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The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · Dec 14

Hello, 👋

I'm a person who negotiates & buys for Corporates for a living.

Done it all over the world, will keep doing it until AI replaces me or I die, confident it will be the latter.

Standing offer, if you ever want views on negotiating or how to buy something.

Happy to help with my 2 cents

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 1d

Did something happen in 2016? Such a dramatic shift since then... I'm sure it's just a coincidence?

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha hahahaha

Deep breaths

Haha hahahaha

Ha

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 3d

I find myself feeling some schadenfreude at this situation as Comey is suffering due to the Monster he helped to create through his inaction / incompetence.

You are here because you were a joke at your job when it mattered.

He's the minor useless villain eaten by the monster in the lab, mid film.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 4d

Why TF are you on AWS lol.
Go get a European hosting service right now?

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, I deleted my post, this is a better way to put it. Everything is still there, just noone can find each other!

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 5d

I mean is that better? Sure.

But it's a war of attrition with limited resources on both sides, you do what you need to make the other side lose the transaction.

They got a lot of stuff to protect, this works cheap and easy.

Afterwards they could do that sure. Finland basically does already.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 6d

Which would cost more than rebuilding the site, so in a war of attrition it's fine.

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 9d

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 9d

These people look exactly like I expected them to.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 9d

My conclusion is the Civil Service ballsed something up so badly that everyone thinks it's a conspiracy when in fact it's actually just grade A Jobsworth activity leading to a terrible outcome for the national interest.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 9d

Parliament is Sovereign... They've tried nothing and are all out of ideas. Just pathetic.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 10d

This is excellent 👍

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 10d

This is really good

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 13d

This will become SO OBVIOUS when the AI / Tech bubble bursts.

70% of discretionary spend is sitting with about 10% of the population who have created wealth through financial engineering.

The tide will go out, they ain't wearing bathing suits & their economy will absolutely tank.

18 months tops.

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The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 13d

Been saying it for years and will keep saying it.

Europe is richer than America, Europe has more advanced manufacturing than America, Europe has a more balanced economy than America.

Remove the reserve currency and bullshit financial engineering, America is not growing faster or worth more.

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The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 13d

This has restored my faith in American Greatness being possible.

It's just a seed, but it's not dead yet.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 16d

Big Short 2

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 16d

So in conclusion, all the major AI deals recently announced are now the people who make the chips giving AI companies the money to buy the chips. Said AI firms have no cashflow to repay this.

But this is NOT a Ponzi scheme right?

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 16d

Look how scared the agent is. It's pathetic on so many levels.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 18d

America famously held back, didn't target civilians, carpet bomb cities, napalm villages or deploy chemical weapons in Vietnam.

Absolutely wokery in that war, yes sir.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 19d

'As long as' key here. These guys are gonna support an armed Jan 6th v2 to stay out of jail. It's so obvious where this is going.

Baffles me firms are buying and depending on any new US hosted Software, SAAS or AI moving forwards, host locally ASAP.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 22d

What's so clear from this is the guy doesn't understand RoEs are designed to ensure you WIN.

RoEs ensure enemies rapidly surrender rather than last stand to the bitter end.

Russia has no RoE, Ukraine has strict RoE. One takes lots of prisoners, the other loses far more men taking ground.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 22d

Stopping use, they still sell your existing data and monetize off of it. Data is $, take it back.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 22d

Delete your data using legal requests to the nth degree.

If ten million higher net worth Americans (ie those bad revenue wants) simultaneously submitted such requests on all their data held by every part of meta it would seriously harm their share price.

Organise a 'delete me' day.

The Secret Buyer @thesecretbuyer.bsky.social · 24d

'Frantically Sells EVERYTHING'