That said, Nordic countries (notoriously Finland) and France and Spain and Baltics have pretty right-wing national identities, not even speaking about Poland, and Italy, eh, has seemingly harmless morons on top. Greece too, but frankly neighboring with Turkey it’s normal to be nationalist, having an example of a really inferior culture. Can’t blame even Armenians for that (while in other regards their pride for a mountain village with crooks and thugs on top seems kinda too big.)

The EU is a bureaucratic organization with some purely symbolic democratic rituals. Governments (not citizens) of member countries really affecting it are supposed to be democratic, but at this point they are just OK, mostly. Nothing good to compare with.

Anyway - all these names are as meaningless as flags. Every decision made defines a system. You might call something a social democracy, but through 1, 2, 3 decisions overnight it’s suddenly something different, if there was a critical point.

If you wonder why all the bureaucrats suddenly turned anti-globalist (while 20 years ago it wasn’t so), that’s because they saw how powerful a domestic centralized system makes their kind.

And 20 years ago it wasn’t so, because they really had to kill all sprouts of such domestic systems.

It’s the old Chinese\Roman\whatever game, where bureaucrats and troops were, for different events, moved further from their home provinces and old assignments or closer. Only what’s happening is the opposite of the best course of action in that game, we have a weak emperor, no emperor in fact.

So - 20 years ago choosing American companies made European bureaucrats more powerful. Now they are powerful enough to prefer domestic suppliers of all these services, now they can control those new suppliers and become even more powerful.

The world is always in change.

I was trying to say causality goes both ways between “being rich” and “living longer”.

Of course there is a chasm. There are also mass murders of towns and villages on the Syrian coast right now, with the EU having reacted swiftly by condemning the victims, and the US having reacted only in words and proceeding to bomb Yemeni houthis with means more than enough to stop those mass murders.

There are storms, and there are still times, and there are times of abundance and of hunger.

both can be true

both can be true

Education (and learning) affects deaths of heart diseases and cancer. Say, my stupid, stupid dad during covid got ill (not with covid likely) and died from heart attack, because he was afraid to get infected by doctors (yes). Education also affects whether you become “poorer” or “richer”.

Heart diseases and cancer are affected by bad food habits, which are sometimes affected by executive dysfunction and addictive behavior, which also impede people from becoming “rich” directly.

And the longer you survive, the likelier you are to have successes yielding financial results.

So - maybe he doesn’t believe that, but I eagerly do, it just makes sense. Correlation is not causation.

This is a logical trick - the longer you live, the likely you get richer.

I understand everyone’s bias, but not why such pleasant to find moments are left ignored.

So apparently some people think Signal can’t see to which number they send that registration confirmation SMS.

Humanity isn’t worth it, these apes are doomed.

Technically they can also store what I said, but yes, in fact it appears they don’t.

Did it ever respond to those “requests”? What would Signal have anyway other than phone number to login association.

Yes, surely people capable of denying someone popular are soft pussies. It’s the opposite, they impose their will upon the party. Evil, not pussies.

I’ve read recently that Poland’s GDP per capita will soon surpass that of Japan.

Stereotypes from 70s and 80s and even 90s, when you think about it, were repeated and prolonged and perpetuated by the Internet, and the mass media, and the whole climate of 90s+. They weren’t so solid when they existed. It was the reality, but the reality changes.

I mean, even in my childhood (born in 1996, so not too old) it didn’t seem so weird that such things will happen in future, but the further the less likely it seemed.

Now somehow everyone treats it as strange that Sony slowly sinks too.

If they weren’t, they’d probably already made a PSP Slim form factor portable PC with a Unix-like OS, general-purpose, ignoring what everyone does with Android and iOS and such tomfoolery, it would be popular even if said OS would be a walled garden worse than Apple’s. Or maybe some other form factor, point being - Sony is that company that always had perfect ergonomics, they’d think of something, and very virtuous hardware engineering, so again they’d think of something.

What they are doing instead - sigh.

Tech that will allow to murder all Sunni combatants in the world, tech that will allow to murder all monarchs in the world, tech that will allow to murder all politicians in the biggest countries …

OK, ancap is not the left, it’s just that I feel that without ancap “balance of violence” idea there’s not much to say of the left, and with anarchist left it should kinda align.

Because I’m just not interested with the colored-hair polyamorous UBI left, if these 3 things are more important for it than what is being done for their taxes in their name.

I take it he hasn’t heard about “hiding things in the open”.

That would be, for example, using a constant of some near year in “end time” column meaning unfinished action.

Or just making some part that will inevitably have to be changed - “write-only”, as in unreadable. Or making documentation of what he did bad enough in some necessary places that people would have to ask him.

So many variants, and such obvious stupidity.

#2, in my language they are spelled the sameway

Yes, but corporate bureaucracy is someone’s property, so ultimately there is a responsible person, always.

A comrade-in-shit rather.

Trump won’t be able to wreak enough havoc in all his remaining life to make it possible for Russia to be a puppetmaster for the US. Make it a bit more like Russia is the worst scenario.

“Even the crazy libertarians” should be the group least concerned with mercantilist tomfoolery.

It’s just that the crazier and the more consistent a libertarian is, the less they are interested in mainstream politics and related personalities. It’s a hermit ideology in some sense, a full P2P society.

About trade deficit - in general you all are correct, but in specifics it’s bad when a country doesn’t produce something important or a whole family of something important and imports that something important from potentially hostile nations. That’s why before Brezhnev USSR’s elite would try very hard to have basic production of every kind of necessary goods inside USSR.

I’m just not sure what they are trying to prepare for and how do they expect to fix the core reasons for production of various things having moved out of the USA>

You generally won’t understand another person (and adversary especially) if you don’t see how their actions perfectly make sense for them, and without conspiracies.

So - there is one matching variant, that Musk sincerely hates bureaucratic kinds of power, but not proprietary kinds of power. Replacing a bureaucrat with (some imagined good) AI in another assumption would be replacing a mediocre human with inherent lust for power with an unreliable automaton, but without lust for power. The good part here is that humans are unreliable too and working bureaucracies compensate for that.

The bad part is that for every failure a person should be responsible proportionally to their input. I’m not sure they’ll do that, or I’m sure they won’t.