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You are not actually leading until you win/achieve something.

Europe has severed itself from major sources of the fundamental driver of civilization, energy, it has bet on “renewable energy” in reckless ways, which was demonstrated by the small black swan event energy grid collapse just mere weeks ago. Germany has totally abandoned nuclear energy and has no real alternatives as it imports the majority of its energy and all its renewable energy sources are subpar, at best, and are unsustainable without massively distorting government command economy subsidies keeping afloat what is essentially a Ponzi scheme with decreasing real marginal returns. Germany, the engine of Europe, which keeps the whole EU boondoggle afloat has an avg of €0.44/kwh electricity prices.

That does not really indicate energy leadership.

Maybe Germany can get productive fusion energy online, but it also does not solve the deeper issue of a political system and control mechanism that is self-harming.

It’s the near future: Germany has successfully provided operational fusion energy. German politics and psychological control will all the sudden just give up on blaming, punishing, and hating its own people?

Everyone in Germany gets free AC and free unlimited heating? Free cars and free transportation because fusion basically nullifies the cost of energy? No, the German/EU political class loathes its own people and is recreating aristocracy, which for its own purposes relies on control and suppression of the masses. If anything the EU Lords would use that de facto unlimited energy to create unlimited AI surveillance and thought-crime robot armies to control the serfs.

No. You are just not paying attention or just resorting to weather typical abusive manipulative tactics. I did not claim to know it all, I simply stated that I have that experience and it is not an exaggeration. I nor you will ever “know it all”, regardless of whatever compels you to be spiteful and seemingly jealous.

No. I do not flag or censor things at all under regular circumstances because I actually practice the belief that it is in fact a human right to free expression unless it is aggressively abusive or actually threatening. I will also tolerate regular harsh and abusive words and in most cases if I don’t tolerate it I will just not read it or look away or even just block. I’m not vindictive like most people seem to be today where an ideological mob forms to suppress heretical ideas that their herding instincts compel them to suppress in order to be a good member of the herd.

You’re being manipulative, the substantive point is that he cannot possibly have an even remotely accurate understanding of anything he is talking about.

Isn’t that what the last decades of ethnic abuse against “white peoples” has been about, accusing them of not knowing how it feels to be {insert some people of color label}, while also at the same time demanding proximity to “whites”?

So why would he know anything about “whites” (for brevity) but “whites” can’t speak on peoples of color even when they are demanding proximity to “whites”?

It is really rather abusive and narcissistic.

It reminds me of an Indian got I met that was exploring the German employment law to travel the world in his employer’s dime, who told me that the German economy and society was not “dynamic enough”, by which I assume he meant how he was being dynamic. And this coming from someone from a society where open defection, levels of pollution, filth, and disease are at levels that most westerners simply do not seem to have the ability to comprehend and refuse to accept when you tell them; and economy that is largely based on fraud, deception, and success is based on being able to pull over over of people, especially westerners who they’ve conflated with the British so they are proud of now conquering and destroying.

Yes, but you are missing the point. It is the issue of riding in at the last minute to benefit from the product of others’ work.

Don’t get me wrong, you’re not the only one that misses this whole issue. It is a gargantuan elephant in the room that very few people seem to be able to even get even when it is pointed out for some reason. It is fundamentally also the very core issue of “communism” and “capitalism” for that matter, albeit in different ways; wanting to exploit the dries of others’ labor.

I’m a bit disappointed that you resorted to deflection. You’re being defensive. It implies to me that you really know what I’m talking about and your subconscious is trying to ward it off.

Reality simply is that freeloading is a condition, not something you need to take personal. If you are equally benefiting from things you did not contribute to at the same total cost as those previously invested, then you are freeloading.

Should you be able to buy Bitcoin today at the original offering price? Should you have equal control as heirs of a company you did not build?

I fail to see why you and seemingly a few other people find that challenging to understand. If you pay the same price to, e.g., ride the “cheap and effective” public transportation in Europe that Europeans have been taxed hundreds of millions in capital costs over several decades to build up, how is that not freeloading?

