@Mr_Mister sweden has been the rape capital and the bomb capital of the world for some years now. nothing new. fuck 'em.
what if these modern ML, disguised as AI, expose humans as not being as sentient as we thought? what if we're not that different or complex, but only have this bio-electrical hardware that can condense multiple data centers into something as small as a pumpkin. what then, how will our own perception change? how would we see the universe?
i wonder, when a man realizes there are no women in his life, no wife in the future, no kids, no family.. no matter at what age the realization comes, so, like..what now? say a guy is 20 or 30 and sees things won't get any better, so what to do with the rest of his life? freedom and all is great but, one needs to fill the life with something. i wonder how the gen-a, gen-z, even millennials, will "develop" in this society. pursuit of money is not be-all end-all either. maybe science or philosophy
@sardonicsmile i had some hopes for china, BEFORE they literally welded shut people at homes during the coof. After that, there was no salvation for them in my eyes. Sure, it is a massive country whose population is 3x of EU or 4x of USA, so there are massive difference across the land. But just..no.
@VooDooMedic sex sells. the feminized west is no longer able to use this ancient sales practice. although they mentioned south korea, which is hilarious, given they are probably the most feminized country in the world.
coca-cola, pepsi-cola, nestea / rauch ice tea are now so expensive that i have to buy them on sale. the prices are utterly ridiculous. snickers bar is €1. everything is so insanely expensive these days. if you go outside the basics, like meat, eggs, butter. i am absolutely in shock that there are no massive protest already. i has never been worse than it is now.
@UncleIroh @Zeb nah. all the no/low tax places compensate it by higher living expenses. best countries to live in are smaller developed countries but which are not hitting any rankings. they are coasting along with no attention being put on them. like, go on numbeo and list countries by safety index and then just filter out one after another. i bet plenty of balkan and vysegrad countries will be on the list. some SEA countries, as well. latam will have too much crime. others will be underdevelop
@UncleIroh @Zeb france had its exodus some years ago under hollande(2012-2017). uk has been seeing outflows after brexit and now after coof and ukraine even more. germany is bleeding companies in general. they are shutting down, moving away or planning to. spain has been always shit with taxes. i think many footballers left some time ago, rich must have been ahead of that. if you have money though, it is irrelevant where you live because you can literally move continents over night.
@binkle @RustyCrab @RegalBeagle iirc jetbrains has data collection only on their free programs that hey have recently introduced.
@Zeb if anything, ukraine conflict exposed how fragile europe truly is with its dependency on cheap imports of natural resources, primarily energy(gas and oil). this is also why they are taxed so high - because they are so cheap. right now, this bubble has popped and europe will need to haul ass to figure out the new way of doing things because russia is done with it. problem is that the unelected bureaucrats are doing none of this and it is essentially already too late to fix or even mitigate
@Zeb yes, it is more complicated exactly because EU is not USA. but that does not change what i said. some countries have demographics issues but all of them have and will have economic ones. europe can produce goods and services, it's not "the old continent" for nothing. but it is lacking natural resources due to its industrialization behind ahead of anyone else in the past. europe's survival literally depends on russia's imports of natural resources. without them, europe cannot compete.
Because you still have hope that this war will end with your honor intact. Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.