joe_mamba

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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
You went so far off-topic that I'm surprised you forgot to mention Jan-6
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
It hasn't. People are talking about specific events here. With your logic, every fact you dislike that makes your side of the argument look bad, can be dogwhitlse.
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>I’ve been seeing this “high-trust society” dog whistle a lot lately The concept of high trust and low trust societies is well studied and understood by everyone from academics to people on the street, and is one of the reasons why hig
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Why not? Because people lie?
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Whenever I leave a company I make sure everything that belongs to the company goes back to them Because you're probably come from a high trust culture where you've been taught reciprocal trust, responsibility and accountabil
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Europe is too well-run (even the poorer parts) for Starlink to be as relevant. Except there's rich parts like Germany or Austria where internet infra is poorly run due to monopolistic telco capture and regulations keeping infra u
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
Heatwave from a few weeks ago had 70% humidity where I live. It's brutal with no AC to dehumidify.
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
This is just boiling the frog slowly. The DSA will first get them to change the algorithm to "protect the kids" and years later it will get them to change the algorithm to push state propaganda and ban all hateful speech, which wi
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
International rules are meaningless without hard power to enforce them. Your rules in your country are real because you have judges and police to enforce those rules. But internationally, there's no planetary police force(other than th
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>What is "normies" in this context? normie = normal "average" people; People who aren't terminally online and up to date on tech and politics drama. Exactly the ones oblivious to negative things the EU is doing
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
Nobody can be guilty of anything without a fair trial. Some bureaucrats power tripping acting as judge jury and executioners without trial is the definition of totalitarian tyranny. Nobody, even law abiding citizens, wants to be under such
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
Jacques Baud (Swiss) and Xavier Moreau (French) citizens, got sanctioned by the EU[1] on the basis of "acting as mouthpieces for pro-Russian propaganda and spreading conspiracy theories". Sanctioning means asset freezes, debanking
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
Only in some bubbles. But most normies I know are massive EU fanboys and showing them the malicious things the EU is doing, they just shrug at best, or call you a Putin supporter at worst. They'll only realize this when the jackboot is
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
Military spending != military capability and will to use force. For example, Germany spends way more than France on defense but has a less capable military and with no nuclear capability to boot. From force projection capability, the EU is
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>That kind of stuff is really weird, even weirder is that such an emergency measure can be activated without countries being in active war or the like. What's also just as weird is how the EU can just straight up sanction, debank
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
This. When I need to take my summer vacation, I need to request it to my manager in due time so the team can plan customer deliveries accordingly, and in my last day before leaving I need to do a handover of my open tasks to whoever will d
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
> omp is objectively the best harness for power users Care to detail this?
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
That's why the EU is a neutral pushover bowing down to the whims and tantrum of US, China, Iran, India, Turkey, etc. because a lot of their industry, energy, exports/imports are from those countries so any disputes would be devast
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>They will rapidly reindustrialize when the first shots are fired. By WHO?! Russia is still stuck in 1/4 of the Ukraine and fear mongers make it sound like they're about to reach Paris any day now.
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Apple invested 3x the Marshall Plan into China. Apple invested 3x that because they got 30x in return from the savings versus US manufacturing. >Imagine if they'd spent that on the US instead. Then iPhones would either have
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>I would really challenge that idea that increasing military spending will create a solid and useful military force. Germany is the EU proof of that. It outpends France at defense spending but its military is massively smaller and less
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
If the goal of a system is to never fail, then the bureaucrats in charge of running that system will just game the metrics and cover up all the issue, while it fails first very slowly then very suddenly. In fact that's why nothing ever
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>And it fails miserably. No it doesn't. That's just needlessly reductionist doomerist take with no argumentation to back that up. Define failure and success of the system in this context.
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
Of course google and every other big-tech platform is gonna insta-wipe every account containing detected nudes of children, regardless if you're the parent. The corporate liability of such content being found on their cloud is so insan
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Btw, von der leyen is trying to get stuff like this written down as laws since 2009, it got her the nickname Zensursula. And Germans and Europeans looked at that and thought the best place for her is leading the EU?! Remind me again h
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
Your parent was trying to be sarcastic that native WASPS are above working on construction sites and only migrants can do that. Here in the EU where I was talking about, it's different, it's mostly European whites on construction
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
"Eurobarometer by the EU shows Europeans love the EU" seems legit lol Probably because most Europeans are clueless and brainwashed by MSM pro-EU propaganda, and never hear about the nasty things the EU tries to do like chat contro
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>In reality, what they are is just better at hiding their racism and xenophobia. It's not xenofobia, it's just a rigid caste system with little to no upward mobility for immigrants, setup for the economic benefit of the local
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>I mean yes QED. End of story. Rest is just meaningless ranting that doesn't disprove anything I said before.
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
As someone who lived in the US briefly, I found Americans are just a lot more hospitable to foreigners, than Germans and most other Europeans in general. Probably because there's no such thing as an US-American ethnicity, but there def

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