Sure, you can’t even not freeload if you wanted to by paying higher prices and the real issue are the abusive and toxic governments in Europe in my example, but explain to me how a little old lady that gets €1000/month in pension after a life of turning Europe into what it was until recently, being taxed 40% all get life should pay the same price for a rail ticket as an American making double the European salary and paying around 25% taxes?

These are not challenging concepts. It’s a bit disheartening that presumably technical/dev type people do not understand basic systems.

I think this is a partial solution, but I have to point out that relegating that function of translator and tester to a “fresh grad”. That is ideally the exact role of a Product Manager today, the very go-between and translator with vision that can manage customer/client expectations while also adequately communicate technical concepts and both communicate initial tex task breakdowns and also run interference for devs, i.e., dish out conditional nos.

This function is both extremely critical as well as it is also not valued in my opinion. The business/client side thinks that’s what devs are for, and devs think they’re just more management until they’ve learned that (please excuse the sport metaphor since it’s not something I do, but it seems fitting) Product Managers can be the defensive line as well as the quarterback for the running backs converting, the coach’s strategy into wins and a cheering crowds instead of boos and disappointments all around.

So you will be relinquishing your citizenship and won’t run back to the USA when things go sideways over there? I’m not sure if you have the historical or political context, but Europe is staring down a hurricane on the horizon, regardless of the pleasant weather right now.

Europe as you know it, the things you like about it is fundamentally doomed because the system is designed to doom it. The EU that was a bait and switch, is now basically being run by a central committee called the EU Commission. Is fundamentally authoritarian and prone to the same failures as all hubristic central committees of know it alls.

It’s the iron triangle and the EU central committee is not only trying to pick all three while lying about it, they’re also trying to pick things outside of the triangle. It cannot and will not work because it is impossible for any amount of time.

You may enjoy it in Europe/Germany, freeloading on all the “social services” that are “free” (even though you will have surely noticed how that is changing quickly) due to the exploitation of what the indigenous people built over decades and centuries, but that’s really what it is, a fraud, even if you don’t realize it.

For example, you very likely make far beyond what the average person in Germany makes. You are living a nice life, based on what those old ethnically German people you see here and there did to rebuild the country after the war, and now get a mere €1000 per month to live on. That’s why you have “free and safe and efficient public transportation” and “free education” because they were exploited all their lives.

It is not a personal thing, it’s an issue with immigration in general as immigration is inherently freeloading when it is into a country that is more advanced or better. At the very least immigration to better countries should come with massive freeloader taxes, and immigration to worse countries should come with low-tax incentives. Just keep it in mind as you benefit from what you enjoy but did not contribute to, and quite likely also support politics of imposition from your island of exclusivity; the same politics that destroyed America.

You may not realize it, but the very same things and people that destroyed the rather nice America of the past are also now destroying Europe. You’re just riding the wave at the moment and get to enjoy the tail end of the oasis. I know this because, as unlikely and weird as it sounds, I know the people whose fathers and grandfathers, their families destroyed America and who are destroying Europe today.

Not only that, he even explicitly states that he has a mostly online perspective.

It’s a curious phenomenon that I don’t think is nearly appreciated enough that this technocratic, hubristic mindset that is prevalent among people in tech, riding high on some sense of power and high income, is causing major social issues akin to various other aristocratic type mindsets of the past; the figurative princes riding around their hereditary lands with upturned noses at the peasants they abuse that are both the source and base of their en-titled lives.

Then you add on top of that the insult of immigrants trying to lecture indigenous people they are freeloaders on about how they know better who and what they are, and you have a mixture that seems like it could easily end up boiling over for understandable reasons one day, when the resentment is explosively released because containment by the authoritarian ruling class invariably slips.

A person who is neither European nor American claims to know both, and also knows the difference. The hubris in this person is rather curious, albeit not rare these days.

