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Propagandists have long figured out that you don't have to control people's thoughts and opinions. You just need to go into their public forum and say some outrageous shit, it doesn't have to be right, well thought out, you just need to shout some shit, so that you get to control the topics that people talk about.

Everytime something about EU tech sovereignty is posted, comments with sentiments like OP are posted within the first several minutes. Because they're outrageous (anger-inducing) they get a lot of comments telling them off, an resultingly will be presented prominently on the page.

How much effort and resources does it really cost to have some bots doing this kind of stuff on a couple of well-visited platforms? As techies we should understand that it's basically costs no resources, time and effort. Therefore we should expect these kinds of influence operations on public forums like these.

> They are politically and societally paralyzed from building even basic things

Lmao. Says the country that is to politically paralyzed to even maintain roads and sewers.

Honestly that sounds like a ridiculous scenario. Your community should have never been built in a location without municipal services. Because you did you took up the responsibility for those 'municipal' services. And now you have a hard time to deliver those services, because you lack the funds that would come with a real municipality and taxes.

So instead you put this burden on the people living there, who presumably are already paying some form of taxes?

What's the point of all this? Give up ownership of your own house and frontyard, so you can pay dues, to get access to services that would be free with a real municipality?

I don't know what you're talking about. As you said mail hasn't changed that much, I've been using Thunderbird all that time, and except for an improved default theme, they honestly haven't changed much about their core features. In that time I was able to remove several plugins that have been added to core thunderbird, like threaded conversations, google calendar and contact support.

I think the biggest change has been that people nowadays expect more from a regular email client.

That comment on the substack is incredibly depressing. And the author liked it! That commenter should call his mom more.

I love this. Most readmes are plain bad. I think the most egregious is when a readme doesn't state what the project does. I get that not every project is aimed at the public, but if you go through the bother of creating a readme file, why not go the extra 10 centimeters by writing the most basic information? Other issues: * outdated (and thereby wrong) information * using un-introduced abbreviations (bonus points for abbreviations that have common meanings, e.g.: EG, NB, IE, ETC)

> the total extermination aspect in particular is a novel aspect of farming culture

Perhaps there wasn't a change in culture, but rather that farmer tribes were able to grow bigger? A hunter-gatherer tribe could be size-limited according to the available resources. Likely 2 neighbouring tribes would therefore be roughly the same size. Which would make it hard for a tribe to fully exterminate other tribes. Would you send all your fighters to take on another tribe, with the risk of none of them coming back, leaving you defenseless? What if a dangerous animal walks into camp while all fighters are away?

If a farming tribe could sustain double population, that would mean double the amount of fighters, thus it would reduce the risk greatly of sending out a large group of fighters.

> completely true. No society is innocent of this.

Perhaps in history. But we humans have the ability to think and adjust our behavior. We didn't kill all the horse-people when we invented the car. It's likely that in the future we could be able to move past all the horrible things we do to each other.

The story does seem suspicious to me. He said he encountered 98% packet loss when pinging websites, but that means he has sent at least 50 pings. Default ping only does 5. Even if you increase the count, after 20 lost packages wouldn't you have decided the connection isn't up?

Also this story is about problems with the connection of their house, not the wi-fi. I find it hard to believe that a networking engineer and his son that's also an engineer use the incorrect term?

And this amorphous group of people you call 'normies' doesn't include you right? It's only those other people that are like that. Normal people like us want thing to be logical and for a search engine to search, while those other people want all their problems magically solved by a single search on google. Stupid normies (not me though).

> 4. There is, of course, the alternative that leaders are the real bottlenecks. But that can't be right...

Sshh, don't say that part to loud, especially on HN.

> I’m curious what your take is.

I'm not OP but that seems like a very respectable diagnostic track. No test is 100% reliable, so you'd want multiple tests. Even then the results can realistically only be interpreted by a psychologist that is familiar with your situation (hence the clinical interview). So this seems perfectly proper.

> Also the stimulant medication didn’t magically fix everything

Sadly there is no medication that fixes adhd. The only thing these medication does is make it easier to deal with by alleviating (some of) the symptoms. Personally I've noticed from my medication (methylphenidate) that it make it easier to stay focused on whatever task I'm doing, but if that happens to be scrolling reddit, I can still waste hours, perhaps even more since I would have otherwise distracted myself from reddit long before. So it's not perfect, but it does enable me to concentrate 8h+ at work, and that's ultimately the main benefit it brings me.

I think you're being revisionist. It's not about the people in power, it was about the media. They controlled the narrative, and they were the ones that convinced everyone of illegal bendy bananas.

> The very pro-EU faction at the head of the Tory government.

When has any tory ever been pro-eu? i think you're misremembering how things went down.

> Humans making shitty pizza is not a news.

If humans were making shitty pizza on average, these companies wouldn't be pouring in their dollars trying to imitate it.

>I've had my fair share of shitty human made pizza so this kind of sounds like the autonomous taxi news cycle to me

I think you need to check the definition of 'news'. Something that happens everyday isn't 'news'.

