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by paganel 2y ago
Don't you have friends in their 30s, even 40s, asking for the pensions to go down? And for the old people to die off soon enough because they're keeping all of us (younger people) down, with their (the old people's) voting ha
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by paganel 2y ago
That’s “extreme” only to their children, who most probably (the children, that is) hold very extreme beliefs themselves, such as smaller pensions and reduced State-supported assistance for the elderly. It is true, those (relatively younger)
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by paganel 2y ago
You're just scratching the surface of said amazing planet, you're not experiencing anything of value that you couldn't have experienced back home. There's a real good essay on the emptiness of tourism written by Siegfrie
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by paganel 2y ago
Not the OP, but after a certain age (mid 30s in my case) traveling just becomes cumbersome, i.e. when you realize that there are no big insights about oneself that can be gained via traveling that can’t also be gotten back at home, surroun
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by paganel 2y ago
> see my friends’ baby pictures and That's the thing, your "friends’ baby pictures" still being posted to FB is an US insularity thing, we used to do the same here in Eastern Europe until, I can't tell, 5 to 7 years a
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by paganel 2y ago
Yes, it’s in its BlackBerry 2005-2006 moment (optimistically), more like its 2008 moment (realistically). There was still lots of money coming in for both BB and Nokia around 2005-2006, too much money, for that matter, which eventually made
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by paganel 2y ago
Facebook the app/website is already dead, as only boomers and people like me (not yet boomers but not young, either) are now its only remaining users, while IG is going into the same realm of irrelevance, mostly because millennials (it
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by paganel 2y ago
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by paganel 2y ago
> It remains to be seen how stable a totalitarian government can be Much more stable than the government that has Trump, Musk and Vivek calling the shots, that's for sure.
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by paganel 2y ago
Maybe we should stop sending NATO missiles their way via our proxy, Ukraine, maybe at that point nuclear de-escalation will become a thing again. If that doesn’t work, and unfortunately I’m not confident that it will work, then it becomes a
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Ukrainian shotgun-armed drones shoot down other drones(old.reddit.com)
7 points by paganel 2y ago|0 comments
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by paganel 2y ago
The "orcs" being who?
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by paganel 2y ago
Of course we do value our travelling time greatly here in Europe, hence why RyanAir is a big thing, i.e. even though we're treated as worst than cattle people still choose it because of the (low) prices and because of those much shorte
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by paganel 2y ago
My brother, an Eastern-European part-time farmer and full-time lorry driver, just texted me a couple of hours ago (I had told him I would call him in the next hour) that he might be with his hands full of meat by that time as “we’ve just bu
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by paganel 2y ago
And would they start killing themselves, first as random "AI agents hordes" and then, as time progresses, as "AI agents nations"? This is a rhetorical question only by half, my point being that no AGI/AI could ever
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by paganel 2y ago
Did it happen for EVs in the here and now? Where can I find a SH EV clunker for $2,000? I'm talking about an EV with performances similar to those of a gasoline-based $2,000 clunker. Otherwise, believing in "technological progress
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by paganel 2y ago
> If self-driving cars are widely available They won't be "widely available" because of the higher prices, just look at the EV market right now. You won't get a self-driving $2,000 clunker, and when you drive a $2,000
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by paganel 2y ago
They should also ask for more money from sick people when it comes to health insurance, as they’re more prone to getting sick again and again and hence consume resources, after all how many Luigis can there be? Which is to say that naked c
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by paganel 2y ago
Being fit doesn’t do anything against a knife or a fire-gun, is not being a coward, it’a just the logical conclusion. The people who want to stay fit in order to potentially fight burglars/thieves are doing it wrong, they should train
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by paganel 2y ago
Don't have any reasonable good links available but over here, further East (present-day Romania and then the Roman province of Dacia) there was a strong presence of Oriental/Siro-Palmyrian deities like Mithras, Dea Syria or Belus.
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by paganel 2y ago
1054, in fact, but the 1204 ransacking of Constantinople certainly didn't help with how the "Franks" (because that's how the Catholics were mostly called) were seen by the Christian-Orthodox (if it matters I'm a Chr
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by paganel 2y ago
What nuance is there? > Banning TikTok is not going to impact the free flow of information. That traffic will just move (back?) to other social media platforms. It's like saying people should have switched back to reading Pravda ,
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by paganel 2y ago
The West was throwing all shorts of shades at political powers here in Eastern Europe back in the day for not letting the free flow of information do its thing. So, saying that the US is doing the right thing now to ban TikTok based on ideo
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by paganel 2y ago
I'm not from SV, but are you talking about the companies from down there? And if yes, I suppose it includes some of the FAANGs.
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by paganel 2y ago
Motor-sports safety-related regulations only affected some pilots and the people following those races (or the percent of those followers that were in for the roughness of it all, not the safety aspect). On the other hand, environment-relat
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by paganel 2y ago
Django/Rails-like platforms revolutionised programming for the web, people take web frameworks for granted now but it wasn't always like that. And PHP (the programming language) just before that, that was a huge change in "de
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Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages(old.reddit.com)
101 points by paganel 2y ago|114 comments
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by paganel 2y ago
That's the gist of it, especially since the "IT revoluion" (for lack of a better word) seems to have cooled off in the early 2010-ish, i.e. exactly when the shale revolution started doing its thing (and, no, I don't coun
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by paganel 2y ago
> PPP matters on an individual level, but not at all on a national level. GDP at market exchange rates is what actually matters in terms of what a country can accomplish on the world stage. That's demonstrably false cause the global
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by paganel 2y ago
It is my belief that when it comes to politics, i.e. the life of the polis , it is in the best interest of said polis for its citizens to speak up their mind as closer to (their inner) truth as possible, otherwise it won’t be said citizens

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