I am intimately familiar with all of Europe and all of the USA due to deep and broad ethnic, historical, and political roots in both continents, from the lowest low to the highest levels of global control; and I find it difficult to fully encapsulate or even identify the essence between the two, because the more you know, the more you know what little you know. Beware of the man who claims to know it all. It reminds me of a person who claimed he did not need to learn anymore because he had learned everything.

If you want to understand the difference between the remnants of imploded America, as much as they still actually exist, and suicidal Europe, you would have first had to understand that America was not actually a singular country or even nation up until relatively recently. America and Europe are both historical similar due to being creations of Europeans, as much as they are unique, different, and were diverse until recently; also because they are a product of what used to be the most diverse and impressive region of the world, Europe.

Also, it is odd that he does not use “Türkiye” as the country would like to be known by, as a … is it a Türk now? … not-European?

I would love to know which wipes those are, because I have never come across any that are even remotely actually dissolvable. If you know of a brand, I really would like to know which that is. Have you ever tried putting one in some water just to see how dissolvable they are?

There is also that they’re kind of a contradiction in terms anyways, they’re wet … wipes. If they were dissolvable in water, the wetness of the wipes would cause dissolvement.

What many people are not even aware of is that even all high end toilet paper in the USA is a major headache for sewer systems because even that “paper” does not dissolve well at all, because they’re so focused on making the “paper” feel soft or be durable, it’s technically not even paper anymore and actually more like a cellulose felt.

Spain has a hard time figuring out how to get their sewage system to handle regular toilet paper and many regions/places require you to deposit the toilet paper in trash cans next to the toilet. That being said, I think there are better options like a clever public awareness campaign, banning the claim of being flushable, required packaging that says not to flush, requiring to be packaged with plastic bags for disposal, or even just accumulating all the costs of issues from the wipes and charge them to the industry as a whole in various taxes and fees, which will push the incentive to solve the problem on the industry.

I used to use wet wipes and flushed them, now I have a bidet and have only ever used wet wipes when traveling, where, ironically, Spain’s issues with basic things like flushing toilet paper, make disposing/not flushing wet wipes easy because many bathrooms have a lidded trash can next to the toilet/in the stall.

Ironically, their bigger issues produce a solution to a different, bigger problem.

Note: Yes, I’m aware it’s not everywhere in Spain or only Spain, but I am curious to hear where everywhere everyone has encountered having to put their toilet paper on a trash can instead of flushing.

Considering most people do not read past the headline and something like 75% of people do not read past the first paragraph, the presentation of modeled numbers as facts, by an extremely biased and self-serving complex, should make that very clear.

It is apparent from how you said that, that you are being dishonest.

Because their friends and family are part of the NGO complex. Usually the directors and board members. I know this from personal experience and knowledge.

If they did not know each other from college or growing up, the NGO associated people seek out journalists for that kind of reason and journalists are often flattered by the attention, aka lobbying, and drawn in. It’s a really corrupted system that only further encourages that kind of behavior because it is the very nature of that system today that any new entrants come into.

Basically none of the transparency efforts of the mid aughts seem to have really made any kind of real impact on the corruption of the system either. I’m not sure if it’s just correlation, but it almost feels like the transparency efforts only gave false senses of confidence, not to mention that many of the transparency initiatives are also corrupted, receiving their funding also from the NGO complex and also being drawn into the complex itself. It’s an inherently incestuous system like the MIC or the judicial system.

Just because things exist does not mean transporting and securely delivering them half way across the planet would be expense free.

But maybe you are right, there should have been a way for people who want to pay for the delivery and security of that aid out of their own pockets. It could have been a voluntary sign up of whatever the cost would have been, added as a proportional tax at the end of the year, anywhere from 1%-100% of net worth.

It does not sound conspiratorial at all. I know this to be a fact from first person knowledge and experience that it is exactly what goes on in NGO board rooms. It’s not really all that different than the MIC though.

