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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
I am as pro-EU as it gets, and I really would prefer if it worked as a true parliament. Instead of commissioners chosen by national governments and a head commissioner, a premier minister chosen by the parliament, and a commission that woul
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
This is the reality of this. For larger countries is much easier to deal with Europe when it's a bunch of small countries butting heads with their neighbors.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
The EU commission is just a way for national governments to launder their authoritarian desires through the EU. The commissioner for each country is choser by national governments. It's them pushing that shit. The main problem with it,
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
This is a great example of how people comment very confidently on shit they know nothing about. Iceland complies with EU because it belongs to the EEA. It has nothing to do with "precence of EU across the sea". UK doesn't hav
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
Iceland is in EEA. EEA is already EU-lite, where they have to comply with plenty of EU regulations, don't get a vote on those regulations, but get some exemptions (such as their fishing thing). Other two countries in EEA are Norway and
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
And the Chinese labs still make models that are easily as good as the US labs. Rather embarrassing indeed.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
It is. It serves both for heating the radiators and for the warm water in the sinks/shower/dishwasher/laundry, but I understand both to be separated systems fed by the same heat pump. The boiler is not huge, but it has enough
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
> Who We Are > HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute Oh ffs.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
Nuclear, wind and solar are all pretty old at this point. Hell, Nuclear is 1940's technology. Are you telling me that the famously industrious Dutch are unable to produce energy without pumping gas out of Groningen?
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
I have a heat pump system, the hot water works alright. The only minor issue is during winter months, if the daughter and the wife shower one right after the other, it takes some 40 minutes for the boiler to have hot water again.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
On the rare occasions I used Word to write things in the past, it would replace dashes with em-dash. I normally use dashes when writing, never bothered myself with writing an em-dash properly otherwise.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
> Sending migrants back to their home countries is not ethnically cleansing About that.... Yeah... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
I am where I want to be. I also have no desire to return.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
I had never heard of this. I always sort of hated social networks. Even the ones I eventually participated in, such as Reddit or HN (although I tend to see those more as forums). I navigated a bit on textlog, and I found it strangely compel
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
My labor allowed me to buy my house. If anything, I was heavily underpaid.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
Maybe. Thankfully I don't live in the US, and likely won't set foot there ever again.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
Reminder for me to make another donation. Piracy is morally justified at this point.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
> what is the end game here? You are asking the wrong question. There's no end game. They just really hate life and the living. They want you to suffer.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
Oh apologies. What they call food across the pond is actually trash, and I would be disgusted if we allowed that to be served to humans on our side.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
> the Telegraph reported I would find it more trustworthy a report from my toilet hours after I ate alphabet soup.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
It's more that a lot of people stopeed being swooned by US propaganda, and woke up to the fact that the US is a malicious actor and have been for decades, conducting much worse things on foreign soil than hacks. I, personally, have a l
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
Let me try to explain "Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity.” - Yeah, those people are super annoying! “My brai
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
Not surprising in the slightest, Claude sort of sucks. I use it at work and I have to steer it a lot so it doesn't stray looking at unnecessary shit. I have been using GLM-5.3 in my home setup and it is very good in comparison.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
There are more than 3. Hell, I use 3 different providers, and I currently don't give a dime to Anthropic or OpenAI.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
That is not a trade barrier, that is just what you call "food" across the pond is actually trash.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
Depends on the thing. I had to give maintenance to things people deployed to pad their resumes with "shiny new thing", and it was not fun. If you intend to deploy and leave that as legacy for some poor shlemiel, sure. If you inten
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
I only bet when among friends. Nothing against you, I just do not know you personally. But I am waiting patiently for their S1. It will provide ample entertainment.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
My point is that it requires a lot of willful blindness to ignore how unprofitable they are, to believe that they are in any way in the position of sustainably lowering prices.
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
OpenAI bleeds money. They need to keep raising money like crazy because of that. Their margins are obviously not high, particularly on subscriptions
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by surgical_fire 2mo ago
You're free to speculate and pretend you had some insight.

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