Although I appreciate the article, what's the deal with calling depth thickness? Is it because it looks like the meme word 'thicc'?

> If you allow for the existence of secret treasures that can only be accessed with effort and analysis, then you empower the elitists and the snobs. “Buddy, don’t even talk to me until you’ve been in the cave!”

I don't agree with this statement. Being a snob and/or elitist means looking down upon others. If you appreciate these 'secret treasures' without being a dick about it, everybody wins.

> I strongly believe it’s way more accurate than if you could ask an expert in each topic

You can believe anything you want. I can also believe that the only thing that has gone up in the last 30 years is billionaires' worth, and amount of idiots saying things they don't know anything about.

I strongly believe this. Don't tell me it's inaccurate.

That might be true. And for pedantic literary critics and writers, it might be very important to use the proper length dash. For anybody else, the difference between the long dash, the longer dash, or the normal dash, is almost invisible and meaningless.

> We shouldn't let LLMs ruin that for us in literature.

First off all, this is a blog post, not literature. Second of all, the cat is already out of the bag on that one. People already associate it with LLMs, no blogpost is going to change that.

My spidey sense is tingling with this post. If someone was really scared that their text would be assumed to be AI, why wouldnt you at least stop using the obvious AI-sign, i.e. the long dashes? Does the meaning of the text really change that much that you MUST use — instead of - ?

Also: * No dashes before the 'its not vibe coding post' (or very rare), afterwards lots of dashes. * All pixel art images are AI generated.

That reading gives the capacity to gain a better understanding, doesn't mean that all readers use it that way. The act of reading itself doesn't make the people more willing to be more understanding. Someone who cannot read could have the same desire for understanding and might choose to engage that desire by talking to people in person. The fact that the latter doesn't read, doesn't make him less morally superior.

The only correlation that reading and intelligence have is that intelligent people find it easier to read, and therefore enjoy reading more, and therefore read more. It's not the other way around.

I hate these discussions on HN. Unless we first agree on what 'good' and 'bad' are, this question is basically nonsense. In any case, what you choose to do on your own in your free time has basically no moral or ethical impact whatsoever.

I think you can compare it to watching a movie. You won't recall at the end what color jacket the character was wearing, or what the name of the victim was, but you still get the movie. Even though the jacket-color might be significant in someway (like being the same color like the monster the character would become or something). It's normal and expected that a single viewing/reading will not give you all the insights.

Just like a movie, if I really like it, I could decide to read it again, and discover things I didn't get the first time around. But there is no requirement to spot every detail the first time.

I think constantly checking if you can recall the last paragraph is a bad habit. It not only requires mental effort, it also breaks your flow.

I have ADHD myself, and I advise you to always keep reading. Don't stop and think about what things meant, don't recall the important events at the end of a paragraph or chapter, none of that. Just keep reading.

If you really feel like you didn't 'get it', go back 3 chapters. But reread it without stopping.

I feel for this author. Not because of his attention span, but rather that his whole life has been lived trying to conform to someone else's ideals. Can't read in middle or high school because of what peers would think. Couldn't read in college for what his dad said that he should be doing. Can't read in your professional life because it's 'childish'. Now he feels 'obligated' to read because it's part of Bourdieauian ideals?

I think the author should take a long hard look at himself, and decide for himself what his ideals are that he wants to live by. Reading even though you don't like it isn't evidence of sophisitication, it is evidence of stupidity.

But isn't that user error? If you want to run a program that can read your current directory's contents and possibly upload that to the cloud, would you run that in a directory with your private keys?

Is it really?

Statistically I would assume that if you select a bunch of people on a certain criterium, you're going to see similarities related to that criterium among that group.

I don't know if it's a real screenshot at the bottom of OP (the blue on black icons), but that' hilarious if it is.

I'm a little bit less cynical about it; most police still live with the assumption that all of our allies are trustworthy. If the US says there is a credible threat, they rather exercise caution, and remove the threat.

It's just that the US cannot be trusted anymore, and this will probably be the moment that Belgian police will stop taking US intel as fact.

> It's common-sense, not an OPINION to deport illegal immigrants

It's not though. More immigrants mean more people buying products, paying taxes on them, supporting local business, more people contributing to the economy in general. Another important factor is that most european populations are aging, meaning that the ratio of working people versus older people who stopped working, is reaching unsustainable levels. Without migrants, our economies will be seriously hampered.

Hopefully you understand that there's an obvious selection bias you encounter when talking to folks from NL or DE in California. Ofc the people that moved will think there's a good reason for them moving. But people who live here have good reasons for staying here.

You're false. Research has shown that if people like sound A, they will like it even better when you play sound A louder.

The change in mixing and mastering can be largely explained by people changing the way they consume it. Eg. people watch more movies on netflix than in a cinema. People used to sit in a room with a record player, now they listen in their car or headphones while doing other stuff.