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To: locogringo who wrote (1076960)	7/6/2018 12:07:24 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1576893

Kim will prolly give Trump an Honor Blackman autograph.

To: locogringo who wrote (1076960)	7/6/2018 12:09:11 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By Broken_Clock locogringo Respond to of 1576893

ROBOTICS ENGINEER COMPARES SILICON VALLEY TO SOVIET UNION Anton Troynikov, a robotics engineer who apparently has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area, launched a series of hilarious viral tweets on Thursday comparing Silicon Valley to the former Soviet Union. Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: - waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality - promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - living five adults to a two room apartment - being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet - everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - mandatory workplace political education - productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - deviation from mainstream narrative carries heavy social and political consequences - networked computers exist but they're really bad — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - elite power struggles result in massive collateral damage, sometimes purges - failures are bizarrely upheld as triumphs — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - the United States as a whole is depicted as evil by default — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - otherwise extremely intelligent people just turning the crank because it's the only way to get ahead — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018 - the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users — Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 6, 2018