viable alternative to eating less meat and farming with sustainable and regenerative practices.

It's worth acknowledging when you're artificially pinging your dopamine system. When you eat tasty food, when you drink coffee, when you smoke weed. Stimulating yourself by browsing the Internet aimlessly falls into this category too.

Naw man, everyone who can exercise influence by the methods we are broadly referencing is already doing it.

It is harder to explain why the powerful Chineese wouldn't be doing it when every other relevant group is.

Cognitive domain, it's not a new concept.

Security from psyops. Duh ..

Just wanted to say that I think lab grown meat is a bit of a white elephant. Dose it scale, what are the inputs, etc...

It might be viable, but it's hard to believe anything about it with all the grassroots shills online. VC money is all over this. It's just another product.

I'm not sure that's the solution.

It's quite amazing that you are one of the only people in the thread to acknowledge this. We are part of nature.

The year is 2043, and Chumlee has been uploaded to the Metaverse.

"I remember those," Chumlee said, his voice echoing through the virtual space. "Let me run this by my valuation expert, the all-knowing singularity."

A moment later, Chumlee's eyes widened in surprise. "Fourteen trillion?" he repeated.

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Chumlee shook his head. "I can't believe it. I'll give you two."

Suppose when you take the foreign policy of globalisation out of the equation, the geopolitical arena looks a lot different.

It's hard to know how the relationships will develop. Israel geographical location has become at least 50% less important.

When you consider the possible impact of climate change and demographics over the next decade, coupled with the increasingly fragile financial outlook.

It's not unfathomable that Israel ends up in an extremely exposed position without significant support from the West.

China and Russia are bound together by mutual interest in hydrocarbons, and Irans leaders would attempt to capitalise on every opportunity.

In a destabilised world, everyone will try to sieze the opportunity. It's going to get very busy, Netanyahu is assuming a lot when he thinks that Israel is going to stay relevant in the long term.

Just wanted to add that it's going to be multifaceted threats along with the multipolar geopolitical outlook. In situations like that, things get very simple. Things start to boil down to very simple decisions.

I'm not so sure. The current geopolitical outlook leaves Israel in a tough spot. With the failure of globalisation and the declining importance of the Middle Eastern hydrocarbons, there is actually a breaking point.

I don't necessarily think that breaking point would be reached, but if the current government does not restrain themselves and play their card correctly, it will count against them going forward.

Despite what Americans think, their previous actions have counted against them, too.

I'm the modern information age. The old tactics of statecraft and economic dominance fall apart. The opposing axis wanted Israel to respond like this. It's a huge mistake for them to continue with this approach.

It's a multipolar world these days.

What about Netanyahus relationship with the PLO before Hamas. He's been playing both sides using the fear of Palestinian militants as a political football, just trying to stay elected and ignoring the views of the average secular Israeli.

Israel is being led by a group of religious extremists.

It's complicated, and both sides have committed unbelievable atrocities, but Israeli leadership have overplayed their card. Their crimes over the last few weeks will echo for decades to come.

My guess it will have the opposite effect than they intended, Israel will lose out in the long term.