Actually, I think your reasoning is part of the problem.

For decades the “it gets better” and “best of bad systems” narratives kind of worked, but if we’re being honest, our wealth and freedom was always bought by oppression somewhere else.

We don’t have serfs or slaves domestically anymore, we have them abroad in Vietnam or import them semi-legally for a few months or so.

We uphold international law, but only if it suits us. Our wars are all justified.

This hypocrisy is what’s fueling the current downfall. The economic disaster alienated the population, it’s not getting better for them, they’re worse off. Liberal democracy didn’t deliver.

Every petty dictator can invade somewhere else and can (rightly!) claim that we didn’t do anything about Iraq, or Kosovo, or Israel, or Yemen.

Maybe we used to be somewhat free, but we’re not anymore. And we’re actively destroying freedom elsewhere.

Do you assume a dead body has feelings?

The fact that you immediately jumped to depression seems like you didn’t even think about the question.

There is literally no reason to live, we’ve made that all up. That’s not depression, that’s reality. Pushing fundamental questions into a pathological corner is condescending.

As someone working in government IT, the entire sector is focused on compliance, not security. You can install the most obviously backdoored/unsafe device or software, as long as you have a paper trail that someone pinky promised that it’s secure. Absolutely bonkers.

In your case, if the manufacturer of devices has all the necessary certifications, nobody will even question the security.

Yes, because you’re completely missing the point.

There is literally no risk involved for them in just staying. They had their jobs, and they could easily do the right thing by just following the law. If they were to be fired, they would still get severance of some sort. In any case, it would have slowed down Elon at least for a while.

What they did instead is resigning, thus not getting severance, not being able to slow anything down, making room for obedient bootlickers, and finally they’re now unemployed.

So tell me again: how is resigning the right move? They made the world worse, and they made their personal life worse. Literally no benefit for anyone.

Your entire argument is ex post. You see the fact that they resigned as a given and try to justify that. Why can’t you see that this is not a necessary condition?

… because they resigned. Seriously, what’s your point?

If they wouldn’t have resigned, they would still have a job. And since they couldn’t have been fired easily, they would have continued to have a job for quite a while.

That’s not a complex concept, what’s so hard to understand about that?

No. They resigned from a job. They were not fired. And as long as they don’t break any rules, it’s hard to fire them.

That’s the thing, though. They’re not really taking risks.

Much of what DOGE does is completely illegal and does not go through the proper channels and processes. By simply doing their jobs and forcing everything through the proper processes, they can slow down everything, maybe even to a halt, while being completely in the right and thus can’t be fired.

Yes, it takes a mental toll, but these guys have a responsibility.

Genau das verstehe ich wirklich zunehmend weniger.

Verstehen die Leute bei der CDU wirklich nicht, was sie tun oder sind sie zynisch genug, zu hoffen, bis zur Machtergreifung noch ein nettes Amt mitzunehmen?

Merz ist ein Idiot, aber nicht dumm. Ihm muss doch klar sein, dass das nichts bringt.

Als jemand der dabei ist die Behörden zu digitalisieren: ich tu echt mein bestes, aber der Wahnsinn von Verwaltungs IT und Vergaberecht zerstört mich langsam.

No, I fully understand your point, I just think it’s shit, and since your first reaction to being challenged is a shitty attempt at belittling, I have to assume you’re about as valuable as your point.

Why would I trust the judgement of someone who can’t even fathom the concept of “someone else might have a valid point”?

Die historisch am tiefsten in den Staatsapparat vergrabene Partei, die die meiste Zeit sogar an der Regierung war, regt sich über den Deep State auf, kannst dir nicht ausdenken.

Merken die Flachpfeifen eigentlich wirklich nicht, dass sie gerade den Ast absägen auf dem wir alle sitzen?

If you’re really careful, you might see that I qualified that statement above

it killed too few people for many to care

The emphasis is there for a reason.

And BTW, that statement is not a joke, but based on actual study results. You know why? Covid having a 2% mortality also means it has a 98% survival rate - much much higher in younger healthier people. Exactly that was the problem. For the vast majority of people covid did not feel like a real threat, because it wasn’t. Long covid and the other long term effects only really came to light in 2021 and later.

I didn’t shelter in 2020 for myself, but for others. If there is no such thing a society, individuals will act like selfish assholes and don’t wear masks, get vaccinated, etc. If Covid would have caused widespread erectile dysfunction, the entire world would have been shutdown in 5min and nobody would even doubt masks.

Can’t we just have a regular old plague that kills like 30% of the population and not that sigma “I don’t really want to kill you” bullshit?

Covid was so annoying, because it killed too few people for many to care. I don’t want that again.

That’s exactly what I mean. Condescending, arrogant, and confidently incorrect.

See, acting like a condescending asshole without any substance is a task that AI may never take from us.

Translation on a level an AI could do is already pretty cheap, nobody’s gonna throw a nuanced legal document at an AI and rely on it.

Junior devs are much smarter than any current AI, because they know what they want to achieve and why. There’s a reason why all the demos are toy examples. Actual code is messy and full of quirks because of weird requirements.

Thing is, it doesn’t replace workers. And it won’t for the foreseeable future. Even Microsoft itself had to admit that their studies show AI assisted coding to be bad and making developers worse.

There is hardly any market where these systems can reasonably compete with exploited humans. It’s just that the tech bros have nothing left to invest in. The same idiots that pushed crypto, NFTs and the Metaverse are now pushing for AI. There is hardly any innovation anymore, so the only ways to make line go up are rent seeking and investing in bubbles in the desperate attempt, that something might stick.

Zum einen wissen wir beide, dass das ein absurdes Beispiel ist.

Zum anderen ist doch hier das eigentliche Armutszeugnis, das “Wichser” und “eine reinhauen” für dich gleichwertig sind. Wie oft haben dir Worte denn bitte den Kiefer gebrochen? Und musstest du schon mal wegen Worten ins Krankenhaus? Weil jemand dich Wichser genannt hat?

Ich muss sagen, ich finde den Straftatbestand der Beleidigung echt schwierig.

Viele Aussagen, die juristisch unter Beleidigung fallen, sind in der Alltagssprache komplett normal und würden niemanden “entehren”. Wichser, Arschloch, etc. Dafür ein Gericht zu involvieren - und dann auch noch Recht zu bekommen - ist vom Vibe her nur Millimeter von “der Lehrerin sagen gehen” entfernt. Ein kindisches Verhalten, das vom archaischen Ehrenverständnis eines kleinbürgerlichen Gesetzbuches auch noch gestützt wird.