Abstracting a bit more, it’s also not really any different than aristocratic, monarchical, and even feudal patronage systems where your fortune and standing was directly linked to how close you could get to the monarch/center of power. In fact, I see the west devolving towards such patronage systems as power and wealth keeps concentrating. All across the board you see every more sycophancy as people grovel for benefits.

Not only that, but the whole system was such that the very type and nature of the support led to ever more dependency and creation of yet more need that the system could then further argue needed more support, i.e., a self-licking ice cream cone.

Worse yet, at the cost and expense of people who are damaged by being forced to support this system against their will.

I propose that everyone that supports things like USAID be able to willingly and freely sign up to have their taxes increased by whatever proportional amount is necessary to fund it every year. We need to move to a voluntarist system for anything but the tightest core functions of government.

It is a win-win, USAID continues and people get to feel good about themselves, while others are not damaged by being forced to support it against their will.

You seem to be a symptom of the problem. I called the government lying and murderous because that is what it is, on account of all the lying and murdering, and I highlighted the hypocrisy of lamenting division while calling people moron, not something that leads to unity. They are categorically different matters.

What are you not comprehending, let’s work it out together.

He also lived in a time when the intense importance and function of a moral and cultural framework for society was taken for granted. He would have never imagined the level of social and moral degeneration of today.

I will not go into specifics because the authoritarians still disagree and think everything is fine with degenerative debauchery and try to abuse anyone even just pointing to failing systems, but it all does seem like civilization ending developments regardless of whether it leads to the rise of another civilization, e.g., the Asian Era, i.e., China, India, Russia, Japan, et al.

Ironically, I don’t see the US surviving this transitional phase, especially considering it essentially does not even really exist anymore at its core. Would any of the founders of America approve of any of America today? The forefathers of India, China, Russia, and maybe Japan would clearly approve of their countries and cultures. America is a hollowed out husk with a facade of red, white, and blue pomp and circumstance that is even fading, where America means both everything and nothing as a manipulative slogan to enrich the few, a massive private equity raid on America.

When you think of the Asian countries, you also think of distinct and unique cultures that all have their advantages and disadvantages, the true differences that make them true diversity that makes humanity so wonderful. In America you have none of that. You have a decimated culture that is jumbled with all kinds of muddled and polluted cultures from all over the place, all equally confused and bewildered about what they are and why they feel so lost only chasing dollars and shiny objects to further enrich the ever smaller group of con artist psychopathic narcissists at the top, a kind of worst form of aristocracy that humanity has yet ever produced, lacking any kind of sense of noblesse oblige, which does not even extend to simply not betraying your own people.

That is factually incorrect. The earliest record of the related use is from the 1560s when it meant “common ancestry; bred, family, lineage”. Later scientific organization simply formalized the implied, that it is a subunit and, arguably even, a sub-subunit of order along the lines of a regional ethnic group, e.g., Appalachians, Swabians, Basques, etc. …lineage, breed, family… for which no logical argument can be made that e.g., the Northern Europeans of various regional ethnicities who have high rates of Neanderthal DNA are the same as black Africans that have zero Neanderthal DNA but have even higher rates of DNA from an unknown species. We are quite literally, objectively different species, not just races, and that should be ok … we should be ok with that.

We literally just got past and are even still dealing with the ramifications and ripple effects of the Covid lockdowns (a term originating in prisons) for years, where people were censored, berated, abused, violated, and even beaten; and you’ve already forgotten about those abuses, perhaps because you also took part in them, and now want to chide people for “hyperbole” like any narcissistic abuser always does when their abusive episode has subsided.

No, there is no such thing as hyperbole when it comes to free speech or privacy from narcissistic psychopaths that want to control and abuse you, because when they have you in their clutches they will never let you go.

Psychology considers narcissism incurable as it is a character type, albeit a malignant one, but it can be managed and controlled, even if it is difficult and requires constant vigilance of those who are vulnerable to and target of narcissists. You may want to consider that.

