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@ChrisMayLA6 Ah, thank you very much.

@emmiewelch Thank you very much for sharing. Very striking story!

@ChrisMayLA6 What is Gramsci?

@ChrisMayLA6 It is very interesting to ponder why we threw the humanistic and enlightenment ideals away. Would it be too powerful an ideal that would seriously threaten the balance of power? Do the political leaders, regardless of color, want to keep the masses ignorant?

I try to sneak philosophy in by the back door when I teach technology. Ethical issues around surveillance and control easily are weaved into the course material!

@jajo Hahaha... din värsta mardröm! 😎

@jajo och mindre övervakning.

Vi måste komma ihåg, att en svag stat är en bra stat och en död stat, är den bästa staten.

Socialismen har fallerat en gång för mycket och nu står vi inför libertarianismens århundrade där alla får det bättre. Inte bara våra miljonavlönade, privatjetsåkande politiker.

@jajo Nonsens. Ukraina är ett av världens mest korrupta länder, och skulle bli ytterligare ett bidragsok i årtionden. EU, som det socialistiska och auktoritära samarbete det är, håller iofs redan på att kollapsa, så med tanke på att EU:s kollaps skulle innebära frihet för miljoner, så kanske du har rätt. Ukraina, och alla små korrupta östländer vi kan hitta borde egentligen få gå med nu. Då surnar de som betalar för kalaset och vi får fler exits i väst och det ger oss mer frihet, lägre skatter

@ChrisMayLA6 But is that something we should be teaching our young in schools? Positive psychology and how to lie a balanced and fulfilling life?

Or would that be detrimental to todays ruling class who is dependent on being financed by workers working until they are 59-72 (depending on where in europe you live)?

It seems to me that the government benefits from indoctrinating the population in the wonders of working hard for life, only to then die.

@ChrisMayLA6 re for life, since no one wants their services at the price point they are offered.

@ChrisMayLA6 Interesting. But if that is true, then surely we'd see a rapid growth of the left, just like socialism sprang out of industrialization of the 18th and 19th century?

If that does not happen, then perhaps, the gig economy actually brings more benfits to people than we think?

After all, it's an excellent way for people to make extra money, and a great entry point for the least educated on the job market. Remove those possibilities, and the lowest educated will be sentenced to welfa

@troed @Retreival9096 Amen!

I wonder if vibe coding by juniors programmers will give us a lot of security holes in the year to come?

I've seen some of my students vibe code assignments, and they have no clue what the code does. The code also tends to be convoluted at times.

@elston_ I would like to be a total pacifist, I think it is an enormously courageous position to take (if you live it, that is, and not just as a marketing label).

But being a libertarian, I do accept defensive violence at the personal level, and I would never engage in defensive violence for a nation. Only to directly protect family.

@elston_ Thank you for sharing. The pacifist, non-fighting christian, is for me the only true christian.

I am not chrisitan myself, but I find a lot of good things in it. If I were a christian, I would probably be a quaker or an old school christian unitarian universalist.

@ChrisMayLA6 all their lives, only to die on the day of retirement, is an enormously profitable business for hte government.

@ChrisMayLA6 This is a good point, and partly what I meant. I also thought of working part time, and not going from 100% to 0% at work, but easing into retirement, based on enregy levels and interest, over several years, or decades even.

But this is not my view of what retirement is like for some (many?). Many people identify with their jobs, and when going from 100% to 0% they lose their identity. Some even die. It could be argued that this is by design, because people working and being taxed

@ChrisMayLA6 In which ways? When I hear the words "working class" I get Dickens-vibes. Since the UK has belonged to the EU, and have been forced to adopt certain EU values and regulations over the years, I would imagine that the Dickens version does not exist in the UK, just like it does not exist in sweden.

@troed @Retreival9096 I think the problem is the "wo wo" crowd, raising LLM:s to the skies. That's just ridiculous.

Yes, they do some things well, yes, they might save me time on boilerplate or easy stuff, but no, they will not make me 10x faster.

They might make me 5%-15% more productive or so. But yes... I am not a programmer, but a devops guy.

I do know programmers though, and the most brilliant of them also are in the 5%-15% range.

@elston_ Excellent! The young are waking up. The scam is being exposed.

On the other hand... politicians flying private jets all over the world, and only connecting the environment with more authoritarianism and taxes, don't quite come off as trust worthy so they only have themselves to blame.