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  • You give them too much credit on this one. This decision was likely spearheaded by some nepo appointment who is out to diversify in the worst way. When your send cousin Johnny to college in the West, you’re still not getting the best and brightest when he comes back. Whole structure of their investment fund is graft and bad decisions.

    Compare Saudis system to Norway’s sovereign fund. Instead of being politically neutral, like everything in the house of Saud it’s a patronage system. They do big headline buys like this to convince everybody above them they’re actually doing something to diversify from oil market shocks. But in this case they’re buying a dry well that’s already had it’s data sold to those who wanted it and is burdened to IP licensing that likely drains much of its micro transaction potential while also being able to be revoked if the parent company stops liking what they’re doing. They’re not going to get much from a state security standpoint from it that they couldn’t get in ways that would cost several billion less and they’re not going to get much of a return of investment on it either. But since patronage rewards are front loaded they do stupid buys like this.

    If they just wanted the data, they could’ve gotten it for much less than 3.8 billion. They likely could’ve gotten it for 3.7 billion less at least. Or just send some guys to steal it like they did with Twitter back in the day. Much cheaper.








  • Context to getting downvoted for demonstrating the Democrats ineffectualism to pugjesus? You’d know if you knew. He gets mad and says that everyone who didn’t have solidarity for him as a disabled person wanted to kill him. While he had no solidarity for Palestinians. We came from kbin together so me, him, and the late downpunxx had fun times. Sorry if I’m not entirely coherent, I’m drunk posting for the first time in over a year.



  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlThis was from 2017.
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    Really though, beyond the Dems doing something legislatively, could you imagine if the party actually utilized it’s network for direct action campaigns. Not that their donors or upper middle class members would be copacetic to any actual economic disruption. I mean christ, the Senate leader doesn’t even want to let the Republicans shut down the government while they’re busy dismantling it. Their current strategy is to appeal by saying they can bring back business as usual. Unfortunately they don’t seem to understand that appearing ineffectual turns centrists off even more than appearing radical does.