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@Tony @Soy_Magnus @verita84 There are almost infinite weird pakistani companies I turn down on a daily basis. I also love to send GDPR-complaints to companies who work with opt-out when it comes to consumers in the european union. The EU is almost 100% bad, but at least GDPR does give me some opportunities to have fun with unserious businesses.

@carolen That is good! Your husband will thank you! :)

@carolen Where is your man? My wife would never in a 1000 years do anything about that, but happily delegate it to me, regardless of if I want to or not. ;)

@ChrisMayLA6 We probably do. We all need to work, some of us, do interact with local politicians, or do have sidejobs, some join churches etc.

@ChrisMayLA6 Good or bad? That is a subjective value question.

What I'm pondering is that given the multi-polar governance order, how can you govern and influence your life, by shifting your allegiance between these power centers?

@ChrisMayLA6 individual blogs.

I think that this is possibly a global trend. A fracturing of the news landscape.

50 years ago, more people would "trust" the public news, and thus a bigger part of society had a shared narrative and a shared understanding of the world.

Today, with independent freelance journalists, we see multiple view of the world, and reduced communication between media islands, and polarization (I think) is the result of this.

@ChrisMayLA6 What is interesting here is the stark contrast with sweden. With this media landscape, the UK currently has a "labour" government, while sweden has a center/nationalist one.

What is also interesting, if I may speculate, is how this is reshaping the media consumption habits of voters.

I know many swedes who no longer watch or read news from the public TV. They think it is way too biased to be taken seriously, and instead flock to alternative news and freelance journalists

@ChrisMayLA6 Ahh... interesting! One is tempted to suspect that perhaps the reason for it is that some politicians have things to hide. ;)

@ChrisMayLA6 game for public servants, while judges, companies, ngo:s, foundations, grow more bold.

We'll have a web of parallell governance structures, and just like we see today, with the new multi-polar world order, we'll also see the same within regions, and even within countries.

@ChrisMayLA6 In theory they should align with the government. In reality, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

Companies are a combination of meritocratic/libertarian/monarchic depending on if it is a highly centralized family company, with a strong leader, or a company that has managed to establish sound processes for rotating CEO:s, leaders, based on merit.

In the future, I see that democracy loses more power, and becomes more a gentlemans

@ChrisMayLA6 Yes, I agree. Historically, monarchy (authoritarianism?) has been the most stable form of government.

I wonder if the future might not be pluralist? The is, layers of overlapping systems of governance, depending on the sector.

For instance, courts are monarchic, or at least aristocratic. In many countries, judges are elected for life.

@ChrisMayLA6 Has there ever been a study of the political opinions of journalists in the UK?

In sweden, one or two studies have been made, and they showed that around 80% of the journalists in sweden hold center-left opinions.

@elston_ Ah... so maybe there will be a deal in the form of "no weapons, without US bases"?

I think the UAE better be looking to buy their weapons from europe and china in case they want to kick out the US.

@AssociatedPress @technology-AssociatedPress This will be interesting. The french imprisoned the Telegram founder without blinking.

Do they have balls to imprison Musk?

I doubt it. By now, Musk is probably more powerful (counting direct and indirect power) than the country France.

@ChrisMayLA6 Remember that before the end of the week, Trump can change his mind more times than there are atoms in the universe.

@gemlog Note that if you remove criminals, the figures look quite alright for the US. Not that it improves the situation, but sometimes european media gives the impression that bullets are flying in every city in the US, and that is clearly not true.

If you avoid criminal areas of cities, the chance that you will be encountering gun violence in the US is very low.

@ChrisMayLA6 Well, note that one reason for that is also lack of resources in schools. I test with exams, and ideally, in some courses, with projects. But the school constantly reduces the budget, my available hours, and that leads to more exams (which can be corrected automatically) and less projects.