It is also a Chinese operated company, which means that it is by definition under the thumb of the CCP, which means we must assume that every byte through their stack is being siphoned off to their political and military machine.

Nah. Google is the 800 pound gorilla that everyone else has their bullseye on. They're already quite a bit ahead of the other players. OpenAI pulled a temporary PR coup by building a chatbot first, but if that's all they have (and so far, it is) then they're all but doomed. There's no moat.

Thank you for your service.

Merry Christmas.

You are making some unwarranted assumptions. I'm just wondering how any "expansion" is expected to happen when the objects of this expansion are opposed to the idea. What is this process you're referring to? How do we take another country's land?

What does that have to do with anything? Are you suggesting that we should invade these countries, allies, because they can't pay some imaginary bill?

I get it. We once planned a weekend getaway around a visit to @ruckusdonuts.bsky.social

There is no S4 coming. It's done.