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Never seems to matter how many horror stories are written or have actually happened regarding totalitarian states, people just seem drawn to them, like they can't help themselves.

What absurd news to be hearing in 2025, that "western liberal democracy" states are discussing whether to have the power to listen in on everyone's conversations - something Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia could have only dreamed of.

Of course they don't, any layman could spot: that's a fancy way of saying "we don't know" matter.

How much money has been doled out on these high IQ sophists pontificating their navels, with nothing to show for it?

Einstein was an absolute bargain, did it all on his own dime.

I like how the article puts in the same sentence that his criticism of democracy is that it's against freedom, and therefore he's authoritarian - kind of like goading us, like we're not going to notice how frothing-at-the-mouth stupid that logic is.

Just pointing out someone who's committed to living like this isn't going to reproduce. Even Marie Kondo had to give up the minimalism stuff after having a kid.

Probably, but to clarify, I'm pointing out that this lifestyle is maximally opposite to having kids, and so still being obsessed about it after 10 years means he's committed to being a genetic dead end.

Ten years huh. I think when I was younger I'd look at this and say "cool lifestyle".

Now I just see a man publicly advertising he's a genetic dead-end. Some kind of Peter Pan thing.

I think this is the plot of every dystopian movie ever though?

You're betting that the government are always going to be nice to you and those around you, carefully ignoring all the history books.

The word "camp" really doesn't make it sound better does it. Certainly doesn't suggest a more cushy version of prison.

It sounds more like they get put on a rock in the middle of the Pacific.

The trick is that you have to do the fraud at institutional scale. E.g. rating junk mortgage bonds as "AAA".

You only get punished if you do it at small scale.

Get those returns on big chunks of other people's money and take a cut

I thought they didn't need people anyway because AI.

So which is it?

Why are you shifting jobs to India, despite having perfectly good AI servers right at home?

Got to get your lies straight. Can't both need those workers and not need those workers at the same time.

If we do the thing that makes us look least bad now that'll mean best long term outcome.

UK's national cuisine is curry is it not? So still national.

Moral hazard.

Ok so we're big national brand, so if we fail to take enough cyber security precautions, the gov will bail us out.

Typical democratic genius.

Narcissistic leftist pontificating, i.e. joining academia and/or social activism or other shit-stirring of some kind.

But they realize a fat paycheck feels even better than smelling their own farts, so it's only those who aren't useful enough to these high paying companies that get left pontificating about the "common good".

The calculus is simple:

- People who go into government want power over others, and they'd therefore prefer more power than less at every junction

- The population put up very little resistance in general - e.g. as we saw with COVID, they'll freely let the government put them under house arrest and destroy their businesses, to protect them against a bug only slightly deadlier than the flu

- However they do need some pretext - with none at all, impinging on people's civil liberties would cause confusion, and the people might even ponder grumbling about it, which would be unnecessarily messy for everyone involved

- Hence they simply need to lay out some half-assed pretext, just to make it easy for people to internally justify their further loss of rights, so that they don't have to have any uncomfortable thoughts like "maybe I should disagree with this?"

- "Think of the children" is a nice easy one. It's basically a farcical meme at this point, but that doesn't affect its effectiveness, for the reasons described. You could use this for literally anything, no matter how extreme (I'm sure for instance the Nazis used it as one reason for exterminating Jews - to protect "Aryan" children & their future etc)

It's not discrimination if it's discrimination. Wait, I think my programming is wearing off, I need a booster

So where will you start it?

Mind-blowing this take gets a heavy downvote. There's not a single even "spicy" take in there.

Maybe the "native births" bit is a trigger - but how was that actually ever wrong? Perhaps from consumer culture I guess - why go through the hassle of raising babies for 20 years until they become ripe consumer-taxpayers when you can just import them ready-made for free, or some such thinking.

Really illustrates how leftist the tech class is.

The solution proposed elsewhere of doing it Dutch auction style, award the quota from highest salary bid to lowest, fixes the whole thing very straightforward.

But people loathe common sense, so that wouldn't do. And it's not dramatic and aggressive enough for Trump.

Not if you're an educated young local person who got nudged out of a job as a result.

The "country" is an amorphous - having the money to move out of your parents basement is not.

You could just as soon zoom out to the earth rather than fetishizing "the country", then it's zero sum.

Clients pay a premium to see the bodies, especially from the comfort of their own offices. I assume it's a fetish thing.

And I'm sure any CVs that do arrive at that address will get "accidentally" fed into a shredder.

Not simpler if the goal is tuk urr jaaabs

Very tautological - it's worth immigrating to due to immigration.

It is contingent on you documenting your going through the motions of pretending to keep compensation in line with "the local median".

I think you've triggered them

I like the wording here:

> is a certified recovery coach, a scholar and a teaching assistant who's serving a 40-year sentence for the murder of her husband.

I feel like "husband murderer" probably ought to come first in your little list of titles there.

This system is a joke. If someone's committed a real crime (with a victim), and you allow this, you're forgetting prison is supposed to be a punishment.

I guess it'd be fair if the government kept half of what they make though.... Oh wait...

Well it's not stackoverflow on steroids, otherwise it'd give you a surly "why do you want to do that?" response and then delete your question.

Man I don't miss that place or those people. Glad AI's basically destroyed it.

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