I will assume you simply mean cryptographically signed as evidence of having been taken by a camera?

You do realize that would still not provide perfect proof that what was recorded by the camera was real, right? It does seem like an obsolete idea you may not have fully reconsidered in a while.

But considering that same old idea that dates from prior to the current state, I would also not be surprised if you imagined clandestinely including all kind of other things in this cryptographic signature like location, time and day, etc.; all of which can also be spoofed and is a tyrannical system’s wet dream.

You don’t think that would be immediately abused, as it was in other similar ways like through all the on device image scanning that was injected as counter-CSAM appeals to save the children…of course?

I’m not sure why you had to be so crude about that, especially since you do not seem to make any specific point, but I think the bigger issue is that teslas are essentially mass surveillance system platforms right under the noses of people.

Just like mobile phones have become personal tracking and sentiment surveillance devices we willingly carry around on us, teslas and many EVs with their cameras are public mass surveillance and tracking platforms that make free movement nearly impossible even beyond such crude systems like the UK’s CCTV surveillance network.

Combine that with things like doorbell cameras and other cheap video surveillance and we have willingly and enthusiastically entered the dystopian matrix.

That sounds more like a Mexican cartel thing, you know, organized crime extortion and being in Spanish and all.

You’re calling people with legitimate but equally confused positions morons, while lamenting division.

Truth has been eroded for many decades now and you seem to assume that the lying and murderous government that keeps lying and murdering is the best arbiter and warden of truth through the public schools and systems it enforces to impose its narrative on the minds of the majority of people who are little more than flesh-bots called humans, programmed and flashed over tv and social media.

How could the truth even exist when free speech is under direct assault even in the country in which it is a core feature of the foundational order? Lies and manipulation are not the truth, it’s narcissistic manipulation. The truth cannot even be approached without free speech, free thought, whether you like it or not; because the inverse of free speech is control over your freedom to hear/see. Censorship not only suppresses the speech, it intentionally suppresses people hearing what psychopaths that control the government fear.

It’s basic narcissistic manipulative abuse patterns along with all the same manipulative patterns like manipulative language changes and gaslighting, dark patterns … but at least you can remember “you wouldn’t get beaten if you followed the constantly changing arbitrary rules of how you may or may not think, what you may or may not talk about, and how you have to say things”.

You sure have a lot of confidence in the people in power today to think that they could produce something better than was produced 100 years ago when there was still actual debate and bills were read. These people today just pass bills based on it having a catchy sounding title.

It was always a fraud of future promises, an actual and literal con job. It is the inherent risk of trusting others, strangers nonetheless, with your own future, let alone “retirement”.

It is another one of those core metrics, even if a lagging one, that should be used to evaluate whether government has failed; the delta between how secure someone would currently be if they had just invested all the pension/social security money that was stolen/defrauded from them.

Most of our governments would be exposed as the failed governments they are.

That would be a rather curious source to adopt a phrase from, being Mr US MK-Ultra bomber guinea pig himself, who targeted technology and academia.

Because race is a subdivision of a species when referring to humans, because humans like using unique terms for ourselves to differentiate between other animals. It is factually incorrect to say “human race” and seems to be an attempt to manipulate the language to manipulate people’s minds into believing the gaslighting that we are all the same and uniform profit units, like some corporate fever dream where all humans consume the same corporate slop uniformly across the globe.

Are you a human with unique cultures and identity or are you a unit that produces predictable profit like a slave that is simply defined as human in the HR records?

If you are the human race, why does corporate HR and corporate politics obsess about “diversity” and whether you check the ideal box to keep the “diversity” high so that there is no unifying identity to organize around to resist the abuses of the upper class?

I also get this weird sense that besides seemingly just having changed 4 icons, as far as I can tell, it really feels like they’re just dusting off three dimensional icons that existed back in around about the early aughts ?

I’m not convinced either.